Church News Blog
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Monthly Message from our Rector
Two New Years and One Christmas
The period our Common Ground magazine covers in the most recent issue (34) is not Just Christmas, but two new years! It includes the Church’s new year (which starts at advent), our Christmas celebrations and the calendar new year…….
Lunch With Friends - an opportunity to help us!
Lunch With Friends in Woodchester needs you!
Our monthly lunch club continues to be as popular as ever, offering a delicious meal served with love and friendship to friends from our village and our benefice.
We have a vacancy for a volunteer (or even two volunteers) to take on an important coordinator role. This job is a huge help for the Group Leaders who are already busy organising cooks, servers and other key support roles.
Is this something you might like to help us with? …
Give a Christmas gift!
Can you help give a Bible to College students in Tanzania?
The Gloucester Diocese link team with the Diocese of Western Tanganyika in Tanzania (DWT) have recently heard that the Bible College students in DWT are short of Bibles. It would be great to fund new Bibles for them, particularly needed by those who are studying in English. The Bibles can be purchased locally in Tanzania.
We invite you, if you would like, to contribute a Christmas gift towards this cause………
A series on: Living Out our Faith
Outside church, members of our congregation try to live out their faith in all sorts of ways depending on their individual gifts, strengths and interests. We have invited some church members to summarise their particular ministries: how they witness to others in their every day lives………
No 1. Elizabeth Cole - Science and Faith for Children