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Please find this week’s Sunday Connections below. This will be our last one for 2018! I hope that amongst the last few weeks of Advent everyone has found some inspiration and encouragement in celebrating the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ this year. SundayConnection_16.12.2018
I hope to see you at one of our Christmas services this year! Christmas Services 2018
Merry Christmas,
Cassie
Our Newhaven Sheep Nativity Trail is well underway and our sheep have had some happy visitors already! Will you find our sheep hidden across Newhaven and help us tell the Christmas Story? How does it work you ask?
Please see below for details of our Christmas services. All welcome!
Sunday, 23 December
10.30am Morning service
Monday, 24 December
4pm All age service with coffee, tea and mince pies
11.15pm Mince pies & Watchnight Service
Christmas Day, Tuesday 25 December
10.30am Short all age service
Sunday, 30 December
10.30am Sunday worship
Readings:
In this morning’s Christmas Eve service, Rev. Peter Bluett looked at the significance of shepherds and wise men from the East being called to pay homage to the infant Jesus.
If you would like to listen to the sermon please click on the audio player below.
4pm. All age service with coffee, tea, and mince pies.
11.15 pm. Coffee, tea and mince pies, followed by Watchnight Service.
Short family service.
Sunday worship.
Readings Matthew 1:1-17; Luke 3:38.
On this third Sunday in advent, Rev Peter Bluett looked at the genealogies in Matthew and Luke, comparing them and considering the religious function of each of them.
To listen to the sermon, please click on the audio player below.
Reading: Micah 5:1-6.
This morning Rev. Peter Bluett continued his exploration of advent by contrasting the two different visions for peace offered by Imperial Rome and by the Kingdom of God.
If you wish to listen to the sermon, please click on the audio player below.
A huge thank you to all those who contributed to the Blythswood Care Shoebox appeal this year. In total Newhaven Church collected 86 shoeboxes, as well as six carrier bags full of items. Donations were gratefully received, not only from members and regular attenders of the church, but also from St Serfs Guides, Victoria Primary School, Newhaven Church Toddler Group, and Chatterboxes.
Blythswood care provides practical help, love and support for those in need. Its annual shoebox appeal has, over the years, provided over a million Christmas presents for children and adults in troubled parts of the world.
Please feel free to join any of our services!
Sunday 20th December:
10:30-11.30am – Christmas Sunday Carol Service
Christmas Eve:
4:00pm – All Age Service
11.15pm – Mincepies and Watchnight Service
Christmas Day:
10.30am – Short Family Service (All welcome)
Sunday 27th December:
10.30am Sunday Worship
All the best over Christmas and into the New Year
Happy Christmas from all at Newhaven Church!
If you missed our Christmas service on Sunday, you can still come to our All Age Christmas Eve Service today at 4.00pm, the Watchnight Service tonight at 11.30pm (with mince pies at 11.15), or our Short All Age Christmas Day Service tomorrow at 10.30am.
All the best for a joyful Christmas and for the New Year.
