I do hope you are very well and are enjoying the warmer weather. After surviving so many months of colder and more gloomy weather I do pray we all get time to enjoy the beauty of God's creation at this time of the year.
June is an important month in the life of All Saints. However, before I talk about June I would like to mention a notice from Gordon Williams who has organised the Christian Aid this year.
Many thanks to our collectors, in particular, and the many generous contributors towards Christian Aid Week this year. Our collection totals £3230.40 so far with £2549.52 got by knocking on doors, £680.88 by “Singing for Fun and Health” and the Church and Street donations. This total is up from last year by £435.57 with a further £100 approximately to come from Sue Stokes’ sponsored walk. This year £1003.24 was gift aided adding an extra 25%(£250.81)to the total amount. Door to door collecting may not be popular but is still the most effective way to collect a large sum quickly! An excellent effort by all!
I agree that it is a truly excellent total and I would like to thank all those who collected and also all those who donated over htat important week.
The next thing to let you know about is my Christianity and Buddhism course.
The dates in question will be
20th May, 3rd June, 1st, 8th
and 15th of July, and 12th and 19th August.
Timings will be from 7.30pm to 9.15pm in the church.
We had a large group of people attending the first week and it is not too late to join.
You can watch the videos of the first week's talks at this link:
CLICK HERE FOR VIDEOS OF WEEK 1 Buddhism and Christianity course
You can email me at tillotsons@gmail.com if you would like to attend the course and attendance at all the sessions is not in any way necessary - just come to what you can. Do note that the course is in the church so it may be an idea to bring a cushion with you and your own drink as catering in the church is not easy.
You can watch the videos of the first week's talks at this link:
CLICK HERE FOR VIDEOS OF WEEK 1 Buddhism and Christianity course
You can email me at tillotsons@gmail.com if you would like to attend the course and attendance at all the sessions is not in any way necessary - just come to what you can. Do note that the course is in the church so it may be an idea to bring a cushion with you and your own drink as catering in the church is not easy.
The course is free of charge.
YOUR HELP IS REQUIRED
We are short of helpers for three things in particular at the moment
1) The Coffee/ Tea rota - after church on Sunday. Please contact Pat Hudgell if you can help - her phone number is 01227 280262. If we do not get new helpers then the current teams will have to do their duties more often so please do consider it.
2) Friday 31st May 4pm. If you are free on this day, we need helpers to come to the church at 4pm to help put our fliers that go round our community into street packs. If you can help please let me know by emailing me at
tillotsons@gmail.com
3) We need helpers to actually deliver these fliers round the parish. We do not use our normal delivery folk for these additional fliers, though of course they are welcome to help if they wish. Piles of the fliers should be in the church on Saturday 1st June and Saturday 8th June from 10am to 11.30am or after church on Sundays. Again, if you can help, please let me know by emailing me at
YOUR HELP IS REQUIRED
We are short of helpers for three things in particular at the moment
1) The Coffee/ Tea rota - after church on Sunday. Please contact Pat Hudgell if you can help - her phone number is 01227 280262. If we do not get new helpers then the current teams will have to do their duties more often so please do consider it.
2) Friday 31st May 4pm. If you are free on this day, we need helpers to come to the church at 4pm to help put our fliers that go round our community into street packs. If you can help please let me know by emailing me at
tillotsons@gmail.com
3) We need helpers to actually deliver these fliers round the parish. We do not use our normal delivery folk for these additional fliers, though of course they are welcome to help if they wish. Piles of the fliers should be in the church on Saturday 1st June and Saturday 8th June from 10am to 11.30am or after church on Sundays. Again, if you can help, please let me know by emailing me at
NOVENA
The next thing I would like to mention is the Novena which is nine days of prayer between Ascensiontide and Pentecost. This is an important time of waiting on God and you are welcome to attend any of the prayer events happening during the Novena.
Here is the programme for the Novena:
ALL SAINTS NOVENA
Nine days of prayer between Ascension and Pentecost
All events at All Saints unless otherwise stipulated
Do
please try and come to some of these events!
Friday
31st May
5pm Celtic Evening Prayer
Saturday 1st June
1.50pm for 2pm Prayer walking round parish. Meet at 1.50pm in church. Walk and
pray for 90 minutes round various streets. Return to church for 3.30pm for
final time of prayer. We leave the church at 2pm so please aim to arrive by
1.50pm.
Sunday 2nd June
Normal morning services.
6.30pm Benediction with Solemn
Evensong at St Peter’s, Sydenham Street
8pm Compline
Monday 3rd June 8am Morning
Prayer
5pm Team Evening Prayer at St John’s
Swalecliffe
Tuesday 4th June 10am Holy
Communion at St Peter’s, Sydenham Street
8pm Sacred Space – one hour of prayer
and reflection and meditation
Wednesday 5th June 7pm Compline
Thursday 6th June 10am
Holy Communion with Healing prayer
5pm Common worship Evening Prayer
Friday 7th June
10am Prayer on the Street at Tankerton, meet at The Street, the promontory
leading out into the sea not far from
Whitstable Castle. Lasts 20 minutes.
5pm Celtic Evening Prayer
Saturday 8th June
Pilgrimage Walk to Canterbury Cathedral with other churches in the Whitstable
Team.
