ALL SAINTS MESSENGER

A very warm welcome to All Saints. If you are a visitor, we do extend a particularly warm welcome to you and if you would like any help or more information about the church or the services then please speak to one of the welcome team. Back Supports and large print copies of hymns are available, as well as in induction hearing loop – please ask for details of how to make use of this. Toilets & baby changing facilities are located at the back of the church under the bell tower. Children are very welcome at all our services and there are activities available for them. If you have young children, please ask for a ‘pew bag’ which contains some specific toys/activities for them. Please check the notices for children’s’ activities.

REGULAR ACTIVITIESWEDNESDAYS THE JOLLY TEAPOT 11am -1.00pm You'll see this sign hanging on the gate of All Saints every Wednesday morning, when the Church is open from 11.00am until 1.00pm. Come in for a chat and coffee and cake, (or tea). It's also a good opportunity for visitors to look round the Church and avail themselves of the printed guides, or for people to bring food items for the Salvation Army Food Bank. Some people may just want to sit quietly. All will be welcome. Donations for coffee go to All Saints Church Funds.HOLY COMMUNION 11am Monthly Midweek Holy Communion – contact Margaret White on 710 054 for more information and dates.FIRST STEPS 2pm -3pm (in term time) For preschooler’s & their parents/grandparents/carers – Stories, Songs, Craft, Activities, Refreshments. All WelcomeMOTHERS’ UNION 2pm Held monthly on the 2nd Wednesday of the month in the Methodist Hall. Everyone welcome.THURSDAYSQUEST DISCUSSION GROUP Meets every 2nd & 4th Thursday of the Month at 7.45pm for 8pm –9.30pm further details from Jane Bullock on 711 531BELL RINGING 7.30pm – 8.30pm Church Bellringing practice on the first Thursday of every month 7:30 - 8:30 please contact Richard Solesbury-Timms on 07456716031 for details.SUNDAYS MENS GROUP 8.00pm – 9.30pmThe Men’s’ Group meet in Church every Sunday evening for fellowship & discussion. For further details please contact Peter Mackie on 711 935. This week we are looking at ACTS chapters 16-20Please check with group leaders as some activities may run differently during holiday periods.

SUNDAY 22 nd OCTOBER 2017 SUNDAY 29 th OCTOBER 2017 10.30am Holy Communion 10.30am All Age Family Service

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PRAYER - If you have an urgent request you can activate the Prayer Chains at any time by calling either Di on 01295 713838 or texting Mary on 07842 162 795. All prayer requests treated with complete confidentiality.

ALL SOULS MEMORIAL SERVICE - At 4 pm on Sunday November 5th, All Saints Church will be welcoming families and friends of those who have died in the past year or whose anniversaries fall at this time, for an All Souls Service of remembrance. If you have anyone you wish to be named at the service, please give details to Chris 710076 or Violet 712431, or to the churchwardens. Please pass this information to any friends or neighbours who may want a loved one remembered in this way. All are welcome.

ROUND POUND AMNESTY COLLECTION - The old round pound coins ceased to be legal tender on 16 October, with   shops such as Sainsbury’s and M& S immediately refusing to accept them. Tesco has a week’s grace and banks will make their own individual decisions about how long they will accept them. Unload these old favourites which you might still come across in the next two weeks into our donations collecting jar by the church south door and we will put all the proceeds into the building fund for the Reroofing Morris project.

CHURCH FLOODLIGHTING Would you like to sponsor the floodlighting to celebrate a special event or in memory of a loved one? Floodlighting can be sponsored on a weekly basis with all notifications going in the village column in the Banbury Guardian. Please contact Keith White on 710 054

Notices should be submitted to Heidi Fowler by e-mail to h.fowler@wg-plc.com, or phone 711 268. Items for inclusion should be received by 5pm Wednesday to ensure inclusion for

the coming Sunday. Contacts - Church Wardens: Bridget Robb 710192 & Mike Wilks 711516.For Weddings, Funerals, Baptisms please contact Rev. Simon Dommett, Rural Dean Email: the.revd.simon@gmail.com Phone:

01869 810903 Post: The Rectory, Croughton Road, Aynho, Banbury, OX17 3BD.KEEP UP TO DATE WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING AT ALL SAINTS

CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE http://chenderit-c-of-e.orgor sign up to receive messenger by email by contacting h.fowler@wg-plc.com

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD 2017 - SHOEBOXES BURSTING WITH JOYAll Saints church & Methodist chapel are again supporting this Samaritan’s Purse annual project and we hope you will join in. A shoebox wrapped in cheery paper and filled with small new gifts is probably the first and only Christmas present needy children around the world will ever receive. Take a medium size adult shoe box, wrap the lid and base separately, then fill with suitable new goodies either for a boy or girl in one of three age groups: 2-4 years, 5-9 years or 10-14 years; please include a donation of the £5.00 project cost to get each filled shoe box to a needy child (if you pay ‘on-line’ to Samaritan’s Purse and print a bar code to put in your box you will find out where it gets sent to).Drop off your box to All Saints, the Methodist chapel, or the Library, or The Butler’s Pantry during their normal opening times. Pick up an information leaflet about how to do a box at any of these places. Saturday 18th November is the last day for dropping off completed shoe boxes!! WRAP & FILL COFFEE MORNINGS with cakes sale:Our first Wrap & Fill session produced 45 completed shoe boxes. A big thank you to the 19 helpers who came along, but we need even more helpers at our next two sessions to wrap & fill shoe boxes with donated goodies, and write Christmas cards to put in the boxes, on Saturdays 28th October & 11th November, from 9.30am to 2.30pm, in the Methodist Schoolrooms, Queen Street, Middleton Cheney, OX17 2NP. Do come to help, you will be very welcome and enjoy a cuppa & cake & chat too! All funds raised at these mornings go towards this shoe box project.

Goodies needed - we are short of flannels, wrapped soap, combs, hair brushes, rulers, pencil sharpeners, pens. Thank you.

For enquiries please call Mary Phipps 712894 or Carol Souch 01295 521605.

BRING AND SHARE LUNCH November will soon be with us, and what could be more comforting than a nice hot baked potato with a choice of tasty toppings. Come and join us! everyone is welcome. Baked potatoes will be served at the next Shared Lunch on Sunday November 5th at 12.30pm in the Methodist Schoolroom. Please bring a topping or a pudding to share. The united service that day will be conducted by Deacon Margaret Hale in the Methodist Church at 10.45am.

OUR ELECTRICITY We buy our electricity through the Parish Buying Scheme, a bulk buying organisation run by the C of E, which helps parishes obtain highly competitive prices for their energy by clubbing together to make one large joint purchase. For the first time our new electricity contract will be 100% Green, produced from UK renewable sources, mainly solar panels. This was achieved at no extra cost, by negotiating with the supplier an allocation of their renewable supply equal to that required by the participating parishes.

BAGS FOR LIFE Many thanks to those people who have responded to the request to donate heavy duty or long-lasting supermarket or carrier bags to the Food Bank. The strong bags enable the Salvation Army to distribute the food items more efficiently.