The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Sunday 11th October 8:00 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s) Sunday 11th October 9:30 am Mustard Tree Church– informal service for families and children (at St Ed’s) Sunday 11th October 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Peter’s) followed by refreshments Sunday 11th October 11:15 am Service of the Word (at St Ed’s and livestream) Monday 12th October 5.00 pm Evening prayers (at St Ed’s) Tuesday 13th October 10:00 am til 12 noon Community Café (at St Ed’s) includes activities for children Tuesday 6th October 6:00 pm Rspace (at St Ed’s) Wednesday 14th October 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s ) Thursday 15th October 9.00am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s ) Thursday 15th October 7.00pm Compline (at St Ed’s) Friday 16th October 2.00pm Langley Pre-prep Harvest Service (at St Ed’s) Also Sunday 18th October 2026. At St Ed’s 9:30 am Mustard Tree, 11:15 am Holy Communion on-line services, watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'. Everyone welcome. Additionally Ringland: future services/events for Ringland St Peter’s: October 11th 10:30 am Holy Communion for Safeguarding Sunday October 25th 3pm The Gathering @ Ringland (at St Peter’s) November 8th 10:30 am Remembrance Service Shoeboxes – Shoebox Sunday will be 1st November. We have shoeboxes already covered in church. They just need to be filled! There is a very short video on the Blythswood Care website : https://blythswood.org/shoeboxappeal/ We will be having a time in church on Wednesday 28th October to make shoeboxes together, from 2.00pm until 5.00pm, and we will be having a speaker to share stories of the shoebeoxes being delivered. Everyone is welcome! Bright Party TEC (Taverham Evangelical church) are organising a Bright Party for Saturday 31st October for children in our community. Details in the porch at St Ed’s. Rev Canon Stella Green’s Induction at Great Ellingham is on Tuesday 10th November at 7.00pm. Please let Rev Paul know if you would like to come.
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. Matthew 6 : 33 – 34Readings this week Psalm 65; Deuteronomy 26 : 1 - 11; Matthew 6 : 25 - 33Thought for this weekAt Harvest last year we needed a new Treasurer, a Safeguarding Officer, and people to join the Thursday cleaning team. The Lord provided all these, and so much more (new members of PCC, new help with Prayer Spaces, more people praying on Thursday evenings, someone to organise the shoeboxes etc) We are so grateful for everyone who has come forward over this year.At Harvest a year ago we were also giving thanks that the Lord had miraculously provided all we needed for the completion of our three projects – the Chancel thatch, the East Window and the organ. Three projects I thought would take 5 years completed in a year!Harvest reminds us of Jesus’ words that we are not to live amidst the anxieties, preoccupations and agenda’s of this world. Jesus says to us as believers, ‘Do not worry’. We are to be freed from all that oppresses or burdens us, but to live lives of faith, simply, with thanks and to share the Lord’s love with others. Jesus’ Kingdom is measured by lives changed and prayers answered. We praise Jesus for the gift of His love each day, and all He is doing. He calls us to ‘not worry’, and to trust in the Lord for everything. To believe and pray, and leave the rest to Him! Rev PaulPrayer for this weekEternal God, you crown the year with your goodness and you give us the fruits of the earth in their season: grant that we may use them to your glory, for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, AmenCreator God, you made the goodness of the land, the riches of the sea and the rhythm of the seasons; as we thank you for the harvest, may we cherish and respect this planet and its peoples, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.We give thanks for…..The Lord’s provision to us for all we need each dayFor the work of Aid Agencies in all parts of the worldFor the work of the Norwich Foodbank
The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Sunday 4th October 9:30 am Harvest Mustard Tree Church– informal service for families and children (at St Ed’s) Sunday 4th October 11:15 am Harvest Service (at St Ed’s) Monday 5th October 5.00 pm Evening prayers (at St Ed’s) Tuesday 6th October 10:00 am til 12 noon Community Café (at St Ed’s) includes activities for children Tuesday 6th October 6:00 pm Rspace (at St Ed’s) Wednesday 7th October 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s ) Thursday 8th October 9.00am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s ) Thursday 8th October 7.00pm Compline (at St Ed’s) Also Sunday 11th October 2026. At St Ed’s 8:00 am Holy Communion, 9:30 am Mustard Tree, 11:15 am Service of the word. On-line 11:15 livestream service, At St Peter’s 10:30 Holy Communion followed by refreshments on-line services, watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'. Everyone welcome. Additionally Ringland: future services/events for Ringland St Peter’s: October 11th 10:30 am Holy Communion for Safeguarding Sunday October 25th 3pm The Gathering @ Ringland (at St Peter’s) November 8th 10:30 am Remembrance Service Harvest at St Ed’s is today (Sunday 4th October). Thank you so much to everyone who decorated the church. It looks amazing. We are supporting the Norwich Foodbank. There is a Special Harvest Lunch from 12.30pm Please come along and invite your family and friends. Everyone is welcome! Administration of Holy Communion at St Ed's we return to the common chalice at 11.15am today – where everyone receives the wafer and then drinks from the chalice at Holy Communion, but there will be an additional chalice at the altar rail for anyone who prefers to have a wafer dipped by the priest. Shoeboxes – Shoebox Sunday will be 1st November at St Ed's. We have shoeboxes already covered in St Ed's. They just need to be filled! There is a very short video on the Blythswood Care website : https://blythswood.org/shoeboxappeal/ Bright Party TEC (Taverham Evangelical church) are organising a Bright Party for Saturday 31st October for children in our community. Details in the porch at St Ed’s.
Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you this authority?” Matthew 21 : 23Readings this week Ezekiel 18 : 1 – 4, 25 - end; Philippians 2 : 1 - 13; Matthew 21 : 23 - 32Thought for this weekWe are all good at reluctance from time to time. At excuses, or finding something more interesting when tasks need to be done or we cannot summon the energy or enthusiasm to go somewhere or do something. I hear myself saying sometimes, even to myself, “You’ll enjoy it once you get there”.Jesus knows this in us. How we feel sometimes. Our hearts might be saying no, even though our minds say yes. In our Gospel reading Jesus has been talking to the Pharisees. People set in their ways, who cannot see the grace and freedom of the Lord in their midst. Yet for all of us, we cannot see the good things sometimes, even though they are on our doorstep or standing before us!Jesus has come into our lives to offer us freedom, forgiveness and eternal life. He is the Good News, who has brought the best news we can ever hear or know, who is Himself. Yet how reluctant we are sometimes to receive from Him. To surrender everything to Him. To discover more of His love. To grow in His grace and freedom. What do we need to receive from Jesus today? What holds us back? What areas of reluctance do we need to lay aside? Rev PaulPrayer for this weekAlmighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself, and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. AmenGracious God, you call us to fullness of life: deliver us from unbelief and banish our anxieties with the liberating love of Jesus Christ our Lord. AmenWe give thanks for…..Those who visit our churches during the day to prayAll the Lord provides for us as individuals, for our families and as churchesThe life and witness of Christians around the world
