Mid-week Joy
Welcome back to our mid-week celebration of all the great things happening in Leesfield Parish and beyond.
Our Sunday service details will be here as usual at weekend, but there's so much more that we would love to share with you in the meantime.
Please do join us tomorrow for the last in our series exploring the books of the Old Testament - just click on this link - Leesfield Parish
This week is very special for one of the longest serving members of St Thomas' congreation. Vivienne is celebrating her 90th birthday, but of course the celebrations will not be what she and her family would have wished for because of all the COVID restrictions. So the Ladies of Leesfield decided to surprise her at church last Sunday with a cake and some gifts. Vivienne was allowed to take her mask off for the photo below, and unfortunately the cutting of the cake had already started before we found somebody with a camera, but it was such a lovely occasion!
The return of children and staff to school this week is a really challenging but exciting time for everyone.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all at our three church schools - St Thomas' Leesfield, St Agnes' Knolls Lane, St Hugh Holts, and with our former pupils who have now moved on to their new secondary schools.
This week's musical item is a little different to what we usually share in Mid-week Joy. Firstly, I don't usually choose a hymn for this spot, and secondly, the occasion where it was sung was not exactly joyful.
If you regularly follow this page you'll know that we always share a couple of YouTube hymns with on-screen lyrics in our Sunday Worship so that folks at home can sing along. Sometimes it feels like a bit of a chore sifting through all the different versions of hymns, but every now and then I come across one that's rather special.
This is "I Watch The Sunrise" from the Hillsborough Memorial Service in 2013.
As we start another new month, here's a calendar from Action for Happiness, packed with ways to look after yourself this month.
