Here is This Week’s News!
LOADS OF EXCITING CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS!
Coming up this week and very soon!
- THIS SATURDAY 2pm: Messy Christmas
- THIS SUNDAY 6pm: Carols by Candlelight with Cordwalles Junior School
- This Wednesday, 4.30pm: Neurodiverse Christmas Party (fully booked)
- 22nd December, 10.45am: Nativity
- Christmas Eve, 3.45pm: Christingle
- Christmas Eve, 11.30pm: Christmas Midnight Communion
- Christmas Day, 10.30am: Family Celebration
NEW CHRISTMAS CARDS
Our new Christmas card range has launched at St Martin’s! With huge thanks to Tracey Ashcroft, pick up your card for a loved one for only £1.99 with proceeds going towards our work for the community.
THIS SATURDAY
- MESSY CHURCH CHRISTMAS
It's Messy Church Christmas THIS SATURDAY at 2pm!
Please click here to reserve your space: https://stmartinscamberley.churchsuite.com/events/xliux0ag
for amazing free Christmas craft, games, a yummy free tea for 3-10 year olds and some very special surprises!
- FREE SATURDAY CAFE
Come and join us at our Free Saturday Café from 10-11.30am where you can enjoy:
- Delicious fruit
- Tasty toast and spreads
- Great coffee, tea, hot chocolate, chocolate mountains, and biscuits
- Great company
So, come and join us - everyone’s very welcome!
THIS SUNDAY
- CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT WITH CORDWALLES JUNIOR SCHOOL
THIS SUNDAY at 6pm, come and join us with Cordwalles Junior School Choir as we sing Carols by Candlelight with free mulled wine and mince pies!
- FREE TASTY BACON ROLLS
It’s free tasty bacon rolls this week at the Free Community Breakfast!
Come and join us from 10am-10.30am where you can enjoy:
- Lovely fruit and yoghurts
- Tasty toast and spreads
- A variety of cereals
- Great coffee, tea and hot chocolate
- Fruit juice
- Wonderful company
… and so much more at our Free Community Breakfast.
So, come and join us – you’re very welcome and we’d really love to see you!
- OUR SERVICE FOR EVERYONE!
Come and join us for our Service at 10.45am! It's informal, relaxed, you’re very welcome indeed, and you’ll find awesome kids and youth groups, great songs, an inspiring talk, and prayers from the heart.
Our service is also a great opportunity to meet old friends & make new friends, help each other & our community, and learn about God’s amazing love for you! So, come and join us – you’re very welcome and we’d really love to see you!
- THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT
It’s the 3rd Sunday in Advent so we’ll be lighting our 3rd Advent Candle together, thinking about how ‘God With Us Brings Peace’!
- THE BLANKET BOX
With the cost of heating our homes still high, the loss of winter fuel payments for many of us, and the stress of paying bills a clear and present reality, a warm blanket can make the world of difference!
Please either:
- donate new, nearly new, or well-loved, clean blankets if you can
- pick up a nice warm blanket if you need one for free!
- QUIET COMMUNION BEFORE OUR SERVICE
Join us at 9.45am for our Quiet Communion service. It’s an oasis of tranquillity where you can touch base with God in peace at the start of the day.
- FREE FOOD STALL
The Free Food Stall is available to help you every Sunday from 12.30-1.30pm across the road in The Family Centre. Providing food for those in need, it is a valuable resource on our doorstep.
THIS MONDAY
- HANDBELLS
Come and have some fun making music with handbells from 1.15pm-2.15pm. Everyone’s welcome!
- NEURODIVERSE SUPPORT GROUP
On Monday from 10-11.30am, come and unwind with fellow parents and carers for a cuppa and a chat with others who really get what you’re dealing with. You’re more than welcome as always. Everyone is welcome! Then the Neurodiverse Christmas Party follows at 4pm on Wednesday which is fully booked.
- THE ALZHEIMER’S CAFÉ
Also, on from 6.30pm-8.30pm, come and enjoy refreshments and enjoy building friendships with others who understand what you’re going through with this very cruel disease. Everyone is welcome!
THIS WEDNESDAY
- FREE WEDNESDAY CAFÉ
Come and join us at our Free Wednesday Café from 10-11.30am where you can enjoy free:
- Essential items
- Delicious fruit
- Yummy homemade cakes
- Great coffee, tea, and hot chocolate
- Fantastic company
- FREE ESSENTIAL ITEMS
This week (week 2) it’s the turn of our Free Food Tombola.
Simply pick up the item with your ticket number on it, which you’ll receive at Wednesday Café, and then you can either take it home, give it away to someone in need, or swap it with someone else in the café! It’s fun, fair, and free!
Next week, we’re back to our Free Essential Items
Week 1: Free Essential Items
Week 2: Free Food Tombola
- NEURODIVERSE CHRISTMAS PARTY (FULLY BOOKED)
For those of you who have booked on in time, come along at 4.30pm for loads of great Christmas fun! We’re sorry that it’s fully booked due to huge demand, but we must keep you all safe (so we can’t have too many in our building).
COMING SOON!
COME ALONG WITH A FRIEND TO ALPHA!
Alpha is a great place to explore the big questions of life, faith, and meaning with others. Each session includes a time to eat together (often puddings!), a video on some element of faith, and then a chance for you to share your own questions and perspectives with the group. If you want to just listen, then that’s ok too.
It's a non-judgmental, welcoming, friendly and open environment where it’s easy for anyone who is atheist, sceptic, or simply curious about faith to explore questions of life with friends and new friends.
Alpha will run from Thursday 16th January to Thursday 27th March at 7.30pm on Thursday evenings. We’ll also enjoy a day away together on Saturday 1st March. With people signed up already, come and join us! We’d love to see you!
FREE FOOD, FUN AND FRIENDSHIP FOR ALL SENIORS
Taking a break for January, come and join us for Outlook – our free, fun group for Seniors on Wednesday 5th February from 2-4pm! With a lovely afternoon tea and a fun activity in a warm and welcoming atmosphere, it’s a real treat that’s not to be missed and loved by all! Come and join us!
MORNING PRAYER
Please join us in the Prayer Room on:
- Monday at 10am
- Tuesday & Wednesday at 9am (before Wednesday Café at 10am)
- Saturday at 9.30am (before Saturday Café at 10am).
PCC & STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Our next PCC & SC meetings:
- January SC 8th, PCC 22
- Feb SC 5, PCC 19
- Mar SC 12, PCC 26
- Apr SC 9, PCC 30
- May SC 14, PCC 28
- June SC 18
- July PCC 2, SC 23
- September SC10, PCC 24
- October SC 8. PCC 22
- Nov SC5, PCC 19
PARKING ON SUNDAY MORNINGS & MONDAY NIGHTS
On Sunday mornings, you may park at St Peter & St John Church in Ceasar’s Camp Road as well as The Beacon Church in Berkshire Road. Also, on Monday evenings, you may park at both churches.