If your child attends a different school please come on down once you’ve collected them.
This is a s elf guided Christmas trail through the forest to Jesus in the manger, then have a hot chocolate and make your Christingle ready to let it shine in a short service.
To make sure we have enough Christingles please let us know you’re coming by booking free tickets via
https://skiddle.com/e/37139506
Thank you
Saturday 11th November: Short act of remembrance at the war memorial in Mercer Park, starting at 10:55am and including two minutes silence.
Sunday 12th November –
There will be services at both All Saint’s and St James Altham at 10:am with acts of remembrance at the war memorials at 11:00am.
In Clayton there is the option to meet at the Community Centre on Pickup Street at 9:30am for a parade to church.
For those travelling by car please use Victoria Street which should be open at all times.
Also on the 12th November there will be a Praise Service at 6:30pm, all welcome.
All Saints’ Church each has a parochial church council responsible for looking after the finances and fabric of the church and working with the vicar to oversee and lead its work and mission.
We would welcome anyone who would like to attend a PCC to see what is going on.
All Saints’ next PCC meeting is on the 9th November at 7:30pm in church.
Likewise if you have any issues or points you wish to have raised at a PCC meeting, please message Toby before hand so they can be added to the agenda, and we will try and address them at the next meeting.
Thank you
In aid of Tearfund.
Cost £5 per person – includes supper.
£3 will go to the cost of the food and £2 to Tearfund. Plus there will be a raffle.
Maximum team size is four, unless you have very small children.
Please sign up at the back of church or let one of the Wardens know that you wish to come along
My spirit longs for Thee
within my troubled breast,
Though I unworthy be,
Of so Divine a Guest.
Of so Divine a Guest
Though I unworthy be,
Yet has my heart no rest
Unless it comes from Thee.
Unless it comes from Thee,
In vain I look around;
in all that I can see
No rest is to be found.
No rest is to be found
But in thy blessed love:
O let my wish be crowned,
And send it from above.
John Byron (1763)
Confirmation preparation –
Will begin in September for those who will be by then in Year 7.
Sessions will be on Thursdays at 5:00pm.
There is an information meeting for parents and children on Wednesday 19th July at 5:30pm in church.
The Pastoral Team –
will be holding a stall at the Christmas Fair on Saturday 26th November in Clayton Community Centre and would love some items for their ‘ hook a bag’ stall. e.g. – unwanted gifts would be idea.
Thanks
Friday 11th November: Short act of remembrance at the war memorial in Mercer park, starting at 10:55am and including two minutes silence.
Sunday 13th November –
Supplementary forms for Secondary School Admissions to St Christopher’s School on faith grounds should be brought to All Saints’ Church on Saturday 12th November between 9:30-10:15am
Supplementary forms for All Saints or Altham St James Primary Schools should be returned to the relevant school; the school will then contact Revd. Toby directly. If you are applying to both primary schools on faith grounds you need to complete a separate form for each.
Thank you.
United Benefice of Altham and Clayton-le-Moors
Sixthteenth Sunday after Trinity
This service is live in church, but it will be streamed so if you are unable to attend you can view it online. Now most of the words will also appear when you view the service on line so it will be easier to follow the service.
However, below are the day’s readings plus the intercessions for reference, as there will not appear on screen.
First reading: James 3:13 – 4a
3 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. 18 Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
4 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[b]?6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”[c]
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts,you double-minded.
Second reading: Mark 9:30 -37
30 They left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were, 31 because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill him,and after three days he will rise.” 32 But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it.
33 They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the road?”34 But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest.
35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
36 He took a little child whom he placed among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, 37 “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”