Dear Friends
This weekend is Pentecost Sunday. Let us pray for God’s Holy Spirit to touch more lives. This Sunday both churches meet in a combined service at St Margaret’s Church looking at how the Holy Spirit can change and lead us individually and as church.
In the afternoon some of us from both churches will meet on the cathedral green at 4pm before going to the Cathedral for the 6pm celebration of Pentecost. Folk from many other churches from our area will be there too!
We thank God for our mission community and all it does to reach out to people in the community and this broken world. Let us pray for a fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit so we may Jesus more clearly, love him more dearly and follow him more nearly, day by day.
Revd Peter
While Louise is on sabbatical, the principal points of contact are as follows: Gill Yates, St. Margaret’s: [email protected]
Caryll Ingerslev, St. Luke’s: [email protected]
Please send all contributions for the newsletter to Gill by the end of Thursday and material for A Church Near You to Tony Raven: [email protected]
Services and calendar for the week
Saturday 18th May 11.00 a.m. Baptism St. Margaret’s
Sunday 19th May
8.00 a.m. 10.00 a.m. Holy Communion Joint Holy Communion St. Margaret’s St. Margaret’s
Monday 20th May 7.00 p.m. Compline Zoom
Tuesday 21st May 9.00 a.m. Morning Prayer St. Margaret’s
Wednesday 22nd
May 10.00 a.m. 1.15 p.m. Morning Worship Lunchtime concert Zoom St. Margaret’s
Thursday 23rd
May 10.00 a.m. Mini Messy Church St. Margaret’s
Friday 24h May 9.00 a.m. Morning Prayer St. Margaret’s
Sunday 26th May 10.30 a.m. 6.30 p.m. Joint Service Choral Eucharist St. Nicholas St. Margaret’s
N.B. Evensong on 26th May will be a communion service, as the morning service is at St. Nicholas.
The Zoom links and meeting IDs for all the Zoom events are on our pages on ACNY (A Church Near You)
St. Luke’s church is now open on Wednesday afternoons between 2.00 and 4.00.
All are welcome...
To look around
To sit quietly for a while
To light a prayer candle
To pray
Please pray for God’s blessing on Marnie and her family as she is baptised at 11a.m. on Saturday at St Margaret’s.
Please pray for all our children involved in Take 5, Mini-messy Church, Open the Story. These children are the youngest members of our congregation and our future!
Do come along to one of these events, meet the children and their parents and maybe enjoy a cup of coffee.
News and Notices
From the end of July, there will no churchwarden, unless someone comes forward! If you would like to know more about what is involved, please contact Gill: [email protected]
The next couple of months is an ideal time to do a gradual handover.
Bookings Administrator – Janet, who has done a brilliant job, is retiring at the end of June. If you would be interested in this job, please contact Gill.
Lunchtime Concerts Wednesdays, 1-15 – 2.00 p.m.
May 22nd - David Davies – Organ recital: music dedicated to the Holy Spirit from Bach to Messiaen
Big Music Collective
THESE EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED
Pentecost Celebration Exeter Cathedral, Sunday 19 May at 6pm
Thy Kingdom Come: 9th-19th May 2024 The period from Ascension Day to Pentecost is a time when the worldwide church is called to prayer. There are lots of ways for us to join in this year:
‘Novena’ prayer booklets with a written reflection for each day are available from both churches to take home for your personal prayers during the period. We also have a few copies of the Prayer Journal which includes QR links to videos and space to write your own reflections. These are available from the prayer area here at St. Margaret's. Online resources: you can download the ‘Thy Kingdom Come’ App or sign up for daily prayer emails from the website https://www.churchofengland.org/resources/thy-kingdom-come St Margaret’s church is open daily for prayer with interactive prayer stations around the church. On Sunday 19th May we are all invited to the Pentecost celebration service at 6 p.m. at Exeter Cathedral. Prayer and worship will be led by Bishop Jackie and Bishop James, with music led by Andy Flannagan and a talk from Ruth Valerio.We would like to make this a Mission Community event and we are joining with members of St Luke’s, for a picnic from 4 pm on the Cathedral green before the worship.
Maggie will be catching the 15:37 from Topsham to Exeter Central if members of St Margaret’s would like to join the picnic tea on the Cathedral Green (we will be sitting on benches or walls!) You are still welcome to the service at 6 p.m .even if you have not asked Maggie or Caryll for a ticket but it would be helpful to let them know if you are coming so we can all sit together.
If you would like to join us, please give your name to Reverend Maggie Stirling-Troy [email protected] or Caryll Ingerslev [email protected] so that they can book our free tickets on eventbrite. It is not absolutely essential to have pre-booked tickets.
Summer Study and Fellowship groups
The book chosen for the summer session is “Holy Habits” by Andrew Roberts. Meeting in the social area of St Margaret's Church, 11 a.m. - 12 noon, with tea/coffee from 10.40. Starting on Wednesday 29th May for ten weeks. All are welcome.
To order a copy of the book, contact Elizabeth Reed: [email protected]
St Luke's are reading the same book, starting on Thursday 30th May, 3-15 pm - 4-15 pm, meeting in their Church rooms and also serving tea/coffee. All are welcome.
Exmouth Food Bank
Supplies We Are Short Of This Month – May 2024
·Tins of baked beans & spaghetti hoops
·Cereals
·Stir in pasta /pasta bake sauces
·Tins or packets of soup
·Tinned fruit
·Peanut butter
·Jars of jam
·Coffee
·Tea bags
·Packets of biscuits
·Shampoo & conditioner
The Exmouth Foodbank urgently needs bags for life/large plastic bags to enable people to carry their food parcels home. Thank you.
Many thanks for your support. We simply couldn’t do this without you!
Thank you in advance for your generosity! For further information email: [email protected] 07787758511
Please find the newsletters for St. Margaret’s and St. Luke’s attached.
Prayers
For those who are ill or in need of our prayers:
Roger Fogwill, Lucy, Pauline, Jill and Adrian, Michael, Kirsten, Chris Whitehead, Fay, Tony Bradford, Marlene Gardner, Pam Wormald, Mary, Peter, John Heal, Gail Miller
Housebound or in nursing/care homes:
Alfred Wonnacott, Janet Mutter, Georgina Lear
Please pray for Anne Plested supporting the work of Bethlehem Bible College, and Ben and Katy Ray in Tanzania, St. Luke’s CMS mission link
Anniversaries
Maurice and Joyce Stacey, Frank Wills
Helen Heal, Marjorie Godfrey, Meg Paul, Sandy Barnes, William Irwin
Recently departed
Parvin, Heather Carson, Ken Newley
Gospel Readings for the coming week
Sunday 19th May John 15: 26-27, 16: 4b-15
Monday 20th May Mark 9: 14-29
Tuesday 21st May Mark 9: 30-37
Wednesday 22nd May Mark 9: 38-40
Thursday 23rd May Mark 9: 41-50
Friday 24th May Mark 10: 1-12
Saturday 25th May Mark 10: 13-16
Sunday 26th May John 3: 1-17
Collect and reading for Sunday 19th May
God, who as at this time taught the hearts of your faithful people by sending to them the light of your Holy Spirit: grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in al things and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
John 15.26-27
‘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.
John 16. 4b-15
But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them.
The Work of the Spirit
‘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.