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Church News: Week of Sunday 28th April - 5th Sunday of Easter
The 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
Fri 26th April
5:45pm Town Band Set up
7:30pm-9pm Royston Town Band Spring Concert
Sat 27th April
10-11:30am Church Café
Sun 28th April
9am BCP Holy Communion Service
10:30am Sung Family Communion Service with welcome to visitors from the town's German Exchange, the Baptism of Kylan Murrell and Isabelle Shepherd; Church Choir and Children's Church followed by refreshments
1pm Scouts St George's Day Service
Sat 4th May
10am-4pm Book Fayre in Church with refreshments
Sun 5th May
9am Said Communion Service
10:30am Sung Communion Service with Church Choir and Children's Church followed by refreshments
Mon 6th May
10am-4:30pm Book Fayre in Church with refreshments
Tues 7th May
11am Thanksgiving Service for Sandra Pollerman
Wed 8th May
11am Said Communion Service followed by refreshments
Thursday 9th
9am-11am Tots in Church
5-6pm Preparation for First Communion in Church
Fri 10th May
6pm Wedding Rehearsal
Say 11th May
10am-11:30am Church Café
2pm The Marriage of David Williams and Hayley Scarborough
Sun 12th May
9am Said Communion Service
10:30am Sung Communion Service with Church Choir and Children's Church followed by refreshments
12:30pm Baptism of Toby and Rudy Duck
Sunday 12th May - 18th May: CHRISTIAN AID WEEK - see notices
Wed 15th May
11am Said Communion Service followed by refreshments
Thursday 16th May
9am-11am Tots in Church
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
12 noon APCM meeting in church with Bring and Share Lunch
Mon 20th May
7:30pm - 9pm Somewhere to Sing Choir in Church
INTERCESSIONS FOR THIS WEEK
As we pray for the Church, we pray for:
For all Christians in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
For all who worship at Therfield Chapel; Pastor : Paul Dutton
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 International Compost Awareness Week
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
Sandra Pollerman Tibor, family and friends
Lyn Corker Jeremy and Ben Rule, family and friends
Peter Nightingale Audrey, family and friends
Andrew Neale Family and friends
We pray for those whose anniversaries fall at this time:
11 May Eugene Shortt
NOTICES
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.
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JULIAN PRAYER WEDNESDAY ( not the usual Thursday) 22 nd 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.
2ND HAND BOOK FAYRE is taking place on Saturday 4th and Monday 6th May. If you have any good quality second-hand books that you would like to donate, please leave them at the back of the church from Friday 19th April. We will need lots of help to sort books, man stalls and serve refreshments. If you could spare some time, please sign yourself up for suitable timeslots up on the sheets at the back of church. We're planning to serve scones for refreshments over the weekend, and would appreciate donations or scones, jam and clotted cream. Thanks in advance from the Social and Fundraising committee.
Can we ask for only fiction or children’s book, no non-fiction please?? Also we need more help over the bank holiday weekend for the Book Fayre please. Homemade Cakes for selling on the BRAVE stall please. Thank you
STALL FOR BRAVE AT THE MAY FAYRE: We are having our usual fundraising stall for the Brave Trust in the park at the May Fayre on Monday 6th May. This will be a cake stall plus a ‘Hook-a-Duck’ game for children. Please could you donate a cake if possible and we also need chocolate prizes of small bars, (packs of four are a good size) or some larger bars (approx. 120gm). Cakes can be brought in on Sunday 5th or Monday morning, please give any prizes to Lynda Burns. If you could man the stall sometime between 12 and 4.30 or help set the stall up or pack away please sign the sheet at the back of Church. THANK YOU!
FINALLY! This week I have finished swimming the 27.8 miles of the River Lee - A good chunk of the £1100 I’ve raised has come from friends in the church family at St John’s so thank you all so much for the sponsorship which will make a real difference to the lives of those on the waterways of the UK. Emma
OPEN GARDENS: The Bishop of St Albans will be opening his garden every Sunday between Sunday 9 June and Sunday 11 August for people to come and look at the beautiful gardens and the summer display. Those who saw the snowdrops will have seen the potential that the garden had for the summer and will be delighted at the change a different season brings. The two acres of garden is an oasis in central St Albans and visitors frequently comment on the fact that they did not know the garden was here or how extensive it is. Entrance is £5 per person (children free) and dogs on leads are welcome, there will also be plants for sale on some weekends. Please wear footwear suitable for the time of year. All money raised is donated to the Beds and Herts Historic Churches Trust.
SUNDAY READING SHEET 5th May 2024 6th Sunday of Easter
A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles
While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, ‘Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?’ So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several days. Acts 10: 44 - end
GOSPEL
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
John 15: 9 - 17
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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