Well Street United Church wellsteetoffice@gmail.com

Minister: Revd Tim Edworthy Tel:07710026495

Welcome: Whether you are visiting us for the first time or have been with us for years, we extend a very warm

welcome to you. If you want to know more about us, just chat to us over coffee/tea after the service, ask for a

Welcome Booklet or visit our website at www.wellstreetchurch.org.uk email wellstreetoffice@gmail.com

Sunday 15th December

5.00pm Lace Hill Academy

Welcome to our

Community Christmas Carols

Please do join us for mulled wine/tea/coffee and

mince pies at the end of the service.

OFFERINGS FROM THIS YEAR’S CHRISTMAS SERVICES

This year the Mission Team have once again agreed that the collections from the Carol Service on Sunday 15th December and the Christmas Day service will be given to the MK Night Shelter project. This project runs in various locations in the city catering for many in need of shelter over the winter period.

Collection plates will be available at both the services. Thank you for your generosity in giving to our Mission causes.

Jane Butcher (On behalf of the Mission Team)

Carols on Wednesday

10.30am Well Street United Church

Tim will lead our service with and reflections around our

favourite carols. All are welcome.

Sunday 22nd December

10.30am Morning Worship

Lace Hill Academy

Light in the Darkness Isaiah 9:1-7

Preacher Revd Tim Edworthy

Worship leader: Angus Butcher

Communion will be served during this service

Christmas Day

10.30 am Christmas Celebration The Ballroom, Old Town Hall (Opposite the White Hart, Buckingham)

Do come and join us as we celebrate the

birth of the Saviour– Jesus Christ

‘For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end.’ Isaiah 9:6-7

As part of our worship we take up an offering . If you are visiting please feel under no obligation to give.

If you are a regular worshipper please speak to Geoff Morris as to how you can give by Standing Order and also about Gift Aid

if you are a tax payer.

Well Street United Church, Well Street, Buckingham, MK18 1ET

event is on Mon 21st Oct, 7.30pm

Christmas Wishes: We would like to wish all our friends a very Happy Christmas and Best Wishes for 2020. God Bless. Enid & Clarence

Thank you to all who helped with Breakfast at Bethlehem. We had a busy morning—about 60 children (plus families) came along. We had lots of fun, good conversations and good feedback from parents who had not been before! Continue to pray for links made.

Christmas Day

...not much fun if you have no-one to share a

cracker with!

We’ve got people who would

love to be on the other end

of your cracker!

Our gift to you! - Christmas Day Lunch with the trimmings,

presents, crackers, carol singing and best of all—the

company of other people.

If you live in MK18 and would be alone on Christmas Day

please come and join us. All ages welcome!

For more information call or email

Ros Hutt

ros.hutt@btinternet.com Tel: 01280 816570

Stephen and Jill Townsend

Stephen.townsend@salvationarmy.org.uk Tel: 07770 380717

If you would like to be a volunteer please do contact Stephen

Ellie’s Fundraising

Friday 3rd January 2.00pm-4.00pm Well Street United Church

Beetle Drive and Afternoon Tea

Please do come and join us for some New Year Fun!! All donations to Ellie’s DNA fund!

Who we are:

We are an LEP (local ecumenical partnership) of Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed churches. Our vision is It is ‘Putting the King at the Heart of Buckingham’.

We want to be a church in the community . We desire to make Jesus known throughout Buckingham and beyond. As an LEP we observe the traditions of our three denominations— please speak with our minister Tim Edworthy regarding

christenings, infant dedications, confirmation and believers baptism.

24/7 Prayer Week

What better way to begin the New Year than with prayer!

John Wesley said, ‘God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.’ Andrew Murray said, ‘Where there is much prayer, there will be much of the Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer.'

From 5-12 January 2020, we want to give you the opportunity to do just that. We will be turning the worship area at our building in Well Street into a Prayer Space with lots of different things to guide your prayers. We’re planning that it will be available 24 hours a day for the 7 days from Sunday to Saturday – hence 24/7 Prayer Week.

Anyone is welcome to come along. You may find yourself praying alone in the building and you may find yourself with others. You may be able to come every day, several times or just once. Come and pray as you can, not as you can’t. Come and pray as an individual and with your friends and Life Groups. Come and pray in the different zones, spending as much time as you want.

There will be open access to the Prayer Space whenever the Church Office is open i.e. 6-10 January from 8am-12. At other times, you will need the code for the key safe just outside the front door of the church. That can be obtained from Wendy. Please do not share it with anyone who is not a regular worshipper at our church so that we can maintain security. However, feel free to invite friends to join you in prayer. When you have opened the door, please put the key back in the key safe.

On Sunday 5th January from 5-7pm, we will launch our 24/7 Prayer Week. Please join us from 5-6pm for worship and prayer, and stay

beyond that to experience the various prayer stations. Tim

Reflective Christmas Service

7.00pm Steeple Claydon Methodist Chapel

Led by Katy Morris

The funeral for Gordan Hutt will take place on Friday 20th December 2.00pm at Water Stratford Church. We give thanks to God for Gordan’s long life.