9 March 2014 News Sheet 1 4
Welcome to Highfield Church
Sunday 9 March 2014
Learning to See
8am Holy Communion - Order One David Corfe
In half term we went to Oxford for the day, what a beautiful city it is! The funny thing is, I was at university in Oxford for 3 years and never really noticed! Whilst at university I had been ill (eating disorder) and had been so busy surviving day to day that I not only didn’t appreciate the beauty of where I was living; but I wasn’t really living at all. Perhaps life can be like that for us as Christians; so busy surviving in the ‘now’ of this life that we don’t see the beauty of the Kingdom that we can catch glimpses of all around us even if it’s not with us fully yet. Jesus promised “life in all its fullness” (John 10:10), let’s ask him to open our eyes to see it. Sammy Jordan
9.15am Morning Service LUKE 9:10-17
Chris Halls Feeding the 5000 11am Holy Communion LUKE 9:10-17
Chris Halls Feeding the 5000 4.30pm Reasonable Faith Can we trust the gospels? & Who did people think Jesus was? 6.30pm Informal MATTHEW 6:19-24
Find out more? 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 (wearing badges).
Mike Archer Where’s your treasure? With Coffeeand…. before and after
Persecuted Christians
Kingdom Theology Day
Come and pray for the persecuted church and write letters to support persecuted Christians in prison around the world. Tuesday 11 March, 7.459.30pm. More details from Ali Elliott 8023 0036 or [email protected]
Saturday 15 March at Christ Church, Winchester. A day for any Christians to look to go deeper in their faith. More details at www.wtctheology.org.uk
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.
Hungry Mums Meets this week 9.30-11am in the Upper Room for refreshments together followed by a Bible study for mums with a crèche provided.
Toiletries Shine are still collecting toiletries to give to the local women’s refuge, The Gate and Care homes on Mother’s Day. Please put donated toiletries in the box at the back of church. The deadline will be Sunday 23 March. Thank you!
Boxes On 30 March the Shine groups will be thinking about Joshua and the walls of Jericho. We would like to bring the story to life for the children, so, if you have any large cardboard boxes (shoe box size as a minimum), then please bring them on Sundays and hand them in to Sammy, Helen or Explorers team.
Newcomer’s Tea If you are new to Highfield or would like to find out more about what we do, we would love to meet you. Please come along to our Newcomers Tea, Sunday 23 March at 112 Highfield Lane, 4.30-6pm. This is an open invitation and children are welcome. If you would like more information please speak to one of our Welcomers.
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 12.30-1.30pm. Donations to SCRATCH (Southampton City and Region Action to Combat Hardship). 12 & 19 March - 60 Shaftesbury Avenue, Highfield 26 March & 2 April - Brookvale Cottage, Highfield Lane 9 April - 60 Shaftesbury Avenue, Highfield
Bring Me Sunshine
Sing Hallelujah!
A light-hearted look at the ups and downs of family life with Rob Parsons and John Archer. Thursday 20 March, 7.30pm at Central Hall, Southampton. More information from www.careforthefamily.org.uk/sunshine
If you fancy a good sing over Easter then why not join us, 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 know more and join in please contact Laura Hewitt for more info and rehearsals 8058 5978 or [email protected]
'Pressing on' Women@8 Breakfast Saturday 22 March, 8am in the church Centre. Frances Tyson will be sharing with us about pressing on in our Christian faith. Tickets are now for sale from any of the Women@8 Team on Sunday 9 and 16 March and from the Church Office. £5 and £4 concession For more information from Karen Bicknell 07746 404 490 or Anne Thompson 8076 0525.
Prayer Course Following the success of the HTB Prayer Course on Tuesday evenings we will be canvassing opinion as to what the best time would be to run it again. If you have not received our email and would like to know more, please contact the Church Office.
Calling All Cricketers Erica Roberts You are invited to join us for the Licensing of Erica to her new role of City Chaplain for Older People at 11am on Sunday 23 March. Bishop Jonathan will be joining us and there will be refreshments afterwards. Erica will continue to be part of our staff team here at Highfield.
If you enjoy playing cricket we’d love to hear from you. We have some net practices booked at Thornden School on the next few Sundays and some games during the summer months. If you’d like to join us we’d love to hear from you. Contact [email protected]
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
Communicare Vacancy Communicare in Southampton are looking to fill a part-time post, Coordinator/Administrative Assistant (10 hrs pw). To apply contact Carolyn Renault, [email protected]
Prayer at Highfield 9am Prayers Mon, Tue, Thur & Friday 7am Thursday Prayers, 107 Highfield Lane 8.15pm Friday Prayer Hour Sunday 8am 9.15am 11am 4.30pm 6.30pm
16 March 2014 Holy Communion Morning Service Morning Prayer Reasonable Faith Holy Communion
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]
Giving at Highfield Highfield Church’s Income Account, into which standing orders are paid, is being closed by the bank in a few months time. If you are presently giving by this method and have not already received a letter or email from us, please contact David Roberts at [email protected] or the church office urgently. Thank you.
