LodeStar for December 2008

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Gift Sunday

Monday 24 November 2008 at 9:32 pm

On Sunday 14th December you may wish to bring a present to church for someone who may not receive much this Christmas. The presents we collect will be taken to the Wicken Ward at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely and to Robinson House in Soham. Please label your present to indicate if it is for a man or a woman and also say if it is not suitable for people with special dietary requirements.

Carols Round the Tree

Monday 24 November 2008 at 9:18 pm

New for this year:

6.30pm Sunday 14th December.

Come and sing your favourite Christmas carols and help us to raise money for Liam Fairhurst's appeal for CLIC Sargent.

Christmas Stars

Saturday 22 November 2008 at 9:24 pm

Our Christmas tree this year will again be decorated with dozens of stars.

You are invited to buy a star for £1 and write a message or prayer on it - for example to give thanks for the birth of a baby or to remember a loved one no longer with us. For more information please contact Dorothy Clark on 720048.

Charitable Giving 2008

Saturday 22 November 2008 at 9:13 pm Each year St Andrew's PCC donates some of its income to other charities and good causes. We try to balance international aid with local charities and long-standing relationships with new causes. In November 2008 the PCC decided to make the following donations:

Action Aid                                    £200
El Alba Homes                              £200
St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy    £100
Sian Mahoney's work in Zambia     £250
Emergency aid in the Congo          £125
Ely diocesan Bell Ringers               £25
TOTAL                                         £900

Christingle Service

Monday 17 November 2008 at 10:59 pm St Andrew's is holding its annual Christingle service in aid of the Children's Society at 4pm on Sunday 14th December. If you have one of their collection boxes please bring it along. Children will be given a Christingle to take home.

New Traidcraft Stall

Friday 24 October 2008 at 11:33 am Phil and Linda Logan are now running a Traidcraft stall at St Andrew's after the 9.30 service on Sundays. Please support people in some of the world's poorest countries by buying items from them.
Traidcraft fights poverty through trade, helping people in developing countries to transform their lives. It was established in 1979 as a Christian response to poverty. They are the UK's leading fair trade organisation, and run development programmes in some of the poorest countries in the world, campaigning in the UK and internationally to bring about trade justice.
Ask Phil and Linda about gifts for Christmas, and the Traidcraft catalogue or visit the Traidcraft online shop at http://www.traidcraftshop.co.uk.

Dear Friends

Friday 13 June 2008 at 10:53 am

There is an old saying that if Mohammed won't go to the mountain then the mountain will have to go to Mohammed. I do not intend to use this as an excuse to talk about Christian-Muslim dialogue, which is surely important and about which much could be said, but rather to talk about the decidedly more prosaic subject of transport to church.

It is not always widely known that if people wish to come church but have difficulties actually getting there, then we are very willing to lay on transport for them. We are very grateful to our volunteer drivers who willingly bring people to church services, functions and events, but we would like the service to be more widely known. If you know someone who cannot get to church on a Sunday morning but would like to come, please do let me know and I will arrange a lift for them.

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Giving to the Church

Wednesday 30 April 2008 at 08:25 am

Did you know that it costs around £55,000 per year to run St Andrew's Church? This is regular spending on parish share (ministry costs paid to the Diocese), heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, administration and printing etc. It does not include payments for major repairs. At the moment we are facing a shortfall between this and our income from collections, fundraising, fees and so on which is having to be met from reserves. The more we take from reserves the less interest we get from those accounts thus making the problem worse as time goes on.

With this in mind regular churchgoers have been asked over the last few weeks to reflect on what we are giving to the church in financial donations to enable St Andrew's to go on doing God‘s work, both in terms of serving the regular congregation and providing care for the rest of the community.

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Dear Friends

Friday 19 October 2007 at 10:36 am
I love the old school boy joke of Be alert: your country needs lerts! Sadly, those of us entrusted with the care of our historic churches need to be more alert and vigilant than ever. There has been an epidemic of theft of metal from churches in our area. The main church insurer wrote to all clergy recently saying that the claims for this August total the same for the whole of last year; so it is clearly a major problem. At the end of September thieves struck at Wicken Church and made off with some sheets of lead from the south aisle roof and the Victoria Hall in Fordham has been targeted more than once. While the roof at St Andrew's is very high (and therefore perhaps less of an attractive target than some other churches) I would urge everyone to keep their eyes open and report anything suspicious to the police straight away. (more)

Opening Times, St Andrew's

St Andrew's is open daily 9.15am -5.30pm for prayer and reflection or for visitors to look around our beautiful historic building. Members of the congregation often pop in and will try to answer any questions you may have. There is a guide book on the leaflet shelves near the door.

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St. Andrew's

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Location

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Contacts

The Clergy

The Vicar: The Reverend Tim Alban Jones
The Vicarage, Cross Green, Soham, Ely, CB7 5DU

01353 720423

Email the Vicar

The Curate: The Reverend Edward Green
01353 720878

Email the Curate

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St. Laurence's Service Times

1st Sunday

11:00am Holy Communion

2nd Sunday

11:00am Ecumenical Service
(Check the Calendar)

3rd Sunday

8:00am Holy Communion BCP

4th Sunday

11:00am Morning Prayer

5th Sunday

11:00am Holy Communion CW (with Soham)

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St. Andrew's Service Times

Open daily 9.15am -5.30pm for prayer and reflection.

1st Sunday

8:00am Holy Communion BCP
9:30am Sung Eucharist

2nd Sunday

8:00am Holy Communion BCP
9:30am Sung Eucharist
6.30pm Sung Evensong BCP

3rd Sunday

8:00am Holy Communion BCP
9:30am Family Service

4th Sunday

8:00am Holy Communion BCP
9:30am Sung Eucharist
7:00pm Streams: Fresh Expressions service with space for meditation and reflection

5th Sunday

8:00am Holy Communion BCP
11:00am Joint service at Wicken.

Thursday

10:00am Holy Communion BCP