Monthly Archives: December 2019

From Father Iain, All Saints Chiang Mai

New Year’s Celebration at YCF

Dear Friends,

Happy New Year to everyone!  Join us at the Vicarage tonight it you are free!  Call 0 904 604 304 or email for directions if you don’t know the way!

We have had a wonderful Christmas season at All Saints.  You can see the dramatic rush to change our worship sanctuary into our dining room on Christmas Day in this short fun video!  Nearly sixty people worshipped with us on Christmas morning, and over forty stopped for lunch!  Thanks to Phyllis and Arthur for organising the lunch, and Pat and Julia, and so many more for assisting!

On the 28th December we had a wonderful time taking gifts to the children of the Youth Charity Foundation and joining them for dinner and a show!  You can see a couple of videos of the show here! We Wish you a Merry Christmas Dance, Away in a Manger Song, and We Wish you a Merry Christmas Song!

Giving gifts

Watching the YCF Show

Some of the younger girls

William and Tarntip then invited everyone to their home on Monday 30th December for a New Year Potluck and House Blessing – including all the kids from the Youth Charity foundation!  Another great evening!

A few of the All Saints people at William and Tarntip’s

Some of the older YCF girls making pancakes

Ready to go home after a fun night!

The Christmas season ends this Sunday, and our readings for Epiphany are Isaiah 60:1-6, Ephesians 3:1-6, and Matthew 2:1-12, and we will be singing the hymns We Three Kings of Orient Are, The First Nowell, As With Gladness Men of Old, and Hark The Herald Angels Sing!   Past services and sermons can be viewed via the All Saints audio-visual page!

New Year’s Eve

Everyone is invited to bring in the New Year at the Vicarage to bring this year to an end!  We will begin at 8 p.m. and go into 2020 together!  Happy New Year!

Gymkhana Lunch

We will meet together again for lunch at the Gymkhana Club this Thursday, 2nd January!

Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

God bless,

Iain

From Father Iain, All Saints Chiang Mai

Dear Friends,

Join us tonight for Midnight Mass at 11:30 p.m.
or on Christmas morning at 11 a.m.

Merry Christmas to All!

All is prepared!

God bless,

Iain

Christmas Gifts for Children
at Youth Charity Foundation

This year we will once again give the 50 children from the Youth Charity Foundation a Christmas present from All Saints.  If we spend 150 THB on each child, that will cost 7,500 THB and we would also like to give something to the adults who work at the homes.

If you would like to contribute to this project, please put money in the red box at the back of the church or give to Trustees Bill Moeller or Chris Tananone, or our treasurer, Don Williams. Thank you in advance for your generosity!

We plan to deliver the gifts on Saturday December 28.  This will begin at 5:30 p.m.

Meet at church at 4:30 p.m. if you would like to travel together!  (which will include food provided by the YCF).

New Year Potluck and House Blessing!

William and Tarntip would like to invite everyone to their home on Monday 30th December for a New Year Potluck and House Blessing!

Tarntip writes:

We will start at 4 pm. onwards and have a full blast this year. Food, Live Music, Puppet Shadow, Children Talent Shows, Bowl Singing from Nepal. Also, there will be cooking demonstration as well. Everyone is welcome.  For persons who wish to participate, please email me at purn.karunsiri@ gmail.com

William has had his operation following his motorbike accident and is on the mend!

New Year’s Eve

Everyone is invited to bring in the New Year at the Vicarage!  We will begin at 8 p.m. and go into 2020 together!  Please come if you can – more details to follow!

Gymkhana Lunch

This will not happen this week on Thursday 26th December as it will be Boxing Day!

Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

From Father Iain, All Saints Chiang Mai

Christmas Tree Collapse!

Dear Friends,

I arrived at church today to water the plants and return the financial ledger.  Disaster!  The tree had collapsed and baubles were scattered all over the floor!  Was Christmas at All Saints ruined?  Of course, I exaggerate!   But this is often how we feel at Christmas.  We are so anxious for everything to be perfect that things get way out of proportion and the really important things get missed.

I love decorations, and turkey and mistletoe, but the really important thing about Christmas is Emmanuel, God will us!  Then comes relationships, family and friends!  These are the important things, as those members of our church recovering from accidents will surely attest!

So, as we prepare for Christmas, let’s not panic, let’s relax and enjoy the message of the angels, that in the end there will be peace on earth, goodwill to men!

The Tree Restored!

Our readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent will be Isaiah 7:10-16, and Luke 2:1-20, and we will be singing the hymns O Come All Ye Faithful, See Amid the Winter’s Snow, Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Once in Royal David’s City, and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!

Past services and sermons can be viewed via the All Saints audio-visual page!

Christmas Activities at All Saints

Please join us for our Midnight Mass, or our Christmas Morning Eucharist. or both!  We usually have lots of visitors at Midnight Mass so it’s good to have All Saints people to welcome them too!

Christmas Lunch

Forty people have already signed up for Christmas lunch!  Please sign-up this Sunday, or send me an email, if you would like to join us!  We will have roast turkey, and all the trimmings, followed by Christmas pudding or pumpkin pie!

