News Sheet

The post box for sending Christmas cards to each other will be in the foyer from next Sunday. Please note that we do not deliver the cards to addresses, so regular members only please! Last date for posting: Friday 17^th December. Cards will be distributed on Sunday 19^th December.

Please read carefully - it's different next month!
There will be two Christians Together in Nailsea & District prayer meetings at Christ Church. One at 2:00-3:00pm and one 3:00-4:00pm. Please come to whichever suits you. All welcome.

Please read carefully - it's different next month!
We have a table booked for Christmas lunch together at The Greedy Goose, Gatcombe. If any other men would like to join us, please speak to David Clay.

Thank you to everyone who helped with the key audit last week. If you missed it, and are a key holder, please can you sign to confirm that you have a key. If you need a key but don't have one, please ask ... and if you have a key for a reason that no longer applies, please would you return it to a member ot he Leadership Team. Your name will be removed from the list and your key given to someone who needs one but doesn't have one.

Nailsea Foodbank and the other 3 branches of Clevedon and District Foodbank are working together to provide Christmas Hampers for people who will appreciate some help this Christmas. They have done this for many years, but this year they want to pack the hampers in "bags for life" type shopping bags. These can cope better with the weight than plastic carrier bags and are much easier for the volunteer packers and delivery drivers to handle. Overall, they reckon they will need 1500 of these bags!
If you have any of these lurking spare in your car or cupboards - please could you pop them into the green collection box in the foyer? Thank you!

Now that the church building is starting to be used more, it might be worth noting that there is a calendar on the members' page of the website. It shows all of the times that the building is in use - times where there is an activity run by someone other than the church are marked as 'busy'. If you have a key and plan to pop in, it might be worth checking before you set out to prevent any wasted journeys.

A quick reminder that today is the last service that will be live-streamed. This will allow those involved with the tech to concentrate more fully on the service rather than the tech. From next Sunday, a recording of the reading and sermon will be uploaded to the church YouTube channel after the service so that those who cannot attend in person can catch up. It will be possible to access this via the churhc website, just as it has been since March 2020. A big thank you to the team that have worked so hard to provide this for us for the last 20 months.
If we return to Covid lockdown-type restrictions, we will of course revert to streaming again.