CALLING ALL ST MARTIN’S COMMUNITY/With many of our regular stewards still isolating we are calling for any St Martin’s regulars to assist with a service or two to welcome the many people who join us to celebrate Christmas. Helping with one or two services either in the building or online will make a big difference. Speak to Kristine, Helen or Fiona, or email Siân for more details.
For live-stream services please use our Facebook page or St Martin’s Digital.
Showing Care in Covid/We are inviting everyone to continue to care for each other by wearing a mask indoors and taking rapid flow tests before coming into church.
Children’s & Youth Church/12-12.45pm in the Ho Ming Wah Centre. For primary school children (4-10) and secondary school children (11-16). For more information email Sally.
Tots Chillout Zone/as Anna-Rose is unwell this will not be available today.
Please note, during December Bread for the World will be in St Martin’s Hall.
Vacancies/We have two positions available in the Church Operations Team:
• Full-Time Verger: Wednesday-Sunday, part of a small team running the day-to-day practicalities of welcome and worship in our church as part of Church Operations.
• Office Manager: this is a senior role to play a key part in the strategy and delivery of the religious life of St Martin’s (3.5 days per week).
• There are also vacancies in the concerts and cafe teams. For more information about any of these roles, please visit our website.
Choir Cassocks/If you have some time to spare and would like to help mend the odd button or small hole, please contact jennifer.sterling@smitf.org.
St Martin’s Concerts/We’re thrilled to announce our Spring and Summer 2022 concerts – exciting new partnerships, an Easter Festival, a new Friday lunchtime concert series, and ongoing relationships with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the London Mozart Players, and John Eliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras. Tickets on sale now. For full details visit www.smitf.org/concerts.
Being With Courses/January Would you or a friend like to explore the basics of the Christian faith within the positive and inclusive theology of St Martin’s? Courses will begin in early January both for those who are new to exploring religion and other courses for those who are more experienced but wishing to refresh. No prior religious knowledge needed. Open to those who are not regular members of our church too. For more details contact Siân.
Christmas at St Martin’s/All of our usual Christmas services are happening this year in person and online: 5.30pm today Blessing of the Crib, 7pm Sacred Space, 4pm Sunday 12 December Nine Lessons and Carols, 6.30pm Tuesday 14 December Community Carols, 1pm Christmas Eve Crib Service, 3pm Christmas Eve Parish Carols, 5pm Christmas Eve Parish Carols, 11pm Christmas Eve Midnight Mass, 10.30am Christmas Day Eucharist, 10am Sunday 26 December Eucharist.
Media and Wider Ministry
Listen again on the BBC website to the BBC Daily Service Advent Meditation led by Revd Richard Carter with Helen Harris and produced by Andrew Earis, broadcast on Thursday 2 December.
