If you would like to download and print this card, you can find it here:
Happy Christmas!
Carols in the Night
A wonderful evening of carols, readings and prayers in the churchyard at St John’s yesterday. Huge thanks to all who took part, including the Mayor of Farnham, Cllr Pat Evans; Farnham Heath End School; Waverley Singers; Farnham Brass Band; the St John’s Choir; and the Cogger family who provided the PA system.
Come along to St Mark’s, Alma Lane, Hale, tomorrow (Friday) and St George’s, Badshot Lea, on Sunday, both at 6pm, for more of the same.
Art at St Mark’s Unlimited: Gallery
Welcome to our first online gallery as Art at St Mark’s, Unlimited. Our theme this time was Christmas Carols and artists chose which carol to depict. Some artists have given an insight into their choices. If you come into St Mark’s, you will be able to see some of the original works.
Our group is open to all and we welcome all forms of art –
art unlimited!
We hope you will enjoy our art.
Thank you to all our artists. We will have a new theme in the new year – watch this space!
BCP Evening Prayer – 13th December
This evening’s BCP Evening Prayer
Sunday Services – 13th December
Today we are celebrating the second Sunday of Advent including a Christingle service. Below are the services and the bishop’s sermon. Â First here are the notices:
Notices
Giving
Please Give to our Ministry 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.Outdoor Carol Services
Yessss! We are allowed to sing carols – Outdoors! Please come along for some Christmas joy:
St John’s – 16th December 6pm St Mark’s – 18th December 6pm St George’s – 20th December 6pm
We’ve had no time to advertise so please tell all your friends!
Services in December
Let all your friends and neighbours know that we are back in church and they are really welcome to come! We need more children to help us with all aspects of the services so if they are willing please tell Lesley.
December/January magazine
Packed full of seasonal events and ideas. You can read it by clicking on the green button here:Services
All-Age:
More Traditional:
Sermons
Bishop Andrew’s Sermon
Carols By Moonlight
Join us for some outdoor carol services in the grounds of all three of our churches:
Wednesday, December 16, 6pm: St John’s, Hale.
Friday, December 18, 6pm: St Mark’s, Upper Hale.
Sunday, December 20, 6pm: St George’s, Badshot Lea.
Wrap up warm and join us for socially distanced carol singing and readings for Christmas. There will be favourite carols – Once in Royal David’s City, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Away in a Manger, Silent Night and others – and at St John’s we will be joined by members of Farnham Brass Band, Waverley Singers, and a choir from St John’s.
There will also prayers and Bible readings, and we are delighted to welcome some of our local representatives to help with the readings.
Cllr Pat Evans, Mayor of Farnham, will read at St John’s; Cllr Penny Marriot, Mayor of Waverley, will read at St Mark’s; and Cllr Mark Merryweather of both Farnham Town Council and Waverley Borough Council will read at St George’s.
Bring a mask and a torch as well as warm clothes and join us for some Christmas joy!
Join in Online Worship Here
Sunday Services:
You can find all the services here.
Future services
We would love more people to take part in the services and here are some ways you can do so:
If you have only a telephone with no special features …
Alan can record any comments you would like to make over the phone. Please call the Rectory (01252 820537) and arrange a time to do this. It will involve calling Alan on his mobile – and a number will be provided to do this.
If you have a smartphone/computer with camera and microphone
If you would like to record a video or sound; make something and take a picture of it; write some prose; share something you found on the web – whatever you have found that has fed you spiritually; please send it to Alan to pull it together.
Large files can be sent to Alan via https://www.filemail.com/
If you don’t know how to use the computer to do this
- Click on the magnifying glass at the bottom left of the screen.
- Search for Camera
- Click on the Camera App option
- Click on the Video button on the right hand side of the screen so that it is white.
- Click on it again to start videoing
- Click the red square to stop videoing.
- Open File Explorer and then Camera Roll – you should find the video you have recorded there.
- Use FileMail, TransferXL or PCloud (works better on mobiles) to select a video and send it to Alan.
Using a mobile/tablet
- Record the video – turn your device to landscape mode – it gives a bigger picture.
- Use PCloud to select the video and send it to Alan.
Alan looks forward to receiving lots of contributions: revd.alan@badshotleaandhale.org
Living in Love and Faith – an initial response
Last month, the Church of England published Living in Love and Faith. This is a collection of resources – a book, study guide, podcasts, videos, links to online material – designed to help people to discuss and listen to God about matters of identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage.
There are a lot of resources and we have yet to work out what we will do with them in the parish. Alan and I will be talking about them shortly, when we have digested them properly, but, as members of Inclusive Church, we welcome any discussion of these important issues insofar as they enable us to understand more about each other and accept each other.
Moreover, here in the parish, we remain absolutely committed to the inclusion of all. Whether you are lesbian, gay, straight, bisexual, questioning, asexual, you are welcome. Whether you are transgender, cisgender or nonbinary, you are welcome. Whether you were born with intersex traits or not, you are welcome. God welcomes us and that isn’t going to change.
I’d also like to thank those who have taken part in this process as they have made themselves vulnerable in sharing their stories. Such vulnerability is costly and the cost has already been too high for some of the participants.
So please, whatever we do, let’s go forward with grace and love.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. news@badshotleaandhale.org
Stella Wiseman,
Inclusive Church Ambassador, Surrey
Taiz̩ Р6th DECember
Tonight’s Taizé service:
Sunday Services – 6th DECember
Today we are celebrating the second Sunday of Advent including a Christingle service. Below are the services and the bishop’s sermon. Â First here are the notices:
Notices
Giving
Please Give to our Ministry 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.Farnham Shines
This Advent join us in helping to make Farnham Shine! The idea is to place stars in our windows to brighten up the town and have fun finding them too. You can make your own stars or bring out the decorations it you haven’t got the box down already, and place one in your window.
There are more details here: https://badshotleaandhale.org/2020/11/29/let-farnham-shine/
The Parish of Badshot Lea and Hale 