Weekly News

Sunday 11 March 2018

Fourth Sunday of Lent

NEXT Saturday 17 March— led by Canon Tom

In this issue… Services for the next two weeks

Prayer Diary

Pallant Centre News—exciting

new event….

Fundraising News

Charity Shop news - card

payments now available

Refugees in the UK

The Last Word from Canon

Tom—Change?!

The Bible Study Group will meet on Thursday March

15th at 2pm, at 4 Pine Grove, PO9 2RW when we shall resume St

Matthew's Gospel with the Sermon on the Mount.

More details from Alan Hakim 023 9247 1681

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SUNDAY 11 MARCH FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT

MOTHERING SUNDAY

8.00 am SAID COMMUNION President ……………………..…….……………..Canon Tom Preacher……………………………………..Sandra Haggan

9.30 am PARISH COMMUNION SERVICE President …………………..…….……………..Canon Tom Preacher…………………………………...Sandra Haggan Readings: 6.00 pm EVENSONG Led by ………………………….…...Rev’d David Morgan

THURSDAY 15 MARCH

10.30am TRADITIONAL (BCP) COMMUNION President and Preacher………………..Canon Tom

SUNDAY 18 MARCH FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT

8.00 am SAID COMMUNION President and Preacher..…….……………..Canon Tom

9.30 am PARISH COMMUNION SERVICE President and Preacher.…….……………...Canon Tom Readings: Jeremiah 31.31-34, Hebrews 5.5-10 John 12.20-33 6.00 pm TAIZE EVENING PRAYER Led by …………………………………...……...Dr Mike Fluck

THURSDAY 22 MARCH

10.30am TRADITIONAL (BCP) COMMUNION President and Preacher………………..Father Richard

Forthcoming SERVICES

PLEASE PRAY FOR:

The World Including St John

the Divine, Nsawam Ghana

Rod & Glenda Thomas & Sendai

Church Japan.

The Diocese Bishop Christopher Archdeacon Joanne Area Dean: Karina

Green

Our Parish & Deanery

See Cluster Prayer diary opposite

Those in Urgent Need

Geoff Jones David Elsey

The Departed: John Brady

Anniversaries of Departed:

CONTACT INFORMATION...

...can be found on the Monthly Information Sheet. Please take a copy of the current edition. available in church.

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CLUSTER PRAYER DIARY 11th Havant Schools – Warblington School, Bosmere Junior School and Fairfield Infants School 12th Leigh Park Churchwardens – Norma Hunt, Pat Killoran 13th West Leigh - Church of St Alban 14th Leigh Park, St Francis and Warren Park, St Clare Reader - Annie Martin 15th Warren Park – PO9 Pioneer Ministers Barney Barron, Sara Barron 16th Bedhampton Churchwardens - Sandra Matthews, Assistant Churchwarden Ann Partridge 17th Warren Park - Church of St Clare

ELECTORAL ROLL The Electoral Roll is a list of the names and addresses of every person who can vote in the

annual church meeting. St Faith’s list will be revised very shortly in preparation for our Annual Meeting in April. Are you on the Roll? Are you a new regular member of our

congregation? If so would you like to be included? If you have any questions about this please see Hilary Deadman (contact number on the Monthly Information sheet).

LENT COURSES 2018 - CHURCHES TOGETHER—ITS NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN Tuesday evenings 7.30-9pm in the Pallant House Play Café started on the 20th February. Studying “LiveLent: Let Your Light Shine” led by Rev’ds David and Vickie Morgan. Friday mornings at St. Faith’s Church has been cancelled due to lack of participants. Our thanks to Mike Fluck for his willingness and preparation!

24th March—Helping Refugees Locally

2.30-4pm, St. Joseph’s hall, 134 West Street, Havant PO9 1LP. Speaker Shamila Dhana of the British Red Cross. Please come along and learn

about the work the British Red Cross does locally, what the community can do to help and

find out more about refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.

Refreshments afterwards.

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Fundraising News from the Rector:

I’m delighted to report that £215.34 was raised in the last fortnight, for the Rector’s Discretionary Fund, via a Facebook appeal. These funds will be used to help the homeless of Havant. I’m also pleased to announce that to the end of February, the Big Build Campaign raised £21,363, thanks to two generous individuals, and the proceeds of the Lunchtime Concerts. However, we still have a long way to go if we are meet our fundraising target for this year - £167,000! During my forthcoming Study Leave (19 March to 19 June), please keep thinking about what YOU could do, or contribute, to our fundraising total. These funds will be used to continue the improvements to our church and the Pallant Centre….and we can’t do it without YOU!

EVENTS DIARY.. New or changed events in bold

Date Time Event Venue

Tues 20 March 8pm Solent Male Voice Choir with Bosmere School Year 3 choir

Church

Thu 19 April 7pm Flower Arrangement Demonstration (by the former Florist of Leeds Castle)

Church

Saturday 30 June 4pm Ordinations of David & Vickie to the priesthood.

Cathedral

19-22 July Weekend Flower Festival, including a new One Man Show from Canon Tom!

