Bulletin

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Our minister Louise can be contacted by email louise@newhavenbaptistchurch.co.uk or telephone 07873 635346. Louise takes Saturday as her day off.

We give you all a warm welcome to church. Please join
us for tea or coffee in the hall after worship and say
hello. We meet every Sunday morning at 10.30 and the
service typically lasts for about an hour. Each service
includes a talk or activity for all ages (children, teens
and adults), singing, a reading from the Bible and
prayers. A sermon is preached which focuses on the
Bible passage read, and aims to be relevant to our
place in the world of 2025. We share Holy Communion
together every third Sunday of the month.
Details of our activities and Christmas extras can be found inside and on back page of the bulletin.

Sunday School

Our young people meet with us all for the early part of the service. They then have the opportunity to go into another room where they share biblical based age-related activities. All our Sunday School leaders are fully DBS checked.

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December and January Diary 2025/6

Tuesdays: Scuttlebugz in term time at 10.00 am.

Wednesdays: Tea and Chat 9.30am-1.00pm. Food bank, shower & washing facilities during session.

Prayer Meeting 3rd and 17th December, 14th and 28th January at 1.00pm.

Fridays: Tea and Chat 9.30am-1.00pm. Food bank, shower & washing facilities during session.

Please note: No Tea and Chat or Food Bank Friday 26th December. On Wednesday 24th December Food Bank will run from 9.30am-11.00am, (no Tea and Chat). There will be an extra Tea and Chat with Food bank session on Monday 22nd December, also Tea and Chat on Christmas Day. (see Christmas Extras insert).

Saturday January 3rd 4.00pm New Year Church Family Party followed by bring and share food.

Christmas Extras

Saturday 6th December - 10am Christmas Craft Morning

Sunday 14th December - 4.30pm Candlelight Carol Service. Tea, coffee and mince pies will be served in the hall after the service. No morning service this week.

Monday 22nd December - Deliveries of gifts to Neills Close and Jubilee Homes. Also Tea and Chat with Food Bank 09.30am-1.00pm.

Christmas Day - Tea and Chat 2.00pm – 4.00pm.

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In our prayers

Following the Budget, we continue to pray for the vast number of people who struggle financially. Scripture encourages us to pray for our government in seeking to serve the ‘common good’, let us do so. We continue to pray for the wider world. For efforts and negotiations in seeking peaceful solutions to conflicts in so many places. Let us constantly remember the work of the church here. For our minister Louise, our Deacons and one another.

The word became flesh and lived for a while among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John Chapter 1 verse 14)

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Words from an old Christmas carol most people don’t know.

1. Cradled in a manger meanly. Lay the Son of man his head .Sleeping His first earthly slumber. Where the oxen had been fed. Happy were those shepherds listening. To the holy angel’s word. Happy they within that stable. Worshipping their infant Lord.

2. Happy all who hear the message. Of His coming from above. Happier still who hail His coming. And with praises greet His love. Blessed Saviour, Christ most holy. In a manger Thou didst rest. Canst Thou stoop again yet lower. And abide within my breast.

3. Evil things are there before Thee. In the heart where they have fed. Wilt Thou pitifully enter. Son of man and lay Thy head. Enter then, O Christ most holy. Make a Christmas in my heart. Make a heaven of my manger. It is heaven where Thou art.

4. And to those who never listened. To the message of Thy birth. Who have winter but no Christmas. Bringing them Thy peace on earth. Send to these the joyful tidings. To all people in each home. Be there heard the Christmas anthem. Praise to God, the Christ has come.

George Stringer Rowe 1830-1913