Please can you bring:

• Something to sit on
• A salad or dessert
• Meat etc to BBQ
• Outdoor games – we will try to put up table tennis and provide the parachute but if you have quoits, badminton etc please bring them.

We will provide:

• Bread rolls
• Squash, tea and coffee
• Paper cups and plates
• Table napkins
• Ketchup, mustard, mayo etc
• Some extras for last minute guests
•  A large BBQ

We would like help with:

• Setting up in the morning or day before
• One or two extra BBQs
• BBQ cooks
• Tidying up afterwards 

Both Tudor and I are taking services that Sunday so we may not be back very quickly. Please make yourselves at home and welcome one another.

Tricia

Place: All Saints Church, Lydiard Millicent

Some of the Subjects covered are:

• Who is this Jesus?
• What happened to the body?
• How can a good God allow suffering?
• Science and religion
• Why should I believe that Jesus is the Son of God?
• Why did Jesus have to die?
• Recognising the lies we tell ourselves
• Living in different Kingdoms
• Many paths to one God
• How do I know it works?
• Barriers to belief
• Trusting God
• Will God send bad people to hell?
• Three into one won’t go. The Christian understanding of the Trinity
• What evidence is there for the existence of God?

 We guarantee:

• A Great time looking at a power point course which will get us discussing and talking.
• A chance to be in a safe place and ask the questions you have always wanted to ask about the Christian faith and related issues.
• Have a great Wednesday evening with some very light refreshments, good company and a guaranteed end of evening by 9.15 pm.

If you are interested in being part of this course and /or if you would like to come along and welcome people then have a chat with Tudor: Swindon  01793 772417 OR SIMPLY TURN UP! 7.30pm every Wednesday Evening at All Saints, Lydiard Millicent.

“Spring Alive!” is a three day Mission during Pentecost weekend, from Friday 21^st to Sunday 23^rd May, in Lydiard Millicent. For over a year a small team from All Saints Church have been planning a weekend of fun events cumulating with a Pentecost Sunday service, led by Bishop Lee.

Here is a brief description of the events planned;

Friday Evening 21^st May 6.30 pm

Talent night at All Saints Church. This is a fun event with local talent, such as a puppet team, comedy acts, a talented organist, and other musicians; we also hope to have a local school choir, and a host of people who are good at telling stories. Wine and soft drinks will be served in the interval.

Saturday 22^nd May

10.00am Art Exhibition in Church Lydiard Art Group

10.00am Nature Walk from All Saints Church with warden from Lydiard Park, starting from All Saints Church Lydiard Millicent. If preferred join us at 10.30 am at the Ranger Station in the Visitor Centre in Lydiard Park. One of the wardens will guide us around the Park. Returning to All Saints Church over the fields. Stout footwear recommended.

10.30am (TBC) Football game at Lydiard School

3.00pm  Roly the Clown (Revd Roly Bain) in All Saints Church. Roly ,the award –winning clown, has clowned all over the UK ,across the USA, in Canada Australia, Sweden, France  Belgium and Holland…..in churches, chapels and cathedrals, prisons, hospitals and schools ,camps, conferences and clubs, halls, big tops and theatres! All his routines have some Christian basis, story or punchline.

4.00pm Cream Tea in Village Hall

Sunday 23^rd May

10.30 am Pentecost Praise service with Bishop Lee at All Saints Church

12.30 am Bring and Share lunch in Village Hall .Please bring a food contribution and your own KPS, plate and cup.

In the run up to this weekend we have started an eco project with the assistance of Wiltshire Wildlife trust, and it is up and running in the churchyard. Children from Lydiard Millicent School’s Eco Club have helped sow seeds, and build a log pile to encourage wildlife.

The planning team believe that there is something for everyone to enjoy during these three days, and the service on the Sunday should be a wonderful celebration. Team Vicar Revd Tudor Roberts says that “We hope that many people will take the opportunity to do something enjoyable, enjoy God’s creation, and discover that the Church and the local area is a place where God can be encountered”.

Dates of meetings, all of which will be held at 8pm at the vicarage unless otherwise specified, are as follows:

Friday 14^th May
Monday 14^th June
Friday 9^th July
Monday 13^th September
Friday 8^th October
Monday 8^th November
Friday 10^th December

We will also meet once a month on the second Sunday at 9.45am to pray before the 10.30am Service. All are welcome to join us as we pray for the service and ask God for words of knowledge and verses of scripture.

The dates of these services are:

Sunday 9^th May
Sunday 13^th June
Sunday 11^th July
Sunday 12^th September
Sunday 10^th October
Sunday 21^st November (to avoid Remembrance Sunday)
Sunday 12^th December