On Saturday 30th May 2020, the parish are holding an online Virtual Wine tasting event to raise money for the parish Charity of the month, The Leprosy Mission.You can join the Virtual Wine tasting event by registering for a ticket by emailing the parish office sasms@btinternet.com or phoning 020 83909129. We are asking for donations for the event so please use the online donate button on the parish website to do this. Thank you.https://surbitonchurch.org.uk/about-us/giving/Leprosy has been around for thousands of years. It is still very much with us in many areas of the world. In Brazil and in India for example there are more than 10,000 new cases every year. If untreated, the disease can have devasting consequences as loss of feeling can lead to life changing injuries which may lead to amputation because the sufferers do not realise they have damaged themselves. The Leprosy Mission works in 18 countries across Asia, Africa and the Pacific collaborating with other organisations and agencies to provide treatment, carry out research and to offset stigmatisation which often comes with the disease. Incidentally, you can visit the remains of the Leper Hospital of St James in Dunwich, Suffolk. Leprosy used to be here too.For more information about the work of The Leprosy Mission please visit https://www.leprosymission.org/If you are unable to attend the wine tasting or tickets have run out please do consider making a donatio to this worthwhile charity.
Join us for Compline to celebrate the Feast of Ascension on Thursday 21st May at 9pm.To join the service please check your weekly email from Robert or contact the parish office at sasms@btinternet.com
Next Thursday evening, after the NHS applause, we will be doing two different kinds of thing. Come to one, none or both… as you like.DeuteronomyThe first thing is in the category of ‘Things-I-probably-wouldn’t-normally-do-but-in-Lockdown,-I-just-started-reading-‘War-and-Peace’,-so-I’ll-think-about-it’. I’ll be leading a short course on the Book of Deuteronomy for four weeks starting next Thursday. Come via Zoom. Lots of interaction. Deuteronomy is one of those texts from the Old Testament that can get bypassed or dismissed, but is filled with rich insights if you give it a chance. It’s also got its fair share of gruesome commandments to genocide, so you have to read it sensitively. But that’s what we’ll be doing!If you want to come this week, the first week will be about Deuteronomy as law and the passages we’ll be looking at in particular are 4.1-43, 4.44-49 and 5.1-33 (which includes the Ten Commandments).Compline Following the successful service this week, we’ll essentially be offering a repeat. This will be at 9pm on Thursday, following on from the Bible study, though you don’t need to have gone to the first to come to the second. Rather like the BBC, I like to think we’re offering something for everyone at church this week. If you’re in trouble or you know someone who is isolated, then please be in touch.For information on how to join either the Deuteronomy Study or the Compline service please contact sasms@btinternet.com.
