WEDNESDAY 30th NOVEMBER

                       Sue Kirby and Weston Favell Primary School experience Christmas

Today the church will be pleased to welcome the children, staff and helpers from East Hunsbury's Simon de Senlis Primary School as they 'Experience Christmas' with us.

And Tiny Tots will be in their usual setting of the church hall at 1.30 with Allison and her team. Here's Allison looking very happy about that...

Space 3 in 'Experience Christmas' is about Mary. We are taken into her house, to feel what it must have been like to meet an angel with Good but Scary News. If we know we're doing the right thing, then we can confront the difficult things we have to do with confidence.


Advance Notice

Advent Soup 12.00 p.m. this Saturday 3rd December.

If you're a regular at St. Peter's Lent lunches, you'll know what to expect: tasty soup and bread, and a good natter. This is the first time we've held a similar lunch in Advent, and there's only one of them, so don't miss out. The difference is that this time you'll have the chance to choose where your money goes from three nominated charities - a sort of 'Oscar moment'. In no particular order the three charities are: 

The Emmanuel Church Coffee Shop
The Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust
Northampton Association for the Accommodation of Single Homeless  (N.A.A.S.H.)

See you there!

Prayer Diaries

When it comes to prayer, do you find you sometimes get stuck in a rut? Of course it's good to be faithful in praying for the things which are close to our hearts: we're told not to give up, but to be relentless in asking God for good things.  The St. Peter's prayer diary will give you something different to focus on each day so that you can widen your concerns and gain a different perspective. The December edition is available at the back of the church now.



For now we feel the world spin round
On some momentous journey bound -
Journey to what? To whom? To where?
The Advent bells call out 'Prepare,
Your world is journeying to the birth
Of God made Man for us on earth...'

from John Betjeman's 'Advent 1955'. Read the whole poem for yourself in various collections of his work. You may also be able to find it on the web.

                                                               In Mary's house