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• Prayer meetings (see ideas)
  
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• Small study groups
  
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• Prayer breakfasts
  
• Parish retreats
  
• Family retreats
  
• Rosary groups
  
• Adoration, Benediction and other non-eucharistic opportunities for worship
  
• Hospital and housebound visiting

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Extracted from the Parish Notices at Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge  

MUSTARD SEEDS is a group for families which offers imaginative play, story telling, singing and a craft or messy play activity. Each session has a different Bible theme. We also pray together and share a snack of fresh fruit and rice cakes. All parents and accompanying children are very welcome. The group meets from 10.00 -11.30 on Monday mornings in term in the Parish Room at St Laurence’s, Milton Road , next door to the library. Please contact either Joy (01954 xxxxxx) or Karen (xxxxxx), email Karen (xxxx@xx.co.uk) for further details and let us know if you are going to come along; it will help us with planning.

From September there will also be a new group designed to meet the continuing need of families for fellowship and to provide the opportunity for children to play and pray together with their friends. ‘Sam’s Friends’ will meet on Tuesday afternoons from 15.30 until 17.00 in the Parish Room at St Laurence’s. (The Samuel narrative in the Bible provides children with a role model and guide. Samuel talks and listens to God directly, unafraid, trustingly, without any adult standing in the way). For further details, contact Karen, as above, or Mary Jane (xxxxxxxx).

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