May I wish you all a very Happy New Year and pray God’s blessing on all of us for 2009.
A reminder that one way to start the New Year is to join with our Church Family Walk on the afternoon of Saturday 3rd January. It would be great to see you there!
Also, our Week Of Prayer is almost upon us. From Sunday 4th to Sunday 11th January we are devoting ourselves to prayer as a Church Family. This is something in which we all can participate! There will be two Church Prayer Meetings: Wednesday 7th from 8pm – 9pm and Saturday 10th from 9am to 10am. The Meeting Place will also be open Tuesday to Friday from 8am-8.30am and 12noon-12.30pm for prayer during the week. In addition to this, there will be a Prayer Chain across the weekend of 9th-11th January. If you haven’t yet signed up as an individual, couple, group or family, please do.
At the end of the month, on Sunday January 26th at 10.30am, we have our annual Churches Together in Faversham United Service in the Parish Church of St Mary of Charity. There is a Children’s Programme from 10.15am here at our Church, and the children will join the main service at approx. 11:25am. The Guest Speaker this year is Pat Gafney, General Secretary of Pax Christi. Pax Christi is a gospel-based international movement for peace, open to all. Her work is to make peace through work for reconciliation and non-violence. She has been actively involved in supporting Palestinian Christians and building bridges with Israeli groups working for a solution to the current situation in the Holy Land. For more information see www.paxchristi.org.uk.
