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Priest-in-Charge: Fr John Ainslie (revjohnainslie@gmail.com; 01628 629827)

Do please join us after Mass for Tea, Coffee and Cake in the Vestry Hall - just ask if you don’t know the way!

Services this week: Said Mass on Thursday at 10.30am; next Sunday Sung Mass at 10.30am – both followed by Tea, Coffee and Cake.

A big Thank You to those who spent time in church this week doing cleaning and tidying – you know who you are !!

NEXT SATURDAY 29th August – FiF Pilgrimage Day at Aylesford Priory, 11am Mass with +Luke, Rosary pm. Remember to bring a picnic, and a picnic chair! All welcome. Can those who are going please meet up in the Vestry Hall after Mass so we can arrange transport for those who need it.

For those not going to Aylesford, the St Andrews Barming Summer Fair is also on Saturday 29th August 11.30am- 3pm. They promise stalls, books, toys, tombola, food, games, music….

FLOWER FESTIVAL AND HERITAGE WEEKEND – this major Festival Weekend is part of our 150th Anniversary Celebrations and takes place 11th-13th September. Please plan to be here!

 Flower Festival Friday 11th - Sunday 13th  Church open with displays about the history and significance of the Church  Organ recitals morning and afternoon on Saturday 12th  Saturday 12th at 3.45pm - A Talk by Tom Middleton, National Director of FiF, on the present state of the Catholic Movement in the CofE, followed by discussion over Tea/Coffee/Cake.

Ride & Stride in aid of Friends of Kent Churches also takes place on Saturday 12th September. Catherine Garland is our parish organiser, and is also looking for sponsorship as she cycles and walks around local churches – Please support Catherine and sign her sponsorship form at the Back of Church. Money raised is split 50:50 between our church and the Friends of Kent Churches. The Friends offer grants towards maintenance and repair of Kent churches, and the PCC will be approaching them for a grant towards our new heating system – so it will be good if once again we are seen to be supporting the Friends on Ride & Stride day.

FOR OUR PRAYERS:

We pray for our Festival Weekend in September, for all the preparations and for the success of the events. We pray for Bishop Luke and the FiF event at Aylesford next Saturday. We pray for our ministry of Welcome at St Michael’s, that those visit us whether frequently or for the first time would feel a genuine sense of welcome into our beautiful church building, and into our church community. In the Richborough Cycle of Prayer we pray this week for Society Priests in ministry as Chaplains in the armed forces, hospitals and prisons, and for Society parishes in the diocese of Leicester, Lincoln and Gibraltar in Europe.

We pray for those in need, and especially Glynis Reynolds, Yvonne Young, Lindsay Wheeler, David Green, Norman Farrington, Phil and Marion, Joe, Keira, Freya, Isaac, Lexie Nicholson, Sarah, Janet, Ralph Austin, Isobel and Fay, Ruby Corquaye.

We pray for the recently departed, including Linda Martin. We remember those who have faithfully served God in this place in previous generations, and for those whose year’s mind occurs this week: Paul Gibbons (Pr) and Emily Aldous.

FROM THE BELL TOWER: 16 August 1376 Plain Bob Major 1 James Pearce 2 Philip Jarvis 3 Emma Jarvis 4 Charlotte Elvers 5 Stuart Cox 6 Mark Elvers 7 Scott Pearce 8 Neil Jones (C) Rung for the Festival of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Also for the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Joy and Terry Barnard, 14/8/2026.