Wednesday 16 March 2022 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, I want to thank all those who worked so hard to organise our Spring Sale last Saturday. We had a good number of people attending. In addition to raising money for the ministry of the church, these occasions are good opportunities to meet people from our wider community. Thank you SO much to the events team and many others who helped in various ways. It was a great team effort and all went very smoothly. This Sunday, 20th March, is the third Sunday of Lent. Do join us in church. We especially welcome our families and children. Junior Church and creche will be running. If you can't come along, you can listen to the service online:
Recording of the sermon
LentLive Lent
Bishop's Lent and Easter Appeal
Wednesday Prayers for Peace
Music in Church
1. If you play a musical instrument and would like to play regularly, or occasionally, in a church music group playing songs in services. (Please let me know the instrument!) 2. If you can suggest anyone you are in contact with who might be willing to play the piano/organ in the church and who is happy and able to play a wide range of music including traditional hymns and more modern worship songs. Ideally we would like that person to become fully involved in the life of the church. Please pass on any contacts to me so that I can get in touch with them to talk further. I would be grateful if you could do this in the next few weeks.
Memorial Service for David Winfield
Prayer for Peace
We pray to you this day, O God, mindful of the sorry confusion of our world. Look with mercy upon this generation of your children so steeped in misery of their own contriving, so far strayed from your ways and so blinded by passions…We pray for wicked and cruel men, whose arrogance reveals to us what the sin of our own hearts is like when it has conceived and brought forth its final fruit. O God, who resists the proud and gives grace to the humble, bring down the mighty from their seats. We pray for ourselves who live in peace and quietness, that we may not regard our good fortune as proof of our virtue, or rest content to have our ease at the price of other men’s sorrow and tribulation. We pray for all who have some vision of your will, despite the confusions and betrayals of human sin, that they humbly and resolutely plan for and fashion the foundations of a just peace between men, even while they seek to preserve what is fair and just among us against the threat of malignant power. Grant us grace to see what we can do, but also to know what are the limits of our powers, so that courage may feed on trust in you, who are able to rule and overrule the angry passions of men and make the wrath of men to praise you. Amen With love in Christ,
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