This weekend’s Bible readings: Romans 14:1-12(p 1140) and Matthew 18:21-35 (p 985)Christianity Explored: The Alpha course has become Christianity Explored, it will now take place in the Vicarage and it starts this Wednesday at 7.00 pm! Please pray that God, by his Holy Spirit, will be at work in those who attend.Harvest appeal: This year’s appeal will be divided between our long standing partners at Kisiizi Hospital in Uganda and the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf, which some of our folk visited last year. Fliers will be available in our churches soon. The cash collection at the harvest services in All Saints and St Catherine’s will go to the appeal; in St Mary’s there will be special envelopes available for your gifts. Alternatively, you can give online to any of the bank accounts detailed later in this notices sheet, using the reference ‘harvest’.All Saints@6: Now that we have moved our Centre service to 6 o’clock and changed the format a little, we have decided to change the name to All Saints@6. We are still very much an informal café church but there is now a varying programme for the three weeks of the month (the other is Evensong). Some services (like this week) will be invitational: Joe Boot will be leading a Question and Answer session following a talk on ‘Worldviews in Conflict’, a topic which will interest many, Christian or otherwise. Please join us!Pop up shop: The next pop up shop will be on Sunday 24th September at the 10.30am family service at St Mary's. There will be a lot of new stock of fairly traded and ethically sourced products. Any profits made go to our local food bank. If there is something you would like Marion to order for you please let her know.Giving in St Mary’s: You may have spotted that gift aid envelopes have reappeared in St Mary’s. We can claim gift aid on cash donations in the collection bags, but only up to a certain amount and last year Standon exceeded that amount. If you’re making a cash donation (in church or at one of our events) and you are a tax payer, it would be helpful if you would complete a GA envelope, please. If you’ve signed an ongoing gift aid declaration, just your name on the envelope will enable us to allocate the donation to your existing declaration. That will mean that we will claim more gift aid on the amount of cash given by non-tax-payers. Thank you for helping us maximise the amount we can recover from HMRC.This isn’t an issue at present for our other two churches, who haven’t reached the limit and are able to claim tax back on all the cash donations they receive.Sunday lunch at The Star: Heather's next Sunday lunch will be on Sunday 24th September at 12.15pm at The Star in Standon. Please contact Heather by Monday 18th September to book a place (07909 065550).Midweek Music: Midweek Music at St Mary’s will return on Wednesday 27th September, when Michael will be giving an organ recital.Lunchtime concert season: Our lunchtime concert season in St Mary’s is almost upon us. This year’s concerts will be 30th September, 7th and 14th October. The programme will be:30th September The Rib Singers, directed by David Ranford7th October Bella Cora, directed by Ros Savournin14th October Flute Cocktail, directed by Wendy WalsheA soup and cheese lunch will be served from 12.00, with concerts taking place at 12.30. As usual, we ask for £5 to cover lunch, and there will be a retiring collection for the Friends of St Mary’s.Basma’s cookery evening – advance notice: Basma will be hosting another demonstration of Levantine cookery, followed by supper, in the Memorial Hall, Dane End, at 7.00 pm on 21st October. Tickets are available from any of the Sacombe PCC. Proceeds will go to St Catherine’s. We recommend booking early – these always sell out very quickly!Wednesday café: Our All Saints church cafe team is desperate for helpers on a Wednesday afternoon, (term time only) to serve the children and parents with cake and drinks between 2.30 and 4.30pm. Deborah normally helps with the children’s work and chats with the parents building up important relationships but now she will be needed to help serve. Please consider helping even if it is a one off. We can guarantee you will enjoy your time there! Please speak to Deborah, Carole or Lizzie (B).Help needed for Little Munden churchyard: We desperately need more volunteers to help maintain the churchyard at All Saints. If you can offer some time, please speak to John.Thank you from Heather: Heather writes: ‘The musical afternoon in All Saints last Saturday was a great joy to everyone there and raised in the region of £650. I would like to thank Peter A for all the effort and determination he put into making this event a success. Also Michael and the music group, Caroline and Peter H, everyone who supplied all the delicious cakes and to Deborah Jacky and Jane who served the refreshments and everyone who came and supported us. A truly wonderful afternoon. Thank you so much to everyone. Heather and family.’Concert 21st September: Hugh and Michael will be performing at St Mary’s, Ware lunchtime concert on Thursday this week. Refreshments are served from 11.30; the concert is at 12.30. Entry is free, with a retiring collection for the church.Live stream glitch last week: We apologise that the live stream went down last week part-way through the service. We don’t know why it happened (though some of the High Street has been having some internet problems recently), but the recording of the service has now been uploaded to our usual Your Tube channel, so you can find it there if you’d like to try again.And lighting issue in St Mary’s: The electricians switched off the power in St Mary’s this week and, since then, the panel of buttons to control the lights hasn’t been working. Until we can get it sorted, the visitors’ lights (operated with the switch in the porch, just outside the big doors) has been altered so that it puts on all the lights. Please use that one if you need lights on.Website - changes: Our benefice website is on the www.achurchnearyou.com platform. The ACNY platform has been/is rolling out a number of changes to improve their site so that benefice information doesn’t need to be duplicated for each church. Please bear with us as we work to populate the new pages.Some people have been having difficulty reaching the benefice page. It can be reached via this link: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice/32-240BF/. The forward from https://ubsms.org.uk has been updated to point to that new page.Services for the next few weeksMidweek services each week:Tuesdays, 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP), St Catherine'sWednesdays, 9.30am Morning worship & Bible study, St Mary'sSunday services:17th September 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Holy communion, All Saints6.00pm All Saints@6, All Saints24th September 10.30am Harvest family worship, St Mary's6.00pm Harvest choral evensong, St Mary's1st October 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Harvest morning worship, All Saints6.00pm All Saints@6, All Saints8th October 10.30am Holy communion, St Mary's6.00pm All Saints@6, All Saints15th October 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Holy communion, All Saints6.00pm All Saints@6, All Saints
This weekend’s Bible readings: Romans 13:8-14(p 1140) and Matthew 18:15-25 (p 985)Christianity Explored: The Alpha course has become Christianity Explored, it has been delayed for a week and will now take place in the Benefice!!The reason for this is, very sadly, St James Thorley have had to withdraw their offer to host at the last minute. So we will run it ourselves, but use Christianity Explored, another course very like Alpha. One reason for this is that it is shorter (7 weeks) and this means that John can lead it. However, that means it will start a week later (on Wednesday 20th September) when he returns from holiday. It also means that the venue will be with us. At present that will be in the Vicarage, as we can all fit in (just!), but if we have more take up (which God-willing we will) we may move over to All Saints Little Munden.Keep praying! God, by his Holy Spirit, is at work in all of this!All Saints @ 6: Now that we have moved our Centre service to 6 o’clock and changed the format a little, we have decided to change the name to All Saints@6. We are still very much an informal café church but there is now a varying programme for the three weeks of the month (the other is Evensong). Some services (like next week) will be invitational: Joe Boot will be leading a Question and Answer session following a talk on ‘Worldviews in Conflict’, a topic which will interest many, Christian or otherwise. This week however is a time of prayer. Please join us!Knit & Natter group: If you like knitting or crocheting, come and join us for a couple of hours in the Sargant room at the back of Standon village hall at 2pm, usually on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Tea & cakes will be available. Our next meeting will be on Thursday 14th September. For more information please contact Marion on 01920 745683.Sunday lunch at The Star: Heather's next Sunday lunch will be on Sunday 24th September at 12.15pm at The Star in Standon. Please contact Heather before Monday 18th September to book a place (07909 065550).Midweek Music: Midweek Music at St Mary’s will return on Wednesday 27th September, when Michael will be giving an organ recital.Lunchtime concert season: Our lunchtime concert season in St Mary’s is almost upon us. This year’s concerts will be 30th September, 7th and 14th October. The programme will be:30th September The Rib Singers, directed by David Ranford7th October Bella Cora, directed by Ros Savournin14th October Flute Cocktail, directed by Wendy WalsheA soup and cheese lunch will be served from 12.00, with concerts taking place at 12.30. As usual, we ask for £5 to cover lunch, and there will be a retiring collection for the Friends of St Mary’s.Basma’s cookery evening – advance notice: Basma will be hosting another demonstration of Levantine cookery, followed by supper, in the Memorial Hall, Dane End, at 7.00 pm on 21st October. Tickets are available from any of the Sacombe PCC. Proceeds will go to St Catherine’s. We recommend booking early – these always sell out very quickly!Wednesday café: Our All Saints church cafe team is desperate for helpers on a Wednesday afternoon, (term time only) to serve the children and parents with cake and drinks between 2.30 and 4.30pm. Deborah normally helps with the children’s work and chats with the parents building up important relationships but now she will be needed to help serve. Please consider helping even if it is a one off. We can guarantee you will