The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Sunday 30th April 9:30am Mustard Tree Church – informal service for families and children. (at St Ed’s)Sunday 30th April 11:15 am Service of the word with Open Doors speaker (at St Ed’s and livestream)Tuesday 2nd May 10:00 am Tiny Tunes (music for all young people) (at St Ed’s), refreshments10am til12 noonTuesday 2nd May 6:00 pm Rspace (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 3rd May 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 3rd May 6.30 pm Alpha (at St Ed’s)Thursday 4th May 8.30am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s )Thursday 4th May 7.00pm Reflection with Compline (at St Ed’s and livestream)Friday 5th May 9:30 am to12.00 noon Arts and Craft Group , - bring anything – art or craft - you fancy doing and coffee and tea are provided. Cost £3. (at Trinity Church building) Also Sunday 7th May, 9:30 am Mustard Tree Church with Baptism, 11:15am Holy Communion, Plus online 11:15am Informal Service. Additionally at 8am daily (except Sunday) we will be posting a ‘Daily bitesize prayer’ on the St Ed's Facebook page.For on-line services, watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'.Everyone welcome.AdditionallyRingland: future services/events at St Peter’s: 14th May Holy Communion 10:30am14th May APCM 12 noon11th June Holy Communion 10:30amOpen Doors we are delighted to have Doug Earner with us today to speak at the 11.15am service to tell us more about the work of Open Doors and the plight of the persecuted church. Robert Beevor Tributes, donations for Robert can still be made through www.robertbeevor.muchloved.comChristian Aid Paul Scarff is looking for volunteers to deliver envelopes this Christian Aid week, ideally between 7th and 16th May. Last year we delivered over 1,700 envelopes in Taverham and Ringland, and raised over £1,000! If you can help, please contact Paul at paul.scarff57@gmail.com or 868939.St Edmund’s Coronation Fair is on Monday 8th May 11:00-4:00. Live Music, BBQ, Beer Tent, Competitions, games crafts &; the usual stalls around the Coronation theme. In line with King Charles wishes to celebrate and promote Volunteering we will invite local charities and groups to provide information cards/flyers on their volunteering opportunities.There is a sign up sheet at the back of St Eds if you are able to help on a stall on the day or setting up.Calling All Gardeners We plan to hold the Plant Stall again this year, at St Ed's, beginning the last weekend of May and would appreciate any surplusplants you may be dividing or seedlings you are growing. This year the proceeds will be donated to Christian Aid.St Peter's Church Ringland–Annual Church Parochial Meeting and Annual Vestry MeetingThese will be at St.Peter’s at 12noon on Sunday 14th May and all our church family are encouraged to attend, to celebrate, reflect and pray for our life and ministry as Christ’s believers in this place.All those on the Electoral Roll are eligible to vote and please ask the Churchwarden for a form if you would like to go on the Electoral Roll.Nomination forms for Churchwardens and PCC members are available from the churchwarden or in St Peter's. Please pray if you feel the Lord is calling you or someone else to these roles. All candidates who are successfully elected will be subjected to our safeguarding processes before their appointment is confirmed.
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24 : 30 - 32This week’s reading : Luke 24 : 13 - 35Thought for the weekIt seems extraordinary that the disciples on the Emmaus Road did not recognise Jesus. Yet so often we do not realise the closeness of the Lord until later. Often it is a gradual realisation of how much of a part we have in bringing Jesus’ Kingdom. How we personally are called to serve Him and live for Him in our everyday lives. This is a blessing prayer for each of us this week: May God, who comes to us in the things of this world, bless your eyes and be in your seeing.May Christ, who looks upon you with deepest love, bless your eyes and widen your gaze.May the Spirit, who perceives what is and what may yet be, bless your eyes and sharpen your vision.May the Sacred Three bless your eyes and cause you to see.~ from In the Sanctuary of Women, copyright © Jan L. Richardson. http://paintedprayerbook.com/Prayer for the weekRisen Christ, you filled your disciples with boldness and fresh hope:strengthen us to proclaim your risen life and fill us with your peace,to the glory of God the Father. Amen
