Sunday 25^th November

8.00am

9.30am

Christ the King

We also list Bushey & Oxhey Methodists’ weekly  services (B&OM)

Holy Communion 

Sung Eucharist

Coffee is served in the hall after the service

Prayers for healing in the Lady Chapel after the service

11.00am

Monday 26^th November

Wednesday 28^th  November

Thursday 29^th Nov       10.00am

3.00 pm

B&OM: Morning Worship

9.30 - 11.30am Parent and Toddler Group 1 in the Hall

1.30 – 3.30pm  Parent and Toddler Group 2 in the Hall

7.30 – 9.00pm  Choir Practice

7.00 – 8.00pm  Baptism and Wedding Arrangements in the Vicarage

                           (Please telephone Fr David for an appointment)   

7.30 – 9.00pm  Choir Practice

Holy Eucharist

Evening Prayer at Hillside

Next Week:

Sunday 2^nd December

8.00am

9.30am

11.00am

11.15am

First Sunday in Advent

 Holy Communion (BCP)

Sung Eucharist

B&OM: Morning Worship

All Age Service

For Your Prayers

The next meeting for Prayers and Meditation on December 10^th will be the last in this format. However, the group continues to offer special prayers for those who ask, both on a regular basis in our own homes between 2.00 and 3.00 on the 2nd Monday, and also on request for particular needs. If you were unable to attend the monthly meetings, but would like to be a member of the continuing group please see Phyllis, who co-ordinates the phoning round for special prayers. If you have a special request for prayer also speak to Phyllis. The people on our list greatly appreciate your prayers.  Please take time to pray for the following people during the week, according to their needs.   

In celebration

Lillian Beament who celebrates her birthday on Tuesday.

In our community

For all those who live in Lowson Grove and Maxwell Rise.

Those in particular need through sickness and suffering

Nigel Dickinson, Mark Major, Cathy Hawkins, Paul and Margot Preusse and Ernie Rosson.

Those who value your ongoing prayer support

Eva Griffiths,  Judith Carter, Vivienne Marlow, May Skinner and Katie Foster

The departed

Jean Fraser

Years Mind

Ethel Marlow and Maud Frances Rackett

Flowers today are kindly donated by Mrs. Doreen Doe.

Stewardship Renewal Please fill in the pink sheet you were given when you came into church this morning. It lists different ways in which your help is needed to maintain St. Matthew’s, support the present congregation and reach out to others in the local area. If you already help, filling in the form is an opportunity to renew your commitment and it will help the Parish to have a record of who does what. It may be that the list will give you other ideas of ways in which you could help and there’s an ‘I’d like to know more’ option if you’re not sure. You can give the form to a sidesman. It is also available on line on our website www.stmatthewsoxhey.org.uk

Christmas leaflets (Here's one way to help!) If you could deliver some leaflets round the Parish, giving details of our Christmas Services, please sign your name on the list at the back of the Church against the road(s) you would like to cover.

Posada 2007 As in previous years Mary and Joseph (knitted, not real!) will be spending December travelling round Oxhey. It seems a long time ahead, but I need names now so I can concoct a geographically sensible journey ready for Advent Sunday. Please sign the list at the back of church before Nov 17th. Sally

Deanery Synod

Watford Deanery Synod held an OPEN meeting on 11 Oct 2007 at St Luke’s Church. Copies of the minutes are available at the back of church.  We will be sending our parish rep to a meeting in January for those interested in getting The Adult Education Programme started. We were given an audiovisual presentation entitled “Peace needs Bridges not Walls : the Challenges of the Holy Land for Christians Today” by the Rev Canon Dick Lewis and Mrs Helen Harding, who have spent time visiting the Holy Land and befriending Christians there, who sadly now form only 1.4% of the population. These few Christians are doing tremendous work, running schools, a rehabilitation centre in Bethlehem and the Helen Keller School for the Blind.  We should do all we can to support them. He reported that he and Helen are leading their next trip on 8^th–17^th Feb 2008 and have held some places for Deanery members. Next meeting of Synod Monday, 21 Jan 2008 Anglican Methodist dialogues

Whose Job?
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.  There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.  Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did.  Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.  Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn’t do it.  It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.  Jill Greenstreet found this on a tea towel in a bakery in Somerset.

Items for the weekly notice sheet to Angela Nicholas, Email to newsletter@stmatthewsoxhey.org.uk.
Usually the deadline is Wednesday evening