enjoy your time there! Please speak to Deborah, Carole or Lizzie (B).Help needed for Little Munden churchyard: We desperately need more volunteers to help maintain the churchyard at All Saints. If you can offer some time, please speak to John.News of Charlie, who was our curate: Charlie will be licensed to her new parish of St. Stephen’s with St Julien’s in St Albans at 5.30pm on Monday 2nd October. All are welcome.Website - changes: Our benefice website is on the www.achurchnearyou.com platform. The ACNY platform has been/is rolling out a number of changes to improve their site so that benefice information doesn’t need to be duplicated for each church. Please bear with us as we work to populate the new pages.Some people have been having difficulty reaching the benefice page. It can be reached via this link: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice/32-240BF/. The forward from https://ubsms.org.uk has been updated to point to that new page.Services for the next few weeksMidweek services each week:Tuesdays, 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP), St Catherine'sWednesdays, 9.30am Morning worship & Bible study, St Mary'sSunday services:10th September 10.30am Morning worship, St Mary's6.00pm All Saints @ 6, All Saints17th September 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Holy communion, All Saints6.00pm All Saints @ 6, All Saints24th September 10.30am Harvest family worship, St Mary's6.00pm Choral evensong, St Mary's1st October 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Harvest morning worship, All Saints6.00pm All Saints @ 6, All Saints8th October 10.30am Holy communion, St Mary's6.00pm All Saints @ 6, All Saints
This weekend’s Bible readings: Romans 12:9-21(p 1139) and Matthew 16:21-28 (p 984)Alpha Course: We will be joining in with the Alpha Course in Thorley on Wednesdays from 13th September. Please pray about this and especially if you can invite anyone along. We plan to take a group from our benefice, and we’d love to add to it. Please speak to John for more information.The Centre at 6: This Sunday we begin the new programme of our Café Church in Little Munden at 6pm. It would be great if people would like to try it out who haven’t been before. There is now a consistent live music element with Jenny and Joe Boot leading the singing. The teaching and activity programme will also be more varied over the next few weeks including times of Question and Answer on major topics, study together and prayer. This week we will begin with teaching from the Psalms with the opportunity to ask questions and grow together. Oh, and there will be food! Do come and try it out.Songs of Praise 9th September: We will be holding a Songs of Praise service on Saturday 9th Sept at 3pm in All Saints, to commemorate the late Peter Jackson (Heather's husband) who arranged music for the Music Group. It will be a service of about an hour, incorporating hymns and songs, interspersed with readings, and Heather's family will provide a short testimony to Peter. We will end with refreshments!Next Sunday: John will be away next weekend, so the 10.30 service will be morning worship rather than communion.Holiday Bible Club 29th August to 1st September: We have had a fun-filled and full-on week of activities taking place in St Mary’s this week, with around 40 children taking part over the course of the 4 days in learning about Jonah and Jesus (yes, there really are parallels!) crafts and games. A huge thank you to the team who helped, as well as the Red Balloon team who led the club. We hope to see at least some of the children and their families in 4th Sunday services as well as at the Wednesday café; please make them welcome.Midweek Music: Midweek Music at St Mary’s will return on Wednesday 27th September, when Michael will be giving an organ recital.Wednesday café: Our All Saints church cafe team is desperate for helpers on a Wednesday afternoon, (term time only) to serve the children and parents with cake and drinks between 2.30 and 4.30pm. Deborah normally helps with the children’s work and chats with the parents building up important relationships but now she will be needed to help serve. Please consider helping even if it is a one off. We can guarantee you will enjoy your time there! Please speak to Deborah, Carole or Lizzie (B).Help needed for Little Munden churchyard: We desperately need more volunteers to help maintain the churchyard at All Saints. If you can offer some time, please speak to John.News of Charlie, who was our curate: Charlie will be licensed to her new parish of St. Stephen’s with St Julien’s in St Albans at 5.30pm on Monday 2nd October. All are welcome.Website - changes: Our benefice website is on the www.achurchnearyou.com platform. The ACNY platform has been/is rolling out a number of changes to improve their site so that benefice information doesn’t need to be duplicated for each church. Please bear with us as we work to populate the new pages.Some people have been having difficulty reaching the benefice page. It can be reached via this link: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice/32-240BF/. The forward from https://ubsms.org.uk has been updated to point to that new page.Services for the next few weeksMidweek services each week:Tuesdays, 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP), St Catherine'sWednesdays, 9.30am Morning worship & Bible study, St Mary'sSunday services:3rd September 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Morning worship, All Saints6.00pm The Centre, All Saints10th September 10.30am Morning worship, St Mary's6.00pm The Centre, All Saints17th September 8.00am, Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Holy communion, All Saints6.00pm The Centre, All Saints24th September 10.30am Harvest family worship, St Mary's6.00pm Choral evensong, St Mary's1st October 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Harvest morning worship, All Saints6.00pm The Centre, All Saints
