Every six years (starting now), churches are required to make a new 'electoral roll', which is the official list of everyone who is a member of a particular church. This means that all of us (however long we have been regular worshippers at St Nicholas's) are asked to fill in a new enrolment form. Being on the electoral roll is really a form of both witness and stewardship, meaning that we are prepared to be counted as members of St Nicholas's and to play a part in its governance. The 'More Info' link will take you to a site which contains all the relevant notices and forms.

Enrolment forms will be available in church from this Sunday onwards, and a Word version of the form is attached below, which you can if you prefer print and complete at home.

The new roll must be finished two weeks before our Annual Parochial Church Meeting on 25 May, i.e. by 11 May. The task of drawing up the complete roll will be quite demanding, so please return your form as soon as you can. Only those on the roll by 11 May will be able to vote at the APCM - you can't join on the day, or in the two weeks preceding!

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The G46 Scouts meet on Friday evenings, in their HQ behind the Church Hall. For further details, please see the attachment below.

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Our main Sunday service takes place at 10.00, and all are welcome. We follow a modern and accessible Common Worship order of service, with Junior Church for children and young people roughly every other week: for details, please see the individual listings on the 'Services and Events' page.

Holy Communion for the Third Sunday of Easter: celebrant the Revd Tola Badejo. Junior Church takes place at the same time in the hall.

First reading: Acts 9. 1 – 20
Gospel: John 21. 1– 19

Today's readings are both about encounters with the risen Christ, one by a professed enemy of his followers, the other by his closest friends. The passage from Acts, which tells of the beginning of Saul's conversion into Paul, does not really explain Saul's motives: perhaps, angry and disappointed that Jesus was not the Messiah he expected, and concerned that the followers of Jesus will cause pointless trouble between Jews and Romans, he is determined to break up their movement before it becomes established. The dramatic episode in which he sees a blinding light and hears the voice of Jesus marks the point at which he recognises that his previous certainty had been misplaced, and his life and beliefs are completely transformed. In Caravaggio's famous painting in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, Saul's face reflects the light while his arms are thrown open, as if to welcome a much-loved friend. (The whole painting is shown in the attachment beneath.)

Compared to the events of Paul's conversion, the scene in the Gospel is ordinary; just a normal (and unsuccessful) night at work for some Galilean fishermen, which ends in a way that is simultaneously miraculous (in that they meet the risen Christ) and entirely normal (Jesus gets their breakfast for them). Like Saul, the disciples have to re-think their previous understanding of reality; also like Paul, Peter has great and challenging responsibilities placed upon him.

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The Cub and Beaver sections of our G46 Scout Group meet on Tuesday evenings: for details, please see the attachment below. The Group's HQ is behind the Church Hall.

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Family Communion for the Fourth Sunday of Easter: celebrant the Revd Tola Badejo.

First reading: Acts 9. 36-43
Gospel: John 10. 22-30

In today's Gospel, Jesus characterises himself as a shepherd but the focus is on the 'sheep', who recognise his voice. Shepherds in Palestine grazed their flocks together on the hills, calling their own sheep when they wished to gather them together. The image above, a detail from a painting by Vicente López Portaña (1772 – 1850), refers to a better-known 'good shepherd' parable, in which Jesus compares himself to a shepherd who will look for a lost sheep and bring it home.