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Your Crib Service needs YOU

If your children would like to be involved in this year’s Crib Service, then please let Rhoda Hardie, Jane or Martin Dines know.  There may be some talking parts but all dressing up is to be encouraged and welcomed! There will be a “run-through” after church on 18th December.  All participants will need to be…

Christingle

A lovely time was had by all – thanks to all who organised, helped making the Christingles and stewarded on the evening ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

“Saving St Bartholomew’s”

Den Welch, our former Church Warden and Chairman of the Fabric Committee, has written a book to record, in detail, the work done during the period 1987-2001 – as a permanent record. The book, with introduction by Canon David Winter, will be published nationally.  It is available directly from church at the discounted price of £6.  All proceeds will go to the St…

A letter from your Rector – a generous response?

Following on from our current sermon series and Steve Bold’s talk after last week’s sermon, here is the letter from the Rector-, to the congregation Our Generous Response to our Generous God 2016 Projected expenditure = £45,600 If donations are received from 70 people, then average donation necessary would be 45,600 / 70 / 52 =  £13.00 per head per week If…

Our generous response to a generous God

Do listen again to today’s sermon from Paul.  It is the culmination of the last few weeks theme in our services where we have explored what prompts our giving, motivated in response to our relationship with God.  The sermon finishes with a talk from Dr Steve Bold explaining why St Bartholomew’s has to raise money and why we need to reflect on…