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 27 September
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 29 September / Michael and All Angels
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Do You Believe In Angels?’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
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. A list of items Jimmy’s require can be found here.
Harvest Lunch: After our 11am service of dedication & harvest celebration on Sunday 6 October, all are invited to a church-wide luncheon in the Clare side-chapel of the church. Pulled pork and buns will be provided, as well as a vegetarian sandwich option from Pret. Please bring a side, salad, or pudding to share. A sign-up sheet is provided at the back of the church.
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 (Wednesday 25 September):
Born in 1555 in Barking, Lancelot Andrewes studied at Merchant Taylors’ School and Pembroke Hall (now Pembroke College), Cambridge. After ordination, he held several posts before accepting appointment as bishop, first of Chichester, then of Ely and finally of Winchester in 1619. Andrewes was present at the Hampton Court Conference in 1604, which furthered the reform of the Church of England, and he was also a translator of much of the Old Testament of what is known as the ‘Authorized Version’ of the Bible. His preaching and his writings proved highly influential and his holiness of life and gentle nature endeared him to all who met him. He died on this day in the year 1626 and his remains lie in a church which was then in his diocese of Winchester but is now the cathedral for the diocese of Southwark.
Lord God, who gave to Lancelot Andrewes many gifts of your Holy Spirit, making him a man of prayer and a pastor of your people: perfect in us that which is lacking in your gifts, of faith, to increase it, of hope, to establish it, of love, to kindle it, that we may live in the light of your grace and 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.
