​(No. 31/2024)

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Dear friends,

 

Our annual Christmas Market is on Saturday 30th November, in the Church Hall, 1-4pm. I hope you will be there, and bring friends and family too.

 

Our Market is important to us for a number of reasons. It is a great opportunity to open our doors and welcome people. The love of Christ is the greatest showing of the hospitality of God to us all, and we can emulate that hospitality in the way we welcome others, whether we know them, or whether they are strangers to us.

 

Belonging to a church is about participating together in its mission. In my own experience, when I was new to churchgoing, taking part in church events helped me grow in my sense of belonging, and was an opportunity to get to know others. Indeed, activity to spread the love of Christ and serve the people to whom we are called to be disciples amidst, is an overflow of the worship we share which is at the heart of our life.

 

In Hornsey Parish Church our priorities are to Love God, Love our Neighbour, and to Love Creation. These priorities are at the centre of what we do at the Christmas Market, and the important fundraising that the Market contributes towards, feeds and enable that mission of Hornsey Parish Church.

 

We have a meeting about the Christmas Market , this Sunday 24th November at 12 noon (just after church). We would love to see you, and would be delighted of any offers of help towards it.

 

What can you do to help TODAY…?

 

• Please note the date in your diary.

• can you offer home made jams/chutneys?

• can you offer to clear up at the end;

• Can you donate good quality unwanted gifts;

• or  bring Tombola prizes (bottles of wine, beer, spirits, shampoo, squash etc) this Sunday -urgently needed

• attend the next meeting: Sunday 24th November 12pm

 

With the assurance of my love and prayers

 

Fr Bruce