Church

Saturday 18 August

10am to 1pm

PARISH CONFERENCE: ‘GOING DEEPER’ - developing a Spiritual Development Plan

Church

SATURDAY 18 Augusts

7pm ‘The Wurzels’ - Yes, you read correctly, the Wurzels are coming to Havant, ooh arr, ooh arr!!!

Pallant

3-November Afternoon/Evening

WW1 Centenary Weekend Pallant

4 November Morning 9.30 Parish Communion Service in the Hall Pallant

Sat 10 November 7pm 70’s and 80’s night with Dragonfly Pallant

Sat 24 November 7pm Bell Ringers Dinner Pallant

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2nd Havant Music Festival

2018

At various venues in and around Havant

15th - 25th March 2018 Come and enjoy a variety of music, from folk to chamber

music and much more.

For information: www.havantmusicfestival.org.uk

or leaflets in Church

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PALLANT NEWS

Open

Monday-Friday

9.30am-4pm

Saturday

9.30am-2pm

Contact Will Coulston (Pallant Centre Manager) for all Centre

events:

E: thecentremanager@gmail.com T: 07483 848809

BALLROOM SOCIAL

Join Susie Q on Sunday 31 March 7.30pm for a Ballroom Social evening In the Pallant Centre.

Tickets £6 on the door

Well do we have a surprise for you folks? Just waiting for the T's & C's to find their way here and then The Pallant Centre can ready itself for a super scrumpy Summer night.

There's a clue in there some may spot. If not, you'll guess when you see Canon Tom walking about with a giggling excited grin adorned ear-to-ear

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ST FAITH’S CHARITY SHOP will be open this week

Monday – Friday 9am-4pm Saturday morning 9am-1pm.

We have come into the 21st Century! Card payments are now available in the shop and we even have a till!!

Please keep those donations rolling in.

We are in need of ladies clothes, bags and toys.

We have a few ‘limited editions’ items of upcycled clothing for sale in the shop. Created by the very talented Jackie North of Coastal drift.

‘Rags to riches’—well not quite, but we can earn money from your old

clothes, linens etc—so please drop them into the shop.

Do you have a few hours a week to spare? We need more volunteers to join our team in the Charity Shop.

We can offer our volunteers:

Transferable skills Supportive and friendly team

New friends

Valuable work experience

Lots of FUN!

To find our more: pop into the shop and speak to Clare, our Community Fundraising

Manager, or call 02392 478098

OUR PLANS FOR THE PALLANT

The Parochial Church Council (PCC)

recently agreed some exciting new plans

for the Pallant Centre, including:

Upgrading the Hall

Building an extension for Dynamo

Installing solar panels

Renovating the Garret flat

Adding an Atrium to the hall.

To ‘read all about it’, go to

www.stfaith.com/mission-development-

plan/ and download the Pallant Plan

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Question: How many Anglicans does it take to change a lightbulb?

Answer: Change?!

A change is as good as a rest, they say. And we’ve certainly been experiencing some changes round here! At the Charity Shop, our amazing volunteers are getting used to new ways of working—including the introduction of a till, card payments, and a more value-driven pricing structure. There have been changes a-plenty around the Pallant Centre too. New classes and programmes are starting up, all the time. It’s fantastic to see new custom-made storage cupboards in the Large Meeting room (thanks to John Glassett’s expert carpentry), new drainage systems around Pallant House (which are soon to be planted with a mixture of wild and native plants by a local volunteer). Somewhat hidden from view, there have also been some long-overdue repairs to the curtain-wall of the property, new video cameras in the Hall entrance, and a whole load of other smaller, but no less essential changes.

In the church, the long process of rubbing down and then painting accessible walls has begun—and our Maintenance Team are beginning to plan for the higher, less accessible areas, along with long-overdue repairs to the plaster work.

Personally, I’m about to undergo a big change, as I temporarily lay-aside my duties, and take extended Study Leave. It’s not going to be easy to stop thinking about all the exciting schemes that we are dreaming-up together. I’m especially going to miss the conversations that you will be having about how we can ‘Go Deeper’ together—though I very much look forward hearing the results at our Parish Conference on 18 August.

A willingness to embrace change is at the heart of the Christian Gospel. We serve a God who brought an ever-changing, ever-evolving world into being. God’s whole purpose for humanity is that we should be ever-changing (from glory into glory) - ever on a journey of life which changes us to become more like Godself. The Lenten word ‘repent’ implies fundamental and life-transforming change. The Resurrection to which we are all journeying (and which we will celebrate in very different ways this year) is yet another change that God will bring about for all who follow God...the change of our mortal, corruptible bodies into new resurrection bodies, like that of Jesus himself. Let us then never fear change. God never changes in Godself (‘Thou changest not, O Lord, abide in me’). But in a world created with both entropy and evolution in its DNA, God does invite us to embrace change— paradoxically to become more and more like God.

It’s not terribly Anglican of us, is it? But it is very Christian!

THE LAST WORD: From Canon Tom