A warm welcome to all today especially if you are a visitor. We trust you enjoy your stay in Brussels and worshipping with us today. Please 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.

Congratulations!  Andrew and Ilka Tank have a little daughter, and David a little sister, Hannah Elisabeth, born Monday 6 January early morning and weighing 3kg.  Praise God for this safe arrival.

Congratulations also to two couples who spectacularly announced their engagements on New Year's Eve! Paul Moynan and Branka Pejic; Vanessa Bruynooghe and Stefaan Loosveld. We wish you every blessing!

                                                                        Peter Walley

TODAY

At 10.30 during Communion there will be the dedication of the new east window and Bishop Edward Holland will preach.

At 14.00 there will be a service of faith renewal and Isaac Mensah, Assistant Chaplain, will preach on ‘Baptism – a new beginning’.

At 19.00 during informal evening praise Paul Moynan will speak on ‘Into enemy territory – Jesus confronts evil’.

COMING SOON . . .

Please invite friends, work colleagues and family - and come yourself - to Alpha! This 12 week course on the building blocks of Christianity begins onThursday 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!). The venue is c/o Carolyn Walker Rue François Debelder 11, 1200 Woluwe St-Lambert, Brussels (very close to metro stop Tomberg). More information from 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.

The Christian Centre is organising a Worship Weekend with Bob Fitts on 18 – 19 January. Contact the office for more details.

Week of prayer for Christian unity – 18 to 28 January. There will be a vigil of prayer for unity organized by the Brussels Inter-Church Committee on 23 January, at 20.00, in the Samen-op-Wegkerk, Nouveau Marché aux Grains 8, 1000 Brussels - see the poster in the porch. The Committee also produces a brochure, in French and Dutch. This gives the daily readings proposed by the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council, together with a commentary, and a subject for prayer here in Brussels. The readings and commentaries were prepared, this year, by an ecumenical group in the Argentine. Individuals wishing to pray for unity in their daily prayers during this week will know, if they use these readings, that they will be praying in common with other Christians throughout the world. Copies - price €0.75 - are available from the Welcome Desk at Holy Trinity, or from the ‘Comité Interecclésial de Bruxelles’, 02/218 63 77 or 02/374 50 28, fax 02/375 28 42, phmfchevalierduv@swing.be

Open Home/Open Bible resumes on Tuesday 21 January at 20.00 in Church House. Others who would like to join are welcome to do so.

The Marriage Course hosted by St Paul’s Tervuren, starts again with a party on Friday 24 January. Leaflets are available from today at the Welcome Table. It is highly challenging and highly recommended! (Speak to Peter or Helen Walley if you want further details).

All Saints Episcopal Church, offers a seminar on ‘Your Personality and Faith’.  An experienced psychologist, Dr. Gilman will explore participants' personalities to find the spirituality that is most meaningful to each participating individual.  25 January from 10.00 – 13.00 at Centre Notre Dame d'Argenteuil, Chaussée de Louvain 563, Ohain.   Contact Revd Kempton D Baldridge. 02/384 35 56 allsaintschurch@aol.com or website http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/europe/waterloo/

An Extraordinary General Meeting will be held in church on Monday 27 January at 19.30. The church's Electoral Roll will also be re-opened. The current electoral roll will be posted under the archway from this Sunday: please check it. You are eligible to join the electoral roll if you have been in our congregation for at least 6 months and are not on the electoral roll of another church in Belgium. Forms will be available from the welcome desk.

Ladies Retreat 2003 This event organised by Annick Yiend, Sarah Williams and Helen Walley will be taking place again this 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

INFORMATION

Church administrator We are pleased to announce that Vicky Barriere has joined us as part time administrator. Vicky is a member of St Anthony’s Kraainem, but knows HTB well from friends in the congregation. As a dual French/British national she is fluent in French and English so she will be a real asset to the team – and make the office staff even more ecumenical! Vicky’s hours are from 9.00 to 13.00 on Mondays - Wednesdays and 9.00 to 12.00 on Thursdays, so we would be grateful if you would ring the office with administrative queries on Monday to Thursday mornings only.

Calling all medics/nurses/first aiders – 9.00, 10.30, 14.00, 19.00.  It would be a great help to the wardens and ushers to know of any of you who have medical, nursing or first-aid qualifications, so that we know whom to call on if someone is taken ill during a service. Please could you let Alison Rose (02/763 37 23 or Alison.rose@belgacom.net) know if you fall into one of these categories and would be happy to have your name on a first-aider’s list. 

Key Amnesty! If you have any keys to church buildings that you no longer need, please return them to the office as soon as possible! If you have keys that you do still use, please also inform the office so that we can keep track. Thanks.

January Mission Focus is A Rocha. This is a Christian conservation organisation and is one of the missions supported by HTB. For more information check out the website: www.arocha.org The loose plate collections at all 4 services next Sunday will go towards the work of Arocha. Colin Jackson, Director of A Rocha Kenya, will be speaking on Luke 13.18 - 21 at the evening service next Sunday.

News from A Rocha Kenya.  One of A Rocha Kenya's main activities is a community conservation programme "ASSETS" which looks to improve the livelihoods of Kenyans living in and around the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, one of the most important forests in Africa for conservation. Only 8% of the children eligable to attend secondary school are able to do so because of the expense of school fees. Without secondary education these children are unlikely to escape from the poverty trap. The programme aims to channel income raised from eco-tourism into a bursary (scholarship) scheme where children can apply to receive support for 50% of their school fees. For more information see: www.assets-kenya.org 

On the afternoon of Sunday 26th January there will be an A Rocha supporters get-together to meet, eat and enjoy a (bracing!) walk together - and there will be an opportunity to learn more about the 13 A Rocha projects around the world. For more information contact Annali:A.Bamber@arocha.org

The Living Waters Singers from the 2pm congregation are putting on a contemporary Christian music celebration for Easter here in Holy Trinity. This will take place on the evening of Saturday 12 April, a week before Easter. If you would like to sing in the choir or help with the production of this event, please speak to David Mitchell 02/735 42 14, david.mitchell@mornstar.co.uk

Translator needed The church has a legal booklet in French (‘conseil d'administration’) that needs translating into English. If you are qualified to do this and have time to work on it between now and Easter, please contact the church office.

Bun Sundays during 2002 raised €3210. A big thank-you to all bakers and buyers. Any suggestions of small charities to be supported by Bun Sunday welcome. Please contact Ann Freeman in writing at annbarleycorn@belgacom.net or my pigeonhole in the church porch. Bun Sunday this month will be on the 19th , the 3rd Sunday instead of today.

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.