Week commencing 5/2/12

Our Impact Report: St. Andrew’s:

Celebrating The Life of our Church.

Our APCM is approaching (25th March) and this year we thought it would be good to reflect the vibrant life of our church by inviting the leaders of ministries to write a little about their ministry. (In addition to the more formal legally required report.) We have so many people involved at church, contributing in so many ways, it is good to celebrate this. Often leadership is shared so it may well be that a group of people involved in a ministry will write a report together, so you may well be asked to help.
We will seek to share the resulting booklet widely in our community to give others a glimpse of the fulness of our life here at St. Andrew’s. So as you write please have in mind the people who are not familiar with how we do things here or church terminology, so that this will be helpful to all who read it. I am sure that this will be a fruitful report with people drawn to the church as a result. There is a copy of the letter about it at the back of church.

This is the time of year when we have to carry out a revision of the Electoral Roll at St Andrew’s.

If you are not already on the roll, and would like to be, please take a form from the back of the church, or contact Val Church on 458443.

Forms must be returned no later than Sunday, 26th February, 2012 to St Andrew’s church or to 2 Summer Street, Slip End.

To be eligible you must have been baptised, be 16 years or over and either be resident in the Parish or have been a regular worshiper at St Andrew’s church for at least the last 6 months .

Being on the roll allows you to vote on church matters. It is not obligatory. It has no political connotations.

Val Church
Electoral Roll Officer

Looking ahead to Lent:
We are having a Pancake Party at 7.30pm on Tuesday 21st February in the Family Room – if anyone would like to be involved in organising this please talk to Cathy or Susan. This would be a good opportunity to invite friends and neighbours who don’t normally come to church.
Our Ash Wednesday Communion Service, marking the beginning of Lent, will be in church at 7.30pm on Wednesday 22nd February.
The network groups and Alpha will not meet that week so that people can attend, one or both of these events.

Traidcraft News
A big thank you to all of you for the support you've given our Traidcraft stall since we launched it! We sold lots of goodies in the run up to Christmas, and that's really great news for all the small producers that Traidcraft supports.

For those of you not familiar with Traidcraft, they are a Christian company committed to trade justice and fighting poverty through trade. They were one of the pioneers of fair-trade in the 1970's, and continue to campaign for trade justice.
We have lots of exciting events coming up, the launch of the Spring/Summer catalogue, exciting new items in our range, Fair-trade Fortnight when we will be holding a 'Big Brew' coffee morning on the 9th March (more details to follow!) and I'm delighted to announce that we will be getting stock of The Real Easter eggs! These will be in high demand, and I already have orders for them, so if you are interested please let me know and so I can make sure we get enough stock.
So please keep supporting us, and don't forget that if you need any stock items in- between stall dates, email me (lynne@lynnesandle.orangehome.co.uk)
and I can bring your item the following Sunday. Our next date in St Andrews is Feb 26th, and Nick and I will be taking the stall to Caddington All Saints on the 4th March.

Vicar: Rev' Cathy Pullinger (vicar@slipend.co.uk) Church Phone 01582 725061 - Church mobile 07425 148046
Churchwardens: Tony Willson (482681) Susan Wiltshire (727477)
Reader: Chris Barnes (725448)