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beneficebacton@gmail.con
St. Andrew’s Parish Church is the Church of England place of worship in the ecclesiastical parish of Wickham Skeith; it is part of a group of churches known as the "Bacton Benefice" which includes Bacton, Cotton, Wyverstone, Wickham Skeith, Old Newton and a chapel at Gipping.
Wardens: Liz Davidson 766622 and Margaret Jones-Evans 767121
Services in December 2024 & January 2025
All services at 9.30am unless otherwise stated
1st December Holy Communion
8th December Café Church
15th December Holy Communion
Tues 17th Dec 7.00pm Candlelit Carols - Gipping Chapel
Saturday 21st Dec 4pm Carol Service
22nd December Morning Prayer
Christmas Eve 9.00pm “Midnight” Holy Communion
Christmas Day No Service at St Andrew’s - please join us 10am at Wyverstone for a Benefice Family service
29th December 10am Benefice Communion Service at Wickham Skeith
5th January Holy Communion
12th January Café Church
19th January Holy Communion
26th January Morning Prayer
The Wardens and PCCs of the Bacton Benefice wish you all a very
Happy Christmas & Peaceful New Year
Christmas Services – you are welcome to any of the Christmas services. Please note, there is NO service at St Andrew’s on the morning of Christmas Day and note the 9pm start on Christmas Eve. We will be in church for our Carol Service at 4pm on Saturday 21st December.
Would all our ‘decorators’ please have everything in place for the Carol Service on 21st and leave them if possible until after the service on January 5th. Many thanks for all your efforts, they are greatly appreciated by everyone attending our festival services or visiting the church.
Flower & Cleaning rota – we have reached the time of year when a new rota needs to be prepared. If you would like to volunteer to join, or if you need to be removed from the list, please let Liz Davidson know by December 15th, eadavidson42@gmail.com). We don’t have as many volunteers as a few years ago so new people will be welcome. Each pair will have 2 or 3 sessions of 2 weeks in the year when they provide fresh flowers for the altar vases in season and do as much cleaning as time and energy allows. It is not an arduous task; you don’t need to be a regular churchgoer to ‘qualify’ just care about preserving a historic building - every effort helps to keep our lovely building in good order. If you are not sure just ask Liz to tell you more. All help is greatly appreciated – could you find time to lend a hand?
Dec 1st Mrs E Davidson & Mrs J Willoughby
Dec 8th & 15th Mrs J Bryant & Mrs L Reinders
Dec 22nd & 29th Miss R Elsden & Mrs J Keable
January dates on the new rota!
Like every other organisation the church has to consider the data protection legislation, so St Andrew’s Church and the Bacton benefice need your permission before they keep your name and details on file. The information will be used to send the weekly pew sheet, to record you as a voting member of the church on the Electoral Roll, for the Rector to know who the members of the church are so he can visit and get to know you etc.
You may have received an email with a form to fill in, or a paper form dropped through your door. Do please fill one of these in if you would like to be involved with the Church in this village and send to our new Rector, the Rev’d Carl Melville. He is eager to get to know the people in the churches and villages in his new benefice.
If you haven’t had a form through your door or via email do please ask for one from Liz Davidson or Margaret Jones-Evans
Keep safe everyone – Margaret Jones-Evans
