The events we put on for the young have exploded!  To help you organise your life, Emma has given us a complete list:

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Title: Christmas Fayre
Location: St Alban’s Church
Date: 2009-12-12

Description: Father Christmas is coming and there will be activities for children to keep them happy while you shop.  The money raised is distributed by our United Missionary Committee who will decide the charities.

This is always a happy event so do please support it.  Please put items for sale at the back of church each Sunday (see list of stalls on the back).  If you would like to join in making this rewarding and fun event a huge success (morning, afternoon or both) please contact Pauline Nichols (direct or via the webmaster) – cover for one of the stalls, help setting up or tidying up afterwards are all welcome.

The next St Alban’s Players production will be The Snow Queen.

26-28th November,  7.30pm

Also Saturday 28th November, 3.30pm

£7.50 (£4.50 for children)

Reflections on Human Dignity from a Children’s Hospice.

Guest Speaker: Fr Mark Birch,
Chaplain of Helen House, Oxford
Thursday 19 November
St Alban’s Church
7.30 pm Mass – Requiem for Fr John Bradley
8.00 pm Fr Mark Birch:  Reflections on Human Dignity from a Children’s Hospice.

ALL WELCOME
Further details from: Liz Badman

Messy Church

Ever thought that church was too neat and tidy?  Well, come to Messy Church instead. There will be an hour of craft, a short service and then we’ll all have dinner together and finish about 6 o’clock.

Once a month at 4pm at Westbury Park Methodist Church.

For all ages – but especially primary school aged
children and their families and it’s absolutely free.
Come straight after school and have a drink and
biscuit before we start at 4pm.

Contact us for more information.  The next Messy Church is on October 14th.

You are invited to

a service of celebration

for all that Westbury Park Methodist Church has been

and all that the partnership will be

at 10.15am on September 20th

at which our preacher will be

Revd Ivan Selman

(ex-Minister of WPM)

At a recent meeting of Westbury Park Methodist Church Council it was decided to ask for permission under Standing Order 611 from the District Synod to merge the accounts of Westbury Park Methodist Church and St Alban’s into the Ecumenical Parish Council and to place all rights and responsibilities of the local trustees into their hands. The recent circuit meeting agreed to pass this on to Synod (which meets in September). A new constitution and building sharing agreement needs to be finalized but we hope that all of this can happen by Christmas this year.

This should not affect the current building users in any way – indeed, we hope to further develop community use in all of our buildings. This is the obvious next step in our partnership and we hope that all concerned will benefit from it.

At the same meeting, the church council also decided that the time had come to stop Sunday morning worship at Westbury Park Methodist Church. So from October all worship will be United Worship at St Alban’s. This does not mean that the building will not be used for worship – indeed we hope that all sorts of worship will happen there, but that it will not be in the same form as we have been used to.

~ Emma Langley

Title: Harvest Supper
Location: St Alban\’s Hall
Description: A community meal, with entertainments by the clergy and other church groups.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-09-26

Songs of Praise (BBC1) on Sunday 14 July featured the Exaltate singers in St Alban’s. Click on the photo below to see more.

Exaltate Singers at St Alban's, July 2009

Edit – apparently, Songs-of-Praise was pushed back a week to avoid Wimbledon.  Songs of Praise (BBC1) on Sunday 14 July will feature the Exaltate singers in St Alban’s.