Birthdays this week

Sun, 23rd Brandon Venter

Tue, 25th Anna Piper, Pat Young

Christmas Tree Festival It is proposed that we hold a CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL this year, date to be decided, which will be open to both our own Church organisations and Community Centre User organisations. This is in response to the Vision that has developed out of the KYCKYC INITIATIVE, which has seen such a positive involvement from a representative cross section of our Church Community. The proposal for the Festival, fits in nicely with the Vision that has developed from it, of St Elisabeth’s being a Centre for the benefit of the wider community. To facilitate this proposal, it is important that a small Planning Group

be established. If being part of the Planning Group excites you please

contact Don Young, and let’s get started!!

Diary Dates: 3 Valleys Male Voice Choir Friday, 13th October 2.30pm Tickets (over 16s) £7.50. Family Ticket £15. Concessions/OAPs £5. Tickets available from Mandy: saintebookings@gmail.com Christian comedian Paul Kerensa Friday, 16th November 7pm Tickets available from Mandy saintebookings@gmail.com TANGO WORKSHOPS Ever wanted to learn to Tango? There will be 5 Tango Workshops running at St E’s in September and October. Poster on noticeboard for more details Epiphany Project Movie Night “Paul, Apostle of Christ” Friday, 12th October 7pm

A special welcome to you if this is your first time with us, or you are ‘just visiting.’ You may like to know:

Tea, coffee and squash is served from the kitchen between the 9.30am and 11.00am services. For health and safety reasons, please keep the entrance from the main doors into the Church clear. You may drink your tea/coffee in the Church but if you are not staying for the 11am service please do move out by 10.50am. There is also plenty of room to drink and chat ‘under the dome’.

There are separate children’s activities during the Sunday@11 service. .

If you are a taxpayer, please would you gift-aid any financial contribution you may wish to make towards the work of this church at no extra cost to yourself. Special ‘Gift Aid’ envelopes can be found on the ‘Welcome Table’.

Please be encouraged to ask a member of the Prayer Ministry Team to pray with/for you or another, at the conclusion of our Services. Members of the Team wear a name-badge for easy identification.

St. Elisabeth’s Website: www.sainte.co.uk

Old Town Churches Website: www.oldtownchurches.co.uk

Registered charity no 1138291

Items for Newsletter to Ruth Paine

email : ruthpaine@btinternet.com

Loving God, being his people

The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity: 23rd September

9.30am Holy Communion (Book of Common Worship) 11.00am Sunday@11 with Kidz@11 12.15pm Bring and Share Lunch

Vicar: Revd David Gillard: tel: 649728; email: David.Gillard@sainte.co.uk Church Manager: Mandy Mulford tel: 01323 430667; email: mulfordmandy@gmail.com Follow us on Facebook at St Elisabeth’s Eastbourne

Details for 9.30am Service

Hymns 804 811 91 337 Today’s Gloria is the version on the front inside of the red service book Motet God is a spirit (Sterndale Bennett) 1st Reading 2 Corinthians 8:1-15 1162 2nd Reading Mark 9:30-37 1013 Collect for Today: Almighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself, and so bring us to last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

Mon 24th Sep 7.00pm Working Party

Wed 26th Sep 10.00am Holy Communion

7.00pm Compline

Details for the Service Songs for the 11.00 Service will be on the screen.

DIARY DATES

Next Sunday:

10.30am United Worship celebrate harvest Bring & Share lunch

The flowers are given by Fiona and David

in grateful thanks for fifty years of happy marriage

Today is the third of our series, ‘Supporting a flourishing church’. We’ll be thinking about resourcing a flourishing church, which includes us making use of the gifts that God gives us, or more poetically, using the stones that we’ve each brought in our service! Next Sunday we are celebrating Harvest. There will be a ‘United’ Service, beginning at 10.30am followed by a ‘bring and share’ lunch. Would there be a couple of people who can help with the planned Family Fun afternoon on Saturday, 29th September (1pm to 4.30pm)? If you could help can you let David know. Thanks

Samara’s Aid Appeal Back in 2003 Samara Levy was appalled at the conditions refugees were experiencing in the Middle East and was moved to help these people and by trusting in God’s provision she and her helpers have done just that – read her story here http://www.samarasaidappeal.org/my-story/

Jill Colkett and I are supporting the current appeal and hoping you

will be able to help us put together some care packs for new born

babies aged 0—3 months. You can do this as a group or can do-

nate individual items. These items have to be new and the list of

items needed (and information on how it works) is available from

the table near the main door in church.

In addition we are collecting for the knitting/crochet appeal so if

you are good with needles and/or hook please find information on

this also on the table (this appeal is ongoing so there are no

deadlines but if we could it would be great to send some woolly

items off with our care packs!).

If you are able to help please can you give your items/completed

banana box (if collecting in a group) to Jill Colkett, Mandy Mulford

or me no later than Sunday 7 October 2018.