Title: Sawtry Carnival
Location: Sawtry
Website: www.sawtry.net
Description: Keep 22nd June 2013 free as Sawtry Carnival will take place – bigger and better than ever! Don’t forget to ‘like us’ on our facebook page Sawtry Carnival – also coming soon to sawtry.net
If you would like a stall contact Bev on 07925707821 or sawtrycarnival@hotmail.co.uk
Date: 2013-06-22
Our annual Christingle Service takes place in St Michael’s Church on Saturday 15th December, starting at 4pm.
Whilst the Christingle has its origin in the Moravian church, the idea of the three poor children who took their decorated orange to church as a Christmas gift for Jesus has been adopted by churches worldwide.
The three children, who were very poor, wanted to give a gift to Jesus, like the other families at church were doing. The only nice thing they had was an orange, so they decided to give him that. The top was going slightly green, so the eldest cut it out, and put a candle in the hole. They thought it still looked dull, so the youngest girl took her best red ribbon from her hair and attached it round the middle with toothpicks. The middle child had the idea to put a few pieces of dried fruit on the ends of the sticks. They took it to their church on Christmas Day, and whereas the other children sneered at their meagre gift, the priest took their gift and showed it as an example of the true understanding of the meaning of Christmas.
Children (and mums and dads) are invited to come to the church at 3.30pm to help make the Christingles. Don’t worry if you cannot come before the service, there will be Christingles available at the service.
A long distance walk (approx 15 miles) has been organised for Boxing Day which happens to be Thursday 26th December 2013.
Start point is the Village hall car park
Start time 9am
Allow yourselves 5 to 6 hours for the walk duration and bring drink and snack lunch.
This is a reconnaissance walk for a longer LDWA walk in March 2014. I can promise you a modest walking pace, I dont do fast.
For further details use the contact email below.
Tapestry chamber choir, CambridgeshireAt the start of the service, another candle will be lit on the Advent Wreath. The Advent wreath is a Christian tradition that symbolizes the passage of the four weeks of the season of Advent. The wreath is a horizontal evergreen wreath with four candles (three purple and one pink) and a fifth, white candle in the centre. Beginning with the First Sunday of Advent, a candle is lit. An additional candle is lit during each subsequent week until, by the last Sunday before Christmas, all four candles are lit. The fifth white candle in the centre will be lit at the Midnight Communion on Christmas Eve in St Michael’s Church.
Our Advent Carol Service takes place on Sunday 9th December starting at 6pm.
Steeple Gidding Church was closed in the early 1970s, but remains a consecrated building, in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
In recent years, two services annually have been held in the church. The service of Holy Communion on Sunday 2nd December is being held to celebrate the Feast of St Andrew, the apostle to whom the church is dedicated. The service starts at 11am.
There will be no service at St Michael’s Church, Great Gidding that Sunday.
As if the weather hasn’t been gloomy enough this year, the onset of the clocks going back will compound this feeling. So why not join the Monday Night Meander’s for our weekly walk around the Luddington Loop. Its 3.3 miles and takes an hour and ten minutes at a very sedate pace. We meet outside the shop at 6.55 pm for a prompt 7 pm start.
You may need a torch as the road up to Rectory Farm is a bit rough (surface wise) Only a monsoon or a blizzard will stop the walk otherwise come along.
The first one is on Monday 29 th of October and every Monday evening through to March 2013
The November meeting will be on Wednesday 14th November at 7.30pm at Ferrar House. The speaker will be our chairman Paul Burgess, who will look at the life and poetry of Charles Hamilton Sorley, a poet of the First World War who, Paul says, is not much known, but Robert Graves named him as one of the three best, alongside Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg.
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2012-11-14
On Sunday 11th November, there will be the annual Service for Remembrance in St Michael’s Church, Great Gidding during which we remember all those who have died in past conflicts.
The service starts at 10.55am prompt.
Start Time: 10:55
Date: 2012-11-11
Last October, a Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving for those who had died was held in St Michael’s Church. The aim of the service was to provide people with an opportunity to pause, reflect and give thanks for the lives of loved ones.
This year the service will be held in Alconbury Parish Church on Sunday 4th November at 3pm. As before, the names of those who have died will be read out. During the service, there will also be the opportunity to light a candle in memory of a loved one.
If you would like to have someone remembered at this service, please email the Rev’d Mary Jepp at m.jepp@btinternet.com or telephone 01480 890284. Alternatively names may be given to either of the Churchwardens. Names may be added to the list on the day.
Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2012-11-04
St Michael’s Church is holding a Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support on Sunday 14th October. This will take place at Churchside House (John De Val’s home) starting at 10.30am.
A third of the population will get cancer and it’s the toughest thing most of us will have to face. Macmillan Cancer Support provide practical, medical and financial support, as well as pushing for better cancer care.
We hope that as many as will come along and support us in our bid to raise funds for this important organisation.
So please put the date in your diary:
When? Sunday 14th October
What time? From 10.30am
Where? Churchside House (John De Val’s home)
We look forward to welcoming you.