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Church News: Week of Sunday 19th May - Pentecost
The Diocese's Living God’s Love Prayer
Living God, draw us deeper into your love;
Jesus our Lord, send us to care and serve;
Holy Spirit, make us heralds of good news.
Stir us, strengthen us, teach and inspire us
To live your love with generosity and joy,
Imagination and courage; for the sake of your world
And in the name of Jesus, Amen.
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WHAT'S ON
Sat 18th May
10-11:30am Church Café
Sun 19th May
No 9am or 10:30 am Service! Instead...
10am Sung Communion Service with Church Choir and Children's Church followed by refreshments.bring and share lunch
12 noon APCM meeting in church
Mon 20th May
7:30pm - 9pm Somewhere to Sing Choir in Church
Wed 22nd May
9:20am St Mary's School Visit
11am Said Communion Service followed by refreshments
7:30pm Julian Prayer at 11 Middle Drift
Thursday 23rd May
9am-11am Tots in Church
5-6pm First Communion Preparation
Sat 25th May
10-11:30am Church Café
Sun 26th May
9am BCP Holy Communion Service
10:30am Sung Family Communion Service with Church Choir and Children's Church followed by refreshments
Wed 29th May
11am Said Communion Service followed by refreshments
Thursday 30th May
9am-11am Tots in Church
Sat 1st June
10-11:30am Church Café
Sun 2nd June
9am Said Communion Service
10:30am Sung Family Communion Service with Church Choir and Children's Church followed by refreshments
3pm Tea Time Praise!
Wed 5th June
9:30am Celtic Prayer in Lady Chapel
11am Said Communion Service followed by refreshments
7-8:30pm Choir Practice
7:30pm Men's Group Meeting in Wetherspoons
INTERCESSIONS FOR THIS WEEK
As we pray for the Church, we pray for:
For all Christians in the Indian Ocean Islands
For all who worship at Royston Roman Catholic Church; Father Philip Knights
For the work of our Mission Partners: the Bible Society
We pray for the community of Royston:
For all our local health centres
For our local road sweepers and bin men
As we pray for our world and Eco projects, we pray for:
For Walk to School Week (20-25 May); World Bee Day (20th May)
We pray for the sick and suffering:
Glen Thomas
Neal
Baby Forest Pike
Sarah Murphy
Paul and Pat Tidey
Peter Coates
Baby Eden
Phoebe Strom
Jan McElney
Richard Moss
Ann Milton
Roy Rodway
Jamie Covington
Lee Cockerill
Betty Gladstone
Jackson Herbert
Helen Yerrill
Val Brown
Jean Coslett
Margaret and John Coates
Richard Duke and Anna
Bishop Alan
Kathy George
We pray for those who have died in the faith of Christ:
Deceased Bereaved
Peter Nightingale Audrey, family and friends
Andrew Neale Family and friends
Eileen Dear Family and friends
Geoffrey Drewery Family and friends
We pray for those whose anniversaries fall at this time:
20 May Wendy Fitch
25 May Jean Rice
NOTICES
PLEASE NOTE: Steven will be on leave from the 27th to 31st May.
BOOK FAYRE & BRAVE TRUST: Thank you to everyone who helped out with and supported our fundraising events over the bank holiday weekend. The Book Fayre raised £1607 towards Church funds and the stall in the park at the May Fayre raised £309 for the BRAVE Trust. This was a good result. Well done!
PATRONAL FESTIVAL: We have a wealth of events happening on the weekend of our Patronal Festival, so please collect a brochure from the back of Church to see if there is one (or more) you might like to come to.
Friday 21st June 7.30 pm Hymns and Pimm’s
Saturday 22nd June 7.30 pm An evening with IDMC Gospel Soul Choir
Sunday 23rd June 9 am Book of Common Prayer Communion Service
10.30 am Festival Service with the Bishop of Herford
2 pm Come and Sing Choral Evensong rehearsal
5 pm Festival Choral Evensong
ANNUAL MEETINGS There will be one service on Sunday 19th May at 10am, replacing the 9am and 10.30am services, and this service will be followed by a bring and share lunch, after which, we shall have our annual meetings. This is when we elect our churchwardens for the coming year and PCC members for a 3-year term and receive reports on various aspects of our parish life over the last year. Nomination forms are available at the back of the church so please prayerfully consider if you would like to stand yourself or nominate someone else.
APCM – BRING AND SHARE LUNCH: There will be a bring and share lunch after the APCM so we need people to sign up as to what they intend to bring. I’m going to try a different way this time as even though I put a list of suggested food out last time, we still ended up with 10 Quiches!! So a request in the notices please for next weekend. Sweet and savoury would be very welcome. I’m hoping that once people see what is on the list, they will bring something different. Who knows?
JULIAN PRAYER WEDNESDAY ( not the usual Thursday) 22nd May 2024 at 7.30pm.
CHRISTIAN AID WEEK:12th – 18th May. Envelopes available at the back of Church. Please use and bring back to place in the Wall Safe. Thank you.
SAVE THE DATE – SATURDAY 22ND JUNE – 12 NOON - CHAT (CHURCHES TOGETHER) ARE HOSTING A BBQ AT ROYSTON METHODIST CHURCH – everyone is welcome to attend. We will be providing sausages and burgers in rolls with onions and chicken drumsticks. The event is free to attend but donations are welcome.
At this stage, we need to know numbers attending, so if you would like to join us please could you let Dave or Tracy know by Saturday 15th June. (When booking, please let us know of any dietary requirements).
Please do come along and spend some social time together, we are always meeting up for church services, events, planning, meetings, etc this is a time for us all to get together and just enjoy spending time with each other.
SUNDAY READING SHEET 19th May 2024 PENTECOST
A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles
Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: ‘Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
“In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Acts 2: 14 - 21
GOSPEL
‘When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning. But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them.
‘I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, “Where are you going?” But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgement: about sin, because they do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; about judgement, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.
‘I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. John 15: 26-27; 16: 4b-15
STAFF TEAM
Vicar: Revd Steven Sivvyer
Telephone no. 01763 243145
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Assistant Priest: The Reverend John Fidler
Telephone no. 01763 241886
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Reader: Emma Sivyer
Telephone no. 07851 688610
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Reader: Canon Reg Bailey
Telephone no. 01763 250637
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Parish Administrator: Joanne Wallis
Working hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 9 am to 1 pm
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Mobile: 07935 774633
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