St Helens Church, High Street, Wheathampstead, St Albans, AL4 8AA. Worship Times: 10am every Sunday

28-Nov Weekend Email with Livestream Link
 

In this email:
  • Sunday’s Services
  • Advent and Christmas Listings
  • Christmas Lunch on Jesus
  • Contemporary Worship
  • Praying through the Vacancy
  • St Helen’s Fellowship

 

 

 
 

SUNDAY’S SERVICES

 

 
 
Join us in St Helen’s Church at 10am for our Parish Communion Service. We welcome Rev’d Professor Nick Goulding who will preside and preach. Nick is the Associate Priest at St Mary’s and a scientist. After spending 10 years researching into arthritis at the Royal National Hospital in Bath, he and his family moved to Harpenden and he worked at Barts Medical School in London where he taught pharmacology, immunology and medical ethics.
If you can’t join us in church, please join us online. Click here or on the image above for the YouTube link..

 

A Wheathampstead Churches Together service to mark the start of the festive season. All welcome.

 
Christmas Lunch on Jesus 2025 is now go! We have 20 hampers that have been requested. So we now need 10-20 volunteers to deliver 1 or 2 Christmas lunch hamper boxes on Sat 20th December, probably from late morning. The hampers will be in church to be picked up – they are heavy so volunteers will need a car.  This is a wonderful way to spread a little Christmas joy around our local community. Please contact Helen Caldwell on 07974 762997 or helen_caldwell2000@yahoo.co.uk if you would like to be part of this. Thank you x
Community Christmas Board returns next Sunday!
In the UK, we send enough Christmas cards that if we placed them alongside each other, they’d cover the world’s circumference 500 times. As an eco-church, St Helen’s aims to save trees by offering a central point where congregation members can send one Christmas card to everyone else. All are welcome to add a Christmas message to friends and family to the noticeboard in the chancel from Sunday 7th Dec.
ZOOM LINK: https://tinyurl.com/ymrfkfx9

To download a prayer booklet, please click here.

Vacancy Prayer Themes for 4th December
  1.  Please pray for our relationship with the Diocese and Deanery. We need their support during this time. We also need them to provide us wisdom in appointing a new rector.
  2. Please pray for the wider community of Wheathampstead especially St Helen’s school that our relationship with them continues to grow and flourish.
  3. Please pray for the appointment of the new Rector. For wisdom in choosing the right person, someone who is focussed on the vision and mission of our church.
  4. Please pray that God continues to bless not only our church and it’s new Rector but Richard and Claire in their new ministry.
The usual Morning Prayer sessions will continue to run in church (Monday and Tuesday) and on Zoom (Monday – Wednesday).
Two Concerts at YWAM, The Highfield oval. 

Celebrating their 40th anniversary The Kings Chamber Orchestra will be celebrating all the years they have been together! This years Christmas concert titled “The Light Fantastic” will be a performance filled carols, stories and music from the silver screen, amid Classic favourites by Tchaikovsky, Nielsen, Strauss, Mozart and many more. KCO continues it’s faithful journey performing the most beautiful music spontaneously and with great joy.

This year’s Teddy concert will also be a tremendous 40th anniversary party. Always aiming to produce fun and games for the children there will be lots of interaction, lots of famous music, and lots of bonkers moments that all families will enjoy. Aimed at families young at heart KCO has played concerts for several decades delighting humans between the ages of zero and 100.
 

St Helen’s Fellowship

MEN AND WOMEN welcome at St Helen’s Fellowship! Programme below. Unless otherwise stated all meetings are held in The Mead Hall between 2.45 and 4.15 pm. The cost is £2 per week. Anyone who would appreciate a lift to meetings, please ring Gill Gwinn who will be able to tell you if we can help with this. Thanks.

Louise Edwards 01582 621197
Jill Bareham 01582 460394
Gill Gwinn (transport organiser) 07966 469754

Programme:

4th December Holy Communion
11th December An Advent celebration

 

 
 

If you have a concern about someone else or yourself:
please call 07870748773 or e mail Christine.anstice@yahoo.co.uk

 

 

 
 

Events and Activities this week (at St. Helen’s Church unless otherwise indicated).
Please ask if you need further details

 

 
 

Monday 1st December
9.30am – 11.30am Coffee in the Chancel
7.30pm – 9.15pm Bellringing Practice

Tuesday 2nd December9.30am – 11.30am Coffee in the Chancel

Wednesday 3rd December
9.30am – 11.00am The Ark Parent-and-Toddler Group

Thursday 4th December
9.15am – 11.00am St Helen’s School Christingle Making
2.45pm – 4.15pm St Helen’s Fellowship at Mead Hall

 

 

Friday 5th December

Saturday 6th December
9.15am – 10.00am Celtic Morning Prayer
10.00am – 11.30am Coffee in the Chancel

Sunday 7th December
10.00am – 11.00am Parish Communion
3.30pm – 4.30pm Christingle Service
5.00pm – 6.30pm Youth Group