| St Alban's Frant |
Holy Trinity Eridge |
|
| Church News and Rector's Letter |
||
| CHURCHWARDENS |
||
| Jane Emler 01892 532 233 Tony Pybus 01892 750 535 |
Jonathan Lynn 01892 864 304 Robert Park 01892 861 475 |
|
| St. Alban's Church Band of Bellringers | ||
| Meets for practice on Tuesdays from 20:00 - 21:00 Ringing before Sunday morning service starts at 09:00 - more details here | For more information phone Mary Freestone on 01892 750 269 or Malcolm Parry on 01892 750 729. | |
FROM THE CHURCHWARDENS
We have said our goodbyes to Alan and Sheila in great style, we will miss them
but must now move on.
As a Christian Church serving the whole community, it is impossible to please
everybody. As in most villages, we are a mixture of elderly, middle-aged and
young people. We all know what we expect from 'The Church', and all our expectations
and what the Church means to us are different. We have tried to reach out to
the community and keep a balance between `family friendly' services, and traditional
services at St Albans.
Since we announced the appointment of a new Rector, there have been numerous
questions and comments about individual concerns and expectations for the future.
The two words which keep coming up are `Evangelical', apparently something
to be dreaded, and `Happy Clappy' - even worse! It seems that these two expressions
have become synonymous, which is way off the mark.
The definition from the Collins dictionary for EVANGELICAL is "of or following
from the gospels", EVANGEL is "the gospel of Christianity",
EVANGELISM is "the practice of spreading the Christian gospel' and EVANGELIST
is "a preacher of the Christian gospel'. 'Happy Clappy' is the expression
associated with an outgoing demonstrative, more flamboyant form of worship,
favoured by many Christians of all ages. As Christians we are all Evangelical,
but whether we are `Happy Clappy' or the more traditional, we should all be
free to worship in our own way. No one but God knows how sincere we are, and
what is in our hearts, no style of worship be it `high' or `low' should be
despised or ridiculed.
With our new Rector, James Packman, we are confident that we will continue
to grow together as a Christian presence in Frant, Eridge and Bells Yew Green.
Here's to the future!
CHURCH NOTICES
| St Alban's Frant | Holy Trinity Eridge | |||
| SEPTEMBER | ||||
| 7 | 09:15 | All Age Worship | 11:15 | All Age Worship |
| 18:30 | Communion | |||
| 14 | 09:15 | Parish Communion | 11:15 | Family Communion |
| 21 | 08:00 | Communion | 11:15 | Morning Prayer |
| 09:15 | Family Worship | |||
| 28 | 09:15 | Parish Communion | 11:15 | Parish Communion |
| 18:30 | Evensong | |||
| OCTOBER | ||||
| 5 | 09:15 | All Age Worship | 08:00 | Communion |
| 18:30 | Communion | 11:15 | All Age Worship | |
| 12 | 09:15 | Parish Communion | 11:15 | Family Communion |
| 19 | 08:00 | Communion | 11:15 | Morning Prayer |
| 09:15 | Family Worship | |||
| 26 | 09:15 | Parish Communion | 11:15 | Parish Communion |
| 16:30 | Evening Praise | |||
Worship at Bells Yew Green Chapel
Secretary: Mrs J Mepham 10892 750 547
Sunday services: 10:30 and 2nd and 4th Sundays at 14:00
Coffee mornings 1st Wednesday of the month at 10:30
Bible Study and Prayer: Thursdays 19:15
ST ALBAN’S CHURCH
Regular Meetings:
Midweek Communion on the second Wednesday of each month - 10:00
at St Alban’s
Altar Guild meets on the second Wednesday of each month following
Holy Communion at 10:00
Mums, Toddlers & Babies meets every Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30 in
The Stables. A warm welcome to all.
House Groups meet every Tuesday. If you would like to join
a house group. Please contact The Rector.
Coffee Morning at The Stables every Wednesday, 10:30 - 12:00. Come
and enjoy fellowship together.
Frant Healing and Prayer Group meets on the last Monday of
each month at 3.30pm (Tel 750 239)
Prayer—we meet regularly for prayer on Thursday and Saturday
mornings
‘Rock Solid ‘ (for the 10’s and over) meets
every second and fourth Sunday, 09:15 in The Stables
Junior Church meets at 09:15 on
the 2nd, 4th and 5th Sunday during term time