anyone going to church today?

[Soxwasher]

Are any of you guys off to church today? It's harvest festival in our village!

yes, in fact should be getting ready instead of sitting here. We had harvest two weeks ago. I'm reading the lesson today, a nice easy one!

Yep we're off now - dh is preaching, I'm playing piano, and ds1 has his first Beaver church parade ... ds2 says he doesn't want to go ... but it's tough! (He's only saying it for attention - he loves it really - loads of kids and very family-friendly. ... starts at 10.45, so we have time to go swimming first, come back have second breakfast, and STILL have time to post on mumsnet!)

We had ours last week, it was very sweet.

Ours was last week too.We managed to harvest a tin of prunes and some minestrone soup to take along!

ours is just a small village church - we have collected packed shoe boxes for Romania instead of the ussual fruit and veg. Then we have a big lunch together afterwards - v. traditional. Kmg1 - is you dh a minister/vicar?

Nope..and a vicars daughter/....

harvest festival was last sunday! we went. also going today, and children are just back from sunday school...

such a christian fmaily!

beetroot - which cathedral? (Don't answer if you don't want to!). Is your dh a lay clerk?

We're just back from church now.

Sorry beetroot - still in pregnancy/baby mindset - looking back you said ds - I presume he's a chorister then! Sorry - must read more slowly.

I'm back too, we sang good hymns and my reading went well.
think I may be going tonight as well (I'm so holy!!) as dp missed this morning. Its communion tonight and it was morning worship earier.

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Soxwasher - yes! Why?

kmg1 - mine too!!!!! perhaps we know each other!!

We went to a new church today and are seriously looking to join it as it has a really vibrant children's church. Our village church has a small congregation so it was great to be part of a large group today.

Ours was last week as well.

Dh is Baptist Minister in Cumbria - how about you? DS2 has just started school, so suddenly him working Sundays seems a real pain! He tries to have Saturday as day off, but it's not possible all the time, and this time of year seems hopeless How do you find it?

Unusually for us, we did today! My neighbours two young children were baptised so we went along for the service and have just got back from the party.

DD1 should have gone again this morning for Brownies church parade, but we all overslept!! She has to be there for 9.15am usually, but we didn't get up until 8.30am!!

Her Church Parade is every 2nd Sunday of the month and I never stay - just drop her off I feel a bit mean really as she is not very keen on going to Church but I make her go as it's part of being a Brownie, but I don't like Church either which is why I don't stay !

My dH is vicar of our small, but growing village church in the South East. He also has saturdays off - but it is v. difficult to get a really clear day and because we live right behind the church we are always disturbed. Still it is a smal price to pay for an otherwise fulfilling job!

We went this morning as our god-son was being confirmed. It was a lovely service. DD loves it as she gets to play with different kids and toys in the creche and it's very noisy and friendly in there. We (the congregation) seem to be reproducing at a fair old pace -there have been about 20 new babies in the last year. Astonishing - we're not that big a group really.

well thats one way to grow the congregation!

We missed our usual Parish Mass as we were at ds' godparents' daughter's baptism in Taunton. As there was a network of parents who are godparents to each other's children at the service the children were trying to work out if some of them were godbrothers or godcousins...