The Flower Festival is almost upon us…..
Volunteers welcome… please contact Marion Fontaine,

This POSTER can be downloaded here…(right-click, and then ‘save as..’ or ‘save target as…’)

April 2013
Dear friends,
April has been an exciting month! A lady became a Christian at the Friday night outreach and I had the privilege of praying with her : )
I have also completed a language and linguistics course as part of my training. This involved learning some German and Welsh amongst other things! The main idea being to learn the best ways to learn language so that when we’re on field we have the tools and the skills we need. It was all very interesting and I’m feeling much more confident …

Revd Pat Jones of StBarnabas Church will be our speaker at the Men’s Fellowship Breakfast on Saturday 4th May 2013 at the Regency Park Hotel.
Tickets £6 (or £8 with a bacon butty) from Colin Stone or Kevin Dunwell.

Prayer and Praise with St Barnabas
Tuesday 7th May at 7.30 pm
at St Mary’s Church everybody welcome…

The next SOS service will be held on Saturday 18th May 2013 – from 4.30 to 6.30.
Please do Join us if you can….
You can Download the POSTER here (right-click and ‘save as..’, or ‘save link as…’)

Every Friday at 12.30 at the Methodist Church Thatcham from 15th February – 22nd March and then at St Mary’s on Good Friday 29th March.
Come for soup, bread and cheese followed by coffee, all for a donation to Christian Aid.
ALL AGES WELCOME
DID YOU KNOW…. The amount rich countries spend on dog food is the almost the same as the amount needed to eradicate world hunger and malnutrition.
Can’t make lunch this week? Take a look at the attached placemat for food for thought.Super-Soup-Lunch-Placemat-18-24-Feb-2013_tcm15-65533

A Choir Leader / Music Leader is required immediately by St Mary’s Church, Thatcham, to lead our established SATB choir and complement our excellent organist in maintaining a strong tradition of music in the Parish.
Remuneration is negotiable.
For further details, you can download the PDF Job Description here…
or contact the Parish Office on 01635 862277 or admin.stmarysthatcham@ntlbusiness.com

ABC is now back in action! For even more Play, Chat, Crafts, Singing, Refreshments, Stories, Friends and FUN!
If you’ve not come before, please do consider joining us, this is a lively and welcoming Toddler Group, and is a great way to meet other local parents & carers too…
We meet every Wednesday 10.30-12.00 am, including holidays! The cost is FREE!
If you are a regular attender, and would like to help raise our profile a new poster is available here >

Times and seasons
December can feel like a funny time of year. For the Church, Advent is the beginning of the year, waiting for Jesus to come, and Christmas is the celebration which launches us forward to live and tell the story of Jesus as it becomes real in our lives. It is the beginning, and we tell that wonderful story from John’s Gospel – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God – that unfinished story which draws us in and …

‘We believe in Life before Death’ was a much loved Christian Aid strapline. Do you believe it?
‘We believe in Life before Death’ was a much loved Christian Aid strapline. Do you believe it?
Why ask the question?
Because many Christians will answer ‘No’. Many understand Christianity in terms of getting to heaven when we die and life being mostly about getting saved, and getting others saved, to populate heaven after death. That why it’s life after and not before death that is often the focus.
Christian Aid took …