23 March 2014 News Sheet 1 4
Welcome to Highfield Church
Sunday 23 March 2014
God’s Handiwork/Masterpieces!
8am Holy Communion - Order One Janet Price
Ephesians 2 v 10 states – ‘For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do’. This Friday night our youth brought in their ‘Great British Bake Off’ handiwork and we got to taste and see some wonderful masterpieces. Today our fabulous Erica will be licensed in her new role as ‘City Chaplin for Older People and Assistant Minster at Highfield’. It can be easy to forget that we are God’s handiwork or as the New Living Translation puts it, ‘God’s masterpiece’. But as I viewed the cakes and saw what care and attention had gone into them, how much more care and attention has God put into us to fulfil, like Erica, the ‘good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do’. Helen Millward
9.15am Morning Service LUKE 19:18-27
Frances Tyson Confession & Transfiguration 11am The Licensing of Rev Erica Roberts JOHN 4:5-15
Bishop Jonathan Frost 4.30pm Reasonable Faith Paul: from persecutor to persuader & Paul’s struggle for integrity 6.30pm Informal Service MATTHEW 7:1-6
Will Fairbairn Measuring up With Coffeeand…. before and after
Holy Week at Highfield 15-20 April Prayer Space, open in Holy Week drop in on: •
Tuesday 9am-12 noon & 2-5pm
•
Wednesday 9am-12 noon & 7.30-9.30pm
•
Thursday 7-8am, 9am-12 noon & 2-5pm
…………………………………………………... Worship Space, join us for acoustic worship on: •
Monday & Tuesday 8-9.30pm in the Lounge
•
Wednesday 8-9.30pm in the Upper Room
.…………………………………………………. Maundy Thursday Holy Communion, 17 April, 7.30pm in Church Messy Easter, Good Friday in the Centre, 10.30am-1pm Good Friday Reflections, 12 noon-3pm (12-12.30pm for the family) Egg Hunt Portswood High Street, Saturday 19 April, meet in Trago at 10am Easter Sunday, 8am Communion, 10am Family Communion & 6.30pm Communion
During Lent Lent Lunches Please join us for a simple soup and bread lunch and a short reflection based on the question, 'What does Easter mean to me?' Wednesdays 12.301.30pm. Donations to SCRATCH (Southampton City and Region Action to Combat Hardship). 26 March & 2 April - Brookvale Cottage, Highfield Lane.
Baptism & Confirmation Sunday 27 April, we will be having adult baptisms and renewal of baptism vows at all 3 services. Confirmation will be at St. James, Shirley, Sunday 11 May. If you’re interested in either baptism, renewal of baptism vows or confirmation, please speak to a member of staff.
Annual Parochial Church Meeting The Annual Meeting will be held on Wednesday 23 April at 7.30pm in Church – at which a number of statutory documents will be presented including the Annual Accounts. There will be six vacancies to fill on PCC with a further six positions to fill as members of Deanery Synod. Nomination papers for these positions will be available at the Welcome Desk.
Newcomer’s Tea Reminder this afternoon 4.30pm at 112 Highfield Lane, 4.30-6pm. Do join us if you are new to Highfield or would like to find out more about what we do, we would love to meet you.
Photos/Filming in Shine
Youth This Week
Over the next few sessions - before and after Easter - we will be taking photographs and doing some filming in Shine groups. The result will be used in church to give a notice in May about men in Shine. Children will largely be photographed/filmed in groups, they will not be named and the footage/ photos will be used for in-house publicity and not the internet. Please talk to Sammy or Helen Thompson if you have any concerns.
Great British Bake off – Thank you! This Friday saw our wonderful youth bring in their creations, so a big thanks to all the effort and the opportunity to be on the receiving end of your talents – who doesn’t love cake. Also a massive thanks to our expert judges – Carol Childs & Paul Ladkin who passed on their words of wisdom to our contestants. This coming Friday 28 March, we have our Small Groups and we are looking at ‘God so loved’ and the following week we have the City Wide Youth Event – ‘Connect’ @ Above Bar Church. Doors open at 6.40pm for 7pm start and finishes at 9.30pm. Drop off and pick up by parents at the event please.