The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Sunday 23rd April 8:00am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Sunday 23rd April 9:30am Mustard Tree Church – informal service for families and children. (at St Ed’s)Sunday 23rd April 11:15 am Service of the word (at St Ed’s)Monday 24th April 5.00 pm Monday prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 25th April 10:00 am Tiny Tunes (music for all young people) (at St Ed’s), refreshments10am til12 noonTuesday 25th April 6:00 pm Rspace (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 26th April 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 26th April 6.30 pm Alpha (at St Ed’s)Thursday 27th April 8.30am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s )Thursday 27th April 7.00pm Reflection with Compline (at St Ed’s and livestream)Friday 28th April 9:30 am to12.00 noon Arts and Craft Group , - bring anything – art or craft - you fancy doing and coffee and tea are provided. Cost £3. (at Trinity Church building) Friday 28th April 12.00 pm thanksgiving service for Robert Beevor (at St Ed’s )Also Sunday 30th April, 9:30 am Mustard Tree Church,11:15am Service of the word with Open Doors speaker, Plus online 11:15am Informal Service. Additionally at 8am daily (except Sunday) we will be posting a ‘Daily bitesize prayer’ on the St Ed's Facebook page.For on-line services, watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'.Everyone welcome.AdditionallyRingland: future services/events at St Peter’s: 14th May Holy Communion 10:30am14th May APCM 12 noon11th June Holy Communion 10:30amRobert Beevor ‘Sue, Helen and Paul want to thank everyone for their lovely messages, cards and flowers at this sad time. The family will say goodbye to Robert at a private cremation and this will be followed by a thanksgiving service at St. Edmund’s at midday on Friday 28th April and afterwards at Wensum Valley Hotel. We welcome you all to join us for these. Please come in coloured clothing of your choice which may include yellow and green!’Tributes, candles, donations for Robert can be made through a website : www.robertbeevor.muchloved.comPeter Kerry sadly died peacefully on Thursday evening (just as we were praying and saying Compline). He was a man of wonderful and infectious faith, and we will miss him! Peter loved coming to church, and was a keen participant in the livestreams. He was much loved and is now with the Lord.Diary date : Open Doors Speaker Sunday 30th April Open Doors originated in the ministry of Brother Andrew who distributed Bibles to persecuted Christian communities in Eastern Europe during the 1970’s. On Sunday 30th April (a fifth Sunday) we will have a visiting speaker at the 11.15am service to tell us more about the work of Open doors today and the plight of the persecuted church. Please put the date in your diaries to come along if you can.Christian Aid Paul Scarff is again looking for volunteers to deliver envelopes this Christian Aid week, ideally between 7th and 16th May. Last year we delivered over 1,700 envelopes in Taverham and Ringland, and raised over £1,000! If you can help, please contact Paul at paul.scarff57@gmail.com or 868939.Calling All Gardeners At St Ed's we plan to hold the Plant Stall again this year beginning the last weekend of May and would appreciate any surplus plants you may be dividing or seedlings you are growing. This year the proceeds will be donated to Christian Aid.St Peter's Church Ringland–Annual Church Parochial Meeting and Annual Vestry MeetingThese will be at St.Peter’s at 12noon on Sunday 14th May and all our church family are encouraged to attend, to celebrate, reflect and pray for our life and ministry as Christ’s believers in this place.All those on the Electoral Roll are eligible to vote and please ask the Churchwarden for a form if you would like to go on the Electoral Roll.Nomination forms for Churchwardens and PCC members are available from the churchwarden or in St Peter's. Please pray if you feel the Lord is calling you or someone else to these roles. All candidates who are successfully elected will be subjected to our safeguarding processes before their appointment is confirmed.
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.' John 20 : 19This week’s reading : John 20 : 19 - 31Thought for the week On the evening of Jesus’ resurrection, the disciples are cowering, hiding, full of fear and confusion. They have locked the door of the house. They have largely come together, yet they are fearful, even terrified of what will happen next. Yet what happens next changes everything. The Risen Lord appears to them, reassures them, guides them, breathes on them with the Holy Spirit. They are transformed.Jesus meets with them, and knows their confusion and need. He speaks His peace into their minds and hearts. He shows them the wounds to show it really is Him. He tells them their mission – to be sent by Jesus into the world. He breathes the Holy Spirit into them. Jesus meets us in our need. He knows our insecurities, our fears, our need for reassurance. For guidance. We meet with the Risen Jesus whenever we pray. Jesus is alive, and is always ready to meet with us, transform every situation we find ourselves in, and change our hearts with the reassurance, encouragement and boldness He alone can give. As we celebrate His Resurrection, we can celebrate all He would have us become, all He enables us to be. Christ is Risen!Rev PaulPrayer for todayRisen Christ, for whom no door is locked, no entrance barred:open the doors of our hearts, that we may seek the good of othersand walk the joyful road of sacrifice and peace,to the praise of God the Father. Amen
