Churches Together in St Albans – Bulletin – November 2022

Dear all,

On Sunday 11^th December at 4.00pm, the Alban Duo will be performing in a Christmas concert in St Leonard’s church. For further details, please see the attached poster.

On Saturday 19^th November, there will be an Evening of Palestinian Culture at Trinity URC, St Albans, AL1 3RD! Doors open 6:30 for prompt 7pm start

Enjoy live performances of Palestinian dance by the Hawiyya Dance Company, together with song and music by Julia Katarina and poetry readings. Display of Palestinian costumes and stalls for Zaytoun olive oil and dates, plus Hadeel crafts.

Refreshments Palestinian-style in the intervals.

Please sign up now to reserve your place, so we get catering and seating right.Free admission, donations invited to cover costs of performers.

Please see attached poster for more information.

19 Nov poster Cultural Evening

The St Albans Methodist Churches are seeking to appoint a new Children & Families Worker, and I am contacting you on their behalf to ask if you would be willing to circulate the attached job advertisement via your weekly notices or other publications, and/or to post it on your website.

Our deadline for applications is Friday 25^th November.

Advertisement for Children and Families Worker – St Albans (Nov 22)

Stephen Poxon writes: Please allow me to announce the release of my new book: ‘A Pleasant Year with Father Brown’.

365 daily devotional readings from the Father Brown stories, each matched to a Bible verse and a prayer. Published by Darton, Longman and Todd, ISBN 978-1-915412-06-5.

Available in the UK to begin with, then in America and internationally in due course.

‘A Pleasant Year with Father Brown’ can be ordered online – at Eden.co.uk for example – or in any bookshop. 

The West Hertfordshire and Borders Methodist Circuit & St Albans and Welwyn Circuit are looking to employ a Circuit Safeguarding Officer. Details attached.

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‘Sending Love to Care Homes’ heart project

Following the success of last year’s Christmas star project organised by St Albans Anna Chaplaincy, a new project is being launched for Christmas 2022.

Churches across St Albans are being encouraged to deliver a message of love this Christmas, to each care home resident in the city. St Albans’ Anna Chaplain, Maggie Dodd is calling all children and crafters to create heart decorations which will be wrapped and delivered to care home communities across the city. Maggie can supply wooden hearts for children to decorate with pens, paint or collage, or packs of felt and ribbon to stitch padded hearts. There is also a knitting pattern to create hearts if your talent extends to knitting.

Would you like to be involved? If so please contact:

Maggie Dodd, St Albans’ Anna Chaplain mrsmaggiedodd@gmail.com or 07462 586773 

All hearts should be completed by 11th December, ready to distribute the following week.

Please share the information in this Bulletin widely.

If you are not on the distribution email and would like to be, or if you are on the distribution and don’t want to be, please reply to this email and let me know what you would like to happen.

For more information about events or about CTSA, please go to our website: http://ctstalbans.org.uk

If you have any comments, or spot any errors, please get in touch with me.

If you have notices that did not make it into this Newsletter, please email me and I will send them around my mailing list.

Gill Elliott

Trinity URC St Albans & CTSA