Assemble at All Saints car park at 11.45am for 12
noon departure. Bring drink and packed lunch. Event concludes with service in
Cathedral at 4.30pm
which should conclude by 5.30pm. Please make your
own way back to Whitstable by public transport. Open to anyone but please let
Simon know you are planning to come.
Sunday 9th June
Pentecost Sunday
8am service as normal.
10am Family Service for Pentecost
8pm Compline
As a result of this programme, I have decided to move the Pet Service to our Family Service in August - it will take place at 10am on Sunday August 11th in the Vicarage garden and will be followed at 11.15am by the annual Picnic Eucharist on the same morning. Please note that the June Unity Update you will receive is incorrect as it states June 9th as being the date for the Pet Service.
You will notice that in the programme is included a pilgrimage walk to Canterbury. This is something that all the Church of England churches in Whitstable are involved in but if you are not a member of the Church of England and are not a churchgoer you are still welcome to join us.
You will notice that in the programme is included a pilgrimage walk to Canterbury. This is something that all the Church of England churches in Whitstable are involved in but if you are not a member of the Church of England and are not a churchgoer you are still welcome to join us.
Here are the full details. Please let me know you are intending to come as I need to ensure you are given a one day Cathedral pass (unless you already have a pass).
ALL SAINTS SUMMER FETE is coming soon
Full details of the programme will emerge over the coming days but here is a special note from Rebecca Parker-Binks who organises the event with Kevin Parkin and the Social Committee
All
Saints’ Summer Fete
on 22 June needs us all to create this unique yet traditional fair. If you have
dipped and helped before and fancy helping again, we need you! If you have
years and years of experience, we still need you! If you’ve never been
involved, we want to include you and your friends. It’s a fun and truly
Whitstable day in the beautiful Vicarage garden. Please email or chat to the
Social Committee about sharing your talents with our wider community.
OUR CHILDREN'S GROUPS HAVE BEEN GOING FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH IN RECENT WEEKS....Do contact Elena or Victoria for more information
FOR MORE INFOMATION CONTACT
ELENA MARKOVA
ELENA MARKOVA
Children and Family Minister
However, if you wish to contact our Junior
Choir leader direct, Victoria Hall, her email address is
SINGING FOR FUN AND HEALTH
This
takes place on the third Wednesday of each month at 2.30pm to 4pm at All Saints
Church hall. This is great fun - a chance to singalong to a mixture of all
sorts of songs in a relaxed setting in the hall with tea, coffee and cake.
CAMEO
A
group that meets every Monday in the Church hall from 2pm to 3.30pm, apart from
Bank Holidays. Cameo stands for Come And Meet Each Other. It is a friendly
group where you can come and chat and make new friends.
FILM CLUB
The Film club meets on Thursdays from 11.15am to about 1.30pm nearly every week. It runs a mixture of films. Membership is £10 till the end of 2019 but we also ask for a contribution of £1 per person per week towards refreshments and heating costs.
The programme for the film club can be found by clicking HERE Send me an email for any of these groups and I will forward it to the group organiser.
tillotsons@gmail.com
FILM CLUB
The Film club meets on Thursdays from 11.15am to about 1.30pm nearly every week. It runs a mixture of films. Membership is £10 till the end of 2019 but we also ask for a contribution of £1 per person per week towards refreshments and heating costs.
The programme for the film club can be found by clicking HERE Send me an email for any of these groups and I will forward it to the group organiser.
tillotsons@gmail.com
Alternatively please feel welcome to
call me on 01227 272308
FROM OTHER CHURCHES AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of my Church Fellowship, I would like to invite you to share in our 150th Anniversary celebrations on Saturday 1st June. We are also having a special thanksgiving service at 10.45 am on Sunday 2nd June but I guess most of you will have commitments at your own church on that day.
As regards the Saturday especially, please see the attached publicity which could be printed off for your folk or for display on notice boards. If you wish copies of the fliers & poster I would be very happy indeed to provide these. Our church will be open during the Saturday from 10am to 12noon & from 2 to 4pm & we would love to welcome you & folk from your congregation to drop in. We will also be having an informal ceilidh in the evening, from 7 to 9.30pm, to which you & they are again most warmly invited.
Your presence & participation would be such an encouragement to us at this really happy time when we are celebrating God’s faithfulness.
Warm regards,
Paul
Dear all,
Following the success of last years community Wardrobe where we estimate that 150 families were helped and around 1000 items of uniform were distributed we have decided to continue this project this year. Planning is already well underway and we are now at the point of collating a team of people for washing and ironing the donated uniform. I would be most grateful if you could run the following notice in your church notice sheets for a couple of weeks so we can gather a team for washing and ironing. Some of you may wish to change the contact name at the end of the notice to make it more applicable to your church.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.
Jane Myhill
Children and Families Minister
St Alphege Seasalter
Following the success of last year’s Community Wardrobe we are going to repeat the project this year to again support local families cope with the cost of school uniform. It’s a bit like a Foodbank, but with school uniform instead!
How can you help?
- Would you be happy to wash, mend and / or iron the school uniform that is donated? Do get in touch.
- Do you have any uniform that you can donate? Look out for one of the ‘Community wardrobe’ bins that will soon be available in our churches.
- Please spread the word and also pray for this project.
If you are able to help, especially with the washing, mending and ironing please let Becky or Jane know at Seasalter Christian Centre (seasalterchristiancentre@
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