The Dean and Archdeacon in the Gulf
The Very Rev’d Alan Hayday
Mobile:  39522547
Email:  decani@batelco.com.bh
 
Assistant Chaplain & Seafarers Mission
The Rev’d Victor Salve
Mobile  39247413
 
Cathedral Administrator
Ali  Seward
Office Telephone 17253866  Fax:  17246436
Email: cathedra@batelco.com.bh Web www.stchcathedral.org.bh
 

SERVICE TIMINGS
 

Friday 9.30 am Family Service - (+  Holy Communion  2nd & 4th)
Saturday - Awali 10.00 am Family Holy Communion
Sunday 10.30am
6.00 pm
Holy Communion
Holy Communion
  - (1st &  3rd Sun)
Evensong (2nd Sun)
Songs of Praise (4th Sun)
Holy Communion  - BCP (5th Sun)
Monday 8.00 am Morning Prayer
Tuesday 8.00 am Morning Prayer
Wednesday 8.00 am
6.30 pm
Morning Prayer
Holy Communion
Thursday 7.00 am Morning Prayer/Holy Communion
Friday Family Service
Two developments are being considered to enhance our Friday Service. Small children can by nature be noisy creatures but we still love them. To help us get over the difficulty some people have hearing the readings etc, especially when there are up to 40 children present, we are investigating the installation of a public address system. Secondly, after Easter, a regular children’s Friday School is to be organized so that children can have their own ‘time out’ from the main service if they wish.

Baptisms
For some reason or other we seem to be enjoying an upsurge in infant baptisms recently. It has been our policy to hold baptisms in the Friday morning family service, but baptisms every week can get a bit disruptive to the normal course of our worship and teaching. So a decision has been made that while we will continue to occasionally have baptisms in the Friday Family Service a special baptism service is also taking place a little later at 11.30 a.m. when required. Another congregation has this worship ‘slot’ regularly booked but since they do not require it every week on those occasions it is available to us.