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

28-Sep Weekend Email with Livestream Link
 

In this email:
  • Sunday’s Service – Harvest Celebration
  • Following the Message resumes on Monday
  • St Helen’s School Scarecrow trail
  • Invitation to Oak Road Mosque
  • Pray and Share at The King’s School
  • Cups on a String – a new play
  • Caring for our smallest creatures – link to Greenpeace petition
  • Creation Care – Deanery Service
  • Remembrance and Thanksgiving Service
  • Job Vacancies

 

 

 

 

 
 
SUNDAY’S HARVEST COMMUNION SERVICE
& VEGETARIAN BRING-AND-SHARE BRUNCH

Join us in St Helen’s Church for our a special Harvest Communion Service at 10am. After the service, we celebrate our commitment to caring for God’s creation at our vegetarian Harvest Bring-and-Share Brunch. We will provide vegetarian sausages and rolls. If you need ideas of what to bring, suggested contributions include muffins, fruit, cheese, crackers, bread,  veggie sausage rolls, hummus, crudites. If you can’t join us in church, please join us online.  Click here or on the image above for the YouTube link.

This year, the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal is being run in partnership with The Leprosy Mission to support a project in Sri Lanka, which provides those affected by leprosy with the means to grow their own food and raise their standard of living. For more information, please click here.

To donate using your debit or credit card, please click on this link: Support the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal 2024

 
Following the Message Study Group

We are starting again next week after the summer holidays – Monday 30th September.
Hope to see many of the regulars there. Newcomers always welcome!
Our discussion starts at 11.15am, all are welcome to join us from 11am for a drink at Coffee in the Chancel.

 
St Helen’s Church is participating in the school Scarecrow Trail this year, look out for our scarecrows next weekend. For a map of all 45 scarecrows in the village (priced at just £3), click here

 
 

A message from Madinah Masjid (Oak Road Mosque) in Luton:

May the peace and blessings of God be upon you.

It is with pleasure that we invite you to the Afternoon Tea at UKIM Madinah Mosque Open Day at 128-130 Oak Road Luton LU4 8AD on Sunday 29th September between 11am and 5pm.

The organisers aim to make local communities more familiar and comfortable with Islam, a great faith associated in the press with censure and negativity.

There will be sumptuous delicacies, drinks, tours and gifts, so invite your friends and colleagues and bring them along. There will be free parking opposite the mosque, in the Luton Town Football Club car park.

We look forward to welcoming you and your guests with a hot cup of tea and warm samosas.

Kind regards and Wasalaam,
Maqsood Anwar,
Madinah Mosque.

 

 

Riding Lights Theatre Company is pleased to announce Cups on a String by Bridget Foreman, a new play touring in partnership with Transforming Lives for Good, a Christian charity that helps churches to bring hope and a future to struggling children.

​”You think I’m some kind of broken kid and you just want to fix me. With games.”
Joe’s eleven and home is hard. School is even harder. He breaks stuff: pencils, chairs, rules. One thing he won’t break is his silence.

​Heather’s fifty-seven. She’s got a comfortable life and a comfortable home. But her comfortable world is about to be turned upside down as she and Joe spend an hour a week together. Every week. For a year.

​Where will this journey of hours and weeks take them?

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​Challenging, surprising and beautifully hopeful, Cups on a String blends theatre, live music and digital technology to take you into the heart of the friendship between Heather and Joe, and the profound impact it has on them both.

Southdown Performing Arts Centre,
Southdown Road, Harpenden AL5 1QQ, UK
6 October 2024, 7:30 pm

Click here to BOOK TICKETS
 
Sign a petition to ban pesticides dangerous to bees
Last Sunday in her sermon, Linda talked about the importance of the smallest of our creatures, including bees and other pollinating insects. Barbara has provided links to an article from earlier this summer about this and a link to the Greenpeace petition. To read the article click on the image or here. To sign the petition click here.


 
 

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

 

 
 

Monday 30th September
9.30am – 11.30am Coffee in the Chancel
11.15am – 12pm Following the Message Study Group
7.30pm – 9.30pm Bellringing Practice

Tuesday 1st October9.30am – 11.30am Coffee in the Chancel

Wednesday 2nd October
9.30am – 11am The Ark Parent-and-Toddler Group
4.00pm – 5.00pm Year 7 Donuts Wednesday

Thursday 3rd October
2.45pm – 4.15pm St Helen’s Fellowship at Mead Hall

 

 

Friday 4th October

Saturday 5th October
9.15am – 10.00am Celtic Morning Prayer
10.00am – 11.30am Coffee in the Chancel

Sunday 6th October
10.00am – 11.00am Parish Communion
3.30pm – 4.30pm Kids Worship