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 9 March 2014
Learning to See
8am Holy Communion - Order One David Corfe
In half term we went to Oxford for the day, what a beautiful city it is! The funny thing is, I was at university in Oxford for 3 years and never really noticed! Whilst at university I had been ill (eating disorder) and had been so busy surviving day to day that I not only didn’t appreciate the beauty of where I was living; but I wasn’t really living at all. Perhaps life can be like that for us as Christians; so busy surviving in the ‘now’ of this life that we don’t see the beauty of the Kingdom that we can catch glimpses of all around us even if it’s not with us fully yet. Jesus promised “life in all its fullness” (John 10:10), let’s ask him to open our eyes to see it. Sammy Jordan
9.15am Morning Service LUKE 9:10-17
Chris Halls Feeding the 5000 11am Holy Communion LUKE 9:10-17
Chris Halls Feeding the 5000 4.30pm Reasonable Faith Can we trust the gospels? & Who did people think Jesus was? 6.30pm Informal MATTHEW 6:19-24
Find out more? 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 (wearing badges).
Mike Archer Where’s your treasure? With Coffeeand…. before and after
Persecuted Christians
Kingdom Theology Day
Come and pray for the persecuted church and write letters to support persecuted Christians in prison around the world. Tuesday 11 March, 7.459.30pm. More details from Ali Elliott 8023 0036 or [email protected]
Saturday 15 March at Christ Church, Winchester. A day for any Christians to look to go deeper in their faith. More details at www.wtctheology.org.uk
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.
Hungry Mums Meets this week 9.30-11am in the Upper Room for refreshments together followed by a Bible study for mums with a crèche provided.
Toiletries Shine are still collecting toiletries to give to the local women’s refuge, The Gate and Care homes on Mother’s Day. Please put donated toiletries in the box at the back of church. The deadline will be Sunday 23 March. Thank you!
Boxes On 30 March the Shine groups will be thinking about Joshua and the walls of Jericho. We would like to bring the story to life for the children, so, if you have any large cardboard boxes (shoe box size as a minimum), then please bring them on Sundays and hand them in to Sammy, Helen or Explorers team.
Newcomer’s Tea If you are new to Highfield or would like to find out more about what we do, we would love to meet you. Please come along to our Newcomers Tea, Sunday 23 March at 112 Highfield Lane, 4.30-6pm. This is an open invitation and children are welcome. If you would like more information please speak to one of our Welcomers.
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 12.30-1.30pm. Donations to SCRATCH (Southampton City and Region Action to Combat Hardship). 12 & 19 March - 60 Shaftesbury Avenue, Highfield 26 March & 2 April - Brookvale Cottage, Highfield Lane 9 April - 60 Shaftesbury Avenue, Highfield
Bring Me Sunshine
Sing Hallelujah!
A light-hearted look at the ups and downs of family life with Rob Parsons and John Archer. Thursday 20 March, 7.30pm at Central Hall, Southampton. More information from www.careforthefamily.org.uk/sunshine
If you fancy a good sing over Easter then why not join us, 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 know more and join in please contact Laura Hewitt for more info and rehearsals 8058 5978 or [email protected]
'Pressing on' Women@8 Breakfast Saturday 22 March, 8am in the church Centre. Frances Tyson will be sharing with us about pressing on in our Christian faith. Tickets are now for sale from any of the Women@8 Team on Sunday 9 and 16 March and from the Church Office. £5 and £4 concession For more information from Karen Bicknell 07746 404 490 or Anne Thompson 8076 0525.
Prayer Course Following the success of the HTB Prayer Course on Tuesday evenings we will be canvassing opinion as to what the best time would be to run it again. If you have not received our email and would like to know more, please contact the Church Office.
Calling All Cricketers Erica Roberts You are invited to join us for the Licensing of Erica to her new role of City Chaplain for Older People at 11am on Sunday 23 March. Bishop Jonathan will be joining us and there will be refreshments afterwards. Erica will continue to be part of our staff team here at Highfield.
If you enjoy playing cricket we’d love to hear from you. We have some net practices booked at Thornden School on the next few Sundays and some games during the summer months. If you’d like to join us we’d love to hear from you. Contact [email protected]
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
Communicare Vacancy Communicare in Southampton are looking to fill a part-time post, Coordinator/Administrative Assistant (10 hrs pw). To apply contact Carolyn Renault, [email protected]
Prayer at Highfield 9am Prayers Mon, Tue, Thur & Friday 7am Thursday Prayers, 107 Highfield Lane 8.15pm Friday Prayer Hour Sunday 8am 9.15am 11am 4.30pm 6.30pm
16 March 2014 Holy Communion Morning Service Morning Prayer Reasonable Faith Holy Communion
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]
Giving at Highfield Highfield Church’s Income Account, into which standing orders are paid, is being closed by the bank in a few months time. If you are presently giving by this method and have not already received a letter or email from us, please contact David Roberts at [email protected] or the church office urgently. Thank you.
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.
