Events and Special Services
THURSDAYS 16 and 23 AUGUST
CREAM TEAS
AT THE CHURCH 2-4pm
Do go along and enjoy home-made cake and scones
in the tranquillity of our ancient village church and churchyard
Saturdays 2 September and 7 October Messy Church – 3-5pm
There will be craft activities, short bible story and prayer times and ours will always end with afternoon tea.
MESSY CHURCH? WHAT IS IT?
About fourteen years ago a young lady called Lucy Moore decided she wanted to try something different from set services and approached her vicar to try something new for families, for any family who perhaps didn’t come to church. It would be a light touch Christian focus that was informal with activities for all, where children and families could try out crafts, sing and have a meal together. ‘Messy’ referred more to the informal approach although frequently there was paint and glue involved!
The idea caught on big time. There are posters, books and other merchandise available and when we met up with Lucy earlier in the year she had just returned from a visit to Australia! Messy Church has gone global!
The Messy Church I started at my previous church is still going strong seven years on. So we have just started with young families in and around Wateringbury with a focus on families with children up to eight years and meeting in the church on the first Saturday of the month from 3pm – 5pm. We sing action songs, have a Bible story, perhaps games and then creative activities. We come back together to sing and we finish with tea. An August meeting will depend on a response at the July session so watch out for a notice on the Church board at the cross roads or e-mail me on ruth.dunn33@btinternet.com!
Songs of Praise to give thanks for the Bell Tower Reshingling on
Sunday 23 September at 4pm with guest preacher Right Rev Simon Burton-Jones, new bishop of Tonbridge who lives in Kings Hill.
COFFEE BREAK – Wednesdays 22 August, 5 and 19 September
Do go along to the church between 10.30-12.30 and enjoy coffee, delicious cake and chat. If you enjoy jigsaws we now have a jigsaw puzzle lending library. The group meets on alternate Wednesdays. Some members are busy knitting poppies for the Carpet of Poppies in Church on November2, 3 and 4. Others are helping children at the school to make poppies, one for each man who fought in the Great War. These will be placed round the village near to where the man lived. The men are listed on the School Memorial Board which now hangs in the church vestry. A unique piece of social history
Church of St John the Baptist
Tonbridge Road Wateringbury
1918 – 2018
Carpet of Poppies
Friday 2 November – 11am-4pm
Saturday 3 November – 11am-4pm
Sunday 4 November – 2-4pm
WATERINGBURY REMEMBERS WWI
History Displays
Ploughman’s Lunches
Cream Teas
Hand-made Poppy Brooches
Annual Parish Act of Remembrance Service 10am Sunday 11 November
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