Easter 3
A PRAYER FOR EASTER
God of love, my prayer is simple: Your son, Jesus, suffered and died for me. I know only that I cannot have real strength unless I rely on you. I cannot feel protected from my many weaknesses until I turn to you for forgiveness and your unalterable love. Help me to share this strength, protection and love with others. Amen
Today
8.00am Holy Communion
10.00am The Gathering
11.30am Baptism Service for Lola McQueen, Ryleigh and Demi Meszaros
6.00pm Evening Eucharist
Diary – Week Commencing – Sunday 19th April
Monday 20th April
8.30am Holy Communion – Church
10.00am Bible Study Group – 11 St John Road
8.00pm Supp & Chat – Brown Jack
8.00pm Holiday Club Planning Meeting – 59 Tismeads Crescent
Tuesday 21st April
8.30am Morning Prayer – Church
11.00am Funeral Service for Mireille Hennell
6.00pm Clergy Surgery – Parish Office
7.30pm Prayer Group, The Listening Post – Church
Wednesday 22nd April
8.30am Morning Prayer – Parish Office
10.00am Holy Communion—St Joseph’s
Thursday 23rd April
8.30am Morning Prayer – Church
7.15pm Choir Practice
Filling Station—Lucy and Ann Marie
Friday 24th April
8.45am Morning Prayer – Prospect Hospice
7.00pm Bellringers Practice – Church
7.00pm 115 Club – Church Hall
Saturday 25th April
9.30am Healing on the Streets – Ellendune Centre
7.30pm Quiz Night – Church Hall
Forthcoming Events
Supp and Chat
Monday 27th April at 8pm at The Brown Jack.
Quiz Night with optional fish and chip supper
Saturday 25th April in the Church Hall.
Revd Nicola Such’s priesting
Sunday 5th July- 10.30am at Bristol Cathedral
Holiday Club
10th -14th August – Church hall
Sunday 26th April
Easter 4
8.00am Holy Communion
Preacher: Marion Colton
Sidesmen: Gillian Pitter and Sally Speller
10.00am Parish Communion
Preacher: Marion Colton
Intercessor: Margaret Penfound
Reading: Acts 4: 5-12
Reader: Dr John Henderson
Servers: Kathleen Gregory and Gillian Pitter
Sidesmen: David & Mary Evans
6.00pm Evensong
Preacher: Revd Barbara Abrey
Intercessor: Revd Nicola Such
1st Reading: Exodus 16: 4-15
Reader: Joyce Hamilton
2nd Reading: Revelation 2: 12-17
Reader: Geoffrey Hamilton
Servers: Gillian Pitter
Sidesmen: Maddie & Duncan Rogers
Birthdays
Happy Birthday to Iris Smith, Jennifer Ferguson, Jennifer Price, Julia Edmonds, David Pell and Stephen Knowles who celebrate their birthdays during the coming week.
Floodlighting
The Church was floodlit on Saturday 18th April by John Hawkins in memory of Fred and Min Hawkins.
2015 Year of discipleship
PCC Elections and Annual Parochial Church Meeting- 26 April at 11.00am
Our Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) will be held in church on Sunday 26 April starting at 11.00am. Agendas will be in church shortly. Anyone may attend but only those on the church’s Electoral Roll may vote. There will be elections to fill four vacancies on the Parochial Church Council (PCC) so please consider prayerfully whether you might put yourself forward for election. Nomination forms setting out eligibility criteria are on the church chest.
Holiday Club Planning Our first planning meeting will be on Monday 20th April at 8pm at 59 Tismead’s Crescent. We will be using Scripture Union material Polar Explorers this year. If you would like to help please come to the meeting or contact me on 633024. Barbara. (If you have not helped before you will need to go through our child protection procedure before you can take part.)
Monday morning Bible Study
Because of another commitment the group will start again on Monday, 27th April and not on 20th as previously agreed.
Prayer for Healing on the Streets
We are looking for prayer support while our team is in the Ellendune Centre once a fortnight on a Saturday morning. We would like at least two people each time and they can provide this support in their own home. It doesn’t have to be the same people every time, so if you are willing to offer this ministry occasionally, please speak to the Vicar or Margaret Penfound.
New Prayer Group:
The Listening Post
A new group starting with the aim of listening to what God is saying, whose Agenda is completely free and open and to bring our supplications to God. It will be starting on Tuesday 21st April at the Parish Church from 7.30pm to 8.30pm.
