Newsletter  –  November 2025

As I write this, we are just about 7 weeks away from Christmas, or 55 days, and can’t you hear people asking each other where the time has gone?  The time has gone, as time always goes, steadily one second at a time, but unless we have packed plenty of activities into each of those seconds time appears to fly so very quickly.

As we approach Advent, rapidly or steadily according to your perspective, we have time again to consider the arrival of Jesus on earth and all that means for us.  I encourage you to do a bible study or extra reading, either on your own, as a family or with a group of friends, as you ponder the characters around the crib and what that first Christmas might have felt like, the uncertainty, the scandal,  the wonder and the miracle.

This November we are looking forward to the Craft & Gift Fair on Saturday 8th and our Remembrance Day service on 9th in the morning, followed in the evening by a Memorial service, where we invite the relatives of those whose loved ones had their last service at Whitehill, or where we have led a service at one of our crematoria.  As well as the invited guests lighting candles in memory of their loved ones, there will be ample opportunity for our church family and any others to light candles too.

This is followed by Messy Church on 25th and the Christmas Fayre on 29th.

I apologise for not advertising this earlier, but on the evening of 2nd November we have a ‘Songs Of Praise’ service at 6 pm where we will be looking at a selection of some much-loved hymns and worship songs.

With love and blessings to you all,

Glynis