Sunday 8th December 2024 - All are Welcome
Today is the 2nd Sunday of Advent
Welcome to our services this Sunday, particularly if you are here for the first time. Do make yourself known to the clergy after the service and if it's after the 10am stay for coffee/tea.
8am – Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer): Ben
10am – Sung Eucharist (Common Worship): Ben HYMNS
401 On Jordan's bank 169 God is love, his the care (version 2)
198 Hark, the glad sound
295 Let all mortal flesh keep silence
489 The Lord will come
We Pray for the Sick:
Louise, Eileen, Robert Bell (Priest)
We Remember: Murdo Murchison, Arthur Karney, Roy Hebborn (Priest), Trevor Henshaw,
Margaret Blount, Phylis Fogden and Julian Fane
CARING AND SHARING: The collection tin is on the font for any donations.
ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS: Details of our services are available at the back, do take a sheet.
CONTEMPLATIVE COMMUNION FOR ADVENT, Wednesday the 18th of December at 7pm: Take time out of the pre-Christmas frenzy for this service of communion with spaces for reflection and prayer.
CAROL SERVICES, Thursday the 19th December: Civic carol service by candlelight at 7pm. Come to a rich mixture of carols and readings (with poems and Bible readings) at St. Anne's. Monday the 23rd December. A new carol service shared between the choirs of St. Anne's and St Michael's. This is at St Michael's Church at 5pm.
ADVENT COURSE: Letter and Spirit: Next week we will be looking at God's revelation of divine identity in Exodus 3. I AM WHO I AM. Do join us, even if you haven't come before, at 10am on the 14th of December. Note the dates for Jane Perry's evening version of these courses below.
ADVENT REFLECTIONS (evenings), Mon/Thurs evenings during Advent, 7.45 for 8pm, finished by 9pm.
Dates: Mon 2nd; Thurs 12th; Mon 16th; Thurs 19th of December. Contact Jane on 07779 603 728 or janeperry@live.co.uk for details of venue.
FAMILY SUPPORT WORK: St. Anne’s recently made a donation of £1000 to F.S.W so they can help even more families at Christmas. We received the following response “Please extend our heartfelt thanks to all the congregation for this wonderful support, which means so much to us.”
ST ANNE'S OPENING TIMES: Due to current building works, we are unable to open the church during the week, as we usually do. The church is open for all the usual services and events, such as daily Morning Prayer 0915 to 0945 monday and friday and other events publicised on the website. We hope the internal building work will be completed in December and the church can be open as usual.
ST ANNE'S WEBSITE: www.stanneslewes.org.uk - Our website offers resources for our growth in discipleship. On the website you can now find recent sermons collated in one place under the tag sermons. Also, we have a regular slot called Spiritual Reflections which aims to look at questions of faith in a fresh, imaginative way. Contact Ashley or Ben if you can't find the content.
ONLINE AND CARD TRANSACTIONS: Donations can also be made through our website (the DONATE button is in the top right-hand corner of every page).
A MESSAGE FROM BEN
Please feel free to phone me or drop me an email. I'll be delighted to hear from you. My contact details are:
Rev'd Ben Brown, 01273 933357, email: rectorstanneslewes@gmail.com
FOLLOW ST ANNE'S CHURCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA
We are on Facebook and Twitter, as well as the website. So, if you wish to be kept up to date with the latest announcements or information, between services, then follow:
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ChurchStAnnes
If you would like anything added to the Notices, please speak to Ashley. ashley.price@sky.com - 01273 409410
(For items to be on next Sunday's sheet, please supply to me by Thursday)
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