What’s happening in October
Wednesdays at 2pm – St David’s Guild.
Marilyn Leach has booked a variety of interesting speakers for this month. Since the pandemic, attendance has dropped for one reason or another but all (male and female) are welcome to experience the pleasure and joy of this mid-week fellowship. Refreshments are always served.
NB: Guild on October 1st will be at Saint Catherine’s at 1.30pm. However future meetings will be at the Museum at 2pm (apart from one which will be advised at the first meeting).
Oct 1: 1.30pm at St Catherine’s – A journey down the Nile – Catherine Naamani
Oct 8: Frailty Team Taff Ely – This service supports people over 65 to remain as independent or as well as possible. At this session they will carry out mini health checks – eg taking blood pressure if so desired by any member.
Oct 15: The WI branch in Pontypridd – Our own Margaret Wicks who was a founder member.
Oct 22: My life in music – Jessica Morgan conductor of Pontypridd Community choir.
Oct 29: Sir Geraint Evans – Jayne Lethbridge…a relative of Sir Geraint.
Monday mornings at 10am – Language classes are held in the church hall.
Sunday October 5th at 3pm – A memorial Service for Peter Cruchley will be held on at Beulah URC Rhiwbina. Please see poster in the hall for further details.
Thursday October 9th – the Open the Book Team will be visiting Coed y Lan Primary School.
Wednesday, 15th October from 7pm to 8.30pm – Commitment for Life on behalf of the United Reformed Church warmly invites congregations to join ‘the Palestine in Crisis’ event. This event has been organised jointly with Sabeel-Kairos UK to meet Revd Ashraf Tannous, the Pastor of the Lutheran Churches in Bethlehem and Beit Sahour, and Saha Fracis, a human rights lawyer who has worked to support Palestinian human rights bodies and NGO’s.
The event is open to join either in person at Luther King House, Manchester or online. Please send all requests to join the event either in person or on zoom to [email protected]
Sunday 26th October – Our Harvest service will be led by Ray. We will continue to support the Foodbank with financial donations.
Birthdays in October:
Colleen is now taking orders for personalised handmade Christmas cards. Please get any orders to her as soon as possible. Other handmade Christmas cards will be available from the middle of October with all funds raised from the sale of the cards going towards church funds.
28 September – Lesley Mower-Hill
3 October – John Henson
6 October – Bethan Walkling
7 October – Alan Hills
16 October – Maralyn Tomlinson
18 October – George Tustin
30 October – Joyce Mordecai
Pastoral Matters
Names are only included when permission has been given.
- We hold the family and friends of Gill Miller in our prayers as they prepare for her funeral which will be held at Glyntaff on 29th September at 2pm.
- Cyril Davies’ funeral will be held on October 10th. We will give more details when we have them. We continue to remember his grandsons, Lloyd, Brenig and Tom, and their families, who were members of our Junior Church, and his daughter Rosemary and her family.
- We remember those who are currently awaiting medical tests or test results
- We are mindful of those whose have families living away and who they don’t see very often.
- We congratulate Ben Walkling, who we can now address as ‘Doctor Ben’. Ben’s doctorate is in Human Geography. He is very grateful to all in the church who helped in his research in many different ways.
Community Events
Fairtrade Fortnight
Saturday 4th October 10.30am-2.00pm – Celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight with Fairtrade Pontypridd and independent businesses of Ponty. Activities will take place in Sugar & Spice in the Toy Emporium, Market Quarter and Pete’s Shop, 24 Taff St.
Children’s activities
Raffle prizes
Enjoy a free Fairtrade tea, coffee and or hot chocolate when partaking in the event
Try samples of Fairtrade chocolate
Learn what Fairtrade products these businesses sell
More information is available online https://connectrct.org.uk/activity/fairtrade-fortnight-by-fairtrade-pontypridd
The Park Ramblers
The Park Ramblers meet at 10.15am every Monday outside B&M for a walk around our beautiful park, followed by coffee in The Blueberry. They walk in small groups according to their ability, however they feel that morning or just what their body says it can do or not do! This is an ad hoc arrangement and anyone can just turn up and join the walkers. If the weather is very bad they may just head straight to The Blueberry!! What could be better than having a walk, a chat and a coffee to start the week off on a good note. 😊
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