You may recall that last Christmas we bought into the charity ‘Christmas Lunch on Jesus’ (CLOJ) and delivered Christmas lunch hampers to local families a few days before Christmas Day.
We will be doing the same this year and already have 20 families who we will be gifting these to and delivering the afternoon of Sat 21st Dec. If you or anyone you know, needs a little extra help with food at the moment, then please confidentially let Richard or Helen Caldwell (07974 762997) know.
Each hamper costs £35 so if you would like to buy a family in need Christmas dinner, then please make a donation to the St Helen’s Community Fund by clicking here.Donations can also be made by cash, or debit/credit card using the contactless device in church.
We also would love it if 10-20 members of the St Helen’s family would be able to deliver one or two hampers around Wheathampstead on Sat 21st Dec and spread the Christmas cheer – many hands make light work! Please let Helen know if you would like to volunteer.
Helen Caldwell
07974 762997
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.
Help! Enthusiastic Singers needed to Spread Christmas Cheer
We need your help! There are several members of our congregation and wider community who are housebound and would be greatly cheered by a brief visit from Carol Singers. So, please come and join us on Tuesday 17th December starting at 5pm as we travel round the village spreading joy as we go.
We will meet at MacIntyre Home on the High Street. For our planning it will be important to know numbers, so please click here if you can help and we will send you further details.
Remember, you don’t need to be a great singer – we are looking for cheerful and enthusiastic!
Advent Quiet Day
In the run up top Christmas most of us would benefit from a few hours of quiet to pray and reflect. Join us for a creative mix of soul nourishing input, followed by a hearty and warming soup. Lifts are available. Please click this linkto sign up, or call Mel on 01582 834031.
Do you enjoy singing familiar carols?
Come and join us for our
URC Carols of Praise
on Sunday 8th December at 3.30 pm followed by refreshments
in the Chapel Halls on Brewhouse Hill.
Please contact Jane Deller on 01582 834130
/ 07889 221551 or janedeller2@gmail.com for further information
or to ask for your favourite carol to be included
Events and Activities this week (at St. Helen’s Church unless otherwise indicated).
Please ask if you need further details
Monday 2nd December
9.30am – 11.30am Coffee in the Chancel
11.15am – 12.00pm Following the Message Study Group
7.30pm – 9.30pm Bellringing Practice
Tuesday 3rd December 9.30am – 11.30am Coffee in the Chancel
Wednesday 4th December
9.30am – 11.00am The Ark Parent-and-Toddler Group
Thursday 5th December
3.00am – 4.00pm STAHS Christmas Service
2.45pm – 4.15pm St Helen’s Fellowship at Mead Hall
Friday 6th December
Saturday 7th December
9.15am – 10.00am Celtic Morning Prayer
10.00am – 11.30am Coffee in the Chancel
11.30am – 12.30pm Burial of ashes: t/l Tamara Field
Sunday 8th December
10.00am – 11.00am Parish Communion Service
