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www.woodley-airfield-church.org.uk (Church of England, Methodist and United Reformed)

March and April 2008

*Methodist Minister* Rev. Mike Hill 9 Retford Close Woodley, Reading, RG5 4TP Tel. (0118) 969 9499 E-mail: minister@woodley-airfield-church.org.uk		*Methodist Lay Worker* Nancy Quinnell Tel. (0118) 926 8590
MISSION: To introduce people to Jesus Christ and build up his followers in their faith.

Services

All services are held in the Woodley C of E School, Hurricane Way , unless indicated.
SC = Sunday Club (for children aged from 3 to 11).

Sunday 2nd March: Mothering Sunday

10.00am. Prayer before Praise in the library area
10:30am. Mothering Sunday
all-age family worship, led by Nancy Quinnell

Sunday 9th March

10.30am Worship led by Graham Carpenter and Stuart Beecham
(local arrangement) SC

Sunday 16th March: Palm Sunday

10.30am - Worship led by Graham Carpenter and Stuart Beecham

Sunday 23rd March: Easter Sunday

10.30am Worship led by Revd Mike Hill
Holy Communion in the Methodist style.
SC

Sunday 30th March

10.30am Family worship led by Nancy Quinnell

Sunday 6th April

Sunday 13th April

10.30am Worship led by Revd Mike Hill
SC

Sunday 20th April

10.30am Worship led by a member of the Anglican Team
Holy Communion
SC

Sunday 27th April

10.30am Worship led by Nancy Quinnell
SC

Team Services

Evening Worship:

4th Sunday of each month Word and Worship, 7pm
5th Sunday of the month Healing service at St. Johns.

Fair Trade

Woodley Airfield Church is registered as a “fair trade organisation”. This means that we use, and encourage the use of, fairly traded products whenever and wherever possible. For more information about fair trade goods, including details of suppliers, please see the website at: http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

Good Friday

March 21st

There will be a service at the school at 10.00am, lasting approximately 45 minutes. We will then walk to the Precinct to join with members of the other Churches in Woodley for a united act of worship starting at 11:30.
Hot-cross buns will be served!

This month

Licensing Service

Tuesday March 4th, 7.30pm

at St. John the Evangelist, Church Road. Revd Eddie Marquez will be licensed as the new Priest in Charge of St. Johns parish. Please join us to celebrate his arrival amd pray for him as be begins his minsistry in Woodley.

Bring & Share Lunch

Change of Date

Sunday April 6th, at 1pm

We will be sharing lunch with folk from the other Anglican congregations in Woodley, and from the C of E school. Since the date we originally planned is now the first Sunday when Revd Eddie Marquez will be at St. Johns, we will now be holding this event on April 6th.

Prospects

March 2nd

Come to our morning service and find out about the work of this charity, who are starting up a new venture in our area. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and to support their work.

Rainbows (Grief Support)

Please continue to pray for this initiative, which is aimed at helping children whose parents are divorcing or who have been bereaved to come to terms with what is happening and to find ways to move on. The first planned series of meetings has had to be postponed, and will now take place probably in the autumn of this year.

Churches Together in Woodley
"Praying 4 the town"

Prayer meeting on Monday 25th February from 7.30 - 9.30pm at Christ Church.
There will be refreshments, worship, a speaker and prayer focusing on the churches and current projects in Woodley.

Women's World Day of Prayer

God's Wisdom Provides New Understanding
Christ Church, 10.30am on March 7th

All are welcome at this interdenominational service which has been prepared by Christian women from Guyana. The speaker will be Mrs. J. Norris.

Fairtrade Fair at St. James' Church Centre

Saturday March 15th, 10am-2pm

On Saturday 15th March there will be a Fair Trade Fair at St James from 10am till 2pm. Various organisations who sell fairly traded goods will be represented and have a wide variety of goods for sale.
We shall be providing lunches of home made soup and rolls and there will be a cake stall and as many of the cakes as possible will have some fairly traded ingredients.
The young peole hope to do a car wash.
This event coincides with our regular monthly waste paper collection so there will be a large container in the car park for mixed paper and card as well.

Woodley Airfield Church calendar

March

Monday 3rd: Church Meeting, 8pm
Friday 14th: Easter service at Brookfields School
Wednesday 19th: Farewell services at C of E School for Jon Honour.

April

Friday 1st: Lunch for the Gemini Club
Sunday 3rd: Bring & Share Lunch 1pm
Monday 21st: Church Council meeting, 8pm

and beyond . . .

