Please see pew sheet for the month attached - the following news update was issued by email on Saturday 21st March
Sacred Space Service - don’t forget that this has been moved from Mothering Sunday to this Sunday
Palm Sunday - next week is the 5th Sunday of the month so the Palm Sunday service will be a Benefice Communion which this time will be at Gt Blakenham at their normal time of 11am. However, for those of us who are used to an earlier service, remember that we will be putting the clocks forward on Saturday night so you can still have a normal night’s sleep and still get to Church on time.Soup Kitchen - Bradley Smith who now organises the Sunday Soup Kitchen is looking for volunteers in order to maintain the 8-week rota which has been maintained by our Church and the Local Community over past 30+ years. He is looking for a few more sandwich makers as well as leaders for a couple of groups. Please email Bradley on [email protected] or ring him on 07301203340 if you can help or need more information.
Trevor Messenger - we can now confirm that the funeral our friend and long term member of the Claydon & Barham Church family will take place on Thursday 16th April at 11am. Please continue to remember Trevor and his family in your prayers.
Barham Easter Flowers - with Suzy Ambler having to give up organising the Flower Arranging at Barham after Christmas following several years in the role and Angela also having to give up due to her mobility and relocation to Stowmarket, we are desperately in need of help to decorate the Church for Easter. As an interim arrangement, on Good Friday afternoon and Easter Saturday we will leave vases and water near the Madonna and Child so that anyone can pop up with some flowers and place them where they like in the Church. Alternatively you could sign up for the Easter Basket Workshop on Easter Saturday at Henley and bring the fruits of you labours to decorate the Church. It would be a shame if we had Easter without flowers..We sincerely thank both Suzy and Angela for all their work over the years and pray that someone will come forward to take on the role of Flower Arranging Organiser in the future.
J-team - prior to sending out Church Easter Cards in Claydon & Barham, which include links to book Band Concert and J-Team places via TicketSource.co.uk, I sent an email to parents of recent J-team attendees advising them that booking for J-team was now open. Within 6 hours an incredible 27 places had been booked and paid for!
St George’s Day - Great to report that Gt Blakenham’s St George’s Day celebration is now sold out - always encouraging when that happens.
On another positive note - with more than three months still to go, over a quarter of the the tickets for the Barham Hall Band Concert have been sold.
Please find attached the monthly pew sheet for April - issued a little earlier than usual with Easter being at the beginning of the month. We thank Wendy Hooper for compiling this each month.
