Mother Union Meeting in October

On Tuesday 3rd November at 11am in St Alban’s Hall, come and make poppies for Remembrance. Refreshments and raffle too. £2 only – all welcome!

The All Souls List

This is the list of names read out at the All Souls Service at 4pm on 1st November. Please read the list and if a name is missing, add it to the blank form provided, writing in BLOCK CAPITALS. Thank you.

The Big Bewbush Tidy

The Big Bewbush Tidy is taking place on Sunday, 11th October at 2pm. We are keen to get as many people as possible to help us for this event. Please contact local counsellor James Tidy on james.tidy@crawley.gov.uk to take part.

Bible Study – 16th October

Friday Bible Study 16th October
“Walking together in faith – Learning to Pray with Jesus”.
We meet to discover how Jesus teaches us to pray, how prayer deepens our relationship with God, and how it transforms our everyday lives. Come for Morning Prayer at 10am, followed by a cuppa and then bible study.

Taize at St Lukestide

At St Alban’s on Sunday 18th October at 4pm, a Taizé service with healing. This will be a beautiful candlelit service using the music from the Taizé community from France, led by members of the choir and musicians from St Alban’s with friends. If you enjoy quiet meditative music with readings and prayer – this is for you – Please come and join us. Alan and Sarah Magrath

Service for the Persecuted Church

Please note that we will be dedicating our Eucharist on Sunday morning, 18th October to Open Doors and the Persecuted Church. Following the service there will be a display from Open Doors and refreshment including Syrian Thumb cookies – we hope to see you there. Alan and Sarah Magrath

Harvest Festival

On Sunday 27th September St Alban’s celebrated our Harvest Festival and Harvest Lunch. The young people from 6th Crawley Scout Group joined us at the morning service; Squirrels, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts processed in with their flags. During the offertory a wonderful array of gifts of tins, packets and bags of food were brought forward by the congregation and displayed in front of the high altar, donations have now been delivered to FreeShop Crawley, who were very grateful. After the service the church was set up with tables and chairs for our shared Harvest Lunch at which we were entertained by a visiting poet ‘Seemi’ who shared some of her beautiful poems. 
At 12.30 the ploughman’s lunch was served followed by a wonderful selection of desserts. Many thanks to our valiant catering team and all who helped set up and clear away. 

Wild Wednesdays

Come for a drink and meet friends! We’ll be at Goffs Manor Pub on Wednesday 20th May from 7.30 – 9.30pm.

Volunteers Needed

Jesus said, ‘Remember, you did not choose me. I chose you. And I chose you to bear fruit’.
He also said ‘do not hide your light under a bushel’.
There are many ways in which you can contribute to our common life as a church and be a beacon of light to our community. For example, we need people:

• To join the fundraising team. You may bring new ideas or you may bring a pair of hands. All contributions are really needed and appreciated, especially at this current time when church finances need every boost we can find.
• To enhance our worship. We need people to join the serving team (training is provided). We need more people to do the prayers (could this be you? Guidance is provided).
• To help with Junior Church. Do you love working with children? Our Junior Church leaders really could do with more people on the rota so that they, too, can have weeks when they can worship in church along with everyone else.
• To do pastoral visiting. Since the pandemic started and home visiting became impossible, most of our pastoral team have stepped down. We do need to resurrect a team of visitors to either do Home Communions or just to simply visit or keep in touch with those not able to come to church. Could this be you?
• To help with Tiny Toes, our carer and toddler group on Monday mornings. The group runs from 9.30 to 11 am but setting up and clearing up adds an extra half hour at each end. Even if you can only help with part of this (doing refreshments, clearing up etc) every little helps. Please do offer some help if you can.

Please, please, do consider any way you can help with the mission and ministry of our church. You may have new ideas to bring to the table. Please do, because every little helps!
If it helps you to think of how your individual gifts contribute to the whole, helping us all to celebrate God’s love in the community, remember the words of a favourite hymn ‘This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine’!

St Alban’s supporting the Free Shop Crawley

The Free shop Crawley is a charity based in our parish, in Dorsten Square, Bewbush. The work they do to support those in need is truly heart-warming. If anyone would like to donate food items there is a designated box at the back of church for collections. Alternatively, text to donate cash: Text: 70085 5FOOD to donate £5,10FOOD to donate £10, 20FOOD to donate £20 etc. Go to freeshopcrawley.com for more info.
Thank you!

St. Alban’s Opening Times

In addition to normal services, the Church will now be open to the public at the following times:

Mondays 9am – 4pm

Tuesday – Thursdays 9am – 5pm