Please sign up on Sunday for what you are planning to bring!

Elena’s Birthday

Elena’s birthday is this coming Saturday, 21st December.  She has invited anyone who would like to join to come to the UN Irish Pub at 6 p.m.

Christmas Gifts for Children
at Youth Charity Foundation

This year we will once again give the 50 children from the Youth Charity Foundation a Christmas present from All Saints.  If we spend 150 THB on each child, that will cost 7,500 THB and we would also like to give something to the adults who work at the homes.

If you would like to contribute to this project, please put money in the red box at the back of the church or give to Trustees Bill Moeller or Chris Tananone, or our treasurer, Don Williams. Thank you in advance for your generosity!

We plan to deliver the gifts on Saturday December 28.  Let Bill or Chris know if you would be interested in joining this event (which will include food provided by the YCF).

Christmas cards

Another way to support the children of the Youth Charity Foundation is to purchase their beautiful handmade Christmas cards.  They are 40 THB each.  Take as many as you want and put the money in the box next to the cards.

New Year Potluck and House Blessing!

William and Tarntip would like to invite everyone to their home on Monday 30th December for a New Year Potluck and House Blessing!

Tarntip writes:

We will start at 4 pm. onwards and have a full blast this year. Food, Live Music, Puppet Shadow, Children Talent Shows, Bowl Singing from Nepal. Also, there will be cooking demonstration as well. Everyone is welcome.  For persons who wish to participate, please email me at purn.karunsiri@ gmail.com

William has had his operation following his motorbike accident and is on the mend!

New Year’s Eve

Everyone is invited to bring in the New Year at the Vicarage!  We will begin at 8 p.m. and go into 2020 together!  Please come if you can – more details to follow!

Gymkhana Lunch

Our weekly lunch at the Gymkhana Club will again be at midday, today (Thursday)!  Please feel free to join us!  This will not happen next week on Thursday 26th December as it will be Boxing Day!

Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

All are welcome to join us as we share the presence of the risen Jesus in our lives!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshipping with us,

God bless,

Iain

From Father Iain, All Saints Chiang Mai

A Wonderful Night! The YCF Choir!

Dear Friends,

We had a wonderful night at our Festival of Christmas Carols at Nong Pratheep Church last Saturday night!  We began the Christmas Season singing all the old favourites like Hark the Herald Angels Sing and O Come All ye Faithful, and listening to the Lannacappella Choir.

Lannacapella with director, Clare Lyons

The American, British, Australian, Portuguese, and Indian Consuls, and other community representatives, did readings, and the offering for the Youth Charity Foundation raised around THB15,000.  The children of the of YCF also sang!

Our wonderful organist, Kaew

Around two hundred people attended and many commentated on what a great way it was to begin Christmas!

This Sunday we will celebrate the Third Sunday of Advent as we anticipate the coming of the Christ-Child at Christmas!  In our New Testament reading, James urges his readers to love one another and not grumble against one another as they await the return of Jesus.  May we too, be ever joyful!

Our readings for the Third Sunday of Advent will be Isaiah 35:1, 5-10, James 5:7-10, and Matthew 1:18-25, and we will be singing the hymns Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus, Of the Father’s Love Begotten, Angels We have Heard on High, and O Come, O Come, Emmanuel!  Past services and sermons can be viewed via the All Saints audio-visual page!

Christmas Movie Night – this Sunday!

From time to time it is fun for us All Saints people to see a movie together!

The new British film, Last Christmas, is showing at Central Festival.  Currently there is a showing at 7:10 p.m.  We will aim to go for this showing.  Meet outside the cinema at 7 p.m. so we can buy tickets to sit together.  (The time may change so check with the cinema or find out more on Sunday morning!)

Christmas Activities at All Saints

Please join us for our Midnight Mass, or our Christmas Morning Eucharist. or both!  We usually have lots of visitors at Midnight Mass so it’s good to have All Saints people to welcome them too!

Christmas Lunch

Forty people have already signed up for Christmas lunch!  Please sign-up this Sunday, or send me an email, if you would like to join us!  We will have roast turkey, and all the trimmings, followed by Christmas pudding or pumpkin pie!

Please signup if you are planning to come! This is not a potluck so we need to get organised!

Christmas Gifts for Children
at Youth Charity Foundation

This year we will once again give the 50 children from the Youth Charity Foundation a Christmas present from All Saints.  If we spend 150 THB on each child, that will cost 7,500 THB and we would also like to give something to the adults who work at the homes.

If you would like to contribute to this project, please put money in the red box at the back of the church or give to Trustees Bill Moeller or Chris Tananone, or our treasurer, Don Williams. Thank you in advance for your generosity!  We plan to deliver the gifts on Saturday December 28.  Let Bill or Chris know if you would be interested in joining this event (which will include food provided by the YCF).

Christmas cards

Another way to support the children of the Youth Charity Foundation is to purchase their beautiful handmade Christmas cards.  They are 40 THB each.  Take as many as you want and put the money in the box next to the cards.

