Next Service 23rd June
God’s love has been poured out into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us
– Romans 5:5
Our next Service of Healing and Wholeness will be this Sunday, 23rd June, at 6pm. Do come and join us, everyone is welcome.
This is a simple, said service, with candles and using a liturgy from the Iona Community. Come and listen and respond to God as we allow the Holy Spirit to bring our prayers of hope and healing into God’s heart of love for all he has made.
Beautiful Flowers
In anticipation of our Festival in September, here are some photographs taken recently at Cambridge Botanical Gardens.
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah 40 verse 5, celebrating the glorious diversity of God in creation
The Utopians land next weekend
Don’t forget that Utopians Unlimited will be performing in the Church next Saturday Night (22 June 2019).
All the proceeds from this will be going to our Spire fund to help with the £100,000 bill we will be paying this year.
There are tickets available on the door but to help with the catering please book them in advance. Details are on our tickets page
Ways to Donate
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We use any money we receive for a variety of causes, from supporting local people to fixing the church Spire, nothing will be wasted.
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The Sending Out
Traditionally, Pentecost is celebrated for a week after Pentecost Sunday, so here are some words from the liturgy as we move forward in the power of the Spirit:
We have celebrated the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ over the powers of sin and death. We have proclaimed God’s mighty acts and we have prayed that the power that was at work when God raised Jesus from the dead might be at work in us.
By the Spirit’s power, may we live out what we proclaim:
by word and example;
by seeking and serving Christ in all people;
by prayer for the world and its leaders;
by defending the weak;
and by pursuing peace and justice in human society.
Patronal Day
On the 7th July please join us in the Vicarage Garden
Please sign up if you can offer help and what food you are able to bring and share.
Sign-up sheets at the back of church.
Looking forward to sharing a great afternoon with the extended family.
Creativity workshop
In the Creativity Workshops we have many different projects, either for ourselves or making items for the Flower Festival Handcraft stall. Last Saturday we mainly worked on Lavender bags and learning how to Crochet!!
First Aid training
So everyone that visits us can feel safe we had some first aid training. Not only was it very informative it was made fun.
Here are a couple of pictures.
Many thanks to Jennifer for giving up her evening to run the training.
More information and even some online training can be found on the red cross website https://www.redcross.org.uk/first-aid
Inclusive Church: Pentecost
Here is a poem by RS Thomas (1913-2000), poet and Anglican Priest, as we consider prayerfully as a Church, the expression of our community life and mission through joining Inclusive Church.
It is a poem that speaks of the enlivening, transformative coming of the Holy Spirit, with his exuberant fluency, in and through all our human experience. It resonates with discovery, of a God who makes all things new, and the healing journey which we all share together. We think of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the diversity of vernacular, and the cascade of blessing and creativity which followed – as we humbly, at this time, recommit ourselves to the purposes of the “One who is.”
With acknowledgement to The Revd Dr Hannah Lewis, Chaplain for the Deaf Church in Liverpool, who posted this poem for Pentecost
