Weekly Newsletter

WELCOME to All Saints Church, Woodham

OUR VISION. A place where hearts find peace and souls are nourished. To be a Christ-centred community that transforms lives through faith, love, and service, empowering each person to grow in their relationship with God and make a positive impact on the world around them.

WEEK BEGINNING: 13TH APRIL 2025

THIS WEEK: PALM SUNDAY & HOLY WEEK

Sunday 10am Parish Mass with Palm Procession

We shall gather & process from the grass area in the middle of carpark, unless wet weather then from the Parish Room.

Monday 7pm Stations of the Cross Using Art

Tuesday 10:30am Mass with Songs From Taize

7pm Compline (led by Carole Gasson)

Wednesday 12:30 Prayer Group (Parish Room)

7pm Stations of the Cross Using Art (led by Mthr Lucy Bush)

Maundy

Thursday 7:30pm Foot Washing, Altar Stripping & The Watch

Good Friday 10-12 Confessions

(please book with Fr Roland)

2pm Seven Sayings of Christ, Veneration of the Cross & Anti Communion

INTERCESSIONS:

Those who require ongoing prayer:

The Royal Family, Alison, Angela, Winnie, Ivor, Lorna, Eileen, Julia, Patricia, Mary, Alex, Sue, Kate, Ida, Shirley, Judy, Carolyn, Mario, Sheila, Lib, Joe & Marsha.

General Requests:

Ben (who is to be married here next year), whilst deployed in Estonia as part of the Armed Forces.

For the people of the Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria & Myanmar

Repose of the Soul:

Gordon Pettit

Year’s Mind:

Russell Alan Batson

Joyce Ann Patricia Purser

Ella May Bystram

Joan George

Dick Downham

DONATIONS FOR SHOOTING STAR CHILDRENS HOSPICE

James & Thomas Funeral Directors in New Haw are collecting Easter Eggs or non-edible Easter gifts for the local children’s hospice up until THIS Weds 16th April.

EASTER SATURDAY

The churchwardens would be grateful for help on Saturday morning to prepare and decorate the church for Easter Sunday. Please let the Parish Office know if you are able to help.

DATES FOR THE DIARY & INFORMATION

NEXT WEEK: EASTER SUNDAY

There is a dawn service at 6am at Newark Priory.

After the 10am service here, there will be an Easter Egg hunt in the grounds of the church for the children.

CHANGES TO SERVICES W/C MONDAY 21ST APRIL

Fr Roland is on holiday Easter Week, so there will be NO TUESDAY MASS ON 22ND APRIL OR WEDNESDAY PRAYER GROUP ON 23RD APRIL.

FUNERAL FOR GORDON PETTIT R.I.P.

Gordon Pettit’s funeral will be held here on Thursday 24th April at 1:30pm, followed by a cremation at Woking Crematorium. Fr Gerard Mee will be taking the service.

PARISH QUIZ NIGHT SATURDAY 26TH APRIL AT 7:00PM

Tickets are £17.50 each which includes a fish/sausage and chip supper or £7.50 for a no food option. Please bring your own beverages and glasses. Teams are a maximum of eight. Tickets sales are closing NEXT Sunday 20th. Please contact the Parish Office or www.ticketsource.co.uk/all-saints-church-woodham. Donations for the raffle are also greatly appreciated. There is a box in the Narthex for your offerings.

ST. GEORGES COLLEGE, WEYBRIDGE VOLUNTEER DAY

Please scour your garages, potting sheds and greenhouses!

On Monday 28th April, school children from St George’s College Weybridge are coming to volunteer to work in our church grounds. One of the projects is to build a mini - beast hotel.

We have been donated the required pallets now all we need are the materials to fill them.

We are in need of old plant pots, bamboo canes, straw, string, cardboard tubes, newspaper, pine cones, sacking etc in order to fill the pallets.

Items can be brought to church and placed by the shed at the back of the church or inside the box supplied in the Narthex if they would suffer in the rain.

For more information contact Janet Cummins.

ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING

This year our APCM is taking place on Sunday 4th May at 11:30am in the church.

You may put yourself forward to be a member of our PCC, a churchwarden or a deanery synod rep. Nomination forms will be available in the Narthex and should be returned to the Parish Office. Churchwarden nominations will then be put forward and voted on at the APCM.

Copies of the Annual Report have been emailed to those on our Parish directory. Hard copies are also available in the Narthex.

NARTHEX TOILETS EXTENSION

This project starts on Tuesday 6th May 2025 and is anticipated to take 10-12 weeks to complete and during this time the Parish Room and existing kitchen and toilet will no longer be accessible or usable. The Parish Office will be re-located to the MU office up at the church hall for the duration of the works.

If anyone is able to help on Saturday 3rd May from 9:30am, with the packing up and moving of the office, kitchen and general preparation before the work starts, please contact the Parish Office. More hands will make light work! Many thanks.

Thursday 29th May

Ascension Day

Mass at 10:30am

Choral Evensong at 7pm