Hi everyone,
This is now the big week where we build up to Christmas with events across all three of our churches.
Yesterday, we had a wonderful Christmas toddler party in Farrington, and Christmas Coffee Morning in Paulton, which raised over £370!
Coming up we have our Christmas coffee morning in Farrington on Thursday, Toddlers and Christingle in Paulton on Friday, and then a packed weekend of events after that.
Last call for tickets for our wine tasting event on Saturday evening - Katie, a parent from the Paulton toddler group (whose job is organising wine tastings) has offered to organise another tasting session in support of the charity 'Voices' who work with people escaping domestic violence, a charity we give to regularly as a church.
You can find out more about Voices here: https://voicescharity.org/
Her company is donating all the wine, so all the money raised will go to the charity.
The event is on Saturday 20th from 7pm to 9pm - Tickets cost £20 and can be bought in church or using the bank details.
Account name: - P C C of Paulton
Account No: - 71428127
Bank Sort Code: - 60-14-24
Use reference - wine tasting
Huge thanks to everyone who donated to the Christmas hampers, we have now delivered all42 hampers to the schools for families to collect.
This Sunday Rosanna will be preaching on God’s message to Mary and Joseph.
After that, the full list of Christmas events to count down are:
Christmas Dates 2025
19th Dec Friday 10am - Paulton Toddler group Christmas party
19th Dec Friday 6pm - Paulton Christingle
20th Dec Saturday 12noon - Paulton Christmas Messy Church
20th Dec Saturday 7pm - Paulton Wine Tasting
21nd Dec Sunday 6pm - Paulton carols by candlelight
21nd Dec Sunday 6pm - High Littleton carols
22nd Dec Monday 2pm - Carols at Bloomfield
23rd Dec Tuesday 3pm - Paulton Nativity
24th Dec Wednesday 3pm - Farrington Christingle
24th Dec Wednesday 4.30pm - High Littleton Christingle
24th Dec Wednesday 11.30pm - Midnight service Farrington - bring torches - park at hall
25th. Thursday 11am - Paulton Christmas day
28th Sunday - benefice service
Bless you and see you soon,
Adam
If you want to continue tracking with some of the sermon ideas as they develop I have included some more links to useful content that can help to keep us on the same 'wavelength'. This week , another lovely children's telling of the nativity:
John Stott on The Biblical Basis of Evangelism at the First Lausanne Congress
A brief history of Bible translation
“God’s overwhelming and unconditional love for every single human being”
Discipleship: A life of learning
How Christian Nationalism Threatens Democracy
Isaiah 7.10–16, Romans 1.1–7, and Matthew 1.18-end
See all below for all the other details of our groups and upcoming events.
Next Sunday we will meet at 9.30am in High Littleton and 11am in Paulton.
If you want to access resources in the meantime, we have a wealth of materials available.
You can use the YouTube link to get yourself tuned up and ready to sing with us on Sunday.
If you don't feel able to attend in person, we will continue to provide online worship options as well. The link to Twitch is at the bottom of this email.
COMING UP...
Knit and Natter meet in the back room of Paulton church on the first Wednesday of each month from 2 to 4pm. The next meeting is on Wednesday 7th January 2026.
Everyone is welcome to come along and join the group, enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and a cake and have a good natter!
TGIF is on every Friday and Monday from 10am to 11.30am for coffee, cake, playtime and good chatting - you can find the latest details on Facebook here. (Not during the school holidays)
Morning prayer is taking place at 9.30am Wednesday in Paulton and Thursday in High Littleton. It begins with 15 minutes of quiet reflection, followed by Common Worship morning prayer.
The Church of England have updated their Morning Prayer APP. You can now listen to morning prayer from the app. I would encourage you all to take this up as a daily practice, it is a great way to grow a pattern of prayer and learn the rhythm of responses each day.
You can download the app here: https://www.chpublishing.co.uk/apps/daily-prayer
view the live service and re-watch previous services here: https://www.twitch.tv/holytrinitychurchpaulton
Every blessing to you all.
Adam
