Special Services at All Saints in October to Christmas

All Saints’ Church opened on 4 July with full Covid precautions in place and the services (Sunday 8am and 10am, and Thursday 9.30am, plus Funerals, and Baptisms and soon a Wedding) have been held weekly since. Most people have been able to return, and all safely. Do come.

Harvest on 4th October will be as normal but the next special service after that on Nov 1 (together with the 10am All Saints’ Service) is the 4pm Bereavement Service, which usually has the numbers to be accommodated.

However, for Remembrance Sunday 8 Nov 10am, the PCC will discuss what format to do safely in its meeting on 23 September (we hope flag bearers will be there). This will also be true for the Christingle, Crib and Carol Services in Church and maybe on the Green (though this is currently unlikely). Midnight Mass may also be more than a single service too (I used to do 9.30pm and 11.15pm Services on Christmas Eve in a previous multi-parish Benefice).  I envisage number limits meaning that folk wishing to come phone the Parish Office and book on a first come first served basis on a specific date a few days before the event.

I envisage the 11am Service (10.50am) on Remembrance Sunday 8 Nov outside will be run in a limited way and any attending must be properly socially distanced and wear a mask. Fewer people may attend anyway though. Again, we will discuss this with Covid rules in mind as a PCC. As yet the accessaa.co.uk website of the Dept of Culture Media and Sport (DPMS) advise that folk now must provide contact name and number for any Track and Trace needed.

Of course, as the Pandemic situation changes from week to week it is difficult to make decisions for certain (c.f. the Southampton Boat Show in September!) – but rest assured we will try our best to find out for November!

The Rector

ABOUT OUR CHURCH

Welcome to our parish church website for All Saints’ Church, Headley in Hampshire. We are a village church proclaiming the Good News of Jesus to our small village in the Deanery of Farnham in the Diocese of Guildford in the Church of England on the Surrey Hampshire border.

  Our church is ancient but welcomes all ages in our parish to the many events and worship service held each week, both ancient and modern. We have many local ecumenical events, see also

St Francis Community Church at www.StFrancisHeadleyDown.com, but also provide the many services of Baptisms (Christenings), Weddings and Funerals, as well as major Festival Events.

  Our ministry is proclaiming and teaching the Gospel and following Jesus. We have a ministry to our local growing Holme Church of England Primary School, which is an Academy School for the Good Shepherd Trust. Click here for their latest newsletter. 

www.theholme.schooljotter2.com

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  Like so many Church of England village churches, our ministry, witness and service is to all in our parish. 

We welcome you!

CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES 

All Saints Sunday Club. 

Suspended until further notice

  We meet in the church centre at 10:00 am on the 3 Sundays when there is a Communion Service in church. ( On the 2nd Sunday it's a Family Service). Anyone can come along from aged 4 - 13/14 to enjoy activities which we arrange around the Christian lesson each week.

  The activities are led by experienced teachers and vary from music to drama to art/ craft to discussions about the lesson. We then go into church to receive a blessing and tell the congregation about our learning. We always join in with the Family Service each month with prayers or readings and every so often we actually run the Family Service.

  We also have Fun Days which include a bouncy castle and lots of fun and food, and we also have Messy Church days in the half term holidays. 

  Young people come from Headley, Headley Down, Lindford and Bordon. Youngsters can come for just one visit, a few or regularly. We don't mind, we love to see you! Parents do not have to stay, although we like them to come into church, but they can leave and collect their young people each week. 

For more information contact Mrs Lesley Barton on 01428 717321

SERVICES

Church open for Services 

Sunday Services

                8 am    Holy Communion

             10 am    Parish Communion

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Thursday 

          9.30 am     Holy Communion

All Saints Parish Church

Headley

If you are a visitor or newcomer, please make yourself known to the Priest in Charge or one of the Churchwardens after the service.

If you want to speak to anyone during the week please contact Revd Dr Andrew Barton

(01428 717207). His day off is Monday.

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THIS WEEK AT ALL SAINTS HEADLEY

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Services

Sunday 20 September 

Trinity 15

        8 am      Holy Communion

      10 am      Parish Communion

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Thursday 24 September

  9.30 am       Holy Communion

Friends of All Saints Headley Trust (FoASH)

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The purpose of the Trust is…. for the benefit of the parishioners and electoral roll members of Headley Parish and also for the general public by preserving and protecting All Saints Church, Headley through the provision of funds for the maintenance, restoration and repair of  the buildings  and fabric and curtilage of the church and churchyard.

This year we intend to begin to repair/relay churchyard paths starting with the section up to the Holme School end (called the ‘North Churchyard’). Funds from FoASH and local grants will be sought to make good, quality, lasting paths. Our Mile of Pennies event last year started this off.

Donations are welcome to help in this. The Treasurer for the FoASH Trust is Mr Bob Wilson c/o The Church Office, High St, Headley GU35 8PP. Cheques should be payable to Friends of All Saints Church Headley Trust, or you may wish to specify a donation in your will. If you wish to talk to him further about this, you may do so on 01428-713113 or at the Parish Office on 01428-717207.

Rev Andrew, Rector

All Saints’ Church has been here in the centre of our area including Headley Down, Arford, Standford, Hollywater and Lindford for well over six centuries. Whilst banks and shops and public houses have come and gone, All Saints Church has continued. It is there to be a focus of Christian worship and for the whole community to celebrate births and marriages, and for funerals and burials.