A reminder of the evening service on Palm Sunday is a rather special event depicting Christ on the cross and the conversations that took place.
Come and see this as Christ would have done.
News
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Lent Lunch 13th April
Our next and last Lent lunch for this year will be held on Saturday 13th April starting at 12:00.
The menu is Soup, lasagna, quiche, salad and desserts.
This week will be raising funds for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.
Thanks
Sheila would like to send thanks to all those who donated to the cancer charities recently
Creating Community
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, has just launched a new initiative to address the current housing crisis.
Academics, housing experts and theologians are to meet over an 18-month period to examine how the Church of England can build on its own work in housing and contribute to the national debate on policy.
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Housing, Church and Community will explore a Christian perspective on housing policy with a particular focus on providing good homes – a foundation of equality and justice – and promoting thriving communities. Charlie Arbuthnot, an expert in the financing of social housing, and Chair of the Commission, said at Tuesday’s launch that the Church could make a unique contribution to the debate on housing, offering a distinctive narrative, with a presence in every community, and possessing key assets: “What if through this we could re-empower and reimagine Church?” he asked. The Archbishop of Canterbury expressed his hope that the outcomes of the work would be “imaginative, thoughtful, and radical.”
“As the Church,” he said, “we have one primary motivation: in the words of St Paul, the love of Christ compels us. The example of Jesus draws us on and leads us not just to speak of God’s love, but to demonstrate it by reaching out in compassion to those who are in greatest need.”
Luke’s Gospel on Radio 4
Our Church has been studying Luke’s Gospel during Lent. Starting on Monday, and each day of Holy Week, BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting Witness: Behind Luke’s Story in which Ernie Rea will explore aspects of the Gospel and Jesus’ teaching. This will be based on a series of 45-minute radio plays by Nick Warburton, first broadcast in 2007.
Find out more about the series by clicking here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008hpcx/episodes/guide
Joining in Prayer
God of reconciling hope, as you guided your people in the past, guide us through the uncertainties of the present time and bring us to that place of flourishing where our unity can be restored, the common good served, and all shall be made well. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
- with thanks to Bishop Christopher for uniting us in this prayer
Male Voice Choir
Concert at St Johns – Saturday 13th April
Raising funds for Demelza Hospice Care for Children at 7.30pm
For more information on the Demelza Hospice please look at the website https://www.demelza.org.uk/
Tickets £10 include a glass of wine or juice. Available at the door
The View from the Cross
A sequence of words and music for the start of Holy Week fashioned around the “Seven Last Words” of Jesus on the Cross.
Palm Sunday Evening, 14th April 2019, at 6.00pm
Hall Grange
Hall Grange have a grant to revitalise the seven acre garden created by Rev. William Wilks (2nd St John’s Vicar) and Bernard has invited Alice Henry, the Head Gardener to tidy and replant the Wilks grave plot with Shirley Poppies.Alice is meeting Bernard in the churchyard on Sunday afternoon and they will join the Tea Room folk for a chat about the scheme and a St John’s link. The Fellowship Group are planning a Sunday Ramble soon to explore the Hall Grange Garden and return for tea and cakes.
Work began on Sunday to replant the Shirley Poppies around our former Vicar’s grave. The Revd Wilks was a renowned horticulturist, who developed the Shirley Poppy from 1880 onwards.
For more information on The Revd Wilks’ early ecological garden at Hall Grange, click here http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.php?ID=CRO033
Keep up with the project here – this link will take you to the Methodists’ website about The Wilderness Project to revitalise the garden at Hall Grange https://www.mha.org.uk/news-and-views/latest-news/news_archive/reclaiming-wilderness/
Lent Lunch tomorrow (6th April)
Don’t forget tomorrow there is a Lent Lunch being run to collect funds for the Demelza Hospice Charity.
On the menu there is Sausage Casserole, Beef stew and vegetarian cottage pie. Why not get to the Tamberlin room for 12 o clock and save yourself some cooking and washing up.