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 6 September
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Sunday 8 September / Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity
11am - BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Faith Without Works Is Dead’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
StED Talk: On Wednesday 11 September at 6pm 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. The talk is timed to follow World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) and all are welcome to attend.
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 (Friday 6 September):
Allen Francis Gardiner was born in 1794 and joined the Royal Navy as a young man. He resigned in 1826 and, on the death of his wife in 1834, dedicated himself to missionary work. He pioneered a mission to the Zulus in South Africa for the Church Missionary Society and founded the city of Durban. He then went to South America to investigate the possibility of evangelism amongst the indigenous tribes. He travelled extensively and founded the South American Mission Society in 1844. With seven other missionaries, he died of starvation in 1851 on the shores of Tierra del Fuego.
Almighty God, whose only Son has opened for us a new and living way into your presence: give us pure hearts and steadfast wills to worship you in spirit and in truth; 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.