New Year Potluck and House Blessing!

William and Tarntip would like to invite everyone to their home on Monday 30th December for a New Year Potluck and House Blessing!

Tarntip writes:

We will start at 4 pm. onwards and have a full blast this year. Food, Live Music, Puppet Shadow, Children Talent Shows, Bowl Singing from Nepal. Also, there will be cooking demonstration as well. Everyone is welcome.  For persons who wish to participate, please email me at purn.karunsiri@ gmail.com

William has had his operation following his motorbike accident and is on the mend!

New Year’s Eve

Everyone is invited to bring in the New Year at the Vicarage!  We will begin at 8 p.m. and go into 2020 together!  Please come if you can – more details to follow!

Gymkhana Lunch

Our weekly lunch at the Gymkhana Club will again be at midday, today (Thursday)!  Please feel free to join us!

Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.  All are welcome to join us as we share the presence of the risen Jesus in our lives!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshipping with us,

God bless,

Iain

From Father Iain, All Saints Chiang Mai

Nong Pratheep Church is Ready!

Dear Friends,

Our Festival of Christmas Carols is upon us and will be this Saturday at 7 p.m. at Nong Pratheep Church.  (Directions below)  It will be a wonderful time of celebration to begin the Christmas Season and we will be singing all the old favourites like Hark the Herald Angels Sing and O Come All ye Faithful.

The American, British, Australian, Portuguese, and Indian Consuls, and other community representatives, will be reading, and the Lannacappella Choir will be singing.  There will be an offering for the Youth Charity Foundation and the children of YCF will also sing!

Please come if you can – and bring your friends!

Please come at 6pm if you can help with setting up, parking, and other arrangements! – and bring cookies to share for the refreshments afterwards!

All is ready for Christmas at All Saints!

This Sunday we will celebrate the Second Sunday of Advent as we anticipate the coming of the Christ-Child at Christmas!

Our readings for the Second Sunday of Advent will be Isaiah 11:1-10, Romans 15:4-13, and Luke 1:26-38, and we will be singing the hymns O Come O come Emmanuel, The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came,  Song of Mary, and Angels from the Realms of Glory!  Past services and sermons can be viewed via the All Saints audio-visual page!

All Saints’ Festival of Christmas Carols –
This Saturday, 7th December

The festival will be held in Nong Pratheep Church which is on Thungspong Road.  (Turn off the Superhighway almost opposite Bangkok Hospital)

Directions!

Nong Pratheep Church is on Thungspong Road next to Expat Auto.  (Search for Expat Auto to use Google Maps directions.) Thungspong Road is off the Superhighway almost opposite Bangkok Hospital.

From the North

Drive down the Superhighway past Bangkok Hospital and Macro and do the U-turn.  Continue back along the Superhighway past Bangkok Hospital on the opposite side and turn left down Thungspong Road which is the first road on the left.  Nong Pratheep Church is about 200m down on the right.

From the South

Drive up the Superhighway through the tunnel at the Nongpratheep Intersection.  Then take the immediate exit on to the service road.  Continue a very short distance along past Bangkok Hospital on the opposite side and turn left down Thungspong Road which is the first road on the left.  Nong Pratheep Church is about 200m down on the right.

From the East / Central Chiang Mai

Drive along Charoen Muang Road past the Railway Station to the Superhighway.  Turn left on to the Superhighway and continue along past Bangkok Hospital on the opposite side and turn left down Thungspong Road which is the first road on the left.  Nong Pratheep Church is about 200m down on the right.

Other Christmas Activities

Christmas Lunch

Forty people have already signed up for Christmas lunch!  Please sign-up this Sunday, or send me an email, if you would like to join us!  We will have roast turkey, and all the trimmings, followed by Christmas pudding or pumpkin pie!

Please signup if you are planning to come! This is not a potluck so we need to get organised!

Christmas Gifts for Children
at Youth Charity Foundation

This year we will once again give the 50 children from the Youth Charity Foundation a Christmas present from All Saints.  If we spend 150 THB on each child, that will cost 7,500 THB and we would also like to give something to the adults who work at the homes.

If you would like to contribute to this project, please put money in the red box at the back of the church or give to Trustees Bill Moeller or Chris Tananone, or our treasurer, Don Williams. Thank you in advance for your generosity!

We plan to deliver the gifts on Saturday December 28.  Let Bill or Chris know if you would be interested in joining this event (which will include food provided by the YCF).

Christmas cards

Another way to support the children of the Youth Charity Foundation is to purchase their beautiful handmade Christmas cards.  They are 40 THB each.  Take as many as you want and put the money in the box next to the cards.

New Year’s Eve

Everyone is invited to bring in the New Year at the Vicarage!  We will begin at 8 p.m. and go into 2020 together!  Please come if you can – more details to follow!

Gymkhana Lunch

Our weekly lunch at the Gymkhana Club will again be at midday on Thursday!  Please feel free to join us!

Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

All are welcome to join us as we share the presence of the risen Jesus in our lives!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshipping with us,

God bless,

Iain