Ladies of Leesfield meet at the Atkinson’s 52
Spring Lane on Thursday 15th at 7.30pm for carols, prayers and mince
pies.
Our parish Christmas raffle
will be drawn after the carol service on the 18th December. Tickets
available now £1 each
We have decided to make changes to the magazine. It has had the same format for many years and we feel it
is rather outdated. The plan is that, from February, the magazine will be
produced once every 2 months, and will be professionally printed in colour,
with photographs. We hope this will make the magazine more attractive. It would
be good if this can also be seen as an opportunity for more people to
contribute to the magazine. When did you last put something in the magazine? If
people wrote about events they have been to, for example, this would make the
magazine more representative of life in our parish.
We
will be collecting items of warm clothing such as hats, scarves, gloves and
socks to take down to the Booth Centre
for the homeless in Manchester over the Christmas period. If you have any of
these to spare or get some as Christmas presents you can't use these would be
most welcome".
Also Cold
Nights - Local charity which goes into Manchester to take food to people sleeping
on the streets. They would like donations of pot noodles, porridge pots, crisps
and chocolate. Their local drop off point is Limekiln Cafe by the Brownhill
Visitor Centre in Uppermill so we could take donations up there. Chocolate bars
are a particular treat, so if anyone has any such thing as an unwanted
chocolate bar that would be greatly appreciated.
Services
as usual next Sunday morning. Then at 6.30pm we have our carol service. People who usually come know that this is a very
enjoyable event. If you haven’t been before do come along and hear again the
readings and join in the carol singing. This will be followed by refreshments
and the drawing of the raffle.
Magazine
articles to paulmdent@gmail.com
Items for the newsletter to Edith by Wednesday eve
please.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:
Sun Dec 11th
Toy service at both churches. Normal services but donations of good
Thurs Dec 15th Evening at
Audrey’s, carols, prayers and mince pies
7.30pm
Sun Dec 18th Nine
Lessons and Carols St Thomas 6.30pm
Mon Dec 19th Carol
singing round the parish. Meet 6pm St Thomas’
Sat Dec 24th Crib
service/nativity St Thomas 5.00pm
11.30pm First
Communion of Christmas St Thomas
Sun Dec 25th
Christmas morning Eucharist at St Agnes
9.15am
Tues Dec 27th No Tuesday morning service
Sun Jan 1st Parish
Service at St Thomas 11am No service at St Agnes
Tues Jan 3rd 10am Holy Communion at St Thomas’
And please note Confirmation July 9th 2017
