Informal Worship
TT4G – 28 May
The church will be open from 08:00 to 09:30 tomorrow, 28th May. Why not take the opportunity to make space in your day to pray for the things that are important to you.
Evensong at St. Johns
From the 9th June we will be holding a monthly Evensong at 5pm.
Taking place as the day begins to end, this service is a wonderful opportunity to pause and reflect. You are welcome to join in or just sit back and let the words and music draw you towards God and help you to prepare for the week ahead. The service lasts about 45 minutes.
Inclusive church
I realise the website tends to have lots of information about what happening at our church, events, services etc. This post is a little different
At our recent APCM our vicar (Lu Gale) asked us to think about joining the inclusive church so I’ve been doing a little reading in preparation for an upcoming PCC meeting.
There is a lot of information on there and I hate to take a snippet out of context but I saw this and thought I should share it. It was a briefing paper on the House of Bishops’ Pastoral Guidance on using the Affirmation of Baptismal Faith with transgender people. In that paper there are some questions and answers, the last one struck a chord, here it is
Q. What might transgender people be looking for from their church?
A. For the Church to
- signal that trans people are welcome
- be a safe space for them, and for family and friends journeying with them
- listen and learn from their experience
- be a place where they are not required to hide who they are
- recognise the honesty and integrity of their particular journey within the love of Christ
- understand that their experience is about being true to their own sense of self
- have their loved ones supported and their relationships affirmed
- be open to their requests for prayer & offer resources to mark significant life events
- treat them equally with everyone else in the ministry and mission of the church
- not presume that they have automatically fallen from grace just for being who they are
I read the above thinking that sounds pretty much the same list that anyone would have.
The whole article can be found here.
Please continue to pray and think about what your response will be when asked about this topic.
Book Club- new book
by Sally Vickers
n 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children’s librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole.
Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole for reading. But her love affair with the local married GP, and her befriending of his precious daughter, her neighbour’s son and her landlady’s neglected grandchild, ignite the prejudices of the town, threatening her job and the very existence of the library with dramatic consequences for them all.
The next book club meeting is on 16th June At 3:30pm in the Tamberlin Room. Everyone is welcome.
Tea Room
Tea room is open with a lovely selection of cakes.
50% money raised goes to The Royal Marsden and now the other 50% goes to Save Our Spire.
Book Group
Don’t forget its book group this afternoon. 3.30pm at St John’s church in the Tamberlin room, where we will be discussing Scapegoat and choosing our next book.
Marsden March
We have turned the website Orange to support the team taking part in the Marsden march
Here is another opportunity to support the Marsden via Helen’s Link, The team consists of
The Royal Marsden cared for Steve for almost 9 years after he was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. They were always seeking out the best treatments for him, but more research and funding is needed to continue their great work.
Helen, Nicky, Suzanne, Jane, Kate, Angelene, Sarah, Karen, Dee, Heather and Brenda
Many thanks for your support
The team are now half way and still smiling 😀
And they are done.
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