Our Services:

Sunday 12th May (Christian Aid Week)

10.30am at FMC Worship led by Miss A Jenkin

At Langholme 3.30pm Worship led by Miss J Whetham

Circuit Service at Stithians 3pm to be followed by a Bring & Share tea and time of fellowship.

 

Sunday 19th May (Pentecost)

10.30am at FMC Worship led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt including Holy Communion.

At Mawnan Smith 10.30am Worship led by Euan McPhee

At Langholme 3.30pm Worship led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt

After Sunday services, refreshments are served. Please stay and take the opportunity to have a chat and get to know us better.

 

Online Services:

YouTube services on Sundays can be found by following the link here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZkv-Db2MFXsQEzhra0azw/videos

 

On Sunday 12th May online worship will be led by Miss Jean Whetham & Sam Taylor.

On Sunday 19th May online worship will be 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. (There will be no Footsteps on Thursday 30th May in Emmanuel Baptist Church, there's a quilt exhibition in the church).

 

 Wednesday Welcome: meets on the first Wednesday in the month. The next date is on the 5th June and it will be at the Penmorvah Manor Hotel. Please speak to, or telephone Jeanette to book.

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Mid-week Holy Communion at New Street

On: Thurs 6th May at 10.30 am

Midweek communion at New Street. KCM members will also be invited to join us. A midweek communion service will be held on the first Thursday of each month, being led alternately by a Methodist minister and an Anglican priest, with both congregations warmly invited to join us.

 

Other Notices:

Easter Offering: This year’s Easter Offering entitled ‘No Borders to God’s Love’ will be a Circuit Service at Stithians this Sunday 12th May at 3pm to be followed by a Bring & Share tea and time of fellowship.

Christian Aid Week: Christian Aid Book Sale at King Charles Church from Wednesday 15 May (setting up only) then open for business from Thursday 16 May to Saturday 18 May from 10.00am to 4.00pm each day. (Note there will be no book sales during the lunchtime concert on the Saturday).
If you have any books to donate, please collect them at your local church or chapel and then bring them to King Charles Church before 11.00am on Wednesday 15 May. Alternatively, you may wish to drop them off at the Salvation Army, who have kindly agreed to act as a collecting point. Please help us raise money for this worthy cause! Any problems, or if you have a large number of books to donate, we can arrange collection. Contact Euan.

MWiB Spring District Days (Women Make Change Happen):  Tuesday 14th May 10 – 4 at Chapel Street Methodist Church Penzance, led by Loraine Mellor District Chair & on Wednesday 15th May 10-4 at Coads Green Methodist Church Launceston.  Please bring a packed lunch.

Pentecost Sunday at Gwennap Pit 3pm: Preacher Fr Paul Andrew supported by Churches Together in Cornwall. All are welcome to join in the celebration of the church’s birthday as we mark the climax of Thy Kingdom Come 2024. Local car parking only if dry at Gwennap Pit (TR16 5HH). If it rains the event will still take place so dress accordingly.

Eco Church: the next meeting will take place on Thursday 23rd May at 11am at Emmanuel Baptist Church following the Footsteps Café. Please do join us, all are welcome. Eco Events in the planning are 1st June Beach Clean, 2nd June Café service on eco matters, 21st June Eco Prayer Walk in Fox Rosehill Gardens led by Sarah.

Circuit Zoom Prayer Meeting  You are invited to join on the first and third Tuesday of each month - 6.15 for 6.30pm. Revd. Jonathan will email the joining link to 'regulars' but if you would like to join please email Jonathan for the link.

Wellspring Celebration Weekend -  Worship, Teaching, Fellowship across the Cornwall and IoS District, 21st - 23rd June. More information about the Saturday and Sunday, as well as bio’s about speakers will be coming out over the coming weeks. Free transport will be provided You can book your free place on the coach by speaking to Jeanette from today. Please see FMC’s website for details.

 Fairtrade stall will be available every second Sunday following our morning service. Nona

Fairwinds Café: We are hoping to use the café to hold FMC coffee mornings. At first this will be a monthly event, but we are hoping to extend it to fortnightly or even weekly depending on volunteers. If you feel that you would be able to help, please see one of the Church Stewards. Thank you.

Langholme Summer Fete: 15th June 2-4pm all welcome. Lots of stalls, hot dogs, live music and lots more.

 

Future Dates:

Sea Shanty: We will share a united service with KCM on Sunday 16th June. This will include a Shanty band and singing group.

Church Lunch: Sunday 7th July at Falmouth Golf Club please speak to Jeanette to book your place. All welcome

 

In our prayers, we continue to hold the following before God:

 from Falmouth: - we pray for, Anne & Barry Libby & Family, Sheila Finch & family, Gwen Mason, Moira, Ray Baker, John Cotterell, the Brokenshire Family, Daphne Rundle, Barbara Toyne, Pauline & Peter Cocks, Dorothy Penman, Gwen Dunstan, Gill Wilkinson, and the residents and staff of care homes, especially Langholme and the folk at Abbeyfield.

Pastoral Contact:   for May is Pauline.

Thinking of you and missing you at church: Vanessa Uren & Joan Wilkinson

 

 Eco News

  Lizard Peninsula Recovery Project

Natural England’s project aims to focus on microhabitats found in some overlooked spots on the Lizard. Their scheme aims to nurture lichens, liverworts, and wildflowers on or around the rocks, paths, ditches, and ponds. The scheme costing around £350,000 for two years will help protect the area from summer blazes too.

Eco Opportunity: for half-term.

Bird-Box Bingo at Trebah Gardens.

Follow the bird-box trail around the gardens & cross them off in your booklet. Prizes for correct answers at the entrance desk by 4pm.

 

 

 

Additional Notices:

Additional Notice from our friends at the Foodbank:

LATEST FOODBANK NEEDS

Dear Friends Thanks as always for your wonderful support. Due to the economic situation, we have a lot more clients, many of whom are working and still finding it hard to make ends meet and at the same time we are not receiving as many food donations as we did in recent times. It has therefore been necessary for us to purchase items in order to keep our shelves from being empty. This is unprecedented, and is not necessarily sustainable, so we would be grateful if you could spread the word on our behalf; just a couple of extra items will make a vast difference to us and our clients.

 

Here is an update of the items which are most needed: GENERALLY NEEDED • Tinned tomatoes • Pasta Sauces (in jars) • Tinned Tuna/Sardines/Mackerel • Tinned Spaghetti • Tinned Potatoes • Breakfast Cereals • Longlife Semi-Skimmed Milk • Longlife Soya or Oat Milk • Tinned Vegetable Soup • Dry RIce • Small jars regular coffee • Baby wipes • Toothpaste • Teabags • Dog Treats • Small Bottle or Cartons of Squash/Juice

 

The next edition of the notices will be available from Sunday 26th May 2024. Please send any items for inclusion to Sarah  before  Wednesday 22nd  May 2024. Thank you! These notices will 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.