Benefice Newsletter up to Sunday 25th May - 1st June 2025

25th May & 1st June 2025

News Letter

6th Sunday of Easter

25th May

Sunday's readings:-

Acts 16: 9 - 15

John 14: 23 - 29


25th MAY SERVICES

9:00am Morning Prayer live on Facebook

10:30am Lynsted, Family Holy Communion

10:30am Newnham, Morning Worship

10:30am Oare, Morning Worship

10:30am Throwley, Holy Communion

4:00pm Teynham, Evensong


Thursday

29th May

7:30pm Doddington, Ascension Service


7th Sunday of Easter

1st June

Sunday's readings:-

Acts 16: 16 - 34

John 17: 20 - 26


1st JUNE SERVICES

9:00am Morning Prayer live on Facebook

10:30am Eastling, Holy Communion

10:30am Newnham, Holy Communion

10:30am Norton, Morning Worship

10:30am Teynham, Morning Worship


Parish Events

Food Donations Family FoodbankIf you are looking to donate food, below is a list of food which we are currently short of:

- Tinned Meat (Curry, Chilli, Meat Balls, Hot Dogs, Pies, etc.)
- Tinned Veg (Peas, Carrots, Potatoes, etc.)
- Tinned Fish
- Tinned Desserts (Fruit, Custard, Rice Pudding, etc.)
- Soups (Tinned & Packets)
- Tinned Potatoes
- Dried Rice/Pasta
- Sauces (Jars - Pasta, Curry, Chilli, etc)
- Long Life Milk
- Tea/Coffee
- Cereal
- Biscuits
- Preservatives
- Hygiene & Baby Products

FAMILY FOODBANK

Collection boxes can be found in each church

& Doddington Vicarage

more information can be found

www.familyfoodbank.org

Foodbank Donations

All donations of food, you can now take to Teynham School

Monday to Friday in school term hours

Prayer is a hugely important part of our relationship with God, as individuals and also as his Church together in each of our villages, in our two Parishes and as a Benefice. In fact, how can we be about God's Church without prayer? Prayer is our sustenance; prayer through speaking and listening to God. Let us pray!

Each day's prayer request is available on the first page of the Benefice website at www.kc-hd.org.uk and will be published on our Facebook page @kingsdowncreekside.


Kingsdown, Creekside and High Downs Prayer Diary

May 25th

We pray for Jim, Paula and for all the clergy in our deanery that they might be continually nurtured by the Spirit to balance work, rest and play.

May 26th

Bless all those who wait.....for appointments, for treatment, for results, for reconciliation, for news of some kind. Hold them gently and gift them with trust.

May 27th

Giving thanks for the flowers that colour our lives and cheer us from the humble daisy to the exotic lily and everything in between.

May 28th

Bless the Gatehouse Café at Lynsted this morning, giving thanks for those who undertake this responsibility as an expression of your care for others.

May 29th

Giving thanks for Christ our King and praying for the deserted, downtrodden & destitute and all who need lifting up this day.

May 30th

We pray for those people we find difficult, who are not like us and who we just don't understand, both personally and on the world stage. Help us to see opportunity for learning rather than threat that needs defending.

May 31st

Thank you for birdsong in the morning, for freshly cut grass, for sunshine, for chatting with neighbours, for evening walks.

June 1st

We pray for Christians throughout the world gathering in tiny churches, great cathedrals, warehouses, beaches, in public and in secret, that our worship may inspire each community to seek justice and peace in the world together.

June 2nd

As term 6 begins in our schools we pray for those involved in exams and end of year tests, remembering that the value of a person is not reckoned in numbers and grades.

June 3rd

Remembering those who have died and those who mourn. Hold them tenderly in your loving hands O God, and reassure them that you honour their every tear

June 4th

Giving thanks for the new prayer group meeting for the first time at Doddington Vicarage today, that it would bring blessing and healing to those attending and to all for whom prayer is offered.

June 5th

We give thanks for families being reached by Growbaby as the word spreads, and pray for families and volunteers coming to today's session as our church reaches out to those in need.

June 6th

Praying for countries at war and in conflict, especially for frightened civilians, unwilling soldiers, arrogant leaders. May an overriding desire for your peace take up residence in the hearts of all

June 7th

We pray for the Jazz evening taking place in Lynsted this evening, giving thanks for the pleasure and energy that music brings to our lives, and it's ability to speak to our mood & emotions


Church Events

Wedding

Our Congratulations and Blessings on the

Marriage of :-

Sophia Savage &

Connaugh Stevens

24th May

St Mary, Norton

Keeley Kramer &

Stuart Sapsed

24th May

St Mary, Teynham

Baptism

We welcome into

God's Family

Lily Whitaker

25th May

St Peter & St Paul

Lynsted

Funerals

Our Prayers for the family and friends of :-

Jennifer Jocelyn Pay

Newnham Church

4th June

12:00

Charles TAH Wheeler

Stalisfield Church

5th June

12:00

Lynsted Church

7pm Saturday

7th June

Live Jazz band

£7.00 p.p.


Stalisfield Youth club

All young people in secondary school years 7-13 welcome!

We meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month 7-8.30pm @ Stalisfield Village Hall ME13 0HY.

It's FREE Entry, but what's on?

Table tennis, X-box gaming, table football, craft, games, music, chill-out area, outside games in good weather, free cake and squash, and a tuck shop selling sweets, crisps, cans ice lollies in the summer for 5p to 50p!

We may have a short activity or theme for the evening, e.g. Christmas party, Summer BBQ but also like to be a place where we can relax, catch up with friends and make new ones too.

Do you like the newsletter?

Have you ever thought "I could do that" or "it could be made more interesting"

Would you be interested in producing the newsletter every two weeks??

Maybe you and another person could share this.

Then you would only have to create a newsletter every 4 weeks

ask questions, come and see what is involved.

contact Joyce 01795 521831 (Tues & Wed)

email [email protected]

We are starting a Prayer Group

It will be held on a Wednesday

Vicarage Doddington

10:30am

Interested? Call Robert Done 07743 807550


Let's stay connected

The Ministry Leadership Team would be pleased to pray for you or someone close to you.
Contact any of the following:-

Rev Paula Jardine-Rose

Rest Day FRIDAY
07516 411269
[email protected]

Rev Jim Pye: 07851 680612
Working day Wednesday & Thursday
[email protected]

Mary Gollop: 01795 522165
Les & Barbara Roberts: 07944 284173
Pim Baxter: 07710 116269
Sue Baldry: 01795 522975

Caroline Ramshaw - Anna Chaplaincy
[email protected]
07799 538809

Benefice Administrator Joyce Warren
[email protected]

Office = Tuesday & Wednesday 01795 521831

Website www.kc-hd.org.uk

Church Warden Details

Doddington - Les Roberts - 07944 284173

Eastling - Andrew Baxter - 07749 403727

Lynsted - David Willis - 07889 584571

Newnham - Bruce Leckie - 01795 890550

Norton - Sophia Steel - 01795 522941

Oare - Charlotte Relf - 01795 530576

Stalisfield - Jenny King - 01795 890366

Teynham - Bob Prichard - 01795 522168

Throwley - David Elvin - 07973 837122

Wychling - Robbie Jardine - 01795 886165

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