Benefice service and picnic in the church grounds.  Tea & coffee provided.  All are welcome!

Christmas Carol Service & Grand Raffle – Monday 17th December

A wonderfully festive Christmas carol service was led by Rev’d Louise, with readings, prayers, blessings and of course lots of singing!
This was followed by mince pies and tea/coffee at the village hall and the church raffle prize draw.

Congratulations to the winners:
£100 John Lewis vouchers- L Hobbs • Case of wine- C Newton • Hamper- J Newson • Google Home Mini- J&G Gilbert • Bottle of champagne- A Clifford • Bottle of whisky- W Daniels • Whisky miniatures- N Hill • Bottle of port- B Allen • Pointsettia- S Graham • Chocolates- E Hookins • Bottle of wine- J Pollard • Hair products- A Reid

Happy Christmas!

The Annual Christmas Carol service at All Saints’ Church begins at 7pm, followed by a festive gathering at the village hall with mince pies, mulled wine and the church raffle draw where you have a chance to win some great prizes including a £100 John Lewis voucher, a case of wine or a Google Home Mini, plus more. Raffle tickets are still available from Yvette or Janine.

Escape the afternoon heat and relax a while at All Saints’ church this weekend.  There’ll be a craft stall on Saturday and refreshments.  The great new information booklet written by John Kitchen which will also be on sale.

Join in a global wave of prayer

Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer movement which invites Christians around the world to pray between Ascension and Pentecost for more people to come to know Jesus Christ.

What started out as an invitation from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in 2016 to the Church has grown into an international and ecumenical call to prayer.

Last year over 200 churches and schools across the diocese took part, praying in churches, pubs, country parks and schools. It is hoped that many churches will take part again this year, joining Christians around the world in prayer from May 10th to May 20th.

It was a busy Christmas Fair on Saturday with a lovely selection of gift stalls, cakes, raffle prizes, warm drinks and an even warmer friendly atmosphere.
No doubt the total raised will be revealed in the December village newsletter.

Barnby Christmas cards, calendars, church booklets and cookbooks

Lovely gift stalls

Lovely gift stalls

Lovely gift stalls

Bo Jangles enjoying the fair with his owner

These hedgehogs are well fed ready for Winter! Not all are unfortunately.

Barnby Christmas Fair – Sat 25th November 2017
2pm – 4pm at the Village Hall

Selection of stalls and items for sale including:
Barnby 2018 calendar, All Saints’ Christmas cards, cakes, preserves,
Christmas gifts & decorations, raffle and bran tub.
Tea, coffee and home made cakes will also be on sale.

Proceeds to be split between All Saints’ church and the village hall.
Donations of any of the following would be very welcome on the morning of the fair:
cakes, preserves, raffle prizes, small wrapped bran tub gifts.

Barnby villagers Paul & Janine Stanley and Clem Lee completed their Calling All Saints cycle challenge last weekend.

The route took them to all 30 All Saints churches in the Nottinghamshire & Southwell Diocese through challenging weather as well as terrain.  They cycled just over 80 miles on rainy Friday, 56 miles on windy/squally Saturday and 60 miles on sunny Sunday – a total of 196miles (316km)

The team would like to thank Les Chaplin for his help collecting and dropping them off with their bikes.  Derick Parker, for the loan of his trailer and Steve & Elaine Beeching for printing their team jerseys at no charge.

Finally the team would like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has given their time, encouragement and support in making this challenge a success!

All the photographs from the challenge can be found on the Friends of All Saints flickr album

Donations are still coming in and it’s going to be close but it looks hopefully like the team may hit the magic figure of £1000 donations received with a portion of offline donations being also eligible for gift-aid.  The btmydonate fundraising page will remain open for a little while and can be found here:
https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/callingallsaints2016