Services This Week
Dear All,
Services this week are taking place in person or via livestream through our YouTube Channel. Please find gathering times and service sheet links below.
Friday 10 May
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 12 May / Sunday After Ascension Day
11am - BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Sanctified in Truth’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
APCM & Church Lunch: Our annual meeting of the parish church and church lunch will be held this year after the 11am service on Pentecost Sunday (19 May 2024). For lunch, both a meat and a vegetarian main will be provided, so we would welcome members bringing sides, salads, desserts, or drinks to share. Please speak to Hosanna Greene, or email stedwardsassistant@gmail.com, if you intend to bring something. Thank you!
Volunteer Rota: In addition to the sign-up sheet in church, we are making it easier to volunteer by attaching an online rota with the weekly email here. (N.B. There will be an initial delay before access is granted to the form, in order that only church members can see and edit it.) Please do consider if you are able to help out in any of the ways listed – we are particularly in need of regular volunteers to set-up tea and coffee and stay a little longer after each service to wash-up/leave away. Many thanks!
Giving: As always we are grateful for all of your gifts! Offerings may still be given during this time via a basket collection during live services, Standing Orders, or one time bank transfer, via BACS (Sort Code: 20-17-19 / Account Number: 30851477 / Account Name: St Edwards Church). There is now also a SumUp machine by the door of the church, for those of you who wish to give contactlessly: Simply power on, enter the amount you wish to give on the screen, and then tap your card.
Ascension Day (Thursday 9 May):
(Acts 1.1-11): In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning (2) until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. (3) After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over the course of forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. (4) While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. ‘This’, he said, ‘is what you have heard from me; (5) for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.’
(6) So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?’ (7) He replied, ‘It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. (8) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’ (9) When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. (10) While he was going and they were gazing up towards heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. (11) They said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.’
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that as we believe your only–begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heavens, so we in heart and mind may also ascend and with him continually dwell; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
