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Christ Church and St Mark’s

Parish Information Sheet for April and May 2018

Family Gardening

Club

Come join us at the Lift Off! Community Garden, St Mark’s Church,

Leggatts Way, WD24 5NQ

Everyone welcome, no matter what age

Every Wednesday 4.30 – 6.00 pm until 24th October

Find us on Facebook - search for Lift Off! - or our website www.liftoff.org.uk

or email us - [email protected]

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Love Russia Sunday 6th May our Services at 9.30am at St Mark’s and 11am at Christ Church

will focus on the work of Love Russia.

This year’s appeal will be for new items of clothing for a child between 0-8 years and if possible with a £1.00 coin attached.

They will be taken out to Russia by volunteers going to take part in Summer Camps.

Keith Cheyney

A VERY BIG THANK YOU

FROM WATFORD FOODBANK

for your generous response to their urgent appeal recently.

Sadly the numbers of people in crisis in our town that have turned to the Foodbank

for help has hit unprecedented numbers from November last year.

Therefore there is now an even greater need for us to try to remember to be buying just one item or more, if we feel we can, each time we shop to donate into the

collection boxes at our churches weekly. Items needed most at the moment are:-

Tins of Meat, Stew or Meat in Sauce

Tinned Fish

Long life Milk (UHT or powdered)

Long life Fruit Juice

Sugar

Tinned Sponge puddings & Rice puddings

Small boxes of Tea Bags

Small jars of Instant Coffee

Packets of Biscuits

Tinned Fruit

Thank you.

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DATES IN APRIL 18

1st Sunday Easter Day

1st Sun 8.00am Holy Communion at Christ Church

1st Sun 9.30am Holy Communion at St Mark's

1st Sun 10.30am Fairtrade Stall after the service at St Mark's

1st Sun 11.00am Holy Communion at Christ Church

4th Wed 10.00am Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer) at Christ Church

4th Wed 11.00am Morning worship at Courtland Lodge

4th Wed 4.30pm-6pm Lift Off! Garden Club at Christ Church Vicarage Community Garden

7th Sat 10.00am-12 noon Coffee, Tea & Cakes in Christ Church

8th Sun 9.30am Morning Prayer with baptism at St Mark's with Children's Society speaker

8th Sun 11.00am Parish Communion and Sunday School at Christ Church with a speaker from the Children's Society

8th Sun 6.30pm Evening Prayer at St Mark's

9th Mon 9.30am-2.30pm Lift Off! Holiday Club at St Andrew's

10th Tue 9.30am-2.30pm Lift Off! Holiday Club at St Andrew's

10th Tue 7.45 for 8.00pm start

Gather Round ...Ladies in Christ Church: a talk from Rebecca of New Hope Trust



13th Fri 2.00pm Women's World Day of Prayer Service at Christ Church. All Welcome. (Rescheduled after adverse weather conditions last month.)

13th Fri Choir Practice at Christ Church

14th Sat 9.30am-11am Lift Off! Messy Breakfast at St Mark's

15th Sun 8.00am Holy Communion at Christ Church, followed by breakfast

15th Sun 9.30am Parish Communion at St Mark's

15th Sun 11.00am Morning Prayer at Christ Church

15th Sun 12.00noon Fairtrade Stall after the service at Christ Church

15th Sun 4.00-6.00pm Messy Church at Christ Church

16th Mon 3.45pm-4.45pm Lift Off! Explorers at St Mark's

17th Tue 9.30am-11am Lift Off! Messy Tots at St Mark's

17th Tue 2.30pm Tuesday Circle at St Mark's: Magistrate Family Law

18th Wed 10.00am Morning Prayer at Christ Church


20th Fri 4.30pm-6pm Lift Off! Ignite at St Mark's


21st Sat 4.00-8.00pm Over Sixties’ Party at Christ Church

22nd Sun 10.30am Service of the Word with Holy Communion and including the Annual Parochial Church Meeting at St Mark's

22nd Sun 3.00pm Scout St George's Day service at Christ Church

23rd Mon 3.45pm-4.45pm Lift Off! Explorers at St Mark's





28th Sat 7.30am Men's Breakfast at St Mark's


29th Sun 10.30am Joint Parish Communion at Christ Church. Speaker: Margaret Pritchard-Houston, Diocese of St Albans Children's Mission Enabler.


Coffee, Tea and Cakes

Our coffee mornings are normally at

Christ Church from 10am to 12 noon on

the first Saturday of every month.

The next Coffee, Tea and Cakes will be on:

Saturday 7th April

Saturday 5th May.

All Welcome.

Saturdays Working in the Garden

21st April & 19th May Everyone welcome to drop in from 10am – 3pm

All types of jobs to be done from weeding and gardening to making an arch, wormery and workbench/tea station.

Or just come, sit and enjoy the Garden and watch others work for a while!

