Category: Saint George’s latest news

How very fortunate we are to have many good and sincere Altar Servers trained by David Hoad.  We do appreciate you helping Fr Rory at Mass on a Sunday.  Young Readers, we are very blessed with many who do the readings loud and clear, especially at the family mass on the last Sunday in the month.  Thank you once again to Teresa and Annette for helping our children at the liturgy.  They are stretched as they live full lives already.  Please would some of you volunteer to lend them a hand occasionally if our children are to benefit from religious teaching to the standard they enjoy now.  Many hands make light work!
 

Thurs 27th Feb is our next afternoon tea,  2-4pm.  All welcome.
 

Appeal for more help with preparing and running St Wilfrid’s & St George’s Social Occasions:  Thank you to the few who answered the call, you are very welcome.  Details of any social events will be given in our newsletter.  Perhaps more volunteers will come forward when these are announced.
 

We will be reverting back to the old size print from 16th February 2025.
 

If you have any old candles around…any size, shape colour, they will be melted down and used to make Trench Candles for the soldiers.  Also any unwanted warm coats. Please leave in a bag at the back of the church, many thanks Paula.
 

Can you Help? – as we move towards a Single Parish of many communities, good communication to all our parishioners is an essential element. A deanery newsletter was initiated last Lent and is set to help with this. It does need a team of people to prepare it in a timely way with the right mix of information within it.  Please consider can you offer a few hours of your time to every season?  To find out more please contact Sandra on 07791627368 or email             [email protected].  A small team working together from all parishes will make a big difference!
 

If you are interested in hearing more about the vocation to teaching and what teaching in a Catholic school involves, Dave Legrand, Diocesan Secondary RE Advisor, will be running an online information event on Wednesday 12th February from 5.30-6pm.  This event would be suitable for anyone considering a career change or simply interested in finding out more about the role of teachers in our Catholic schools for any age group or for any  subject specialism. To book a place, please use the link:

Exploring the vocation to teaching in our diocesan schools (12-Feb-2025) · ChurchSuite Events

Diocesan Youth Project Worker – Part time.  The St Philip     Howard Centre, 4 Southgate Drive, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 6RP:  ‍Join the diocesan Central Office Team as our new P/T Youth Project Worker. The successful applicant will be responsible for two major projects – coordination of the CYMFed Faith in Action Awards across the Diocese, and the newly developing Young Adults programme. They will also be required to assist with engaging young people from across the Diocese in theASCENT process (a three-year discipleship process for young people) and offer support to the Youth Adviser in enabling       diocesan attendance at national and international events such as Flame & World Youth Day. E: [email protected]

Closing date: Wednesday 5 February 2025, Shortlisting: Thursday 6 February 2025, Interviews: Thursday 13 February 2025, Crawley.  Here is the job url: www.abdiocese.org.uk/careers/ypw

Will take place on Friday 24th January at 11.30am at All Saints Church in Herstmonceux.
 

New & nearly new items needed – the St George’s table sale that raises funds for the charity of the month and youth activities is desperately in need of new items for sale.  Please consider donating anything suitable.  Just leave in a bag at the back of either church marked St G table sale.  Both churches would also welcome any unwanted gifts that are suitable as raffle prizes for fundraising purposes at social events in 2025.