Enjoy a stress-free lunchtime every Tuesday at Amersham Free Church. Coffee, tea and soup served from 12 noon - 2 pm. Varied programme from 1.10 - 1.30 pm (live music, worship, prayer, thought for the day).  Further details at amershamfreechurch.org.uk/lunchbreak.

Buy your Charity Christmas Cards at St Michael's - cards sold in aid of a wide range of charities will be available in church - from November 5 until December 11 between 10 am and 4 pm.

Just Looking, the next mini course in the Christian faith, will take place at St Michael's on Friday evenings from November 7 until December 5, at 7 pm.   Click here for further information.

Deanery Synod meetings in 2008, to which all are welcome, will be at 8 pm on: Wednesday February 13, Thursday May 15, Monday September 15 and Tuesday November 25.

Advent Meditations will take place in the Lady Chapel Tuesday evenings on December 2, December 9, December 16 and December 23 and last for 40 minutes from 8pm.  Enter into the stillness of a guided meditation on an Advent theme. There will be music and stillness .  On December 16 and 23 the meditation will follow Compline (which starts at 7.30pm).  Do come to either or both.

The Baroque Chamber Ensemble Pellegrina will give a candlelight Christmas concert on Saturday December 6 at 7.30 pm. The programme will feature Baroque Christmas Music from across Europe, including Corelli's Christmas Concerto and Sheep May Safely Graze by Bach.  Tickets cost £10 and are available from The Record Shop, Amersham; by calling the Pellegrina TicketLine 07864 093042; or at the door.  For further information please see the December Newsletter.

At St. Michael's on Sunday December 7 at 6 pm.  Come and sing some well-known carols over mulled wine and mince pies. All are welcome.

This year's Amersham Town Carol Service will take place at St Michael's on Wednesday December 10 at 7.30 pm.

The church will be open on Friday December 12 during the late night shopping at Amersham-on-the-Hill.  shed@thepark will be singing in church at 6.30 pm and there’ll be carol singing on the forecourt at 7 pm.  For further information please see the December Newsletter.

On Christmas Eve, the Crib Service will be at 4 pm.  Midnight Mass (with candles) commences at 11.15 pm 

Christmas Day services commence with a Said Eucharist at 8 am. The Eucharist with carols is at 10 am.

The next joint service for the Churches on the Hill will be at St John's on Sunday January 25.  Please note it will be at 10.30 am.

Tea and coffee are served before the sessions begin.

Candlemas will be celebrated on Sunday February 1.  As usual there will be no 10 am service, but there will be a candlelit service at 4 pm.

St. Michael's Variety Show on Saturday May 9 2009 will include the latest offering from our flourishing Junior Drama Group - The Ugly Duckling.

Churches-on-the-Hill Amersham are offering an opportunity to attend the Oberammagau Passion Play on June 9 2010. It will be a 10 day trip (two in Oberammagau) and is likely cost a little over £1,200. It will be necessary to book by the New Year. More details from Liz Walmsley (ewaumsley894@btinternet.com)