This weekend’s Bible readings: Romans 12:1-8 (p 1139)Welcome to Freddie: This morning we welcome Freddie and his family, Godparents and friends. Freddie will be baptised during the service.Alpha Course: We will be joining in with the Alpha Course in Thorley on Wednesdays from 13th September. Please pray about this and especially if you can invite anyone along. We hope that we will be able to take a group from our benefice. Please speak to John for more information.Farewell to David and Rebecca, and changes at the Centre: We will be saying “farewell and thank you“ to Rebecca and Dave this Sunday 27th at the Centre 4pm. All are very welcome to join us, perhaps bringing a small plate of savoury or sweet to share if you would like to.Centre meetings will move from next week to 5.45 for 6 pm, except on 4th Sundays, when we are inviting the Centre to join our evensong congregation.Come and Sing evensong 27th August: Please join us for our ‘Come and sing’ Choral Evensong this weekend. Friends from surrounding churches will be singing with those of our benefice choir who aren’t away. All are welcome to come and worship with us in this reflective service.Please note that from September, our 4th Sunday evensong will move to a new time of 6.00 pm.Holiday Bible Club 29th August to 1st September, 10.00 until 3.00: This year’s theme is Jonah, linking each part of Jonah’s story with gospel stories. If you’d like to know more or to volunteer, please speak to Caroline, and please invite any children who might come.Wednesday worship in St Mary’s: This coming Wednesday, the Holiday Bible Club will be using the main part of church. The Wednesday morning worship will still take place; please come as usual and we’ll decide exactly where! (Obvious contenders are the tower or the vestry.)Mothers’ Union: The next meeting of Braughing with Standon Mothers' Union is on Wednesday 30th August at 2.30pm in the Old Boys School Braughing. This is a change from the date advertised in our 2023 programme for this month. Diane will be talking about The Enchanted Isles (Galapagos). Everyone is invited to this meeting. Brenda Cottle will bring the MU Christmas cards, gifts, 2024 calendars & diaries with her. Please ring Diane on 01920 821130 or text on 07949 665365 for more information or if you need a lift.Midweek Music: Midweek Music at St Mary’s will return on Wednesday 27th September, when Michael will be giving an organ recital.Songs of Praise 9th September: We are planning a Songs of Praise service on Saturday 9th Sept at 3pm in All Saints, to commemorate the late Peter Jackson (Heather's husband) who arranged music for the Music Group. It will be a service of about an hour, incorporating hymns and songs, interspersed with readings, and Heather's family will provide a short testimony to Peter. We will end with refreshments!Wednesday café: Our All Saints church cafe team is desperate for helpers on a Wednesday afternoon, (term time only) to serve the children and parents with cake and drinks between 2.30 and 4.30pm. Deborah normally helps with the children’s work and chats with the parents building up important relationships but now she will be needed to help serve. Please consider helping even if it is a one off. We can guarantee you will enjoy your time there! Please speak to Deborah, Carole or Lizzie (B).Help needed for Little Munden churchyard: We desperately need more volunteers to help maintain the churchyard at All Saints. If you can offer some time, please speak to John.Website - changes: Our benefice website is on the www.achurchnearyou.com platform. The ACNY platform has been/is rolling out a number of changes to improve their site so that benefice information doesn’t need to be duplicated for each church. Please bear with us as we work to populate the new pages.Some people have been having difficulty reaching the benefice page. It can be reached via this link: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice/32-240BF/. The forward from https://ubsms.org.uk has been updated to point to that new page.Services for the next few weeksMidweek services each week:Tuesdays, 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP), St Catherine'sWednesdays, 9.30am Morning worship & Bible study, St Mary'sSunday services:27th August 10.30am Family worship, St Mary's4.00pm The Centre, All Saints6.30pm Come and Sing evensong, St Mary's3rd September 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Morning worship, All Saints6.00pm The Centre, All Saints10th September 10.30am Holy communion, St Mary's6.00pm The Centre, All Saints17th September 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Holy communion, All Saints6.00pm The Centre, All Saints24th September 10.30am Family worship, St Mary's6.00pm Choral evensong, St Mary's
