Church Events

Sunday 28th January was our first Families@4 Service

Today we began our first Familes@4 Service we heard about the story of Candlemas, Jesus meeting Simeon and Anna in the temple when his mum and dad presented him as a baby. We did craft activities afterwards with cake and Costa hot chocolate with marshmallows. It was great fun. 

Next service 25th February everyone is welcome 

On the 20th December we held our Nine Lessons and Carols Service by candlelight.  We heard readings or lessons from the bible.  Telling the story of the fall of humanity, Genesis, to the promise of the Messiah, to the birth of Jesus  from the prophetic books of the old testament and the Gospels.  The choir sang some beautiful anthems and we all had a good old sing song to all the well known and much loved carols.

What a fun time was had by all. Holy Trinity was packed with families to celebrate the meaning of Christingle

• The orange represents the world.
• The red ribbon (or tape) symbolises the love and blood of Christ.
• The sweets and dried fruit represent all of God’s creations.
• The lit candle represents Jesus’s light in the world, bringing hope to people living in darkness.

Rev Juliet had to pop to the shop to get more Oranges and came back as one herself.

Toby took over the service whilst she was gone and what a great job he did cracking some really funny jokes. We enlisted 10 helpers from our primary school and Jasmine who was recently baptised at Holy Trinity to light the way with Christingle oranges. Each child was given a party bag so they could go home and make their own Christingle. They even took some home for their families and friends.

We have plenty left over so we will be giving them out at our Nativity Service at 4pm on Christmas Eve where we will all be rocking up in our PJ’s, Onesies and Oodies.

On Wednesday 06th December we held our carol service where we were joined by the Salvation Army Band.  What a wonderful night it was and great fun had by all.  We sung hymns accompanied by Gary our organist and carols accompanied by the band.  Its was a terrific combination of music.  We had readings in between.  Band Master Margaret led the tunes, Tryphena sang a beautiful solo and the Timbrels sang and danced for us.  See the attached video.  Young Betsy and Thomas lit the Advent Candle for us and Juliet our vicar reminded us of the true value in believing.

On the 01st December we held a Christmas Memorial, Light, Love and Remembering Service.  During the service we sung Hymns, had bible readings and remembered our love ones no longer with us, We wrote their names on tags and placed the tags on our special Christmas trees. We will continue to remember them through Advent.

I left you a little white feather
I placed it right there in your way
I wrapped it in love with a message
to let you know you’ll be okay

I drew you a colourful rainbow
It followed your car for a while
I made it a beautiful rainbow
I hoped it would show me your smile

I flew down a beautiful robin
It landed right there on your ledge
I prayed he would give you the strength
to push yourself back from the edge

I try every day to remind you
that I never did go away
the feathers, the rainbows, the robins
are my way of trying to stay.

Feathers by Donna Ashworth

If you would like to pop into Holy Trinity and add a tag to the trees to remember your loved ones you are more than welcome to do so.

On Armistice Day we held our Remembrance Service to remember all those that have fallen in the two great wars and also to remember those lost in more recent times due to war and civil unrest. Mike Gill from the British Legion led the service.

The last post and reveille were sounded very movingly by a bulgier. Rev Juliet reminded us all in her sermon that at the end of each of the world wars that villages became known as thankful or double thankful villages because their soldiers (their family members) had returned from the war. Army Standards were raised and lowered during the service as a mark of respect.

The Mayor Kate Wheller was in attendance and read one of our readings.