Past EVENTS & Services Exploring the Church Year
Event: - Pancake Party, Sunday 6th March
We’ll be having a fun afternoon of games and all sorts of eggsellent races followed by tea and pancakes. Sunday 6th March at the Old School Hall, East Harling from 3.30 to 5.00. Family Tickets £5.00 | Individuals £2.00
After tea at 5.15 our Soul Café team will be leading a short service with our Music Group to help us to prepare for Lent. Everyone is welcome to join us. Tickets from Lynn fry 717423 or email on fryfam@talktalk.net
Event: - Old Time Music Hall, Saturday 26th February
Remember the “Good old Days” Old Time Music Hall. Saturday 26th February 2011, Old School Hall East Harling. Licensed Bar and Raffle. A Wonderful Evening of Entertainment. Everyone Welcome. Come in Victorian Dress (Optional).Tickets £7.50 available from Dorothy Jubb 01953 717128. Get your Tickets Now to avoid Disappointment
Official Procolmation of Welcome
"My Lords Ladies and Gentlemen, we are proud to present for your delectation and delight, a veritable delicatessen of titillating treats for those of a thespian persuasion. Come and marvel at the Mancunian Master of preposterous prestidigitation, the fearsome feats of muscular levitation and the strictly Middle Eastern practitioners of Egyptian ambulation. Add your voices to heavenly harmonies rarely heard in East Harling…in short don't be shy COME TO THE SHOW!!!!"
New: - Advent Carols
Listen to the choir of East Harling Church with 5 festive Carols. Visit the Music page to listen to the five recordings.
NEWS - 25th Anniversary Craft Fair, Saturday 27th November
On 27th November The Friends of East Harling Church held their Craft Fair again this year, this is their 25th Anniversary Year, and included Craft Stalls for Cards, Jewellery, Gifts, wooden toys, our very own Norfolk Pickles, Pottery gifts, Chutneys etc etc.
Coffee and light lunches were served throughout the day. Thank you to all who came along and made it such a wonderful day. Morning Coffee, Light Lunches and Afternoon Teas available.
NEWS - Our Website Finalist at Christian New Media Awards, 2nd November
The Harling United Benefice website (walkingwithyou.org.uk) was shortlisted as a Finalist for the Best Large Church Website at this year's Christian New Media Awards, sponsored by Premier Christian Radio. Our website was the only Anglican church to feature in any of the categories and stands as a testament to the work that was put into developing the website by our then Rector, Nigel Kinsella and all those who took part in the website workshop.
It is hoped that we can be an example to other rural churches who can follow us onto the 'world-wide-web', perhaps that is the best 'prize' of all.
EVENT - Norfolk Churches Safari Lunch, Saturday 11th September
Instead of the usual Sponsored Cycle Ride we will be having a 3 course safari lunch around our local churches. You can travel however you like - walk, ride or drive – in a group with the church leaders, on your own or as a family. Everyone is welcome!
Food will be served between 12 and 4.
Tickets are £10 for a family ticket or £4 for an individual.
Tickets will be available from Lynn Fry 717423 or Jan Francis 718732
Raising money for our churches and the Norfolk Churches Trust.
Messy Church for Art Alive
Messy Church is one of the new things we have been trying at East Harling Church to welcome all ages in to our community.
Messy Church is church but not as you know it! It is a relaxed way of being in the church building as it is very informal. Messy Church is set around a theme – this month it coincided with our Art Alive exhibition.
We started with lots of different activities connected with the art in our church. We decorated candles, made stained glass cookies and took photographs of beautiful things in the church. If you need a rest, you can sit down and look at the Sunday papers or have a chat.
When we had finished being arty, we all sat down in the pews and Rev Fry took us on a short tour of the church. We looked at the font, the pulpit and the altar and talked about what they were for. We finished with a prayer, thanking God for all the artists and craft workers who had made our church so beautiful.
Then it was time for tea and the bouncy castle! The rain held off and we were able to sit outside and enjoy each other’s company while we ate our tea. The children burnt off lots of energy on the bouncy castle and looked at the paintings they had made at the art workshop in school.
Our next Messy Church is planned for All Saints in October – hope to see you there!
Celebrating Candlemas & The Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
On the 5th Sunday of January members from each of the congregations in our Benefice met together in Bridgham Parish Church to celebrate Candlemas, in a Communion Service.
As Candlemas commemorates the purification of Mary after giving birth, as well as the presentation of Jesus in the temple, St. Mary's seemed a fitting place to be. This Sunday also marked the end of the Epiphany season and gave us a last chance to sing the much loved carol, Angels from the Realms of Glory, which was sung by all with gusto.
Our Gospel reading, from St. Luke, reminded us that Jesus was met at the temple by Anna and Simeon and told how Simeon held up the baby Jesus and declared him "a light to the world." To reflect this, the choir sang the Nunc Dimittis (Simeons Song) during the Eucharist.
The festival was first called Candlemas because this was the day that all the Church's candles for the year were blessed. In his address, The Rev'd Nigel Kinsella, focussed on the fact that our bright shining candles are a sign of the divine splendour of the one who comes to expel the dark shadows of evil and to make the whole universe radiant with the brilliance of his eternal light. We were each given a lighted candle and challenged to "go out and share the light of 'Christ in us' with the world."
At the end of the service it was good to get together as a United Benefice and share in the lovely refreshments which were very welcome on such a cold day.