A warm welcome to all today Join us after the morning service for coffee and drinks in the side aisle. You are most welcome to stay around and talk. If you are new please make yourself known especially to the clergy; we would be grateful if you would fill in a yellow card at the Welcome Table.

Please continue to remember Nigel and Mary in your prayers at this time. Do also consider the invitations to Alpha and the Ladies’ retreat, both highly recommended. If you know of anyone who would like Home Communion at Christmas please contact the Church Office by Tuesday please. For those of you going on holiday this week, we wish you a very Happy Christmas and safe travel. The British Legion – Brussels Branch has sent a note to thank those who contributed to their appeal on Remembrance Sunday this year.   Peter Walley

TODAY

At 10.30 during Communion David White will speak on ‘The year of the Lord’s favour’.

Today is Bun Sunday. After the 10.30 service we will be selling  mincepies and a selection of other Christmas goodies. Christmas cards will also be on sale (a bargain at €0.60 each !). Please support us so we can help smaller charities

There is no service at 14.00 today.

At 19.30 the traditional Carols by Candlelight service takes place. The car park will be open this evening until 21.45.

COMING SOON . . .

Please invite friends, work colleagues and family - and come yourself - to Alpha! This 12 week course on the building blocks of Christianity starts on Thursday 16 January starting at 19.00 and finishing at 21.30. A hot meal will be served each week, followed by a short talk, questions and small group discussion. We are looking forward to lively debate and to discussing all questions raised (although we don't promise to have all the answers!) For more details, please email/call Filip Ameloot at amelootfilip@hotmail.com, 02/644 05 00. Website: http://www.alphacourse.org/
The cost of the meal is €5, the Alpha manual is €2.50. Unemployed and students can come for free, please let one of the Chaplains know if you need a subsidy.

Ladies Retreat 2003 This event organised by Annick Yiend, Sarah Williams and Helen Walley will be taking place again next year at Le Cenacle (Communauté du Chemin Neuf) in La Hulpe from Friday 31 January at 17.00 until Saturday 1 February at 17.00. Our speaker will be Annie Hughes from Harbourne in Birmingham, UK.  She has a particular strength in pastoral care, prayer ministry and counselling, has 3 boys (19, 21 and 23), works part-time as Lay Chaplain to a local doctor's surgery and the rest of her time in the church where her husband is a vicar. She has led retreats for women in her diocese and one in the Ukraine in October. I have no doubts that we will be blessed by God through Annie's ministry, so do book.  Booking forms are available this week, and bookings will be taken on a first come first served basis operating a waiting list.  More info from Helen Walley 02/354 59 85 or helen.walley@belgacom.net

YOUTH AND CHILDREN

Sundays during Christmas holidays 22 December and 5 January. The normal teaching programme will be suspended, but different, slightly shorter activities will be provided.  Crèche as usual. On 29 December, normally a very quiet Sunday, the Crèche Room will be available for parents, and a video may be shown there. 

INFORMATION

The car park will have 20 places only reserved for HTB next Sunday.

Is anyone able to donate a cassette player to Freda and her team, who welcome Rwandan children every Saturday afternoon for singing and games at Holy Trinity?  This work is very therapeutic for children traumatised by their recent experiences in Rwanda.  Please contact Freda or Mary (02/770 77 15)

Is anyone changing their computer screen who has a large old screen spare? Topsy Tournay, who has trouble with her eyesight and has only a very small screen, would welcome a larger replacement. At the same time she would like to thank everyone for their prayers and love received during her cancer treatment.

Pledging 2003 We are very grateful to all those who have returned a completed form indicated their pledge for supporting Holy Trinity in 2003. Any others who still wish to make a pledge, and have not yet done so, are encouraged to return a form before the end of the year.  The church depends on regular giving from its members, and pledging is vital in helping us to plan ahead.

December Mission Focus is Alternatives, centre d'aide pour femmes enceintes (crisis pregnancy centre) situated by Merode Metro, Brussels.  The loose plate collections from the 10.30 service today will go to Alternatives.  (Alternatives is a ministry of Youth With A Mission, YWAM.)

Christmas Day celebrations Are you going to be alone on Christmas day and would you like to spend that day with some other people from the church fellowship?  Then please let us know.  Do you have room at your home for another or others on Christmas day? Could you please let us know and we will endeavour to link people up.
Please contact Helen Walley   Pastoral co-ordinator on 02/354 59 85. Also the 14.00 congregation will be planning a lunch on Christmas day, off the church premises this year. Please watch this space for more details.

CHS Calendars will be available at the Church from this Sunday - €10 each   All proceeds to Community Help Service non-profit organisation - working for the English-speaking community in Belgium and running a 24 hour helpline. 

Toilets A toilet is now available outside in the courtyard by Church House. Other toilets are in Church House.

New daytime homegroup with crèche Would you like to make it to a homegroup
but can't, because the timing has not been right for you?  Well here is another option... From Tuesday 10 December we are starting a new morning group.  It is for anyone who finds this a good time, and we are offering a crèche (a small charge
will be made). There will be opportunity for study, prayer and fellowship. We plan to meet Tuesdays 9.30 -11.00 at the home of Ilka Tank, 439 Chaussée de la Hulpe, 1170 Watermael Boitfort. On that first day Helen Walley will lead an Advent meditation in music, word and prayer, in preparation for Christmas. We will then continue after the new year. If you are interested or want to ask any questions, then please contact Ilka Tank (02/675 52 10) or Helen Walley (02/354 59 85). We both have answer phones for you to leave a message, if necessary.  All are welcome.

Please note that there will be no car park either at 23.30 Service on Christmas Eve or for the Christmas Day Service at 10.30.

Items for the Newsletter Please send these by 9.00 on Tuesdays by e-mail to David.Iliff@Pandora.be or to the Church Office.