Category Archives: Church

Messy Christmas Eve Family Service – Saturday 24th

Our Messy Christmas Eve Family Service is on Saturday 24th at 3:30pm.  As well as craft and songs, we’ll be retelling the Christmas Story together.  We’d encourage the young and young at heart to come dressed as a Nativity character.   If you don’t have anything, we can provide something on the day. Afterwards there’ll be drinks, minceContinue reading “Messy Christmas Eve Family Service – Saturday 24th”

Messy Christingle : 3rd December

This coming Saturday, we are combining our normal Messy Church with our ever popular Christingle service. Don’t know what a Christingle is ? Come along to find out !  But a clue is that it helps us think about *who* Christmas is about.  We’ll be making Christingles together as part of our “Fun, Faith andContinue reading “Messy Christingle : 3rd December”

Messy Church : 5th November – Fireworks

“Remember, remember the Fifth of November …” because it’s Messy Church Saturday ! We’re using the theme of Fireworks to explore what happened to Jesus’ friends after he’d said Farewell (last month’s theme).  Of course we’ll have our usual Fun, Faith and Food … Fun : We’ll have loads of Fireworks related craft. Faith :Continue reading “Messy Church : 5th November – Fireworks”

Farewell message from Denis

Editors note : Denis formally left our parish on 14th October.  Here’s his farewell message which appeared in the magazine. I have been doing a Farewell tour of all the local schools that I have regularly visited in Tilehurst and Calcot. We have been thinking about Goodbyes and Farewells. Apparently centuries ago the two greetings wentContinue reading “Farewell message from Denis”