Dear Friends
As we move closer to Pentecost Sunday let us pray for God’s Holy Spirit to touch more lives. This Sunday’s morning gospel has Jesus praying for us to go into the world.
Join in the Thy Kingdom Come movement at St Margaret’s Church from 9-19 May 2024. Along with churches from over 85 different denominations and traditions in over 172 countries around the world, pray for more people to come to know the love and peace of Jesus Christ.
This Sunday’s morning worship we have Tony at St Margaret’s and Maggie at St Luke’s churches we also have Katy taking Evensong.
There are also two of Louise’s initiatives of ‘Open the Story, Forest School’ at 3pm at Countess Wear School grounds and Mini Messy Church on Thursday 10-11am. In these we have the future church with many children and parents having their first experience of church. These activities really reach out to people beyond the walls/services of our churches.
We thank God for our mission community and all it does to reach out to people in this world.
May you know God’s blessing this week.
Revd Peter
While Louise is on sabbatical, the principal points of contact are as follows: Gill Yates, St. Margaret’s: [email protected]
Caryll Ingerslev, St. Luke’s: [email protected]
Please send all contributions for the newsletter material for A Church Near You to Tony Raven: [email protected] Gill by the end of Thursday and
Services and calendar for the week
Saturday 11th May 9.00 – 11.00 Big Brekkie St. Luke’s Church rooms
Sunday 12th May
10.00 a.m. 10.00 a.m. 3.00 p.m. 6.30 p.m. Holy Communion Holy Communion Open The Story Evensong St. Margaret’s St. Luke’s Forest School St. Margaret’s
Monday 13th May 2.30 7.00 p.m. Julian group Compline St. Margaret’s Zoom
Tuesday 14th May 9.00 a.m. Morning Prayer St. Margaret’s
Wednesday 15th
May 10.00 a.m. 1.15 p.m. Morning Worship Lunchtime concert Zoom St. Margaret’s
Thursday 16th May 10.00 a.m. Mini Messy Church St. Margaret’s
Friday 17h May 9.00 a.m. 12.30 p.m. Morning Prayer Christian Aid Lunch St. Margaret’s St. Margaret’s
Saturday 18th May 11.00 Baptism St. Margaret’s
Sunday 19th May 8.00a.m. 10.00 a.m. Holy Communion Joint Holy Communion St. Margaret’s St. Margaret’s
The Zoom links and meeting IDs for all the Zoom events are on our pages on ACNY (A Church Near You)
St. Luke’s church is now open on Wednesday afternoons between 2.00 and 4.00.
All are welcome...
To look around
To sit quietly for a while
To light a prayer candle
To pray
News and Notices
The APCM for St. Margaret’s was on Wednesday 8th May.
Paul Jakeman and Jane March-McDonald were re-elected to the PCC.
Andrew Griffiths and Elizabeth Reed were voted on.
From the end of July, there will no churchwarden, unless someone comes forward! If you would like to know more about what is involved, please contact Gill: [email protected]
The next couple of months is an ideal time to do a gradual handover.
Lunchtime Concerts Wednesdays, 1-15 – 2.00 p.m.
May 15th - Quay Note Singers
Big Music Collective
THESE EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED
Saturday 11th May - You are invited to come along to St. Luke’s Church Rooms to enjoy a ‘Big Brekkie’ to raise money for Christian Aid. Revd. Tony Raven and his wife, Dorothy, have once again offered to be chief cook and assistant.
Breakfast will be served between 9 and 10am, and 10 and 11am. It would be very helpful to know when people are coming, so please let Jill Allen know to which ‘sitting’ you will be coming.
You can sign up to which sitting you would like your brekkie, on a list which will be at the back of the church, or you can contact Jill by e mail [email protected]. – or phone 01392 271458.
Christian Aid Week
Friday 17th May Christian Aid lunch at St Margaret’s 12.30-1.30- come and join us for lunch of soup, bread, cheese and (as it’s not Lent) cake and coffee to follow. All are welcome. Donations to Christian Aid.
