SUNDAY 4 th OCTOBER 2015
10.45am
4.00pm at Methodists
Harvest Service
Harvest Songs of Praise
SUNDAY 11 th OCTOBER 2015
10.45am Saints Together
(Holy Communion)
A warm welcome to everyone this morning. If you are visitor we do extend a particularly warm welcome to you and if you would like any help or more information about the church or the services then please
speak to one of the welcome team. Back Supports and large print copies of hymns are available. Children are very welcome at any of our services and there are activities available for them. Please check the notices weekly for separate children’s events.
HARVEST FESTIVAL: SUNDAY OCTOBER 4th
Everyone is welcome to join in any or all of our Harvest celebrations:
10.45am: Harvest service at All Saints & 4.00pm: Songs of Harvest Praise at Methodist Church
5.00pm: Harvest Ploughman's tea in Methodist Church Hall (Tickets £3 from Violet Timms 712431)
Your Harvest gifts will be gratefully received. Gifts of fruit, vegetables and produce will be sold after the
Ploughman's tea and the proceeds, together with the cash collections from both services, will be sent to the
Disasters Emergency Committee. Gifts of non-perishable food will be taken to the Banbury Young
Homelessness Project, where their shelves are waiting hopefully for breakfast cereals and long-life milk, pasta and pasta sauces, biscuits, crackers, tuna, tinned ham, noodles, small juices, cartons of drink, long life pudding type items, cans of fruit, sausages etc (ALL CANS WITH RING PULL TOPS PLEASE as often these young people have limited access to kitchen utensils). In fact, any long life store cupboard items that can provide sustenance and nutrition to a hungry young person will be greatly appreciated and well used, although tins and packets of soup are
NOT needed as they have plenty of those items left. A million thank you’s for your generous support of such a worthwhile project. If you cannot make the harvest services t here are boxes in the choir stalls if anyone wishes to bring their non-perishable food items earlier.
WHERE TWO ALL SAINTS CHURCH OPEN MORNINGS - The church will be open every Wednesday
OR THREE
ARE
GATHERED morning from 11.00am until 1.00pm .
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Coffee and cake, raising money for refugees via Christian Aid
Prayers will be led in the chancel for those who would like to participate at 11.00 for
All Saints will be open at
7.30pm each
Thursday until further notice for folk to join in prayer for
Middleton and for our mission and ministry in the village.
15mins
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Take donations for either food banks (SA & BYHP)
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Drop off point for operation Christmas Child boxes and kit
If you would like to support this venture, I shall need 2 volunteers to be in church to make the coffee and to chat etc you know what to do.. I shall be in church for most Wednesdays but there are a few I cannot do. I am hoping that this becomes a regular opportunity for the whole village to meet in the church, and we can positively promote the life of our church in our village… We have been open for the last 2 Wednesdays and each time we have had visitors pop in, Please keep this new venture in your prayers and if you have any ideas or experiences of doing this before please do let me know, Thank you, Amanda 01295 712648
REGULAR GIVING - A REMINDER - As Regular Giving forms the core of our Church finances, this is a reminder for those parishioners who are not already in one of our two available schemes which are:-
Peterborough Scheme - This scheme involves making a monthly standing order payment to the Peterborough
Diocesan Board of Finance (PDBF) for the benefit of All Saints. The great advantage of this scheme from our point of view is that PDBF collects this Gift Aid Tax Repayment on a monthly basis from HMRC and pays this to us, together with the total of all monthly Standing Orders in a monthly lump sum. This scheme is particularly ideal for those parishioners who are in a position to GIFT AID their contributions to All Saints (essentially they must be tax payers). Weekly Envelope Scheme - This scheme has been in existence for many years and is used by nearly 30 parishioners. Contributions can still be GIFT AIDED, but the relevant tax repayment can only be collected in arrears at the end of the financial year. Should anyone be interested in joining one of the above schemes, I would be very happy to arrange an appointment to discuss it further and deal with the necessary documentation . John
Stimpson (Treasurer), 01295 760094
Thank you ! to all Riders & Striders, and Sitters, and Sponsors who enabled us to raise £ 168 this year for Northants
Historic Churches Trust. Half the money raised is returned to our church, the other half supports NHCTs grant aid to the fabric of places of worship. Special thanks to Sue & Bob who visited 12 churches, and their sponsors, who together raised £ 148 of the total.

