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 30 August
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 1 September / Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity
9am - BCP Holy Communion
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Be Doers of the Word’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
StED Talk: On Wednesday 11 September at 5pm in the church, Dr Cherrie Coghlan – a retired consultant psychiatrist – will be speaking on ‘“Where There Is Darkness”: Towards A Better Understanding Of Suicide’. Dr Coghlan is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Special Interest Group on Psychiatry and Spirituality and, in the context of this multi-faith group, she has written and spoken about suicide and spirituality. This talk will combine a personal view with an introduction to recent research.
Harvest Donations: In the run-up to our harvest festival this year, on Sunday 6 October, we will be collecting for Jimmy’s Night Shelter in Cambridge. Jimmy’s provides emergency accommodation for those who have been made homeless, as well as supporting residents to transition into homes of their own. Last year, donations helped Jimmy’s provide 40,000 meals including breakfast, lunch and a well-balanced, nutritious evening meal, all of which is vital to helping its residents adopt a healthier lifestyle.
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.
Exciting Holiness (Thursday 29 August):
The Beheading of John the Baptist. The main celebration for John the Baptist is on 24 June, the date observing his birth, but John was also the forerunner of Christ in his death, which, as the gospels of Matthew and Mark relate it, followed his denunciation of immorality and his call to repentance. On hearing of John’s arrest, Christ immediately took up John’s call: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near; repent, and believe the good news.
Almighty God, who called your servant John the Baptist to be the forerunner of your Son in birth and death: strengthen us by your grace that, as he suffered for the truth, so we may boldly resist corruption and vice and receive with him the unfading crown of glory; 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.
