"The Chocolate Trail"

Free Fun for the whole family courtesy of the Galley Restaurant. Download your free treasure trail from The Galley Woodbridge. http://www.galley.uk.com/woodbridge/chocolate-trail/ or call in at the Tourist Information Office in Woodbridge where they have copies already printed.

Forthcoming Events

September

5^th - RAF 70^th Anniversary Service for the Commemoration of the Battle of Britain 1500 - replacing 1830 Choral Evening Prayer.

10^th - Woodbridge Museum Trip to Bletchley Park. A few seats are available for non members. The cost is £38 including coffee on arrival, a hot lunch and a cup of tea before leaving and a Tour guide and a World War 2 Evacuee story. Enquiries to Anna Ashton 384299.

11^th - SHCT Annual Bike Ride - Over 700 churches are open in Suffolk. Walk or ride your bikes and visit as many as you like. Sponsor forms are available from Greg Spray or the Shop in St Mary's Church Centre.

11^th - Table Top Sale - at Woodbridge Salvation Army, 9am to 12 noon. Huge variety of unusual items on sale, also home made jam, cakes, hand-made greetings and Christmas cards. Refreshments available.

19^th - Taizé 1830 at Ufford.

26^th - Back to Church Sunday Have you had a break from church or wondered about attending a service for the first time? One option for anyone wanting to test the current water at St Mary’s is our Back to Church Sunday on 26 September. An annual day for churches throughout the country, it is designed for people who want to give church a try – or another try – without feeling embarrassed or guilty. The Back to Church theme will apply to all our services on 26 September: 8.00 am Holy Communion, 10.00 am Parish Eucharist (followed by coffee and cake) and 6.30 pm Evening Prayer. Why not come along – you’ll be very welcome.

29^th - Installation of Revd Fr Edmund Eggleston KGCO, MA as parish priest at St Thomas’s Roman Catholic Church at 1930.

30^th - Beetle Drive 2.30pm in St Mary’s Church Centre.

October

10^th - Harvest Festival.

15^th - A Time to Heal 1930 for 2000.

17^th - Confirmation.

20^th - Caring World Methodist Central Hall is the venue for a lobby of MPs on Wednesday October 20^th concerning Climate Change. Already affected are the poorest countries (at one time 2/3rds of our world). This is not an easy subject, then neither is starvation and dying from want of our help, the better off part of the world. Will you come and make a difference to this matter? Please do if you can. A coach will leave from Woodbridge, 0730, and Ipswich, 0750. Cost will be £20 per head payable on booking, by 31^st August, to D Holmes at 54, Heathfield Martlesham Heath IP5 3UB. There is a good café at M.C.H! Come and help others to know this world is a good place, and people do care about each other.

November

15^th - Licensing of Revd Paul Hambling as Team Vicar in the Merton Priory Team.

17^th - Spirituality in a Secular Culture John Bell(Iona Community, hymn-writer, author, broadcaster) is coming to Suffolk on Wednesday 17^th November at 7.30pm. He is speaking on Spirituality in a Secular Culture at St Michael & All Angels, Martlesham Heath IP5 3PL. All are welcome. Organised by Suffolk Theology Forum. Admission is £5 (£4 concessions) for non-members.

20^th - Autumn Fayre 10am -12noon.

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