This Week’s Notices

• This Week
• Foodbank

• From Pieter
• Renew 88

This week

From Pieter

Leaving

During the week we have told the deacons that we will be leaving the church on March 31, 2025.  We have found a nice house to rent in the town of Zwolle in the Netherlands.  It is a house that is still being built with a planned completion date in the second half of February.  The Netherlands has a housing shortage, like the UK, so we feel blessed to have found a place.  Our plan always was to retire to the Netherlands, where our family lives (including the grandchildren).  We have asked the deacons for some leniency regarding vacating the manse in case the house is not ready at the expected time.

It is likely that our last Sunday as ministers of KBC will be March 30.

We started our work in Knaphill during the difficult time of Covid on February 1, 2021, and we look back thankfully at the period since then.  We are grateful for the many contacts we have been able to establish in the community, with the other churches through C4K and through the Knaphill Residents’ Association.  Renew 88 has been very special to us.

We trust that the Lord will continue his work in and through KBC in the future.  The deacons will need your prayers as they decide on steps forward.

Quizzes

• Tear Fund tells us that the total amount raised by the Big Quiz Night Afternoon has reached £139,000!
• We are planning to host a quiz on Saturday March 15.

Services

Next Sunday we meet twice, at 11.00am and at 5.00pm.  Do please invite friends and family to the Carols by Candlelight.  We will postpone Communion until December 29, when we will begin the service with coffee.

On Christmas Day by popular demand, we will start at 10.30.  In the afternoon the two of us will open the church between 2.30 and 5.00pm for anyone who would otherwise be alone or in the cold.

Thursdays

In the new year we would like to begin with a prayer meeting on Thursday January 2, then Bible study on Philippians on January 9, and so forth.  If you want one of the booklets on Philippians, please let us know.

Foodbank

The following are required: small jars of marmite, long life sponge puddings and bottles of fruit juice squash, packets or boxes of instant mash, pot noodles, jars of salad cream, chocolate spread, bottles of washing up liquid and toilet rolls.