Church Family News 19.04.26
Dear Friends,
The annual Alfold Plant & Cake Sale is coming up on Saturday 2nd May. Please do put the date in your diary. And if you would like to contribute cakes or preserves for the stall, there will be sign up sheets at the back of Church this Sunday.
We meet twice this coming Sunday morning in Loxwood Church. We will be studying Luke 24:36-49, as the risen Jesus appears to his disciples and opens their minds to understand the Scriptures! If you get the chance, do have a read through beforehand.
8.30am | BCP Holy Communion
10am | Family Worship | with Kid’s groups and followed by coffee.
Everyone is welcome & we’d love to see you there!
With love in Christ,
Revd. James Forward
Read on Below the Line!
Women’s Breakfast
The next breakfast will be on Saturday 25th April. We are welcoming Cherry Redding who will be speaking about 'Making the most of the midlife sandwich.'. In midlife we always need hope of a better future. What this world offers doesn’t completely satisfy. If we look up to God the Father, He is offering “I am with you always and everything I have is yours.”. We are looking forward to hearing all about it!
The cost is £7.00 per person. We accept cash or card payment on the door.
If you would like to come please sign up using the sign up sheets at Church during Sunday services, the online registration form (https://forms.gle/E1RY8mEomg5bz7u38) or email alflox.womensbreakfast@gmail.com
Vision & Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) 17th May
The date for our church APCM is set for Sunday 17th May in Loxwood Church. The meeting will begin a few minutes after the 10am service ends (So at approximately 11.30am). This is our one, whole-church ‘business’ meeting of the year, and is an important chance for us to reflect back on and give thanks to God for all that happened in 2025, and look to the year ahead. It is also the chance to elect who will represent and lead us on PCC in the years to come. If you are a member of the church, please come along. And if you want to vote, please do fill out an Electoral Roll form at the back of church. APCM Report packs will be available in Church for prior reading soon.
Alfold Church Working Party
We are going to run another working party to clean up the church and churchyard in Alfold on Saturday 18th April, starting at 10am. If you are able to help, please do come along. Roger has lots of little and larger jobs lined up, suitable for all abilities!
Richard Borgonon & Word One to One
On Sunday 3rd May I’m delighted to say that we will be joined by Richard Borgonon who will be giving us a whistle stop tour of John’s Gospel at the morning services. Richard is a member of Cranleigh Baptist Church and set up Word One to One as a way of helping people share Jesus with their friends. We hope to launch Word One to One at A&L in the coming year, and so I’ve invited Richard to preach to help us get to know him, and to find out a little bit more of what it entails. You can find out more here www.theword121.com
Geoff Davidson Burial of Ashes
Thank you to all who came to Geoff Davidson’s funeral. We are going to bury his ashes in Alfold Churchyard on Sunday the 26th April, immediately after the 10am service. All are welcome to attend.
Parish Mag Photo Competition
As some of you will know by now, the Parish Mag will undergo a major redesign from the April edition. It will be printed professionally and will be distributed to every home in the parish, every month. I am the new editor and Filip Wach is in charge of advertising.
The new design will feature a strong photo, normally of somewhere in our beautiful villages, on every front cover. We very much hope that members of our congregation, as well as the children in the school and the community in general, will contribute.
So if you would like to send some to me I would be delighted to consider them. Photos taken on a decent mobile phone should be fine. The only rules are that they must have been taken by someone locally (but not a professional photographer) and have not appeared in print elsewhere. And they must be given free and without any copyright complications!
Please send them through to me at parish.mag.editor@alflox.org, saying where and when they were taken.
I can't wait to see how good they are!
Many thanks
Iain Taylor
Church Weekend Away(ish)
This Summer we are going to spend a weekend away together at Loxwood’s North Hall. We will have a guest speaker, activities for young and old, a BBQ & entertainment in the evening. And most importantly of all, the chance to spend some quality time together in God’s word and with each other. For the brave there is a chance to camp on the playing field. For the formerly brave - the chance to sleep in your own bed! Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st of June. Please save the date!
Little Angels
Is a group for parents and toddler to come & play, have fun, sing songs, learn about God, and make new friends. It meets every Thursday in Loxwood Church 10-11.30am. All are welcome!
Pilgrim Groups
Pilgrim Groups are a place of deeper fellowship, where we support one another in prayer, and go deeper into God's word together. If you are not already in a Pilgrim Group and would like to join one, please email Richard Allan or speak to him in church. richard@alflox.org
Prayer Central
Our 1st Wednesday of the month Prayer Meeting is coming up next on Wednesday 6th May. We will meet in Loxwood Church Room. We meet at 7.30pm for refreshments, 8pm to sing and pray, and we always finish by 9pm. There is never an obligation to pray out loud. God hears the prayer of our hearts just as well! Please do join us.
Year of Prayer
Psalm 127 says ‘Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labour in vain.’ Monday Morning | Alfold or Loxwood Church Room | 9am-Midday | Drop in Drop Out | Come and pray for God to build.
Loxwood Fete Help
With the warmer weather, our minds soon turn towards the summer, and to Loxwood Fete on the 6th June! As ever we want to be a visible and helpful presence in our villages, and so we need your help manning the Church stall and the (unpopular with me) Soak the Vicar stand. Pop me an email if you can lend a hand! james@alflox.org
