Services and Events for May 2023

Sunday 7th May The Fifth Sunday of Easter [BCP Easter 4] 

Sunday 14th May  The Sixth Sunday of Easter  [BCP Easter 5] 

Sunday 21st May  The Seventh Sunday of Easter 

Sunday 28th May  Pentecost [BCP Whit Sunday]

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Services and Events for June 2023

The Reordering Project begins in the Lower Hall on 19th June. During this time there will be NO Toddler Group. Coffee Shop will be held at the back of the church. Once work in the church starts, Sunday services will be held in the Lower Hall. 

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Sunday 11th June   Barnabas the Apostle

 9:00am BCP: Job 29:11-16; Acts 11:22-end; John 15:12-16

10.30am: CW: Job 29:11-16; Acts 11:19-end; Galatians 2:1-10; John 15:12-17

5:00pm Evensong: Jeremiah 9:23,24; Acts 4:32-37

We welcome The Rev Canon Gordon Oliver as our celebrant and preacher at the 9.00am & 10.30am Services this Sunday.

COLLECT

Bountiful God, giver of all gifts, who poured your Spirit upon your servant Barnabas and gave him grace to encourage others: help us, by his example, to be generous in our judgements ad unselfish in our service; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

 

Tuesday 13th June 10 for 10:30am Growing in Faith in the Swain Vestry

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Thursday 15th June Toodler Group 10-11:30am Lower Hall

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Sunday 18th June   The Second Sunday after Trinity

                               

9:00am BCP: Genesis 12:1-4; 1 John 3:13-end; Luke 14:16-24

10:30am CW: Exodus 19:2-8a; Romans 5:1-8;

Matthew 9:35 – 10:8 (9-23)

3:00pm Families at 3

COLLECT

Lord, you have taught us that all our doings without love are nothing worth: send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love, the true bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whoever lives is counted dead before you. Grant this for your only Son Jesus Christ’s sake, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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Thursday 22nd June NO Toddler group

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Saturday 24th June No coffee shop in the Lower Hall - back of the church.

 

Sunday 25th June   The Third Sunday after Trinity    

 

9:00am BCP: 2 Chronicles 33:9-13; 1 Peter 5:5b-11;

Luke 15:1-10

10:30am CW: Jeremiah 20:7-13; Romans 6:1b-11;

Matthew 10:24-39

The third service today may be Evensong or a Festival Eucharist (tbc)

COLLECT

Almighty God, you have broken the tyranny of sin and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts whereby we call you Father: give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service, that we and all creation may be brought to the glorious liberty of the children of God; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.