Bulletin - 9th October 2016

PARISH REGISTER – If you have changed or have a new mobile telephone number or email address please complete a Parish Register Form available at the back of church and hand to Fr. Harriott. Thank You

NEW PARISHIONERS - If you are a new member of the parish, would you please make yourself known to Fr. Harriott or a member of the Parish Council and complete a form available at the back of church.

OFFERTORIES -

There will be a retiring collection today for CAFOD. Envelopes are available at the back of church for your donations.

Sunday 9^th Oct. Readers – H. Buglass & J. Kingston EM's – A. Hall, V. Rooker & B. Wareing

Hall Teas – No rota available at the time of printing

Sunday 16^th Oct. Readers – V. Rooker & K. Dawson EM's – S. Hall, J. Craigie & Z. G-Johnson

Hall Teas - No rota available at the time of printing

CHRISTMAS SHOE BOX APPEAL – is upon us once again. Louise Roberts will be selling the boxes 50p at the back of church over the next two weeks. The collection date for the shoe box appeal is Sunday 13^th Nov.

EVENING CHRONICLE “WISH TOKENS FOR CHARITY” - Janet Memola will be collecting these over the next few months for the Air Ambulance.

COFFEE AFTERNOONS – The next two Coffee Afternoons will be this Thursday 13^th Oct 2016 and Thursday 10^th Nov. 2016 at 1.30pm. These are open to ALL, not just parishioners, Please come along.

YEAR OF MERCY – On the back of the bulletin is information for all parishioners, especially young families, to get involved in planned activities. Please read and contact Kathryn Maggs 07540 065414 or Jerry Laidler.

PARKING – For the safety of Parents with children in pushchairs & young children, parishioners in wheelchairs, or with walking aids; can we request that parishioners refrain from parking on footpaths.

GARDENERS – We have lost one of our helpers (very careless), can anyone help out with the gardening. You don't have to be available every week, but it would help.

Please contact Frank Swindle on 07779425610

ADDITIONAL PARISH & DIOCESAN INFORMATION- can be obtained from the Parish website https://sites.google.com/site/stjohnsannitsford. Anyone experiencing problems accessing the site, please contact Jerry Laidler on 07801 452372

StJohn’s Youth Council Supports CAFOD Harvest Fast Day

Friday was CAFOD’s Harvest/Family Fast Day and StJohns YPC is helping to support CAFOD’s initiatives.

There are raffle tickets on sale today so please feel free to purchase a strip and support our youth in helping others. All money received from raffle tickets and Fast Day envelopes will go to CAFOD’s Bolivia project in helping the people of Bolivian Altiplano – a vast, inhospitable plain almost 12,000 feet above sea level. Many thanks and #GodBless+ StJohns YPC

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… FTiH - IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ …

Parishioners Meeting Next Sunday 16^th October after Mass in the Hall – To discuss the captured output from the vicariate meeting and the graphic below. ALL WELCOME.

Rosary Prayer & Discussion – Will be resumed in the hall every Wednesday during the month of October at 2pm. This will be led by Kathleen Dawson and all are welcome

TheHub@TheHall

Since FTiH started, and particularly during this phase of ‘Whom can we be a neighbour to’, the feedback, comments and suggestions from StJohn’s parishioners have highlighted a number of areas that together - and hopefully with our wider community – we can build on and develop as we grow and develop our partnerships with those around us.

The graphic below tries to capture those areas that you have discussed during this time and we intend to create a larger display in the hall and use the hall as a ‘hub’ to capture and develop for our community ideas and actions.

In the same way as we captured the children’s ideas and actions, it is hoped that:

• 1. The 5 areas and tree provides a channel to capture your ideas/suggestions/actions

  2. Allows people an easy way to get involved to whatever level they feel comfortable with

  3. Identifies your talents that you want to share – however small and however frequent – it’s up to you

  4. Provides a way of allowing you to get involved in the things that matter to you

  5. Brings greater clarity of communication

We will discuss further how this will work over the coming weeks but we hope you can see its value in that it is a mechanism that allows all of us to share, communicate and develop those areas that will continue to make our community stronger, inclusive, flexible to change and outreaching in its outlook.

#GodBless+ Fr. Richard B. Harriott