Dear All
It feels like a really short week this week because of the bank holiday and we have some lovely things to look forward to over this next few days.
We have decided to join forces with St Mary’s for the Ascension Day service at St Mary’s, Sawbridgeworth. The service starts at 8.00 pm and both Janet Bellingham and I are able to offer lifts if that would be helpful. (contact details on Welcome sheet).
As you may know this means that we begin our ‘Thy Kingdom Come’ from that date – Thursday 29th May – 8th June 2025. This gives us an opportunity to select 5 people we want to pray for over this 10 day period to come to know Jesus. There are books at the back of church to help you with this and we will have Holy Spirit doves in church this Sunday to give you an opportunity to write your prayers and put onto the prayer tree this weekend. You may not want to write the names of the people you are praying for onto this prayer dove but you could use initials or pray a more general prayer for discretion’s sake.
As we move onto Saturday 31st May we see that we have the Christian Aid – Big Breakfast from 9.00 – 12 noon at Sawbridgeworth Memorial Hall, there is a minimum donation required of £5.00 per head and they are hoping to raise over £1,000 this year.
Later that afternoon we have our community dog walk starting from St Mary’s, Gilston on Saturday 31st May at 2.30 pm – dogs not essential if you just want a good walk and a chat with friends, old and new. Then we follow this with a cream tea at St Mary’s from 4.00 pm (we will be charging £3 a head for this to cover our costs). You may want to do both or one or the other, whichever works out best for your day.
And after all that fun we then have on Sunday 1st June our:-
8.00 am Holy Communion (said) service at St James, High Wych, and our
9.30 am (for breakfast) and a 10.00 am start for our short, family friendly, Family service.
Next week we will be starting the Alpha follow on group and also the new confirmation group, see Welcome sheet for details.
There are lots of opportunities for us to meet over the next few days and I hope to see you all again soon.
Every blessing
Alison