REFUGEE AID - Over last week we at All Saints, together with churches and other organisations in
Brackley, Buckingham and surrounding areas, have been collecting specific goods to send on a lorry to Athens for onward distribution to refugees. There is still time to donate and we would love you to bring any of the following items - Nappies, sanitary towels, baby food (no glass please!), toothpaste, toothbrushes, new handtowels - to All
Saints at our Harvest Service. The goods will be collected from All Saints on Monday 5th October and taken on the first stage of their journey. Many thanks for your support
CHURCH ROOF RESTORATION - At its meeting on 15 September the PCC agreed to commission the architect
Bryan Martin, who carried out our recent Quinquennial Review, to supervise a detailed assessment of the church roof by lead specialists. He will subsequently assist the church in making a grant application to the Heritage Lottery
Fund, which will need to include a detailed costed proposal of the proposed works. We will also have to put forward a plan of how we would open up the church building to more and different people, in order to justify any grant investment by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Bryan will be making a short presentation on the state of the roof and the requirements of the grant application, after the morning service on Sunday 11 October. A copy of the Quinquennial Review, containing photos of the problems with the roof is on the shelf below the church noticeboard. The associated costs of making the grant application, currently estimated as £2,000, will be borne by our church fabric fund. Replacing and repairing the lead is likely to cost in excess of a quarter of a million pounds.
English Heritage are highly unlikely to agree to substituting the lead with any alternative roofing material.
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD 2015 - SHOEBOXES BURSTING WITH JOY - Please join in with us to support this project run annually by Samaritan’s Purse – it’s easy and rewarding! Perhaps you’d like to do a box with a friend or colleague? You just need a medium size adult shoebox (approx 7” x 12” x 5”), wrap the lid and base separately, then fill with suitable new goodies either for a boy or girl in one of three age groups: 2-4 years, 5-9 years or 10-14 years; and include a donation of £3.00 to cover distribution costs (can be paid ‘on-line’ to Samaritan’s Purse). Or come along to help at one of our popular ‘Wrap & Fill’ sessions: Saturdays 31 st October & 14 th November, from 9.30am to 2pm,in the
Methodist Schoolrooms, Queen Street, Middleton Cheney, OX17 2NP. You will be very welcome to help at one or both sessions. We welcome contributions of goodies, empty shoeboxes, and money donations towards the cost of getting the boxes to the needy children. Coffee / tea & cake mornings will also be held during both days for anyone who would like to drop in for a while – all donations will go towards the shoe boxes. Leaflets with full details of how to do a shoe box, including a list of suitable items, are available from All Saints and Methodist churches, the Library & The Butler’s Pantry, which are also ‘Drop-off Points’ during their normal opening times; or please call Mary Phipps on 712894 or Carol Souch on 275334. Final date for dropping off completed shoeboxes is Wednesday 18th November.
Working Party Convened by Meeting Details CHURCH PLANNING DAY
We will be holding a church planning day on Saturday 24 th
October 2015. We would love as many people as possible to be involved so please make a note of the date and more details will follow in due course. Prior to the planning day the PCC thought it would be good to have working parties to look at various aspects of church life and have therefore set up the groups as shown. The aim is that these groups will investigate the various aspects of church life and feed back their thinking and planning to date at the planning day on the
24 th October and to stimulate further discussion. If you would like to be involved in any of these working parties or if you have any comments or suggestions then please speak to the PCC members indicated by the groups. Each group will be aiming to set up an initial meeting for those interested and will be publicising the dates of those meetings as soon as possible. If you are interested in being at any of these meetings please let the group leaders know as soon as possible. Groups with Meetings greyed out have now met – if you have any comments please let the group leaders know.
Children
Music
Amanda and
Alison
Darren
Prayer and Bible
Study
Claire
Buildings Outreach David
Finance John and Mike
Older People, befrienders, visitors, MU and other
Bridget and
Violet
Fabrics
Development of a
Welcome Team
Claire
Mary and
Heidi
Preparation of the
Church for services
Social and fellowship
Chris and
David
Heidi and Violet
9.30am on Weds 7/10/15 at Church Cottage
FOOD BANK - Very many thanks for all the food donations to the Food Bank. They once again require
Breakfast cereals , along with all the standard staples of tinned meat, tinned vegetables, and Long Life fullcream or semi-skimmed milk a nd sometimes, just for a treat, some chocolate or biscuits would be nice!
Notices should be submitted to Heidi Fowler by e-mail to h.fowler@wg-plc.com, or phone 711 268. Items for inclusion should be received by 5pm Wednesday to ensure inclusion for the coming Sunday .
Contacts –
Rector: Reverend Charles Jefferson 712 418 Church
Wardens: Bridget Robb 710192 & Mike Wilks 711516 –
Website - http://chenderit-c-of-e.org