Evenlode Vale Churches: Personnel & Administration Benefice Website: www.evenlodevalechurches.org Rector Day off: Curate EVENLODE VALE CHURCHES PEW NOTES Revd Richard Rendall 01451 831866 email: rendalls@talk21.com Tuesday Day off: Revd Nat Charles 01608 659508 Email: njcharles@googlemail.com Saturday Administrator Bridget Tiffin Church Office Church Office, Holy Ascension Oddington, Gloucestershire GL56 0XA 01451 831424 email: evenvalechurches1@btconnect.com Monday 9am to 12 noon, Wednesday 9am to 2pm, Friday 9am to 2pm* * Please note that the Church Office will be closed from Monday 21st December and will re-open again on Monday 4th January. AV at Holy Ascension We have a rota of four people, including two teenagers, running the Audio Visual system at Holy Ascension. We are looking for further people to be able to do the AV during Benefice Services. It requires about 30 minutes to be shown how to use it and one Sunday to sit alongside the person doing it, before joining the rota. Please contact Steve Rowley on Telephone Number: 01451 833877. Sunday 20th December 2015 The Fourth Sunday of Advent Today’s Services 9.30am 10.30am 11am 3.30pm 6pm 6pm Morning Service (CW) Westcote Crib Service and Carols Broadwell Preacher Carol Service HAO Family Carol Service Icomb Carol Service Adlestrop Service of Lessons & Carols Bledington Revd Peter Goodwin-Hudson Revd Richard Rendall Dilys Neill Revd Hugh Williams Revd Nat Charles Revd Richard Rendall Revd Nat Charles Collect for the Fourth Sunday of Advent God our redeemer, who prepared the Blessed Virgin Mary to be the mother of your Son: grant that, as she looked for his coming as our saviour, so we may be ready to greet him when he comes again as our judge; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Diary Dates Forthcoming Services Tuesday 22nd December Carols at the Fox – 7pm at The Fox Inn, Broadwell. Tuesday 22nd December Friday 8th January Meeting of the Trustees of E V M T – 4.30pm at The Well House, Donnington. Wednesday 13th January Bledington Bible Study Group – 10.45am at 11 Jackson Road. Broadwell Local Ministry Team Meeting – 4.30pm at Broadwell Rectory. Thursday 14th January Westcote PCC Meeting – 7.30pm at Stayts Farm. Friday 15th January Prayer Group Meeting -2pm at HAO. Tuesday 19th January to Thursday 21st January Bishop Rachel’s visit to the North Cotswolds Deanery. Wednesday 27th January Bledington Bible Study Group – 10.45am at 11 Jackson Road. Ibba Girls School Christmas cards Please support Ibba, our 8th parish, by buying Christmas cards about Ibba Girls School, South Sudan. Packs of 10 cards cost £4.50 and each pack contains 5 different photos of girls at the school, with a Christmassy border of stars, based on the star in the school badge. Order your cards from Jean Hartley: jean.hartley@open.ac.uk or 07500 773010 or from Corner Cottage, Icomb. 7pm Carols at the Fox Broadwell Revd Richard Rendall Revd Nat Charles Thursday 24th December Christmas Eve 3.30pm 4pm 6pm 11pm 11pm 11pm Family Carol Service Westcote Crib Service and Carols Bledington Family Carol Service Evenlode Holy Communion (CW) Bledington Holy Communion (CW) St Nicholas Oddington Holy Communion (CW) Westcote Revd Peter Goodwin-Hudson Revd Nat Charles Revd Richard Rendall Revd Hugh Williams Revd Nat Charles Revd Richard Rendall Friday 25th December Christmas Day 9.30am 9.30am 10am 10.30am 11am 11am Holy Communion (CW) Adlestrop Family Communion (CW) Westcote Holy Communion (BCP) & Blessing of Crib Evenlode Family Communion (CW) Icomb Family Communion Bledington Family Communion Broadwell Canon Tim Sedgley Revd Peter Goodwin-Hudson Canon Michael Banks Timothy Royle Revd Nat Charles Revd Richard Rendall Sunday 27th December First Sunday of Christmas 9am 11am Holy Communion (BCP) Bledington Westcote Joint Service at the Church Preacher Revd Richard Rendall Revd Richard Rendalll Tony Gibson Sunday 3rd January The Second Sunday of Christmas 11am United Communion Service (CW) HAO with JAM Preacher Revd Richard Rendall Revd Nat Charles