Alderley Edge Church News
MINISTER'S LETTER FOR JANUARY 2010
Dear Friends
Happy New Year to everyone! I do hope that 2010 will be a year of real blessing for everyone and for our church. I thought it might help to begin the New Year with some wise words …
‘What if the three wise men had been three wise women? Well, they would have asked for directions and arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, cleaned the stable, brought a casserole and given the child much more practical gifts.’ (Susan Perlman).
MINISTER'S LETTER FOR DECEMBER
Dear Friends
The shops are decorated. The lights are on in the village. The music is playing in the shops. There are mince pies for sale. The first Christmas cards are beginning to drop through letter boxes and it won’t be long until we all begin to decorate our homes. The adverts on the TV are already advising us which supermarket will be selling the cheapest/most succulent/freshest/most free-range turkeys - and it won’t be long until the adverts for the January sales start. So this is Christmas - or is it?!
HARVEST FESTIVAL SERVICES
Our Harvest Festival Services this year:
9.45a.m. Rev. Harold Ward Early Communion
11.00a.m. Rev. Ben Clowes Harvest Morning Worship (We are following the Harvest Theme of Methodist Relief and Development Fund)
6.30p.m. Churches Together in Alderley share a Harvest Songs of Praise in the Methodist Church. Service led by Rev. Ben Clowes.
(On Saturday evening, 3rd October, at 7.00p.m. a showing of the much acclaimed film 'Slumdog Millionaire'. Entry by donation, proceeds in aid of Methodist Relief and Development Fund.)
MINISTER'S LETTER FOR OCTOBER
Dear Friends
‘All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin’. It’s that time of year when the familiar songs of harvest start to ring around our local churches. By the time you read this I will have shared in my first church harvest of the season up at Mottram St Andrew and also taken my first harvest school assembly. There’s no escaping the fact that the summer is over and autumn is here. The leaves on the trees have already begun to turn and the morning air has been decidedly crisp when I’ve been taking the boys to school over the last week or so.