Taizé Worship Thursday Morning Group invite you to join them for contemplative worship, followed by coffee on Thursday 3 April, 9.30–10.30am in the Church Chancel.
Love Southampton Homeless & Housing Awareness and Prayer Evening on Tuesday 25 March, 7.30pm, Central Baptist Church, Devonshire Road, Polygon, SO15 2GY. Will you join us in giving the Good News in the Bible to school children across our city? In celebration of the City’s 50th Anniversary, Southampton City Mission would love to enable the Church in Southampton to bless the city’s schools by placing an up-to-date, child-friendly Bible in every primary school classroom. For just £10 we can place one copy of the NIV Bible for Children in a classroom in a school near you, as a gift from the local church in partnership with SCM. Envelopes for your gift are available from the back of church or the church office. City Wide Prayer Meeting Thursday 3 April, 7.30pm Holy Trinity, Weston. Organised jointly by Southampton Christian Network and Love Southampton, an opportunity to gather as one church in the city in worship and prayer, thanking God, seeking His face and lifting up the name of Jesus over our city. All welcome. More from southamptonchristiannetwork.org.uk SCRATCH due to increased demand we are currently experiencing shortages of beds (single and double), chests of drawers and tables (drop leaf/gateleg) and chairs. Mattresses and bases on their own are just as useful as complete beds. Please let us know if you can help. Thank you!
Joe Venable - Jordan Food and Prayer Evening Joe’s parents will be sharing about their recent trip to visit Joe and the work of the Church in Mafraq, Jordan. You are invited to come and enjoy some Jordanian food and pray for Joseph and the work among Syrian refugees in Jordan. Monday 24 March, 8pm at Richard and Teresa Venable’s home, 12 Highclere Road, Bassett, Southampton SO16 7AW.
Sing Hallelujah! If you fancy a good sing over Easter then why not join the choir as we sing for part of our Good Friday and Easter Sunday morning services. We have plans for something special so if you’d like to join us, rehearsals are Fridays, 7.15pm in church. Laura Hewitt 8058 5978 [email protected]
Boxes No more please …I think we have enough for a city never mind some walls! Thank you.
Hungry Mums Meets on Tuesday this week 9.30-11am in the Upper Room for refreshments together followed by a Bible study for mums with a crèche provided.
Prayer at Highfield 9am Prayers Mon, Tue, Thur & Friday 7am Thursday Prayers, 107 Highfield Lane 8.15pm Friday Prayer Hour For regular activities during the week, please check information in the Welcome area.
Small Groups We have many small groups meeting each week. If you would like to know more or want to join one please contact Chris Halls, [email protected] Sunday 8am 9.15am 11am 4.30pm 6.30pm
30 March 2014 Holy Communion Mothering Sunday Mothering Sunday Reasonable Faith Informal Service
Contact us… Vicar: Mike Archer 023 8122 8151 [email protected] Associate Minister: Chris Halls 023 8178 4846 [email protected] Church Wardens: John Zealander & Tim Billington [email protected] Pastoral Needs: Rosemary Corfe 023 8058 5557 [email protected] Gift Aid Secretary: David Roberts 023 8055 7757 [email protected] Office Open: Monday-Friday 9.30am-noon Office Manager: Jo Ladkin 023 8055 8234 [email protected] Operations Manager: Kelly Worthington 023 8055 8234 [email protected] Facilities Manager: Jeannie Thistle 023 8057 7839 [email protected]
New to Highfield? Like to know more about what goes on at Highfield? Do fill in a welcome card and give it to a member of the welcome team or TEXT to CONNECT – 07935 878826 to find out more, or be put in touch with someone to chat to or pray with, text Jo (Office Manager). We’d love to hear from you! You can also check out our website www.highfield.org.uk and our members page log in is username: church, password: dailybread You can also find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ highfield.church.
