Outlook Copies of this month’s parish magazine are available for collection/ delivery today – don’t forget yours.Lent Programme Details of this year’s Lent Programme at Holy Trinity have been printed on a card for you all to take home and consider. Please do NOT return them at the end of the service; they are to be taken home both for information and for your prayers.Thank you all who provided such a wonderful time at Tuesday’s Pancake Party. All your hard work was much appreciated; it was a lovely occasion. Finance and Fundraising We are very much in need of additional funds to help continue the life and ministry of Holy Trinity. There will a short meeting this Wednesday (4th) at 2.00pm at the Vicarage for anyone who would like to help. Please do come along. Fairtrade Fortnight This year’s campaign continues the fight for a living wage for cocoa farmers in West Africa, who on average only have 74p a day to live on. With your help buying Fairtrade products, this can change. Thank you for supporting the Fairtrade stall last Sunday; the next will be on Sunday 8th March. Zambia Floods Our thoughts and prayers go out to those in this country that have suffered great losses through flooding recently. However, in our link Diocese of Zambia, floods there have caused immense damage to life and property. Our diocese has set itself the challenge of raising £17,500 to help relieve the suffering of our brothers and sisters there. If you can make a donation, that would be much appreciated. If you wish to Gift Aid your donation, please use the white envelopes on every pew, and when completing the details, mark them clearly as ‘Zambia’. Thank you.Mission Work There will be a meeting this week regarding ways in which we can develop our outreach and encourage growth. This will be in the Church Hall, Friday 6 March, 2.00pm. The PCC are considering a long-term mission strategy based on ‘Leading Your Church into Growth’. This is a national resource, and members of Holy Trinity attended a residential conference last October. The first stage is to see how LYCIG may work in our parish, and how we might adopt it. So again, if you are concerned about growing the parish, please do come along.Any items for inclusion in next week’s Notice Sheet to be received at the Parish Office (on paper, by email or phone) by THURSDAY MORNING, please.
Ash Wednesday is on Wednesday week, and marks the beginning of the important season of Lent. Please do all you can to get to the service at 7.30pm that day, and begin to think about your own Lenten discipline. Details of additional services and this year’s discussion group are available. The ashes are made from the palm crosses from the previous year. Please return your cross as soon as you can please (there’s a basket at the back of church). Thank you. Fr MIchael Currah RIP Fr Michael sadly died peacefully in the hospice at Edgbaston in Birmingham, where he had been for a fortnight. He was 88. He had been at Holy Trinity from 1988 – 2006, where he and his late wife Mary, were appointed to lead the music and as organist. After his retirement from these posts, he continued to assist as a priest and also played every Sunday evening for Evensong. As a talented horologist, he cared for many clocks in the parish, and restored the clock and chimes here at Holy Trinity, including rewiring the tower and installing a much safer staircase to the ringing chamber from the first level. A requiem will be celebrated here for his repose once his funeral arrangements have been confirmed. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. Outlook George Coles would be very grateful for any copy for the Parish Magazine. It is always much better and nicer if there’s ‘local’ contribution. If you have anything to say, or an experience to share, please let George have it by Wednesday this week, please. Fairtrade Fortnight will run from Monday 24 February to Sunday 8 March 2020. There will be a Tradecraft stall on Sunday 23 February in the hall after the service. Shrove Tuesday There’s a pancake party in the Church Hall on Tuesday 25 February at 7.00pm – all are very welcome. Tickets are available at only £5 for a cooked meal and drinks; available after services. Don’t miss out! Walsingham Pilgrimage The annual parish pilgrimage will take place this year 22-26 June. Please reserve your place as soon as possible; numbers are limited. A deposit of £30 (cheques to Holy Trinity PCC) is required. Please see Jane Laurence for further details. Thank you.
NOTICES Ash Wednesday is this Wednesday. Please make every effort to come to the Sung Mass with Imposition of Ashes at 7.30pm. Stations of the Cross The traditional Friday devotional service (lasting half an hour) will begin on 28 Feb, but this year it will be at 4.00pm, in the church as usual. Finance and Fundraising There will be a meeting at the Vicarage on Wednesday 4 March at 2.00pm for anyone who is interested in helping the church to raise and manage its funds. Fr MIchael Currah RIP Fr Michael’s funeral arrangements have now been made. His funeral will take place at St Christopher’s Church, Ditteridge, Box, on Friday 28 February at 1pm. The Friday mass here that day (12.30pm) will be a requiem for him, and after soup lunch (2pm) a retrospective of his life as a clock engineer will be shown in the church hall, to which all are welcome. Fairtrade Fortnight will run from Monday 24 February to Sunday 8 March 2020. There will be a Tradecraft stall today in the hall after the service. Shrove Tuesday There’s a pancake party in the Church Hall on Tuesday 25 February at 7.00pm – all are very welcome. Tickets are available at only £5 for a cooked meal and drinks; available after services. Don’t miss out! Walsingham Pilgrimage The annual parish pilgrimage will take place this year 22-26 June. Please let Jane Laurence know if you’d like to come; deposits need to be returned to the Shrine by the beginning of March. If you’d like to know and perhaps have never been, please see Fr Julian or Jane. Any items for inclusion in next week’s Notice Sheet to be received at the Parish Office (on paper, by email or phone) by THURSDAY MORNING, please.
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