Weekly Newsletter 

Dear Church Family,

Our Stay & Play group and Love Laughter Lunch café have had a very busy start to the term!  Along with MenTalkHealth, these are HT’s major weekday outreach events.  It’s exciting to think that around 200 people are entering the church each week to find fellowship and, we pray, something of God.  Please do pray earnestly for these groups. it’s our heart’s desire that each person will come to know the Lord in a new way.

It’s an exciting term at Stay and Play – Harvest gives us the chance to show we’re grateful for God’s generosity and explain to the children about all the gifts God gives us.  After Harvest, we’ll be telling the Christmas story through outreach family Christmas events and the Stay & Play Christmas party.  The wonder of little eyes and hearts experiencing this is true treasure! 

Stay & Play is currently at the limit of how many children we can take and the Love Laughter Lunch Café is also very busy.  We urgently need more volunteers!  We’d love it if you would pray for more volunteers to come forward.  If you feel the Lord is calling you to one of our weekday ministries, why not have a chat with Laura or Anne on a Sunday or email us at office@htsb.church?  

We’ve got quite a few diary dates for you this week:

  • Our Women’s Breakfast is at 9am this Saturday, 26 September in HT.  The theme will be ‘Faith for the next chapter.’   It’s going to be good – ladies, please join us for encouragement, fellowship and a lovely breakfa

  • Our Harvest Sunday services will be on 4 October – we’ll be collecting gifts of non-perishable food for our Swale Foodbank (please make sure the use by date is good!) and gifts of money for a Toilet Twinning Tearfund project to provide clean water and toilets for the many communities who don’t yet have them.  Here’s Swale Foodbank’s current shopping list of items needed:

  • Our next Men’s Walking Group will be on Saturday, 10 October.  All men (and their well-behaved dogs!) are welcome.  We’ll confirm time and venue shortly.

  • We’ll be holding a Fun Family Friday Light Party in church from 7pm – 8.30pm on Friday, 30 October.  All our Church Family and their friends and relatives are very welcome!

  • Exciting news!  Holy Trinity will be running a stall at Sittingbourne’s Christmas Lights event on 14th November.  Please start praying that we’ll have lots of opportunities to share the good news of Jesus with our community!  Would you be able to help run the stall for an hour on the day between 8am and 4pm?  If so, there will be a sign-up sheet at the back of church.

  • Don’t forget our Baptism service at 10.45 on Sunday, 18 October!  Please pray for all the candidates as they prepare for this important step in their lives.

  • Free preloved school uniforms!  Just a reminder that Sittingbourne Methodist Church (at the bottom of Sittingbourne High Street) still runs a free preloved school uniform hub every Friday between 10am and midday.  Anyone can get free school uniform for all our local schools, and the team are also very grateful for donations of outgrown uniforms.

  • HT’s Lost Property box is still full!  Next time you’re in church, please check whether any of the items belong to you (it’s in the church by the main door).  We’ll take any items unclaimed by Sunday 27 September to a charity shop.

 With love and prayers, 

Laura and the Staff Team