Church Notices

Sunday 19 October 2025 – 11am Shorter service of Holy Communion - led by Rev. Vron from Ide - Trinity 18

Readings: Timothy chapter 3 verse 14 to chapter 4 verse 5 and Luke chapter 18, verses 1 - 8

The service won't be available on YouTube

Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJJ7uMFp9y1d2OIS96CMsOQ/live

The monthly prayer meeting is on 5 November between 7 and 8pm and will be held on Zoom. Here is the link Zoom link

Services Next Week in St Michael’s

Wednesday 22 October 9:30 Spoken Communion service

Sunday 26 October 11am Morning Worship with Holy Communion - Trinity 19

Normal Scheduled Alphington Open Church times:

Monday 2pm to 4pm

Tuesday 10am to noon

Wednesday 10:30 to noon, follows 9:30 Communion

Thursday 2pm to 4pm

Friday 2pm to 4pm.

Do drop in for a cup of something hot or cold and a chat or just some quiet time.

Shoeboxes for Moldova

You may have gained the impression from an article in Alphington Life that St Michael's is not doing shoe boxes this year. This article was referring to a different church - we most certainly ARE doing shoeboxes this year and the deadline for delivering your them to CREE is 25th November. If you would like to know the sort of things that should go in the boxes, we have put a list on the noticeboard in church.

Welcome Supper Wednesday 12th November

We are hosting a supper for people new to our congregation and have now mainly organised the refreshments but if anyone else could make a trifle that would be a greatly appreciated. Please see Mike, Sue or Hanneke if you can help in this way,

A Message from Ruth and Paul

Paul and Ruth would like to thank you all for the love, good wishes and cards and presents that we received for our 40th Wedding anniversary .

We do greatly appreciate it.

Grace, peace, prayers

Ruth

Harvest Festival

A few images of some of the wonderful displays in church reflecting our bountiful harvest this year. A huge vote of thanks to the team of ladies, led by Anne, Mel and Denise (yes - no men though men are always welcome!) together they created these vibrant and original fruit and flower arrangements which lit up the church on Sunday. The team are a blessing to our church and ensure there are always beautiful flowers to decorate our wonderful building.

Thank you also to you, the congregation, for your generous harvest donations, which will be gratefully received by the Foodbank and St Petrock’s, to support those in need in our city.

Light Party - Friday 31st October at 4.30 pm

We are delighted to be hosting an alternative Halloween Event this year for primary age children from the community. The party will send a message of hope and light into the village rather than one of dark and evil. Amelia is leading this initiative but there are various ways for anyone to be involved - by helping on the evening, donating food and cakes or by praying that it will attract many families. Please see Amelia for more details or email her on amelia@alphingtonstmichaels.org

Please see the poster below.

New Inn lunch Sunday 26th October

Please sign the list at the back of church making your choices from the menu below:

St Michael's Church signs up to the values of the "Single Friendly Church Network"

Here are the key actions which we try to set as the guide for our action. Any comments on what we could do better would, of course, be warmly received.

Step 1: Know your community - We think about who the single people are in our church and the wider community, and what their needs could be.
Step 2: Messaging - We review our language and images across all our communications and make appropriate changes for our church.
Step 3: Welcome and Belonging - We reflect on our welcome and hospitality, to ensure single people at all stages of life are welcomed into the heart of the church.
Step 4: Teaching - We are committed to making our teaching and prayers relevant and encouraging for single people.
Step 5: Leadership - We recognise the importance of having single people in leadership roles, and proactively encourage single people to take up leadership opportunities in our church.

FOODBANK

The food items donated at our Harvest festival, sorted and ready for collection. Thank you everyone who donated.

If it’s easier, use this link: https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/QKIUZ1O2

If you are a regular giver to the church then the Parish Giving Scheme (PGS) is the best way to do it. The scheme collects Gift Aid for your donations if you are a UK taxpayer and has a facility to increase your giving annually by the annual Consumer Prices Index (CPI) thus keeping up with inflation.

It's possible to add a link on your phone homescreen so you can always see the latest notice sheet.

Click on the link below to see the video explaining what to do.

watch the video

Make sure your volume is turned up.

Ways to contact us: Tel 01392 662280

www.alphingtonstmichaels.org

admin@alphingtonstmichaels.org

www.facebook.com/alphingtonstmichaels/

The Churchwardens can be contacted on:

Sue on susanknoden@gmail.com or phone 07782 272106

Roger on roger603@btinternet.com or phone 07782 271862

Dates for your diary – all at St Michael’s unless otherwise stated

17 -19 October

Lee Abbey weekend away

Sunday 19 October

11am Alphington Service taken by Vron - Trinity 18

Wednesday 22 October

9:30am Holy Communion

Sunday 26 October

British Summer Time ends - clocks go back 1 hour

11am Morning Worship with Holy Communion - Last Sunday after Trinity

Friday 31 October

4:30 - 6:00pm Light Party see notice above.

Sunday 2 November

Sunday First Service - Fourth Sunday before Advent

Tuesday 4 November

7pm - Service for the Bereaved

Wednesday 5 November

7pm - Monthly prayer meeting

Sunday 9 November

10:45 Remembrance Sunday at the War Memorial

11:00 Remembrance service in church - Third Sunday before Advent

Sunday 16 November

11am Morning Praise - Second Sunday before Advent

Sunday 23 November

11am Morning Worship with Holy Communion - Last before Advent

Sunday 30 November

9:30 Mission Community Advent Service at St Ida's, Ide - First Sunday of Advent

Sunday 7 December

11am Sunday First Nativity Special

Saturday 13 December

Christingle Activity and Service

Sunday 14 December

11am Morning Worship with Holy Communion

Tuesday 16 December

7pm Carol Service

Wednesday 17 December

Alphington School Carol Service

Sunday 21 December

11am Advent Morning Praise

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24 December

6pm Nativity Crib Service

11:30pm Midnight Communion