Sunday 23 March 2014
God’s Handiwork/Masterpieces!
8am Holy Communion - Order One Janet Price
Ephesians 2 v 10 states – ‘For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do’. This Friday night our youth brought in their ‘Great British Bake Off’ handiwork and we got to taste and see some wonderful masterpieces. Today our fabulous Erica will be licensed in her new role as ‘City Chaplin for Older People and Assistant Minster at Highfield’. It can be easy to forget that we are God’s handiwork or as the New Living Translation puts it, ‘God’s masterpiece’. But as I viewed the cakes and saw what care and attention had gone into them, how much more care and attention has God put into us to fulfil, like Erica, the ‘good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do’. Helen Millward
9.15am Morning Service LUKE 19:18-27
Frances Tyson Confession & Transfiguration 11am The Licensing of Rev Erica Roberts JOHN 4:5-15
Bishop Jonathan Frost 4.30pm Reasonable Faith Paul: from persecutor to persuader & Paul’s struggle for integrity 6.30pm Informal Service MATTHEW 7:1-6
Will Fairbairn Measuring up With Coffeeand…. before and after
Holy Week at Highfield 15-20 April Prayer Space, open in Holy Week drop in on: •
Tuesday 9am-12 noon & 2-5pm
•
Wednesday 9am-12 noon & 7.30-9.30pm
•
Thursday 7-8am, 9am-12 noon & 2-5pm
…………………………………………………... Worship Space, join us for acoustic worship on: •
Monday & Tuesday 8-9.30pm in the Lounge
•
Wednesday 8-9.30pm in the Upper Room
.…………………………………………………. Maundy Thursday Holy Communion, 17 April, 7.30pm in Church Messy Easter, Good Friday in the Centre, 10.30am-1pm Good Friday Reflections, 12 noon-3pm (12-12.30pm for the family) Egg Hunt Portswood High Street, Saturday 19 April, meet in Trago at 10am Easter Sunday, 8am Communion, 10am Family Communion & 6.30pm Communion
During Lent Lent Lunches Please join us for a simple soup and bread lunch and a short reflection based on the question, 'What does Easter mean to me?' Wednesdays 12.301.30pm. Donations to SCRATCH (Southampton City and Region Action to Combat Hardship). 26 March & 2 April - Brookvale Cottage, Highfield Lane.
Baptism & Confirmation Sunday 27 April, we will be having adult baptisms and renewal of baptism vows at all 3 services. Confirmation will be at St. James, Shirley, Sunday 11 May. If you’re interested in either baptism, renewal of baptism vows or confirmation, please speak to a member of staff.
Annual Parochial Church Meeting The Annual Meeting will be held on Wednesday 23 April at 7.30pm in Church – at which a number of statutory documents will be presented including the Annual Accounts. There will be six vacancies to fill on PCC with a further six positions to fill as members of Deanery Synod. Nomination papers for these positions will be available at the Welcome Desk.
Newcomer’s Tea Reminder this afternoon 4.30pm at 112 Highfield Lane, 4.30-6pm. Do join us if you are new to Highfield or would like to find out more about what we do, we would love to meet you.
Photos/Filming in Shine
Youth This Week
Over the next few sessions - before and after Easter - we will be taking photographs and doing some filming in Shine groups. The result will be used in church to give a notice in May about men in Shine. Children will largely be photographed/filmed in groups, they will not be named and the footage/ photos will be used for in-house publicity and not the internet. Please talk to Sammy or Helen Thompson if you have any concerns.
Great British Bake off – Thank you! This Friday saw our wonderful youth bring in their creations, so a big thanks to all the effort and the opportunity to be on the receiving end of your talents – who doesn’t love cake. Also a massive thanks to our expert judges – Carol Childs & Paul Ladkin who passed on their words of wisdom to our contestants. This coming Friday 28 March, we have our Small Groups and we are looking at ‘God so loved’ and the following week we have the City Wide Youth Event – ‘Connect’ @ Above Bar Church. Doors open at 6.40pm for 7pm start and finishes at 9.30pm. Drop off and pick up by parents at the event please.
