• Rhodri and the family plan to go away from the 28th of December until the 1st of January.
• Christmas:
  • Our main Christmas Evangelistic Project this festive-season is the Christmas Card Project. This December we plan to go around the shops giving each shop-worker a Christmas card containing an invitation to our Carol Service, as well as some of the other Christmas meetings we have on in December.
  • Note the Christmas Good News Service on the 14th (we’re advertising it as a Traditional Carol Service in our Christmas Cards). Do invite friends and neighbours. Poster here:

• • The plan for this experiment that is the Short Service of Reflection on Christmas Eve is for it to be twenty-minutes to gather together and remind ourselves of why all this madness happens at this time of year. We also figured that it made sense to give the world an opportunity to wander in since some may expect us to have a service on Christmas Eve.
• No Pilgrim’s Progress for December. [The Pilgrim’s Progress – A Guided Tour is a course curated by Ligonier Ministries which we’re running every other Monday in the basement. Derek Thomas (who was converted in Aber, became a member at AP and served as a deacon for a short time with us in the 1970s) is the video tour-guide. We listen to him for twenty minutes or so and then we talk over some discussion questions. We aim to be done within the hour.]

• Whole-Church Prayer-Meetings: 9 & 23 | Small-Group Prayer-Meetings: 2 & 16
  • There are three small-groups led by each of the elders. Speak to Rhodri, Ian, or Eric if you are interested in joining one of the small-groups.
  • Note: No Prayer-Meeting on the 30th.
• The weekly Women’s Fellowship meets on Wednesday mornings, in AP basement at 10:30am (TBC in Sunday notices).
  • Causeway continues to meet between 11 and 12:30 every Wednesday, it is a time of worship organised by the staff of the homes that grew out of Plas Lluest (the home for adults with learning disabilities set up by Alfred Place four decades ago). There is singing, reading, prayer, and sharing of the word, all geared at the Plas Lluest residents and others with additional needs. The format is usually singing until around 12, then Rhodri speaks, then there’s prayer, and then there’s tea and biscuits with an optional bring your now packed-lunch, followed by some more singing. It takes place in the Community Space in Tesco. All welcome (you don’t have to stay for the whole time).

• There will be no Bible-reading Groups (Craft Club / Women’s Evening / Men’s Breakfast / Bible Club) this month, but the church are still encouraged to read Luke 1-12. The next Bible-Book-section will be Luke 13-24. 
• When able to, those manning the Book-Table go out every Saturday (weather & personnel-permitting) 11am-12:30pm; members, speak to Eric if you are interested in joining the work.

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