Pentecost Celebration Exeter Cathedral, Sunday 19 May at 6pm
Thy Kingdom Come: 9th-19th May 2024 The period from Ascension Day to Pentecost is a time when the worldwide church is called to prayer. There are lots of ways for us to join in this year: ‘Novena’ prayer booklets with a written reflection for each day are available from both churches this Sunday to take home for your personal prayers during the period. We also have a few copies of the Prayer Journal which includes QR links to videos and space to write your own reflections. These are available from the prayer area here at St. Margaret's. Online resources: you can download the ‘Thy Kingdom Come’ App or sign up for daily prayer emails from the website https://www.churchofengland.org/resources/thy-kingdom-come St Margaret’s church is open daily for prayer with interactive prayer stations around the church. On Sunday 19th May we are all invited to the Pentecost celebration service at 6 pm at Exeter Cathedral. Prayer and worship will be led by Bishop Jackie and Bishop James, with music led by Andy Flannagan and a talk from Ruth Valerio. We would like to make this a Mission Community event and we are joining with members of St Luke’s, for a picnic from 4 pm on the Cathedral green before the worship. If you would like to join us, please give your name to Reverend Maggie Stirling-Troy [email protected] or Caryll Ingerslev [email protected] so that they can book our free tickets on eventbrite.
Summer Study and Fellowship groups
The book chosen for the summer session is “Holy Habits” by Andrew Roberts. Meeting in the social area of St Margaret's Church, 11 a.m. - 12 noon, with tea/coffee from 10.40. Starting on Wednesday 29th May for ten weeks. All are welcome.
Please find a poster attached.
St Luke's are reading the same book, starting on Thursday 30th May, 3-15 pm - 4-15 pm, meeting in their Church rooms and also serving tea/coffee. All are welcome.
Exmouth Food Bank
Supplies We Are Short Of This Month – May 2024
·Tins of baked beans & spaghetti hoops
·Cereals
·Stir in pasta /pasta bake sauces
·Tins or packets of soup
·Tinned fruit
·Peanut butter
·Jars of jam
·Coffee
·Tea bags
·Packets of biscuits
·Shampoo & conditioner
The Exmouth Foodbank urgently needs bags for life/large plastic bags to enable people to carry their food parcels home. Thank you.
Many thanks for your support. We simply couldn’t do this without you!
Thank you in advance for your generosity! For further information email: [email protected] 07787758511
Please find the newsletters for St. Margaret’s and St. Luke’s attached.
Prayers
For those who are ill or in need of our prayers:
Roger Fogwill, Lucy, Pauline, Jill and Adrian, Michael, Kirsten, Chris Whitehead, Fay, Parvin, Tony Bradford, Marlene Gardner, Pam Wormald, Mary, Peter, John Heal, Gail Miller
Housebound or in nursing/care homes:
Alfred Wonnacott, Janet Mutter, Georgina Lear
Please pray for Anne Plested supporting the work of Bethlehem Bible College, and Ben and Katy Ray in Tanzania, St. Luke’s CMS mission link
Anniversaries
Margaret Munson, John Rogers, Barbara Mellor, Ann Holt, Margaret Tasman, Pam Avent, Judith Sugden, Barbara Pomfret, Mary Buckingham, Janet Young
Recently departed
Heather Carson, Ken Newley
Gospel Readings for the coming week
Sunday 12th May John: 17: 6-19
Monday 13th May John 16: 29-end
Tuesday 14th May John 15: 9-17
Wednesday 15th May John 17: 11-19
Thursday 16th May John 17: 20-end
Friday 17th May John 21: 15-19
Saturday 18th May John 21: 20-end
Sunday 19th May John 15: 26-27, 16: 4b-15
Collect and reading for Sunday 12th May
O God the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: we beseech you, leave us not comfortless, but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us and exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ is gone before, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
John 17:6-19
‘I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
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