Messy Church @The Stowe
Messy Church will be running monthly in East Wichel- the next one being Sunday 26th April 3-5pm. If you would like to come and help or come and chat then please let Nicola know asap.
Open the Book at East Wichel Primary
Our first infant assembly is 27th April. If you are able to come to be part of the team that day could we meet briefly after the Gathering today- just to talk through the script! Please pray that we are well received and invited back! Thanks! Nicola
Spiritual Formation Group
Resumes on Wed 6th May for those who would still like to continue! Only two more streams to go! 7.30pm for 8pm start at 49, Perry’s Lane.
Training Opportunity for church-based youth leaders/volunteers
An all day session is being run by Dan Jones (Diocesan Youth and Children’s Adviser) on Saturday 9 May at St John’s Church Haydon Wick. Please see Diocesan website for further information and booking form.
Parish Weekend on Discipleship 16th -18th October at Wokefield Park Hotel near Reading. Bishop Mike will be leading us for the weekend. Booking forms are now available
Marie is Walking the Walk!
In memory of my dear friend, Ros Marsh, I am taking part in the “moonwalk” on the 16th May.
This 26.2 mile sponsored walk, takes place at night, through London, by thousands of participants wearing bras! The charity, Walk the Walk is a grant making charity supporting several breast cancer causes. Read more on their website www.walkthewalk.org and pledge your support at
https://secure1.everydayhero.co.uk/event/MoonWalkLondon2015/hero_page/marie-2/donate
alternatively, chat to me in church where I will have a sponsorship form at the ready.
Free to a new home
I have recently upgraded my printer and have a Epson RX585 printer/copier/scanner which is in good condition. If you are interested please contact me. Fleur Taylor
CHURCH IN THE WIDER WORLD
For the next couple of months we are supporting the Church Mission Society (CMS) with our prayers.
CMS has partners in South Sudan, a country still in turmoil despite the recent elections. Please pray:
- for Derek and Jane Waller, training clergy and encouraging the laity in Yei Diocese
- for Ruth Radley in the same diocese, working with children and helping the churches and communities to identify their needs
- for the churches in South Sudan working to bring peace and counter radicalism in their country
- for CMS staff at the headquarters in Oxford as they provide support for their link partners abroad
Family of Hope, Uganda
Family of Hope is a charity which funds a school in rural Eastern Uganda for children with special educational needs and those in extreme poverty. Alex Horlock (Rosemary and Brian’s daughter-in-law) will be giving a presentation about the charity to the Mothers’ Union in the Church Croft, St Bartholomews, Royal Wootton Bassett on Tuesday, 21st April at 7.30 p.m. Anyone interested in the work in Uganda is welcome to come to the presentation.
Christians Against Poverty (CAP) – Mike and Hannah Awre are running in the Manchester Marathon today in order to raise money for CAP which is a national charity working in partnership with local churches across the UK. CAP provides top quality debt counselling and practical support to see people released from the pressures of debt and given a hope for the future. As well as releasing people from debt it also provides help in many of the arrears associated with debt including unemployment and addictions. CAP does not have Government funding so relies purely on regular givers and one off donations. If you would be willing to sponsor Mike and Hannah it would be greatly appreciated. The link to their just giving page is: www.justgiving.com/hannah-awre1. If you prefer to donate by means of a paper form, there is a form on the Church chest.
Ordinary Heroes
The Tearfund national “Ordinary Heroes” tour is coming to Bristol at 7.30pm on Wednesday 29th April to tell us about ordinary people in ordinary churches changing their communities. The speakers will be Krish Kandiah, from the London School of Theology, and Henrietta Blyth, a director of Tearfund. If you would like to go please speak to Joan Orman (813320).
This week please pray for:-
- Church Mission Society
- The residents of Greens Lane and Hackpen Close
- Healing on the Streets
- Holiday Club planning team as they meet on Monday
- Our Bibles Study Groups and Prayer Groups
- We commend to God’s care and keeping those who have died recently especially Anita Collier, Mirelle Hennell, Ivy Mckelvey and Marjorie Rayner. We pray for all who mourn the loss of loved ones.
- First World War: we remember with thanksgiving Ferdinand Marsham-Townsend a serviceman from Wroughton who died in the First World War on 19th April 1915.
