Worship

St Radigunds Church, Albany Road, Capel-le-Ferne

Services – various times as Vicar covers Alkham and Hougham Churches also.

Ash Wednesday Service at Capel at 7p.m & Maundy Thursday (9th April) Service will be at Hougham.

Benefice Services for FEBRUARY 2009

DATE	ALKHAM	CAPEL	HOUGHAM
Sunday 1st 4th Sunday of Epiphany	Evensong 4.30pm	Eucharist 9.00pm	Worship Together 11a.m.
Monday 2nd Candlemas Presentation of Christ at the Temple	Joint Benefice Eucharist at St Mary’s
Sunday 8th 3rd Sunday before Lent	Eucharist 9.00 p.m.	Family Worship 11 a.m. Christingle with Brownies and the Baptist Church	Songs of Praise
Sunday 15th 2nd Sunday before Lent	Family Worship Pet Service	Evensong 6.00 p.m.	Eucharist 9.00 p.m.
Sunday 22nd Sunday next before Lent	Joint Benefice Eucharist 10.00am

From the Vicarage

It’s been a tad chilly of late but the good news is that Rolo and I can now do a circuit of both fields behind Capel Village Green in twenty minutes – it used to take forty minutes so we must both be getting fitter! The garden is looking rather drab but exciting things are happening below the surface and the broad beans and onions have poked their heads out. Here’s hoping I didn’t plant the daffodils and tulips too deep!

With the New Year we are looking at developments within the Benefice and we are building a ministry team, which will enable me to make contact with more people through the four who will be working with me. Raye Luckhurst, Theda Malloy, Helen Scopes and Keith Hughes are all undertaking training with the diocese. They will be able to visit and take communion to people at home in each of the parishes under my leadership. This will mean that more people will have visits than is possible at present. I hope you will feel able to make suggestions as to how we might further develop this in the coming year.

On February 8th at 11 a.m. the Brownies are coming to St. Radigund’s for their parade service with Pastor Colin and the congregation of the Baptist Church. This will be a Christingle Service and the Brownies have been busy preparing for it. Christingle celebrates Christ as the light of the world and his saving grace hence the orange to represent the world, the red ribbon for Jesus death and the candle to shed light on us all. The Brownies will be taking part in the service and we look forward to welcoming them. I hope that parents and grandparents will come along to support them as both the girls and their leaders have taken a great deal of effort to get everything ready for this occasion.

The Revd Sue White – Priest-in-Charge of the benefice of River, Alkham with Capel-le-Ferne and Hougham.

Sue White (01303 240539)

CAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH

Capel Street. Services 10.30am. All welcome

Speakers for February 2009

1st Alan Smith

8th Chapel CLOSED for Joint Christingle Service at St Radigunds

15th Gloria Guest

22nd Colin Patience

Please! A reminder that the public are requested not to park in front of the gates on Sunday mornings as this is a disabled access.

Colin Patience, Lay Pastor. Tel: 01303 276405