All Saints Church - Fishponds Grove Road, BS16 2BW

Wow! The church is so much brighter! The lighting is now operational. Thanks too all those who have overseen this work over the past couple of weeks - with very minimal disruption (if any) to the work and life of the church. Thanks Allied Electrical!

23 member of AS along with Mrs Jo and Revd Michael Selman took time out today to be together at St. Michaels Parish Rooms Stoke Gifford for a New Year Away Day.
An opportunity to reflect on why we 'are' and 'do' church, give thanks for what is going well,'dream ' about the future and look to God to find His Will and the strength to achieve it.
Lovely venue,good company and lots of positive enthusiasm.
'I woke up this morning and thought,'What I I going to this for?.....and really enjoyed it and found it helpful' was one comment.
Thanks to Ruth for persevering in fulflling her vision to make this day happen.....Where shall we go next?

Another very good community Yew Tree Carols event. Was good to see so many people there - a majority of whom were able to stay for warm mince pies and mulled wine afterwards (with squash for the children of course / and tea and coffee for the drivers!). Many people felt they could have stayed there singing lots more carols! And we had roasted chestnuts - for the first time.
The church is now ready for Midnight Communion.

The Christmas Services have been going ahead. The Carols By Candlelight went well and it was lovely to have so many children singing Away in a Manger. Some of the highlights have to be seeing one boy signing the first verse - the choir singing their well prepared pieces - and just the chance for all to be together as we thought about the coming of Jesus and reflected on his birth.

Today is the Forth Sunday of Advent - the preparations are still coming along in the period of 'waiting'. We were happy to host the Dr Bells Carol Services this week. All went well. Today will be our Carols by Candlelight service. Hopefully we'll have some photo's to post up later.

A new joint activity has started with Dr Bells School... Messy Church now takes place each week and is growing nicely in numbers.

A lovely coffee, craft and cake sale this morning . A few familiar faces and a few new faces. A great time with lots of chit chat - some knitting - and 1 person learning to cross-stitch.. Cakes were sold in aid of Christian Aid. Looking forward to more next Month..

A wonderful Remembrance Sunday service this morning. An ACt of Remembrance and an Act of Worship. Our prayers are with all those service men and women now and in the past - their families and their friends. May God be with you always. We will remember them.

Joseph-Sing-A-Long: What a fun evening was had by all that was there. There were quite a few of us who hadn't seen the version shown before as well - and a number of children who were watching it for the first time. We particularly enjoyed the moment that made Sam laugh out loud! Thanks to the team who made this evening happen.

I attened the funeral of Meg Grimes on Thursday 2nd June, the church was packed to the extent of standing room only. This shows what a truly lovely lady Meg was, always ready to lend a helping hand, in the church and at the Julian Trust Night Shelter. So many wanted to pay their respects. Meg will be greatly missed by many. God Bless you Meg.

And another great service this morning. The Sunday School were thinking about wind - how you can't see it but can feel it and know it is there - and that you can't see God but you can feel him and know he is there. The secondary school children went out to look at journeying - and the congregation in the main body of the church also considered journeying. Both explored Abrahams and Nicodemus. With Abraham, spiritual journey included travelling and moving on - whereas for Nicodemus he grew on his spiritual journey in the same place he started.

During the service led by Mark Simms this evening it occured to me that I hadn't uploaded the much requested sermon which he preached in August 2010! Its now here - on the left hand side.

During this morning's servie we had the first of the Bible Study for the Teens. They went off to do their study for part of the service. I'll see if I can get one of them to add something to this blog about their experience.

Tonight was the first meeting of the community youth group in the hall. Set up by members of the community - they hope to offer a place where young people can hang around together in a place that is warm and friendly. Various activites / things are on offer. Watch to see how it develops.

After a short break whilst the Beautiful Lives course was running - our Bible Study and Prayer Group will re-start on Monday 31st January.
E-Mail us for more details.

Thanks to Beryl Lines for leading our worship this morning. Beryl based the sermon on the gospel for the day - Matthew 4: 12-23.

The NOTICES have now been updated covering all of this weeks activities.
Further information about some social events to be added soon......

Hi all
After a few weeks of a broken heating system (the pump blew!!) - we are pleased to report it has been fixed and will be back in the church building for worship on Sunday morning.

The Prayer Chain has been updated on the website for the week.
God Bless.