Week Commencing October 10

Confirmation catering

It is a great honour for us at St Anne’s to be host to this year’s Surrey Heath Deanery confirmations on Sunday 17th October when Bishop Ian will be confirming around 20 candidates. As the host parish it is also our pleasure to offer a reception after the event in the Church Centre. If you can assist, by baking a cake, for instance, or making sandwiches, please have a word with Eve Nightingale-Sharpe and June Hurst who are co-ordinating the food. There is a sign-up form at the back of church.


Cathedral Link person needed

Guildford Cathedral runs a Link Scheme whereby each parish and deanery is encouraged to appoint someone to keep in touch with the Cathedral. The Link Representative is the key person in developing and strengthening the relationship between the parish and the Cathedral. Every Link receives the Cathedral's bi-monthly diary giving them all the Cathedral news and information about events to publicise within the parish. In exchange, the Cathedral offers to publicise parish events. Each year the Links are invited to our Annual Links Meeting at the Cathedral which provides an opportunity for the sharing of information, opportunity to ask questions and make suggestions.
 
 Elizabeth Rowbotham has been St Anne's Link with the Cathedral for the past 15 years and is now stepping down. I thank her for all she has done in the role for so long. We now need someone to step into her shoes. If you might be interested in taking on this small rôle for St Anne's, I would be delighted to hear from you. Alternatively, you could explore the Cathedral's website, especially their section about the Cathedral Links:
www.guildford-cathedral.org/helping/cathedral-link           David



Samaritan’s Purse – Operation Christmas Child

Once again Eve is co-ordinating this. Can you decorate a shoe box with Christmas wrapping paper, fill it with small  age-appropriate items suitable for a child and bring the box to church? Or maybe you could give Eve a monetary donation so she can buy items to fill more boxes and also cover the cost of their transport to the Third World? Details in the leaflets at the back of church or please see Eve for more details. Last year 67 boxes were sent from St Anne’s. Let’s see if we can break that record. Deadline is 21st November.