Happy New Year to all across #Meltham. Here’s the January 2020 edition of the Parish Magazine for you to catch up with all the latest across the Parish and beyond!

PLEASE PRAY for our Parish and our work in Meltham, Meltham Mills, Wilshaw and Helme to show the love of God to all people. Help us to work together so that our shared passion for Christ and care for others is what we communicate to each other and our community. Help us to take forward the message of Christmas into 2020 – to take
action to pursue peace and love for all, however hard that sometimes seems.

READ THE GOOD NEWS – Matthew 2: 13 to end – God saves. Help us to trust Him even when evidence of hatred, genocide and persecution in the world might cause us to doubt our faith.

PRAYER AND WORSHIP IN THE COMING WEEK

Monday 30th December
09.30am Morning Prayer, Christ Church

Tuesday 31st December
09.30am Morning Prayer, St Mary’s

Wednesday 1st January – NEW YEARS DAY
NOTE! – NO SERVICE AT St Bart’s
10.30am Holy Communion at Bell House, Wilshaw

NEXT SUNDAY 5th January – Epiphany
09.30am St Bart’s, Holy Communion
09.30am St James’ ALL FOR ONE Family Service of the Word
11.15am Christ Church, Holy Communion
11.15am St Mary’s, Service of the Word

OTHER DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Friday 3rd January
10.30am-12 noon St Bart’s, Coffee and Chat.
1:30pm – Funeral of Sheila C – St Bart’s.
Friday 10th January
7.30-9pm St Mary’s Youth Group HD9 Club
For 11-17 year olds – a great place to make new friends.

Join us at St Bart’s #Meltham as we continue to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
Joint Parish Communion service – Sunday 29 Dec @ 9:30am.
NOTE! – there are no services at the other churches in the Parish.

ALL WELCOME!

It’s Christmas! For unto us a child is born!
To everyone in #Meltham and beyond, may the PEACE of the new born Christ be with you this Christmas time and into 2020!
Merry Christmas from everyone at the Parish of Christ the (new born) King! – Meltham.

PLEASE PRAY for peace in our world. Thank God that the word was made flesh and came to dwell among us, full of grace and truth. John 1:14. Help us to know that with confidence and to walk with Jesus every day.

READ THE GOOD NEWS – Matthew 1: 18-end – 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).

PRAYER AND WORSHIP IN THE COMING WEEK

Monday 23rd December
09.30am Morning Prayer, Christ Church

CHRISTMAS EVE – Tuesday 24th December
09.30am Morning Prayer, St Mary’s
1.30pm Holy Communion, Greenacres
4.00pm Crib Service, St James’
11.30pm Midnight Communion, St Bart’s

CHRISTMAS DAY – Wednesday 25th December
09.30am Holy Communion, St Bart’s
09.30am Holy Communion, St James’
10.00am Holy Communion, Christ Church
11.15am Holy Communion, St Mary’s

Thursday 26th December
2.00pm Holy Communion, Helme Hall

NEXT SUNDAY 29th December
09.30am St Bart’s, PARISH COMMUNION

Come and celebrate Christmas as a Parish – going forward together to bring the love of God to Meltham, Meltham Mills, Wilshaw and Helme, and out into the wider world.

Pop-up Nativity and Carol Service @ St Bart’s #Meltham – Sun 22 Dec – 4pm.
Join us for our Pop-Up Nativity where everyone can join in and take part!
Kids can dress up in their favourite nativity costumes. We’ll be needing Shepherds, Kings, Angels, Stars, Animals, Marys, Josephs etc. Oh, and of course not forgetting Baby Jesus! Adults can wear their best Christmas jumpers!

‘The Greatest Journey’ is a fun nativity retracing the steps of the journeys of Mary, Joseph, the Shepherds and the 3 Kings requiring full participation from everyone to help them on their way.

More info can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/772500266494718/

All our special Christmas services are listed on the Parish Facebook page. You can view the details using this link (you don’t need to be a facebook user to see them)
https://www.facebook.com/pg/MelthamParish/events/

If you are a facebook user, please help us to ‘spread the good news’ by sharing the events, or even going into them and and inviting your facebook friends and family.