Lift Off! Community Garden, St Mark’s Church, Leggatts Way, WD24 5NQ

Chris Cottee the long-serving vicar of St Peter's in Watford, who many of us know through Christians Across Watford, New Hope, the Town Centre Chaplaincy, Operation Rudolph and so on, has now had his second novel published, 'A Spring Awakening' which takes the couple from the first book, David and Angela, on a perilous journey through the dark Valleys of winter towards the glories of Spring and Easter. It is a deep book which confronts many of the issues which concern us in these days, yet full of hope. You can purchase a copy by contacting him on email ([email protected]) or by phone (07779841036). Copies are £8 (cash, cheque, or bank transfer to 60-00-08 account 49111841). He will sign them and get them to you as necessary via the church or your home address. Support your local Christian author!

DATES IN MAY 18

1st Tue 9.30am-11am Lift Off! Messy Tots at St Mark's

2nd Wed 10.00am Morning Prayer at Christ Church

2nd Wed 11.00am Morning worship at Courtland Lodge

2nd Wed 4.30pm-6pm Lift Off! Garden Club at Christ Church Vicarage Community Garden


5th Sat 10.00am-12 noon Coffee, Tea & Cakes in Christ Church

6th Sun 8.00am Holy Communion at Christ Church

6th Sun 9.30am Service of the Word and Communion at St Mark's

6th Sun 10.30am Fairtrade Stall after the service at St Mark's

6th Sun 11.00am Service of the Word with baptism at Christ Church

6th Sun 4.00pm Afternoon worship in Hollytree House Lounge


8th Tue 7.45 for 8.00pm Gather Round ...Ladies in Christ Church hall



10th Thursday Ascension Day




13th Sun 9.30am Morning Prayer at St Mark's

13th Sun 11.00am Parish Communion and Sunday School at Christ Church

13th Sun 6.30pm Evening Prayer at St Mark's



15th Tue 2.30pm Tuesday Circle at St Mark's: Fun and Games





20th Sun 8.00am Holy Communion at Christ Church, followed by breakfast

20th Sun 9.30am Parish Communion at St Mark's

20th Sun 11.00am Morning Prayer at Christ Church

20th Sun 12.00noon Fairtrade Stall after the service at Christ Church

20th Sun 4.00-6.00pm Messy Church at Christ Church

21st Mon 3.45pm-4.45pm Lift Off! Explorers at St Mark's

22nd Tue 9.30am-11am Lift Off! Messy Tots at St Mark's

23rd Wed 10.00am Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer) at Christ Church

23rd Wed 4.30pm-6pm Lift Off! Garden Club at Christ Church Vicarage Community Garden


26th Sat 7.30am Men's Breakfast at St Mark's


27th Sun 9.30am Morning Prayer at St Mark's

27th Sun 11.00am Parish Communion and Sunday School at Christ Church

28th Mon 9.30am-2.30pm Lift Off! Holiday Club at St Andrew's

29th Tue 9.30am-2.30pm Lift Off! Holiday Club at St Andrew's



We are a Fairtrade parish. We use only fairly traded tea and coffee at our church events. Fairtrade stalls are held after the main morning services: at St Mark’s on the 1st Sunday in the month and at Christ Church on the 3rd Sunday in the month.

DIGITAL PARISH INFORMATION SHEET

The full colour version of the current Information Sheet will soon be available from our website:

www.christchurchandstmarkswatford.org.uk or contact the office to receive a copy by email.

THE NEXT EDITION

The next edition of the Information Sheet is scheduled to be published at the end of May,

to cover all events in June and July.

If you have any articles, dates or information for inclusion, please send them to the Parish Office

via email to [email protected] by 17th May.

www.christchurchandstmarkswatford.org.uk

Parish Office – St Mark’s Church, Leggatts Way, Watford, Herts. WD24 5NQ Phone 01923 681972 email: [email protected]

Vicar: Rev Duncan Campbell Christ Church Vicarage, Leggatts Way WD24 5NQ Email: [email protected] phone: 07806602093 or 01923 674142

Readers: Mr Keith Cheyney, 44 Ridgehurst Avenue (894721) Mrs Sue Pankhurst, 2 Albert Road North (249139) Ms Vicky O’Kelly

Church Warden: Mr Paul Pratchett email: [email protected]

Children’s and Young Families' Outreach Worker (for our parish and St Andrew’s) Claire Locke Email: [email protected]

. Facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/cma.outreach Lift Off! website liftoff.org.uk

CHRIST CHURCH & ST MARK’S, WATFORD

MISSION STATEMENT

WE ARE people who are drawn together by our Christian belief and our response to God.

WE BELIEVE that God reveals himself to us in many ways as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and that people can live in a loving relationship with God and with each other in Christ.

WE AIM to follow Christ's teaching and example, living a full life in every community in which we are involved, sharing our faith with others through example, worship and service.

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