Royston Parish Church (Herts)

Royston Parish Church News - Sunday 28th June - 4th Sunday after Trinity

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ROYSTON PARISH CHURCH - where all are welcome and God's love is shared

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Diary

Saturday 27th June

10:00-11:30 Church Café (Tea / Coffee / Hot Chocolate only £2 - Free Biscuits)

Sunday 28th June

09:00-09:45 Communion Service that is quiet and reflective

10:30-11:40 Communion Service with music/choir, children's groups/toy area, followed by refreshments

11:45-12:!5 Treble Makers

Tuesday 30th June

09:00-09:30 Morning Prayer (incorporating prayer requests that have been left in church)

18:15-19:00 Set up for Royston Town Band Dev Band

19:00-20:00 Royston Town Band Development Band

Wednesday 1st July

11:00-11:25 Communion Service that is quiet and reflective followed by refreshments

13:00-15:30 Knit and Natter (where all are welcome to meet and chat)

18:00-19:30 Chorister Practice

18:45 - 20:00 Choir Practice

19:00-21:00 Men's Group at Wetherspoons (turn up at any time, all men are welcome to drink and chat)

Thursday 2nd July

09:00-11:00 Tots in Church

13:00-15:00 Church Cleaner

19:00-21:00 Bell Ringers Practice

Friday 3rd July

09:30-10:00 Celtic Prayer (A simple form of Morning Prayer from the Northumbria Community)

Saturday 24th July

10:00-11:30 Church Café (Tea / Coffee / Hot Chocolate only £2 - Free Biscuits)

14:00-16:00 Revd Jaime's Ordination as a Priest at St Albans Cathedral

Sunday 5th July

09:00-09:45 Communion Service that is quiet and reflective

10:30-11:40 Communion Service with Jaime's first celebration of Communion with music/choir, children's groups/toy area, followed by refreshments

11:45-12:!5 Treble Makers

12:00=13:00 Bring and Share Lunch, Celebration of Jaime's Ordination

Intercessions

We pray for all Christians worldwide:

For all Christians in Kenya, Tanzania
For all who worship at Therfield Chapel; Paul Dutton
For the work of our mission partners: GenR8

We pray for the community of Royston:

For our local health centres
For our local Royston Civic Amenity Centre and Sewage plant
For all our young people revising for their exams at this time

We pray for our world and ECO projects:

As the campaign "Plastic Free July" begins, we pray that we pray that we can move to world without single use plastics and have cleaner streets, oceans and communities.

We pray for the sick and suffering:

Emma Thompson
Jackson Herbert
Marion
Laura O'nyamul (On-Ya-Mul)
Peggy Dawes
Ted Rayment
Pat Tidey
Mike Brown
Keith & Elaine Edwards
Val Brown
Angie & Ken Rushall
Paula Walker
George N.
Peter Coates
Peter Foster
Katie
Susan Bowles
Max Elliott
Mike Askew
Revd Anne Abok

We pray for those who have died in the faith of Christ:
Deceased Bereaved
Margaret Green Neal, family and friends

We pray for those whose anniversaries fall at this time:

No anniversaries this week

NOTICES

THE FUNERAL FOR THE LATE MARGARET GREEN: Margaret’s funeral will take place on Tuesday 30th June, 11.30am at Cam Valley Crematorium near Great Chesterford. If you would like to go but would need a lift or are going and could offer a lift could you please let Joanne know. The funeral will be followed by a wake at The Old Bull. The family have kindly said that you can go to this even if you cannot make the funeral but they would need to know the numbers, so please let Joanne know if you would like to attend the wake.

JAIME’S ORDINATION: We are offering a coach to take people to Jaime’s Ordination on Saturday 4th July in St. Alban’s Abbey. To help towards the cost a charge of £15 will be made. Please sign up on the list at the back of church, and pay either Kay or Richard.

SUNDAY 5TH JULY 9 AM AND 10.30 AM: Jaime will be celebrating her first Communion Service with us at both services, after her Ordination as Priest on Saturday 4th July. We will follow the 10.30 am with a Bring and Share lunch, so please bring an item of food to share

PATRONAL FESTIVAL Thank you to everyone who played a part in helping to make our Patronal Festival run smoothly and be so enjoyable, particularly to Emma for the art work, Lynda who ran the raffle and to members of the Events Committee who purchased, prepared and served refreshments. Overall we managed to raise £1520.13 for the mission and ministry of the church.

JULIAN PRAYER – JULY: The July meeting will be on Thursday July 9th at 7pm. At 11 Middle Drift. If it's not raining , we will do a prayer walk around the garden with chairs to sit and pray and a prayer prompt , or you can just wander around in silence. The side gate will be open, do just come through. If it rains, I will lead the meeting.

As usual, there will not be a meeting in August.

CLIMATE EMERGENCY BRIEFING & DISCUSSION: You are warmly invited to an important and thought-provoking evening on Tuesday 7th July at 7:30pm, as Royston St John the Baptist Parish Church Sustainable Living Committee joins with the Royston Environmental Group to host a screening of the National Climate Emergency Briefing. TThis event is an opportunity to come together as a community to better understand the challenges facing our world today, and to reflect on what they mean for us locally and personally. The briefing will be followed by an open, friendly discussion, where everyone is welcome to share thoughts, ask questions, and listen to different perspectives. Entry is free but please book your place via https://tickets.myiknowchurch.co.uk/gb/NzcwMi0zNA/t

CHURCH AT HOME (SCHOOL YEARS 7 UP): Our final event of the year will be a barbecue at Beth and Andy's on 12th July for young people and their parents. We would also like to invite any young people who will be in year 7 from September 2026 to come along to the barbecue with their parent(s) to meet the group. (Of course any young people who are in school years 7 to 12 and currently aren't part of the group would also be very welcome). To find out more, please email [email protected] or speak to Reg, Beth or Andy on a Sunday.

WE HAVE A NEW BATCH OF CHURCH MUGS FOR SALE, at £10 each, sales go towards church funds. Available at Saturday coffee, or after church services.

HOLIDAY CLUB 2026 this August would appreciate any boxes you may have, the children love building with them. Please leave them in the creche area in the corner. If the boxes are large, we are happy to come and pick them up. Please see Yvonne.

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SUNDAY MORNING READING SHEET 28th June 2026 4th Sunday after Trinity

A reading from Paul’s letter to the Romans

Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:12-23

GOSPEL

‘Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.’ Matthew 10:40-42

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STAFF TEAM

Vicar: Revd Steven Sivyer (rest day MONDAY)

Telephone no. 01763 580242

Email: [email protected]

Curate: Jaime Roberts (rest day FRIDAY)

Telephone: 01763 580241

Email: [email protected]

Assistant Priest: The Reverend John Fidler

Telephone no. 01763 241886

Email: [email protected]

Reader: Emma Sivyer