Churches Together in Woodley

Sunday 27th April at 6.30pm Big Worship Event in St. James Church Centre!
Christians from all over Woodley will be meeting to praise God. The guest speaker will be John Madley.

Sunday 8th June - Praise in the Park Please come along and make this outdoor service a great witness to the presence of God in the Woodley Carnival. You could follow up by supporting the CTW Megamarquee the following week on the Carnival ground.

Change of Minister

In August, Revd Mike Hill will be moving on and it is likely that we will not have a minister to replace him for a while. Our next minister will come from the United Reformed Church, and the process is getting underway but it can take some time. In the meanwhile, we will receive support from the Methodist Circuit and there will be someone to whom we can turn if we need to. Our thoughts and prayers go with Mike and Gwen, and we wish them every blessing in this new phase of their life. Mike's last service in Woodley will be on August 3rd.

Rainbow Café at Christ Church

The Rainbow Café serves drinks and snacks from late morning till lunch time on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10:30 am to 1:45 pm.

Christian Community Action

CCA have now completed the move to the new warehouse in Cardiff Road and have started collecting and delivering furniture again. A huge amount of work had to be done to ensure that the old premises were in good order when they were vacated. The stock and equipment then had to be transferred to the new smaller location in which enough furniture can be stored to meet the needs of the people who turn to CCA for help
Please note that unlike the previous way of operating the new warehouse will not be open to the public either for sales of surplus furniture or to drop-off donated furniture.
For further information please see the CCA website http://www.ccam.org.uk// or contact mail@ccam.org.uk tel: 0870 240 2187 (furniture donations).

Useful websites

For those of us who use the internet these are worth trying as sources for local Christian activities and events and issues from our parent denominations.

Reading and Silchester Methodist Circuit: http://www.readingmethodists.org.uk/

Woodley Anglican Team:

St Johns http://www.stjohns-woodley.org.uk/Home/index.php

Emmanuel http://www.emmanuel-woodley.org/services/

St James http://www.stjames-woodley.org.uk/

Christian Community Action: http://www.ccam.org.uk/

Just Around the Corner (JAC): http:www.jacoutreach.org/jac_news.html

Churches Together in Woodley: http://woodleychristians.org.uk/

Churches in Reading: http://www.churchesinreading.org.uk/

Annual Church Meeting

The minutes of our recent Annual Church Meeting are available on request from the Secretary. Additionally, the report on our activities over the last year can be viewed here

Sunday offerings

Sunday offerings and standing orders for November and December were £677.35 and £664.18.
Offerings for charities were £98.22 at the Carol Service and £50.00 on Christmas Morning.

Prayers

Woodley Team Ministry

Please pray for Revd Eddie Marquez as he begins his ministry in Woodley on March 4th. Also, please pray for Revd Jon Honour and his family as they leave Woodley in April.

Praying together for the people of the Airfield

We shall be praying for our Church and community, usually on the first Sunday in each month at 10am in the Library area at the school. Please join in when you are ready, and feel free to leave when you wish.

Share & Prayer:

An informal prayer meeting held on Tuesdays during school terms jointly with Christ Church. All are welcome.
10.00 – 11:15am in the Stenner Lounge, followed by coffee in the Rainbow Cafe. Contact Mary Carpenter (961 8144)

Prayer requests:

If you want prayer (especially in urgent circumstances) speak to Mike Hill or, if he is not available, Nancy Quinnell or Mary Carpenter, who will pass the request on. Generally we will pray at intervals over a three or four-day period – but it is always helpful if the original request is followed up when the situation changes.

Weekly Prayer Times:

Meetings for prayer will be held at the following times each week:

Monday          9.00am to 9.30am                 Emmanuel Church Centre
Tuesday          8.30am to 9.00am                 St. John's Church
Wednesday     7.30am to 8.15am                 Emmanuel Church Centre.

Monthly prayer meetings

2nd Saturday 8.00am to 8.45am St. John's Church

Housegroups

Mondays (usually fortnightly) at 7:30pm at Nancy & David’s.
Next meeting - contact Nancy Quinnell.

Tuesdays during school terms at 8:00pm. Contact Mary Carpenter for details of the next meeting.

Published and printed by Woodley Airfield Church. Edited by Stuart Beecham (969 9201 / BeechamSC@hotmail.com ).

Copy date for next Newsletter: 25^thApril

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