Sunday 28th April The Fifth Sunday of Easter

11:00am Parish Eucharist

Followed by the APCM at the Institute

Wednesday 10am Morning Prayer

2:15pm Durham High School for Girls Leavers’ Service

Sunday 5th May The Sixth Sunday of Easter

11:00am Parish Eucharist Celebrant: Canon Rosalind Brown

Annual Meeting: The Annual Parochial Church Meeting of members takes place after coffee at the Institute. Please see the annual reports attached, including this time the Music and Deanery Synod reports. Paper copies will be available at the meeting.

Please note these services:

Thursday May 9th, 6pm, Ascension Day Eucharist at Finchale Priory

Sunday May 26th Evensong 6pm as usual.

Foodbank –Weekly message from Lynda Delf: On 21st April 7kg of food was donated, this will provide meals for 9 people a Parishioner also donated £20, many thanks for your generosity. When money is donated I always get a receipt from the foodbank and Steve can usually give this to the person who donated the money if it is an anonymous donation the receipt will be in the basket.

In March the foodbank provided food to 2,049 people including 703 children 11,984kg was donated and 16,089kg of food was provided to people who need to use foodbanks. This week we need longlife fruit juice and milk, tinned fruit, rice pudding, meat, fish, vegetables, rice, and biscuits. Today one of my tasks was to sort nappies by size, there were none of the larger sizes.

Many thanks for your support, the foodbank could not continue to help people without your kindness.

Parish Magazine

Many thanks to those who have contributed such interesting articles for the next issue of the Parish Magazine. The new issue should be available from Sunday 28th April (the day of the APCM).

Copies will be delivered to regular subscribers as usual. Extra copies will be available to purchase (price £1:50) from the back of church.

Confirmation: Please pray for all those to be confirmed at the deanery confirmation service on Saturday May 11th, 6pm, at St. Margaret’s Durham, and especially James Don-Wauchope, from this parish.

Christian Aid Sunday, Sunday 12th May: Our regional organiser, Ronni Moore, has kindly arranged to speak in church on the first Sunday of Christian Aid Week. She will be up-to-date on how last year's collection (remember the pea soup?) was spent and current highlighted needs. In the Institute afterwards we will hold a Bring and Buy event similar to last year, with soup and cheese. Please start thinking about plants, books, jigsaws, bric-a-brac and home produce...any more ideas? ...and if you would like to be on the team or just a happy customer.

I happened to see in church after the Wednesday service a son of Ernest Bacchus Dykes, John Bacchus Dykes’ son!

With All Good Wishes and Prayers, Peter