News from the Pews 14 January 2026

Dear Friends

Not a great deal of news this week, but here goes:

This year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity https://cte.org.uk/wpcu2026/ begins on Sunday. As has become our tradition at Soham, we'll mark this with an exchange of preachers: Keith Penn, a local preacher within the Ely and Newmarket District Methodist Circuit will preach at St Andrew's at 10am (the readings will be 1 Corinthians 1: 1-9 and John 1: 29-42) and John Cole will preach at Soham Methodist Church. Whilst anyone is welcome to accompany John, it's important that we retain a good congregation to welcome Keith...

The following day (Monday 19 January), there’ll be a Communion service at Millbrook House (in the library) at 10.30am. Everyone is welcome, including non-residents.

And the only other notice: new recruits are welcome to join the chalice assistants' rota for 10am services on Sundays (ie the rota of people who hold the cups of Communion wine when Communion is distributed by the clergy). Anyone of any age who usually receives Communion themselves is welcome to join the rota. Names need to be 'approved' by the PCC (ie Church Council), whose next meeting is on 27 January, so please let me know before 27 January if you'd like to help in this way. Thank you.

That's all folks! See you on Sunday.

Very best

Eleanor