Notices including all Christmas Services information
Falmouth Methodist Church
Notices for 17th, 24th & 31st December 2023
Minister: Revd. Jonathan Froggatt
Sunday 17th December 4pm Carol Service being held at King Charles the Martyr Church led by Revd. Andrew Mumford.
(NO morning service)
At Mawnan Smith 10.30am Nine Lessons and Carols at the Parish Church
At Langholme Worship led by Mrs M Bennett
Friday 22nd December 7pm Nine Lessons and Carols at KCM
Sunday 24th December 10.30am Worship led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt
Christingle Service at KCM 4pm Worship led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt
At Langholme Worship led by Ms K Jones
Christmas Day 25th December at KCM 10.30am Worship led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt
Sunday 31st December 10.30am Worship led by Miss Jean Whetham
At Langholme 3.30pm Worship led by Ms Karen Jones
After Sunday services, refreshments are served. Please stay and take the opportunity to have a chat and get to know us better.
Thursday 4th January 10.30am Mid-week Holy Communion at New Street
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.
Our future services
Sunday 7th January 2024 at 10.30am Worship led by the Café Worship Team
At Mawnan Smith Worship led by Miss Jean Whetham
At Langholme Worship led by Pastor Jenny Lockwood
Sunday 14th January 2024 at 10.30am Covenant service led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt
At Langholme Worship led by Revd Jonathan Froggatt
Regular activities:
Stitchcraft: meet at the Princess Pavilion every Monday at 2pm. New members’ welcome. (Resuming in the New Year).
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. Last meeting for 2023 will be on Thursday 21st December restarting on January 11th, 2024.
Wednesday Welcome: meets on the first Wednesday in the month and will resume in February.
Other Notices
Christmas Card Posting Box: Cards will be ready for collection following our Carol Service on Sunday 17th December, in the hall where we will have our refreshments. It has been decided that donations for this will be given to St Petroc’s.
Circuit Zoom Prayer Meeting: Tuesday 19th December, 6.15 for 6.30pm. Revd. Jonathan will email the joining link to 'regulars' but if you would like to join please contact him.
KCM Midnight Christmas Eve service starts at 11.00pm, not 11.30pm as it was listed on the Churches Together notices. It is being led by Revd. Adam Dunning.
In our prayers, we continue to hold the following before God: from Falmouth: - we pray for John Cotterell, Euan McPhee who is receiving treatment, Hazel’s son Matthew, Daphne Rundle, Barbara Toyne, Pauline & Peter Cocks, Dorothy Penman, Gwen Dunstan, Gill Wilkinson, Babs Minns, 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 Information:
Christmas Tree Recycling: from Cornwall Council: Real Christmas tree collections: Garden waste collection subscribers. If you subscribe to our garden waste collection service, you can put your real Christmas tree out beside your garden waste bin or bag on your normal garden waste collection day up until 31 January 2024 and we'll collect it for shredding. If your tree is larger than 6ft, please cut it in half. Not a garden waste customer? If you’re not a garden waste customer, please compost your tree at home if you can, take it to your household Waste and Recycling Centre, or consider subscribing to garden waste collections.
Christmas Eco -Tip from A Rocha UK: Re-use cards and wrapping. Help reduce the huge number of trees that go into making Christmas tags by re-using old Christmas cards. Recycle the section that carries the greeting, cut out the picture and use that as a tag. You could use fabric remnants and ribbons to make simple, drawstring gift bags in various sizes. Use these for your family and close friends and they could be reused for years to come. Recycled brown paper has a much lower ecological footprint than Christmas wrapping paper. Young children might enjoy decorating it and that might buy you five minutes to get all those other Christmas jobs done!
YouTube services on Sundays can be found by following the link here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZkv-Db2MFXsQEzhra0azw/videos
This Sunday 17th December online worship will be led by Revd. Jonathan Froggatt.
on Sunday 24th December online worship will be led by Revd. Liz and John Harris.
on Sunday 31st December online worship will be led by Mrs. Ruth Bowen.
Thinking of you and missing you at church: Joan Penticost, Muriel Penticost, Melanie Fern.
The next edition of the notices will be available from Sunday 7th January 2024. Please send any items for inclusion to Sarah before Wednesday 3rd January. 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.
