Leesfield Parish January 1st 2017

 Sunday 1^st January      Parish service at St Thomas 11am   No service at St Agnes

Tuesday January 3^rd 10am Communion service at St Thomas (followed by a cuppa and a chat if you can stay)

Saturday 7^th January  Coffee morning at the home of Mrs V Green 83 Spring Lane 10.30 till noon.

Paul Dent is hoping for interesting items for the new magazine. Brief accounts of events over the festive period, or other things that will interest our readers please. Please give or e mail to Paul by January 15^th for the Feb/Mar issue.

Make sure you have got your copy of this month’s magazine – the last in the present format.

We are collecting items of warm clothing such as hats, scarves, gloves and socks to take down to the Booth Centre for the homeless in Manchester over the Christmas period. If you have any of these to spare or get some as Christmas presents you can't use these would be most welcome.

Also Cold Nights - Local charity which goes into Manchester to take food to people sleeping on the streets. They would like donations of pot noodles, porridge pots, crisps and chocolate. Their local drop off point is Limekiln Cafe by the Brownhill Visitor Centre in Uppermill so we could take donations up there. Chocolate bars are a particular treat, so if anyone has any such thing as an unwanted chocolate bar that would be greatly appreciated.

If any of our children or young people play a musical instrument, would they like to join a small group to play occasionally in church services? Please let Paul or Edith know if you might be interested.

Magazine  articles to paulmdent@gmail.com

Items for the newsletter to Edith by Wednesday eve please.

Sun Jan 1^st             Parish Service at St Thomas  11am      No service at St Agnes

Tues Jan 3^rd            10am Holy Communion at St Thomas’

Wed Jan 4^th           DMPC    St Thomas Moorside  7.30pm

Sat Jan 7^th               Coffee morning at the home of Mrs V Green 10.30 till noon

Thurs Jan 12^th         Standing Committee Vicarage 7pm

Mon Jan 16^th           DCC St Thomas 7pm

Wed Jan 18^th          DCC St Agnes    8pm

Mon Jan 23^rd           PCC St Thomas  7pm

Sun Jan 29^th            Churches Together service  Salem Moravian church 3pm.

                                  Preacher Archdeacon Cherry

Thurs Feb 2^nd       Games night St Thomas church 7.30pm

Sat Feb 4^th           Coffee morning at the home of Mrs V Howarth 10.30 till noon

Don’t forget to check out the parish blogspot too!