Upcoming dates for your diary (details below)
Family Time Together Sun 12th Oct 3pm
Coffee & Cake concert Sat 18th Oct 11am
GLOW service at Wye church Sun 12th Oct 6.30pm
Light Party for All Hallows Friday 31st Oct: 5.00-6.30pm
Service for Remembering Sun 2nd Nov (All Souls Day) at 3.00pm
Deanery Confirmation Service (at Chilham ) Wed 12th November 7pm
Music concerts in St Mary’s
Our recent coffee & cake concert featuring Emily Renshaw Kidd was well attended and very well received and it raised a fantastic and much needed £600 for our church funds.
Our next ‘Coffee & Cake’ concert features some of Emily’s student musicians from Langton Boys School who will be playing “an eclectic mix of instrumental music”. We know from past experience that these young people will entertain us with wonderful music. This is on Saturday 18th October at 10.15 for an 11am start.
GLOW: informal evening service at Wye Church, Sunday 12th October 6.30pm
This is a relaxed, informal service with space to connect, enjoy contemporary worship, reflect on the Bible and engage in interactive prayer.
If you are interested in going and would like to carshare then please contact Rev Andrew.
Light Party - to celebrate All Hallows Eve
We are having a Light Party for primary school age children accompanied by their parents. Dress code: “Costumes, but nothing scary – think superheroes and princesses!” St Mary’s church, Friday 31st October from 5 – 6.30pm. No charge.
Wildflower area in the churchyard – seed sowing Sunday 12th October.
We are planting our wildflower area this weekend and are grateful for the donations of wildflower seeds & spring bulbs that we have been given - but if you are able to provide any more they will be much appreciated. Bulbs will have been planted on Sat 11
th Oct and the seeds will be sown on Sunday 12
th Oct at 3pm - with the help of the children in Family Time Together. Any late offerings from your own gardens & other sources will be gratefully received.
Please speak to
Sarah Challender or email her at
ecochurch@stmaryschartham.org
More information about the work that is being considered to develop St Mary’s as an eco-church can be found on the Eco-church notice board in church and on our website via the QR code.
Walk Church
This month’s walk church will be on the afternoon of 26th Oct – we don’t yet have details, but they should soon be on the Walk Church website at:
Good Money Sunday
Have you heard of this? Although St Mary’s is not itself involved, you can find out about this initiative to understand more about what it means for us to spend our money in a way that helps people and planet flourish, and about the biblical principles of stewardship and justice that can guide us. Full via QR code:
Service for Remembering
You are invited to join us on November 2nd (All Souls Day) at 3.00pm for this service in which we think of those family and friends who have died, and light candles in their memory. This service is open to everybody so please pass this on.
If you would like the name of a loved one to be read out at the service, please put the name on the list at the back of church.
Deanery Confirmation Service 12th November 7pm - Confirmation classes
Bishop Rose will be visiting the churches in our area (Stour Valley Deanery) from 11th to 16th November and will lead a Confirmation Service at St Mary’s Chilham on Wednesday 12th November at 7pm.
For those young people (11yrs and above) who would like to be confirmed, we are starting confirmation classes on Wednesday 15th October at 5pm at the Rectory.
Please contact Rev Andrew for more information.
Collects and readings
12th October: Communion Service
Almighty God,
you have made us for yourself,
and our hearts are restless
‘til they find their rest in you:
pour your love into our hearts
and draw us to yourself,
and so bring us at last
to your heavenly city
where we shall see you face to face;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
2Timothy 2:8-15, Luke 17:11-19
19th October: Morning Service
Almighty and everlasting God,
increase in us your gift of faith
that, forsaking what lies behind
and reaching out to that which
is before,
we may run the way of
your commandments
and win the crown of everlasting joy;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
2Timothy 3:14 - 4:5, Luke 18:1-8