Good evening friends,

Good heavens – terrible rain and local flooding last weekend, and now we are experiencing impressive frosts. I do not enjoy scraping off my car! Thank goodness for central heating, but I will also be digging out my thermals I think. My grandma introduced me to the Damart catalogue (other thermal vest makers are available) when I was about 15 years old and I haven’t looked back. Perhaps you didn’t really want to know this? Hahaha!!

Things to share with you – It’s the Big Breakfast on Saturday 8-11am. Please come along and eat a delicious breakfast with old friends and new.

In ten days time we have our 5^th Sunday of the month Ministry Area service which is in Goetre this time – at 11am. Please come along, the singing is always great at these larger services and it is wonderful to come together from across the whole geography. That same evening there is also our Darkness to Light service in Raglan at 6pm – an atmospheric, candlelit service, to mark the start of Advent. Can you believe we are only ten days from Advent!! I need to buy a calendar (chocolate of course!).

Finally, it’s time for my weekly prayer request! I’m so grateful to those of you who pray faithfully, it is so encouraging and hopeful. This week please could I ask you to pray for our Diocesan Office team? They work extraordinarily hard and I know many of you have personal experience of how helpful and supportive they are to us. I’m specifically requesting prayers for them this week because I think it’s easy to forget those who ease our own workload, and those who are beavering away behind the scenes. There are lots of people in our local churches doing jus that, and for whom I pray daily. Let’s pray for the office team too.

With thanks for all that you do, and, and assuring you of my prayers, 

Love Sally xxx

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Please note that Friday is usually my rest day. Emails received on Friday may not be responded to until after the weekend. Thank you for your understanding.