For Your Prayers

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.   To put a name on the list for the Prayer Group please phone Phyllis.

In celebration

Lucinda Best who celebrates her birthday this week.

In our community

For all those who live in Hillside Crescent and King Edward Road.

Those in particular need through sickness and suffering

Paul and Margot Preusse and Ernie Rosson.

Those who value your ongoing prayer support

Eva Griffiths,  Judith Carter, May Skinner and Katie Foster

Departed

David Kelly

Years mind

John Bowley, Olive Moore, and Michael Harrison.

Harvest Lunch

You are invited to a Harvest Lunch at St Matthew's Church Hall on Saturday 27^th September at 12.30 pm. Tickets at £5 from Phyllis Boskey or at the door but please tell Phyllis you are coming.   Social Committee

Spare Wool Wanted

An elderly lady who knits for various charities, such as Barnardo’s, Mencap and Feed the Children, wants wool.  Any ply and any colour is acceptable, and I should be willing to collect and deliver it.  Liz Edwards

St Matthew's and the Belgian War Memorial

Having lived in Hillcroft Crescent for fifty years, I was interested to read the article about Lewis Curtis and his family.  I remember hearing that Mrs Curtis had been widowed in the War, and left with a very young child, although in those far off days I would have thought Anne was much more than four years my senior!  Their house was one of a number backing onto then open ground, and residents might be persuaded to allow friends bound for Oaklands Avenue to take a short cut through their gardens, a favour sought particularly by pupils of Broadfield School, in St Francis Church Hall, but housing developments in Oaklands Avenue in the mid 1950s put an end to that!  Mrs Curtis and Anne were regular members of the congregation at St Francis for a number of years, before deciding to worship elsewhere and had left the district by 1967.  Nicola F. Marlow

Back to Church Sunday 28th September 2008: This is a national initiative that we are taking part in at St. Matthew's. The idea is that we all think of people who used to come to our church but have stopped for whatever reason and then we invite & welcome them to our service. We will be keeping Harvest Festival on 28th September so it should be a popular service. More details will follow but now we commend the day to your prayers. Fr. David

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