I look forward to seeing many of you this coming Sunday at 11am, especially all those who absented themselves last Sunday because of the weather!!!!

Sunday 17th January at 11am  – Sung Eucharist for the Second Sunday of Epiphany
This Sunday, we welcome as our preacher Rev’d Petr Jan Vinš, who is a young Old Catholic priest and fluent English-speaker. Many of you will already have met Petr as he has been to St. Clement’s on a number of previous occasions with Bishop Dušan and has translated and interpreted for him. Petr was only ordained priest last July and is currently continuing his academic studies in Bern, Switzerland. However, he has been in Prague this past week and doesn’t return to Bern until Sunday evening and is therefore able to be with us on Sunday morning.

There will be Coffee Hour following the service in Klimentská 18 giving everyone the chance to meet & talk with Petr as well as share fellowship with each other. However, there will almost certainly not be Sunday School this Sunday as none of our regular Sunday School teachers are available. This highlights the real need we have for one or two more additional Sunday School teachers. If anyone would be interested in exploring the possibility of helping with the Sunday School, please speak with me or with Veronika Newkirk.

Collecting Used Stamps to support the work of the Intercontinental Church Society
Once again, may I thank everyone who has brought used postage stamps to Church and placed them in the collecting envelope at the back of Church. I sent off a large padded envelope full of used stamps last week and earlier this week received an email from Sylvia Leyton, the ICS organiser, advising me of their safe arrival and expressing her thanks to all of you. There is now, plenty of room in the collecting envelope…….

As you will know from my additional message last Friday entitled ‘Be careful’, a hacker got into an email account of one of our members and sent out scam emails trying to get money from her friends. Unfortunately, the hacker has so fouled up and compromised her old email address that she cannot use it any longer. She has therefore also lost her email address book.

She has asked me to let her St. Clement’s friends know via this message, that she now has a new email address. If you were previously in contact with Caroline by email, please delete her old email address from your address book and replace it with the new one.

As well as doing this, please also send her an email which will then give her your email address for her new address book.

Our ‘100th Birthday Party’
Thank you to all of you who have responded and said you would like to come to this event on Friday 26th February. If you haven’t yet responded and would like to come, please drop me an email so we have some idea of numbers. More details will follow shortly.

Finally for this week, your Church Council will be meeting for the first time in 2010 on Sunday after Coffee Hour. As Mark Newkirk said when giving the notices last Sunday, we would appreciate your prayers for this meeting as we grapple with a number of important issues.

Best wishes

Ricky