St John the Evangelist Church, Shirley, Croydon

Friday 27th September.

10:00am to 12:30pm in the Tamberlin room (next to the church)

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is visiting our Diocese for a mission weekend from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 October. Form more information visit: Archbishop of Canterbury visit to Southwark – The Diocese of Southwark (anglican.org)

Following a number of the congregation visiting the Threads of Creation Exhibition at Southwark Cathedral recently Lu has suggested we create our own Creationtide banners.

As in the past we have created pieces for display, we have been inspired by the exhibition to work on a new project for all those who would like to work together as a group.

We have drafted a plan and started collecting materials with a view to starting this project during Creationtide 2024 ready for completion and hanging in Creationtide 2025.

We are hoping this project will involve a lot of people each doing a little piece.  There will be a brief initial meeting between the 9 and 10 o’clock services on Sunday, 22^nd September to explain a little more about the project and for people to express an interest in becoming involved.  Also there will be a sign up sheet at the back of church for names and contact details.

For more information please contact our Director of Music

David Thomas MA (RAM) FRCO LRAM LTCL DipABRSM

Organist, pianist and teacher. 

Accredited Teacher, Royal College of Organists

07909 975846

www.davidthomasorganist.co.uk

Season of Creation 2024 Prayer
Triune God, Creator of all,
We praise you for your goodness, visible in all the diversity that you have
created, making us a cosmic family living in a common home. Through
the Earth you created, we experience love and nourishment, home and
protection.
We confess that we do not relate to the Earth as a Mothering gift from
you, our Creator. Our selfishness, greed, neglect, and abuse have caused
the climate crisis, loss of biodiversity, human suffering as well as the suffering of all our fellow creatures.

We confess that we have failed to listen
to the groans of the Earth, the groans of all creatures, and the groans of
the Spirit of hope and justice that lives within us.
May your Creator Spirit help us in our weakness, so that we may know the
redeeming power of Christ and the hope found in him. May the groans of
the Spirit birth in us a willingness to serve you faithfully, so that we may
hear and heal Creation, to hope and act together with her, so that the
firstfruits of hope may blossom.
Loving and Creator God, we pray that you will make us sensitive to these
groans and enable us to have the same compassion as that of Jesus, the
redeeming Lord. Grant us a fresh vision of our relationship with Earth, and
with one another, as creatures that are made in your image.
In the name of the one who came to proclaim the good news to all Creation, Jesus Christ.
Amen.

This Season of Creation, Christians worldwide will raise awareness about the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT), a global
framework to transition our world from coal, oil, and gas.

For information click here: SoC Advocacy Activity Guidelines 2024.pdf – Google Drive