What’s Happening
Sunday Meetings are at Good News Church
Sun 28 Nov 10.30am Service – Advent service (Christingle)
6pm CTWB Advent Service at St James, Taxal (Collection for Christian Aid)
Sun 5 Dec 10.30am Service – Advent (The prophets)
Sun 12 Dec 10.30am Service – Advent (John the Baptist)
Sun 19 Dec 10.30am Communion service welcoming new members. Advent – (Mary)
6.30pm Carols by candlelight.
Sat 25 Dec 10.30am Christmas Day family service
Sun 26 Dec 10.30am Breakfast service.
Sun 2 Jan 10.30am Covenant service followed by bring and share meal.
Mask wearing in church is now by personal choice but please respect each others’ viewpoints. We have masks / gloves available to those who would like them and ask everyone to use hand sanitiser. Ventilation will continue to be maintained, please respect social distancing and remain seated for refreshments
Prayer
Weekly prayer meeting on zoom 6.30am – 7.30am (different day each week.) -
Prayer for youth and revival – Friday mornings 9.45am on Zoom. See Cheryl for details
Midweek meetings
Wednesday 1st Dec – Church will be open from 4-9pm for the launch of the Advent Windows
Wednesday evening house group –at church 7.30 – 9pm with an advent reflection through December.
Calendar
Tree lighting service Saturday 27th November 5pm outside the station.
Whaley Community Advent Windows – Starting 1st December at GNC
Would you like to decorate a window this Advent?
We are looking for homes, shops, community groups and churches to decorate an advent window and keep it lit between 4pm - 9pm from your allocated date until Boxing Day. We will give you a theme and agree a date with you, then create a list of windows. Then over to you for how you decorate your window! Windows need to be visible from a public footpath in Whaley Bridge.
To register interest please message or email whaleychurches@gmail.com or see facebook.com/whaleychurches
Thu 2 December – Men’s meal 7.30pm. Speaker Matt Preston. Book with Rob asap. £5 deposit.
Thu 9 December 7.30pm at St Mary’s church, Chinley: Disciple Making Training Taster session (free) – prayer walking and ways of offering to pray with people, how to share your testimony in 3 minutes and simple ways to share the Gospel (How to use 1-1 Discovery Bible Study.) See Cheryl to book in.
CTWB Carol Sing on Saturday, December 11th from 10.30 - 11.30. There is a Christmas Market in the canal basin at that time, collecting for Christian Aid.
Other notices
Tearfund Quiz – The total raised is £454 plus gift aid. Thank you to all involved!
Church Membership – A number of people are being welcomed into church membership soon. See Rob and Cheryl to chat through this.
Evening communion – We won’t have an evening communion this month as we have the CTWB Advent service and the carol service. Back in 2022.
Other notices
Small groups – All regular attenders are invited to join a small whatsapp group for support, encouragement and sharing prayer requests
Prayer – if you would like to meet up with others to pray regularly please get in touch. A number of people meet and have formed prayer “triplets” to meet every week or fortnightly to pray for and support each other. Let us know if you’d like to do this too.
Books – Please take a look at the books available to borrow – they are set out downstairs currently
Lunchclub volunteers
The Churches Together Lunch Club would welcome new volunteers to join a rota, to provide a lunch and some good cheer to some of the older residents of Whaley Bridge.
If you would like to find out about this opportunity to serve the community please ask
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Men's meals
We meet for a meal out with a short talk from a speaker, every few months.
Next meal 2 December 2021
The Alpha Course
'What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.' -The Guardian
We ran Alpha from May - July 2019 as a joint Churches Together Whaley Bridge group.
For more info click Alpha
