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Charity Fundraising, Christmas

St Mary’s Christmas Crib Festival – we need you!

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We are organising a St Mary’s Crib Festival this Christmas, from Friday 8th – Sunday 10th December, and we need your help!

We want this to be a really big event for the village and to raise lots of money for our Charity of the Year, Level Trust Luton – so have some exciting plans for the weekend which are outlined below.

Do you have a crib you could lend us for the exhibition, or could you make a crib to display?  Or are you able to help us out in some way over the weekend?

– Lend us a crib: Does it have a special story for you… an old family crib? Perhaps is it from another country or made from something unusual? Maybe someone made it for you… or you just love it?

– Make a crib: It could be made of wool, fabric, wood, toilet rolls, clay or play-dough, cake, Lego, wire, paper, bread, Minecraft, biscuits, or absolutely anything else you can think of!

click here to register a crib

– Help us out: We would be grateful for offers of help with stewarding, serving refreshments, selling raffle tickets and many more jobs over the festival weekend and in the weeks beforehand.  If you would be interested in getting involved please email stmarys@stmarysredbourn.org

The Crib Festival will include:

Friday 8th December

  • Exhibition open 4pm – 7pm
  • Community Carol Singing from 5pm – 7pm
  • Hot Dogs served and bar open from 5pm – 7pm

Saturday 9th December

  • Exhibition open 10am – 4pm
  • Add your own angel to our community art installation
  • Make a sheep to join our flock
  • Nativity dressing up zone (for children and grown-ups!)
  • Refreshments served all day

Sunday 10th December

  • Exhibition open after our usual Sunday services until 12pm

Please put the dates in your diary, consider lending or making us a crib, and help us to spread the word about this exciting event for the whole community.

Worship

St Mary’s Harvest Festival: Sunday 1st October

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We look forward to keeping our Harvest Festival at 8.00am, 9.30am and 6.30pm on Sunday 1st October.

9.30 am        Family Harvest Eucharist

 An All Age Service with Harvest Procession & Worship Band

Children are invited to bring gifts of fruit, vegetables, flowers, or dried goods, which will be distributed to our elderly neighbours in Redbourn.

Adults are encouraged to bring money to support the Bishop of St Albans’ 2023 Appeal Cracking Food Poverty Together, which will provide materially poor families in Kumi, Uganda, with chickens. These give them a sustainable and low-cost food source, and also provide a new income stream because they can sell some of their eggs and new chicks that hatch. Their first hatchlings are returned to the project so that another family can benefit.

donate to the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal

6.30 pm        Festal Evensong for Harvest

Sung by St Mary’s Church Choir

Members of the local farming community are invited to join us, followed by refreshments in the Transept.

Events

The Big Teddy Tots Sparkler Party

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Teddy Tots families past and present are warmly invited to our special Sparkler Party on Sunday 5th November, 4.00pm.

We will be serving jacket potatoes with fillings – please inform us of any dietary requirements.

If you are planning to come along, please complete the registration form below so we know how many people to cater for.

There is no charge for the party, but donations towards the cost of food are appreciated.

register for the sparkler party

We look forward to seeing you there!

The Teddy Tots Team x