Notices
Falmouth Methodist Church
Notices for 3rd & 10th December 2023
Minister: Revd. Jonathan Froggatt
Sunday 3rd December 10.30am Worship led by the Café Worship Team- Gift Service.
The Dracaena Centre are thrilled that we have once again offered to donate gifts to be distributed to children locally for Christmas. They have asked that we donate unwrapped gifts suitable for ages 3 -13 years of age.
At Mawnan Smith 10.30am Worship led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt including Holy Communion
At Langholme Worship led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt
Sunday 10th December 10.30am Worship led by Miss A Jenkin
At Langholme Worship led by Mr P Langford
After Sunday services, refreshments are served. Please stay and take the opportunity to have a chat and get to know us better.
Thursday 7th December 10.30am Mid-week Holy Communion at New Street
Midweek communions- at New Street. KCM members will also be invited to join us. Midweek communion services are on the first and third Thursdays of each month, being led alternately by a Methodist minister and an Anglican priest, with both congregations warmly invited to join us.
Sunday 17th (NO morning service) December 4pm Carol Service led by Revd. Andrew Mumford
Sunday 24th December 10.30am Worship led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt
Sunday 24th December 4pm Christingle at KCM led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt
Regular activities:
Stitchcraft: meet at the Princess Pavilion every Monday at 2pm. New members’ welcome.
Footsteps Café: Falmouth & Penryn Churches Together coffee morning, Footsteps is held every Thursday in the foyer of Emmanuel Baptist Church from 10-12 noon. Hot and cold drinks and homemade cakes available. All are welcome.
Wednesday Welcome: meets on the first Wednesday in the month. The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 6th December and is at the Princess Pavilion. To book please speak to or telephone Jeanette.
Other Notices
FMC Website/Notices: These notices together with other information and articles can be found on our user-friendly church website at www.falmouthmethodist.org.uk .
Fair Trade Stall For personal reasons we will not be having a stall in November or December, but plan to resume in January. We may, however, be able to source anything you specially want or need. Nona and Euan
Autumn Bible Studies: You are all warmly invited to the last in our series of Bible studies on Tuesday 5th December at our home, starting at 2.30pm. We will be studying Jesus' parables. Don't worry if you have not attended the other sessions, as each weekly study is complete- in- itself. We hope that you can join us, Jonathan, and Louise.
Circuit Prayer Meeting on Zoom: Circuit Zoom Prayer Meeting You are all warmly invited to the next circuit Zoom prayer meeting on 5th December. If you are able to attend then please contact Rev Jonathan for the zoom link.
Coach trip to see Mousehole Christmas lights, spaces are still available! Please ask your friends and family if they would like to join us. Friday 15th December Leave Falmouth at 4.30pm to go to Beck's for fish and chips before going to Mousehole and seeing other lights on the return journey. Cost of coach is £10. To book, or pay from now, please speak to or telephone Jeanette.
Carol Singing on KCM courtyard, Saturday 9th December 1-1.30pm followed by coffee and mince pies.
Christmas Card Posting Box: We will once again have our own posting box for your Christmas cards to be distributed to Church Family and Friends. It has been decided that this year’s donations for this will be given to St Petroc’s.
Edgcumbe Methodist Church: This will be the Final service at Edgcumbe after 130 years of worship and witness. The service will take place on Sunday 10th December at 3pm led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt. This will be a Christmas Carol service with donations for the Cornwall Children’s Hospice. Please come along and show your support.
Christmas Services: We are pleased to announce the following Christmas Services:
17th December 4pm Ecumenical Carol Service with KCM in the church led by
Revd. Andrew Mumford.
24th December 4pm Christingle Service in the church led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt.
25th December 10.30am Joint Christmas Morning Service in the KCM church led by
Revd. Jonathan Froggatt.
In our prayers, we continue to hold the following before God: from Falmouth: - we pray for Tony Thomas who has Covid, Ray Baker, Daphne Rundle, Barbara Toyne, Pauline & Peter Cocks, Dorothy Penman, Gwen Dunstan, Gill Wilkinson, Babs Minns, Paul brother of Ian, Moira whose operation has been postponed, and the residents and staff of care homes, especially Langholme and the folk at Abbeyfield including Sheila Finch.
Pastoral Contact: for December is Jeanette
Eco- News: from A Rocha UK: Last autumn marked a significant milestone for Eco Church as we celebrated the achievement of 2,000 awarded churches since the program’s launch in 2016. Just one year on, we have now surpassed 3,000 awarded churches!
Advent Eco -Tip from A Rocha UK: Start with your advent calendar. Support overseas farmers by ensuring that your advent calendar, and any Christmas chocolate, is Fairtrade. You’ll be helping those farmers to make a decent living and encouraging them to farm in a more ecologically sustainable way with every bite.
YouTube services on Sundays can be found by following the link here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZkv-Db2MFXsQEzhra0azw/videos
This Sunday 3rd December online worship will be led by Revd. Liz Harris & on Sunday 10th December online worship will be led by Mrs. L Rowse & Sam Goldsworthy.
Thinking of you and missing you at church: Graham & Penny Phillips
The next edition of the notices will be available from Sunday 17th December and will cover three weeks. Please send any items for inclusion to Sarah before Wednesday 13th December. Thank you! These notices will normally be updated twice a month, so please hold onto them, don’t delete them, until you get a revised version. That will save us time and money in unnecessary reprinting and will do another small bit for the environment.
