5th October Harvest Festival – Family Service

Harvest Festival 5th October

 

Please bring non – perishable foods or other essentials for the food bank. Monetary donations will be for the  Bishop’s Harvest Appeal.-‘ Pedalling for people and planet’.  This is in support of our Link diocese in the Free State of South Africa.
Find out more about the Bishop’s appeal  here

How you can donate to the  Bishop’s Harvest appeal?

Make a donation in All Saints’ towards the appeal.

Donate online using a credit card by clicking here

 Donate by cheque, payable to ‘Blackburn Diocesan Board of Finance Limited (Diocese Harvest Appeal)’ and send to Blackburn Diocesan Board of Finance, Diocesan Office, Clayton House, Walker Office Park, Blackburn, BB1 2QE

Thank you for supporting the Diocesan Harvest Appeal.

                                “Bringing God’s love into the heart of the community”

 

Big Family fun Quiz Night – 11th October

Big family fun Quiz Night

Enfield Cricket Club

Saturday 11th October  2025  at 7:00pm 

A very enjoyable evening raising funds for Tearfund, the Christian relief and development charity which helps local churches in the poorest countries to develop their communities.

Please sign up at the back of church.

£5 per person – includes the quiz and supper.

Maximum team size is four, unless you have very small children.

 

Community lunch and Purple Praise dates

Next Community lunch is Friday

 11:30am – 1:00pm

26th September ( Macmillan)

24th October

28th November

19th December

Through the warmer months of the year lunches will be held once a month usually on the fourth Friday in each month and will feature cold food but still a warm welcome!

No charge, but if you are able to give a small donation towards costs that would be greatly appreciated.

 

Purple Praise

At 1:00pm following on from the community lunch on every  fourth Friday in the month, we will have a short informal café style service and a brew.

Prayer for Back to School Sunday – 14th September

Loving Father Thank you

for all who are part of our school.

Please grant them your encouragement, wisdom and peace.

Strengthen teachers

who have heavy workloads.

May they be firm but patient, expecting excellence but forgiving mistakes.

May they support their students, playing to strengths, helping with struggles and

motivating them to do their best.

Comfort and restore

those living under shadows of unhappiness, abuse, pain or fear.

May many find faith discovering their identity in You and knowing Your amazing

grace in their lives.

Please pour out Your blessings

upon our whole school community

in Jesus name. Amen

11:00am 7th September Sunday Service – Trinity 12

Twelfth  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.

 

First Reading: Jeremiah 18: 1 – 11

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

5 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. 7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, 8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relentand not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, 10 and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.

11 “Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’

Second Reading: Luke 25 – 33

Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? 29 For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, 30 saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

31 “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. 33 In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.

 

Friday Praise dates

Next Friday Praise

This Friday 5th September

 All Saints’ Church at 6:00pm

A short service especially geared to young families, but everyone is welcome.

Other Friday Praise dates for this term are

19th September

10th October

24th October

14th November

28th November

5th December

19th December Christingle  – starting in the school grounds at 3:40pm)

Tots’ Praise 3rd September

Tots’ Praise 

2nd July  from 2:00pm in All Saints’ Church

Teddy Horsley Story 

Tot’s Praise is for the youngest – under 5s together with their parents/carers – gather between 2:00 and 2:15pm, all done in time for school pick up.

All welcome

 

Revd. Toby’s ’Summer Time’ Newsletter

Summer Time Newsletter 

Check out what is coming up, you can access Revd Toby’s ‘  newsletter  here

In – person Safeguarding Training

The Church of England requires people in certain roles to have training re Domestic Abuse. This can be undertaken on line but we have arranged in – person training to take place at

All Saints’ Church this Tuesday 12th August at 7:30pm.

Anyone who might find this useful, as well as anyone whose training may be coming up for renewal, is very welcome to join.

Next Church cleaning and garden tidy – up 23rd August

Next church cleaning session and garden tidy – up

 Saturday 23rd August from 9:00am

All welcome to come along and help!

We are all members of the God’s church, so it would be lovely if you  could spend just half hour or so  to help keep the church look nice and clean ; you don’t have to stop the whole time. Please come and help if you can – the more helpers we have the quicker it can be done!

The more the merrier!

Thank you your help will be greatly appreciated