The October magazine is here and this month you can find out how Bishop Sumner is linked to Farnham Rugby Club, check out what priests wear in church, and discover joy with the Church Cat.
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All are welcome to our All Sung Service on 6th October, 2024 at St George’s Church from 10am.
No experience necessary, just come and sing!!
All God’s creatures got a place in the choir
It’s time to bring your dogs, cats (maybe not), guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, geckos, pet spiders, snakes, stick insects and any other animals you have living at home to church for our annual pet services.
Pets are a wonderful blessing to many of us and can help our mental and
physical health. So let’s give thanks for them in all their shapes and sizes and bring them for a blessing at St John’s and St Mark’s on October 6th at 9.30am and 11am respectively. If your pet is too large or too nervous to come to church, you can bring a picture of them instead. And if you don’t have a pet, why not bring a favourite soft toy instead? Or dress up as an animal? After all, all God’s creatures got a place in the choir!
All are welcome to our Harvest Supper on Saturday October 5th from 6pm-9.30pm.
Tickets are available at each of the churches
Adults £10, children (under 16) £5
There will be entertainment and a raffle.
If you can offer to be part of the entertainment, please let Kris know: warden.stgeorges@badshotleaandhale.org
We’re delighted to report that our new Clothing Giveaway, which takes place every Monday morning at St Mark’s, has got off to an excellent start. Every Monday we open the doors to the church at 9am for people who would like to select some clothes for them and/or their families, totally free of charge. We also serve coffee, tea, squash, cake or similar in a café in the Community Centre part of the church, again free of charge.
The Clothing Giveaway is not just for people who are struggling financially, but for anyone, regardless of economic status. We want to encourage people not to spend so much on new clothes but instead to fill their wardrobes with good-quality second-hand clothing. We are also trying to encourage recycling so that old clothes do not end up in landfill (at the moment around 350,000 tonnes, that’s around £140 million worth of used but still wearable clothing, goes to landfill in the UK every year).
We take donations of old, goodquality clothes, shoes and baby equipment and are always happy to welcome volunteers to sort out the clothes. We usually sort on a Sunday afternoon. The Clothing Giveaway is being run in conjunction with the Hale Community Centre and is open at St Mark’s on Monday mornings 9-11am. Please look out your old, goodquality clothes and shoes for children and adults. You can bring them to church (in bags/boxes please) or bring them to St Mark’s on a Monday morning, or let Stella Wiseman know if you need them to be picked up: revd.stella@badshotleaandhale.org or calling 07842761919.
Enjoy this service, especially for toddlers.
Below is the Sunday service. First, here are the notices:
This church relies on donations to provide care and support to everyone in this community. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry by clicking the button above. Thank you for your support.
Below is the Sunday service. First, here are the notices:
This church relies on donations to provide care and support to everyone in this community. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry by clicking the button above. Thank you for your support.
In response to the deepening divisions in the world and fear of conflicts escalating, there will be an interfaith gathering for women to pray for peace in Gostrey Meadow, initiated by the parish and the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Women’s Association, on Sunday, September 22nd at 2.30pm.
We invite all women, whatever your faith, to join us to pray for peace and greater understanding between nations, cultures and communities. Apologies that this is just for women, but this is in order to respect the Ahmadiyyah women’s culture. Please let us know if you have any questions and if you plan to come, by phone to 07842761919 or by email to revd.stella@badshotleaandhale.org.
Celebrate harvest with us in all three churches on September 22nd. At St John’s the service is at 9.30am, St George’s 10am and St Mark’s 11am.
St Mark’s we will include our normal Apple Day celebrations in the service and eat apple pie and other apple snacks after the service.
We are collecting tins and packets for Farnham Foodbank. The Foodbank especially wants tinned soup, instant mash, tinned rice pudding and custard, tinned potatoes, UHT juice.
The Parish of Badshot Lea and Hale 