Notices for 8th March

Opportunites to Pray Together

Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast 1^st Saturday of the month at the Vicarage, from 9am, prayer, coffee and croissant. Next is the 7^th March – Thursday evening at St Thomas at 6:00 pm for an hour every other week. **19th March 2026.

This Sunday Services:  3rd Sunday Lent

9:30 St Peter & St Paul, Morning Worship with David.

11:15 St Martha’s Holy Communion.

Next Sunday Services:  15th March

9:30 St Thomas, Holy Communion.

11:15 St Martha’s Mattins with Peter Levell.

Donations at St Martha’s during services can now be made electronically via our Card Reader.

Looking Further Ahead

Tots and Toddlers: St Thomas' Monday 9:15am

Lent Courses: 9th March – see note below

Infant School Easter service: 16^th March St Thomas' 9am

 Food and Hygiene Bank

The Foodbank Larder box is now located in the porch of St Thomas' Church.  Many thanks for your donations.  Suggested items are: - Long life milk /tins tuna/ tins meat/ pasta/sachets microwaveable rice /pasta sauces/curry sauces/cereal/spreads/ tea/ coffee/ hot chocolate/ tins soup/ baked beans.  The need is great and growing, the Foodbank is struggling to keep up with demand – both through gifts and funds, please assist.

Chilworth Tinies and Toddler Group

Mondays from 9:15 -10:30am  meet in St Thomas', play chat, pray and support. 

Lent News

For our Lenten journey this year we will be venturing into the wilds of faith with the help of the team at Lectio 365. Join us as we embark on a life-changing, forty-day journey into the wilderness. Alongside the Bible, we will be diving into the ancient wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: a radically counter-cultural movement that chose to live, work and pray away from civilised society, in the foreboding desert landscape through the third and fourth centuries AD.

Lent Lunch reflections on Art at St Thomas during Lent on Monday lunchtimes, simple soup and a roll from 12:00 with some art and discussion.

Monday Evenings Join us at 7.30pm at the Gomshall Club for any or all of the five Monday evenings: March 9th, 16th, & 23rd
Services We will link each week’s theme into our sermons on the Sunday before.
Daily Devotion – download the prayer App: search for Lectio365 in the Apple or Google .

Palm Sunday we will walk a donkey up to St Martha’s, have a short service and then picnics to follow. 12:30 in the car park of Halfpenny Lane.

Try and ponder them yourself using the handout: click HERE

Tim

Pete Greig

Bishop Andrew

Bishop Andrew died peacefully on Tuesday 3 March surrounded by family, less than one month after he received a terminal diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

Prior to his death, he had shared his prognosis with the wider diocese, and he reassured them that he was “cheerfully persisting towards a good death”, and that his “faith in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting, had only grown stronger”.  Announcing the death in a letter to the diocese, Bishop Paul said: “Whilst his family mourn the loss of a much-loved husband, father, grandfather, son and brother, we mourn the loss of a much-loved diocesan bishop – as well as an inspiring fellow disciple, dear brother in Christ, precious friend and special colleague.”

In his letter, Bishop Paul also encouraged the diocese that Bishop Andrew would want everyone to remain focused on “Jesus as our source of comfort, hope, salvation and strength.”

Please pray for Beverley and family as they navigate through this.

Prayer Stations in St Thomas

Pop in and pray - using the suggestions and materials provided. A place to rest in silence and commune with God.

Harry Moss’s next Adventure

Harry Moss, a local resident who generously helps out with so many maintenance tasks at both St Martha’s and St Thomas', is off again on an adventure in February. He is donating his old 4x4 car and with a team of others is driving it in a convoy to Ukraine, for the charity CONVOY4UKRAINE. Do support him and the charity not only with prayer but financially via his JustGiving page https://www.justgiving.com/page/harry-moss-2?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=EM

Used Stamps for Oxfam

 Please place used stamps in the box at the back of St Thomas' which will stay there all year and be emptied as and when it gets full.

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If  you need us

If you need any help with anything or have any questions please click on the names below to email a request:

For general admin matters our Administrator Yvonne

For local pastoral issues our Minister David