MAY 25 NEWSLETTER
Julie Writes...
Dear friends,
Last month I wrote that I was looking forward to journeying with you on the way to Easter. Well, I was, but I couldn’t have been prepared for the moving experience of Holy week and the joy of Easter morning. It was wonderful! Thank you to all who were involved in any way in making our worship so varied, poignant and joyful.
May will be no quieter! There is much to do.
Firstly, we will begin what will be a thorough and lengthy task of finding a new Vicar to lead us. Although it will be a relatively small number of people who will be involved in the interviewing and appointing, the opinions of all of us is important in deciding the person we wish to appoint. We need to spend time thinking and praying about what the next chapter of Holy Trinity and St Michael and All Angels will look like. What areas we would like to see develop and the gifts and skills which will be needed by our new incumbent to lead us all to be a part that new future.
To this end the PCC have decided to invite all the members of both churches to come along to Holy Trinity’s Church Hall on Sunday 18th May for a light ‘hunger’ lunch – to raise funds for Christian Aid and afterwards to have an opportunity to pray and to put forward our thoughts which will be used to help inform the recruitment process.
Please put the date in your diary and come along. This is everyone’s opportunity to play a part in the process.
Christian Aid 11th - 17th May.
The days of door-to-door collections in Christian Aid week have now gone but it remains essential that we help to support those struggling in our world. The current global financial issues which have seen many countries, including ours, cut their Aid giving, along with the ongoing ecological crisis which often affects those least able to cope with the changes, alongside wars and disasters mean the need is great. There will be envelopes in both churches so please consider donating and filling in the Gift Aid section if you are able. In addition, having had a conversation with a concerned member of our Church I have suggested a ‘Hunger Lunch’ on Sunday 18th May at 12.15pm. I am grateful to Church warden Jan for agreeing to sort out the catering for this. It will be a simple soup and bread lunch for which you are invited to donate, maybe consider giving what you would have paid for your usual Sunday lunch. If you would like to know more about the campaign this year, please see Christian Aid’s website - caweek.org There is also a link there to make a direct donation if you so wish.
Julie.