MISSION - MAY 2012 - COFFEE MORNING

COFFEE MORNING

10 a.m. Wednesday, May 16th

       at 38, London Road (Molly Hurst's home)

Raffle, Bring and Buy

Proceeds in aid of the Cicely Peace Matunda School/Orphanage in Tanzania

Services for w/b 11.03.2012

St. Mary the Virgin, Sawston

and

St. Peter’s, Babraham

The Third Sunday of Lent

11th March 2012

Services at St Mary’s today

9.15 a.m.         Eucharist - For wholeness and healing
10.45 a.m.       Open Door - Everybody Needs Good Neighbours

6.00 p.m.         Evening Prayer

St Mary's Church Community Hall
7.15 p.m.          Lent Course 3 - 'Are we washing our

                                                   hands of England's poor?':
                                                   Young People Today 

Services at St. Peters Babraham today

10 a.m.        Service of the Word

Other Services at St. Mary’s this week

8.00 a.m.         Morning Prayer     Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday

9.30 a.m.         Eucharist               Thursday 

5.00 p.m.         Evening Prayer     Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

6.00 p.m.         Evening Prayer     Friday, Sunday

LENT 2012

LENT BOXES 

Our Lenten offerings this year are for 

SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES. 

Please take a box from the small table by the door 

and return it on, or soon after, Easter Sunday.

THE LENT COURSE

begins 26th Feb in the Church Hall at 7:30pm.It is called

 ‘Are we washing our hands of England's poor?’ 

and will run each Sunday evening until 25th March. 

Please put these dates in your diaries. 

The Lent course will also run on Monday evenings 

at the House group beginning on Monday 27th February 

at 15 Huddleston Way at 7.30 pm (Sally and David's Tel 501165.)

THE FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S

"A Celebration of Marriage"

An Exhibition of Wedding Dresses and accessories, 

photographs and personal memories; 

Ruby, Silver and Golden Wedding Anniversaries.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21st 10 a.m. - 4-30 p.m. in church 

If you have any of the above items 

you would be willing to lend, 

or a dressmaker's dummy, 

please see Janet Marven as soon as possible.

ST, PETERS BABRAHAM

LENT COURSE

Are we washing our hands of England's poor?

This takes place

every Tuesday evening
until 27th March

at 7:30pm 

at School House, Babraham. 

Please contact Mary Hunt if you would like to join us. 

MOTHERING SUNDAY

MOTHERING SUNDAY is on March 18th 

and the Mothers' Union is again promoting its

Make a Mother's Day campaign 

with ethical gifts 

which some members of the congregation 

have bought in previous years 

in memory of their mothers. 

Details are on the table by the door

or Enid Lewis can help.

MISSION

MISSION PLATE

Our offerings in January, February and March are for THE MISSION TO SEAFARERS, a Christian organisation which provides practical and spiritual help and support to over 1.2 million seafarers in 150 ports throughout the world. Piracy, shipwreck, abandonment, loneliness and separation from loved ones are just a few of the problems merchant seafarers face.

Please read Ruth's letter and Christmas greetings which are on the notice-board, and remember them in your prayers.

CRISIS IN EAST AFRICA 

Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are facing famine. Many have already died. Please give generously to the appeal for help. There is a jar on the table by the door for your donations.

 ‘SOUP AND SANDWICHES’ 

The first ‘SOUP AND SANDWICHES’ will be available on March 29^th from 12.30p.m. to 1.30p.m. at the Church Hall. Open to all for a free lunch and time to talk