From Father Iain, All Saints Chiang Mai
Christmas is Coming!
Dear Friends,
Once again Christmas is upon us! As I write this, we have just finished wrapping the Christmas presents for the children of the Youth Charity Foundation. We give them the gifts on 28th January!
Christmas is a time for giving, and a time for giving thanks! We must be thankful for all the good things we have, and for our friends and families!
But Christmas can also be a stressful time! Please hold one another in your prayers – especially for those preparing to host around 40 people for Christmas lunch!
Most of all, Christmas is a time for welcoming Christ back into our lives again, of being thankful for God’s love, and being renewed in the strength that brings!
We have three services this Christmas – and a fourth at the Youth Charity Foundation – join us if you can!
They are:
Sunday 22nd December 10:30 am
Fourth Sunday of Advent Service
Tuesday 24th December 11:30 pm
Midnight Mass
Wednesday 25th December 10:30 am
Christmas Morning Eucharist
(Followed by Christmas Lunch)
Saturday 28th December 5:00 pm
Christmas meal & worship at YCF
May I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!
Use this link to join on Zoom on Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
Meeting ID: 548 801 501
Last Sunday’s Service!
Video of the service for the Third Sunday of Advent is available on the All Saints YouTube channel and that of the Fourth Sunday will be available soon!
The All Saints Festival of Christmas Carols
Worshipping Together
The video of the whole wonderful event is available here! And you can watch the All Saints Choristers sing O Holy Night and the Carol of the Bells!
The All Saints Choristers
The Lannacappella Choir
Combined Choirs
Angel Voices
Thanks to all who worked so hard to make this such a great event!
Christmas at All Saints
Why not invite a friend?
Click here to download the poster to share!
Present Wrapping at the Vicarage
Wrapping the Gifts
Every year All Saints buys Christmas presents for the Children of the Youth Charity Foundation. This year we met together on Wednesday to wrap them all! Thanks to all who volunteered to help!
We will give the presents to the children at YCF on Saturday 28th December.
Christmas Lunch Setup
Volunteers needed to set up the tables, chairs, plates, glasses, and cutlery, etc.
We will meet on Christmas Eve, Tuesday 24th, at 2 p.m. at the vicarage. Come if you can!
Midnight Mass and Christmas Morning Eucharist
Join us at 11:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, Tuesday 24th December, for Midnight Mass, and at 10:30 a.m. on Christmas Day for our Morning Eucharist.
Christmas Lunch – 25th December
Every year we share Christmas lunch together at the vicarage – nobody need be alone! You should have already signed up to indicate how many people are coming and also to say what you can bring.
Youth Charity Foundation Christmas – Saturday 28th December
Everyone is invited to the Youth Charity Foundation to share dinner, worship together, and give the children their Christmas presents.
Dinner is at 5 p.m. followed by worship. Events should end around 8 p.m.
All Saints Book Group
Book Group is on hold until the new year! We meet on Tuesday afternoons. Time and location TBD. Contact Christa if you would like to join us as we continue our journey together through the book, Living Resistance.
Chili Night
Chili Night is on holiday. It will return on 21st January!
Weekly Offering to All Saints
You can still donate in person or online – and now you can us our QR code!. Thank you for your support and love for All Saints and all we are trying to do together. God has shown that he is mighty and we are in his hands!
Merry Christmas,
God bless you,
Father Iain
All Saints' Chiang Mai 