Notices
 Visiting Preacher Next week we will welcome Br Martin SSF (Society of St Francis)
as our preacher. Br Martin is an old friend of Lee and a member of the same religious
order as Br Reginald who we welcomed at Easter.
 The Edward Bear Group – Starts again for the New Year this Tuesday 7th January
2014 at 10.30am in the Church. Please come along and tell your friends and family.
 Burns Night Supper with Barn Dance - Saturday 25th January in Boreham School
Hall. Further details will be available soon.
 Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. A Pilgrimage to the land where Jesus was born, lived
and died will take place in February 2015. Brochures are available at the back. Please
do speak to Lee for additional details. Further information will be available in the New
Year.
 The next Healing Group Meeting is this Thursday 9thJanuary 2014, at 7.30pm at 20
Sussex Close.
 The Copy Date for the February edition of the Parish Magazine is 15thJanuary 2014
 Please note Women`s Guild next meets on 5thFebruary. More details to follow.
 The next Messy Church is Sunday 19thJanuary at 3.00pm. Fun for the Family.
 Our next Refresh café-church service will on Sunday 12thJanuary starting at 6.30pm in
the Church.
 The next PCC Meeting is on 15thJanuary 2014 at 7.45pm in the Pelly Room.
 Sunday Afternoon Teas and Chats- will be on Sunday 26thJanuary at the usual time
of 3.00pm in the Pelly Room
A Thought for the New Year - Mother Teresa's “Anyway” Poem
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered; ……….Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;……..Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;……Succeed
anyway.
St Andrew’s Church
Church Road, Boreham
Essex CM3 3EG
Contact Revd. Lee Batson on:
Tel.no. 01245 451087 or email
lee@borehamchurch.org.uk
In the footsteps of St.Andrew the Fisherman.
Networking for Jesus in the 21st Century.
WEEKLY NEWSHEET
Sunday 5thJanuary 2014
Services Today – Epiphany
We warmly welcome you to our Family service this morning. If you are
new, or visiting, please make yourself known to one of the Ministers.
Please do stay behind for refreshments after the service.
10.30 am Family Service
5.30 pm Holy Communion (BCP)
Christine Horton
Revd. Lee Batson
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;…………Be honest and frank anyway.
Morning Hymn Numbers – 709, 266, 716, 318, 574
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; ……….Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;………………..Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;…………… Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;……Give the world the best
you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God; It was never between
you and them anyway.
Collect for Today
O God, who by the leading of a star manifested your only Son to the peoples
of the earth: mercifully grant that we, who know you now by faith, may at
last behold your glory face to face; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God,
now and for ever. Amen
Morning Worship Reading
Diary for the Week
Monday 6thJanuary
Matthew 2.1-12
(Pew Bible page 1 New Testament)
Tuesday 7thJanuary
CONTEXT: Matthew`s (unique) nativity story of gifts to Jesus
IDEAS: The greatest king has come; journeying to him; wisdom honours him; our gifts to
him.
Only Matthew tells us how representatives of other strange religions came from the East
to offer their homage to the one and only true God, the child who is king for ever over all
earthly powers.
8.30 am
5.30 pm
6.00 pm
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Holy Communion
Thursday 9thJanuary
8.30 am
5.30 pm
7.30 pm
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Healing Group Meeting
Friday 10thJanuary
8.30 am
5.30 pm
6.00 pm
6.45 pm
7.30 pm
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Junior Hand Bells
Junior Choir Practice
Adult Choir Practice
Saturday 11thJanuary
8.30 am
5.30 pm
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Sunday 12thJanuary
9.15 am
10.30 am
6.30 pm
Early Bird Sunday School
Holy Communion
Refresh Informal Service
Please make use of the daily recommended Bible Reading in your personal prayers
Read slowly and ask what God is saying to you today through the text.
Monday 6 January
Psalm 48 and Colossians 4.2-end
Tuesday 7thJanuary
Psalm 99 and Matthew 20.1-16
Wednesday 8thJanuary
Psalm 46 and Matthew 20.17-28
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Thursday 9 January
Psalm 148 and Matthew 20.29-end
Friday 10thJanuary
Psalm 149 and Matthew 23.1-12
Saturday 11thJanuary
Psalm 150 and Matthew 23.13-28
Sunday 12thJanuary
Psalm 89.19-29 and 2 Corinthians 1.3-12
Church Information
All contact details and Church activities/information can be found on the web site
www.borehamchurch.org.uk
If you have any items for the Weekly News sheet please contact Tony Freeman by phone
01245 467408 or email anthonytfreeman@yahoo.co.uk by Tuesday Evening
It would be a great help if you could kindly replace the kneelers after the service
and take your Weekly News Sheets home with you - Thank you.
Morning Prayer
Edward Bear Group
Evening Prayer
Bell Ringing
Wednesday 8thJanuary
Daily Bible Readings
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8.30 am
10.30 am
5.30 pm
7.45 pm
Prayer Focus
 For the PCC Group as it meets next week to prepare and plan for the events of
2014 and beyond.
 For those still being affected by continuing floods across the UK.
 That the ceasefire talks being held in Addis Ababa successfully negotiate a
settlement between the warring parties in South Sudan.
 For Parents and Teachers as they prepare for the Children to start a new term.
 For those who are unwell, Ava, Malcolm Jackson, Ellen, Chris Warren, Mary
Bird, Flo Spearman, Jane Metzinger, Claire and for those who have recently
died, John Hammond and for those whose anniversary of death occurs at this
time.