Taizé Worship Thursday Morning Group invite you to join them for contemplative worship, followed by coffee on Thursday 3 April, 9.30–10.30am in the Church Chancel.
Love Southampton Homeless & Housing Awareness and Prayer Evening on Tuesday 25 March, 7.30pm, Central Baptist Church, Devonshire Road, Polygon, SO15 2GY. Will you join us in giving the Good News in the Bible to school children across our city? In celebration of the City’s 50th Anniversary, Southampton City Mission would love to enable the Church in Southampton to bless the city’s schools by placing an up-to-date, child-friendly Bible in every primary school classroom. For just £10 we can place one copy of the NIV Bible for Children in a classroom in a school near you, as a gift from the local church in partnership with SCM. Envelopes for your gift are available from the back of church or the church office. City Wide Prayer Meeting Thursday 3 April, 7.30pm Holy Trinity, Weston. Organised jointly by Southampton Christian Network and Love Southampton, an opportunity to gather as one church in the city in worship and prayer, thanking God, seeking His face and lifting up the name of Jesus over our city. All welcome. More from southamptonchristiannetwork.org.uk SCRATCH due to increased demand we are currently experiencing shortages of beds (single and double), chests of drawers and tables (drop leaf/gateleg) and chairs. Mattresses and bases on their own are just as useful as complete beds. Please let us know if you can help. Thank you!
Joe Venable - Jordan Food and Prayer Evening Joe’s parents will be sharing about their recent trip to visit Joe and the work of the Church in Mafraq, Jordan. You are invited to come and enjoy some Jordanian food and pray for Joseph and the work among Syrian refugees in Jordan. Monday 24 March, 8pm at Richard and Teresa Venable’s home, 12 Highclere Road, Bassett, Southampton SO16 7AW.
Sing Hallelujah! If you fancy a good sing over Easter then why not join the choir as we sing for part of our Good Friday and Easter Sunday morning services. We have plans for something special so if you’d like to join us, rehearsals are Fridays, 7.15pm in church. Laura Hewitt 8058 5978 [email protected]
Boxes No more please …I think we have enough for a city never mind some walls! Thank you.
Hungry Mums Meets on Tuesday this week 9.30-11am in the Upper Room for refreshments together followed by a Bible study for mums with a crèche provided.
Prayer at Highfield 9am Prayers Mon, Tue, Thur & Friday 7am Thursday Prayers, 107 Highfield Lane 8.15pm Friday Prayer Hour For regular activities during the week, please check information in the Welcome area.
Small Groups We have many small groups meeting each week. If you would like to know more or want to join one please contact Chris Halls, [email protected] Sunday 8am 9.15am 11am 4.30pm 6.30pm
30 March 2014 Holy Communion Mothering Sunday Mothering Sunday Reasonable Faith Informal Service
Contact us… Vicar: Mike Archer 023 8122 8151 [email protected] Associate Minister: Chris Halls 023 8178 4846 [email protected] Church Wardens: John Zealander & Tim Billington [email protected] Pastoral Needs: Rosemary Corfe 023 8058 5557 [email protected] Gift Aid Secretary: David Roberts 023 8055 7757 [email protected] Office Open: Monday-Friday 9.30am-noon Office Manager: Jo Ladkin 023 8055 8234 [email protected] Operations Manager: Kelly Worthington 023 8055 8234 [email protected] Facilities Manager: Jeannie Thistle 023 8057 7839 [email protected]
New to Highfield? Like to know more about what goes on at Highfield? Do fill in a welcome card and give it to a member of the welcome team or TEXT to CONNECT – 07935 878826 to find out more, or be put in touch with someone to chat to or pray with, text Jo (Office Manager). We’d love to hear from you! You can also check out our website www.highfield.org.uk and our members page log in is username: church, password: dailybread You can also find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ highfield.church.
