The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Sunday 23rd April 8:00am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Sunday 23rd April 9:30am Mustard Tree Church – informal service for families and children. (at St Ed’s)Sunday 23rd April 11:15 am Service of the word (at St Ed’s)Monday 24th April 5.00 pm Monday prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 25th April 10:00 am Tiny Tunes (music for all young people) (at St Ed’s), refreshments10am til12 noonTuesday 25th April 6:00 pm Rspace (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 26th April 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 26th April 6.30 pm Alpha (at St Ed’s)Thursday 27th April 8.30am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s )Thursday 27th April 7.00pm Reflection with Compline (at St Ed’s and livestream)Friday 28th April 9:30 am to12.00 noon Arts and Craft Group , - bring anything – art or craft - you fancy doing and coffee and tea are provided. Cost £3. (at Trinity Church building) Friday 28th April 12.00 pm thanksgiving service for Robert Beevor (at St Ed’s )Also Sunday 30th April, 9:30 am Mustard Tree Church,11:15am Service of the word with Open Doors speaker, Plus online 11:15am Informal Service. Additionally at 8am daily (except Sunday) we will be posting a ‘Daily bitesize prayer’ on the St Ed's Facebook page.For on-line services, watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'.Everyone welcome.AdditionallyRingland: future services/events at St Peter’s: 14th May Holy Communion 10:30am14th May APCM 12 noon11th June Holy Communion 10:30amRobert Beevor ‘Sue, Helen and Paul want to thank everyone for their lovely messages, cards and flowers at this sad time. The family will say goodbye to Robert at a private cremation and this will be followed by a thanksgiving service at St. Edmund’s at midday on Friday 28th April and afterwards at Wensum Valley Hotel. We welcome you all to join us for these. Please come in coloured clothing of your choice which may include yellow and green!’Tributes, candles, donations for Robert can be made through a website : www.robertbeevor.muchloved.comPeter Kerry sadly died peacefully on Thursday evening (just as we were praying and saying Compline). He was a man of wonderful and infectious faith, and we will miss him! Peter loved coming to church, and was a keen participant in the livestreams. He was much loved and is now with the Lord.Diary date : Open Doors Speaker Sunday 30th April Open Doors originated in the ministry of Brother Andrew who distributed Bibles to persecuted Christian communities in Eastern Europe during the 1970’s. On Sunday 30th April (a fifth Sunday) we will have a visiting speaker at the 11.15am service to tell us more about the work of Open doors today and the plight of the persecuted church. Please put the date in your diaries to come along if you can.Christian Aid Paul Scarff is again looking for volunteers to deliver envelopes this Christian Aid week, ideally between 7th and 16th May. Last year we delivered over 1,700 envelopes in Taverham and Ringland, and raised over £1,000! If you can help, please contact Paul at paul.scarff57@gmail.com or 868939.Calling All Gardeners At St Ed's we plan to hold the Plant Stall again this year beginning the last weekend of May and would appreciate any surplus plants you may be dividing or seedlings you are growing. This year the proceeds will be donated to Christian Aid.St Peter's Church Ringland–Annual Church Parochial Meeting and Annual Vestry MeetingThese will be at St.Peter’s at 12noon on Sunday 14th May and all our church family are encouraged to attend, to celebrate, reflect and pray for our life and ministry as Christ’s believers in this place.All those on the Electoral Roll are eligible to vote and please ask the Churchwarden for a form if you would like to go on the Electoral Roll.Nomination forms for Churchwardens and PCC members are available from the churchwarden or in St Peter's. Please pray if you feel the Lord is calling you or someone else to these roles. All candidates who are successfully elected will be subjected to our safeguarding processes before their appointment is confirmed.
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.' John 20 : 19This week’s reading : John 20 : 19 - 31Thought for the week On the evening of Jesus’ resurrection, the disciples are cowering, hiding, full of fear and confusion. They have locked the door of the house. They have largely come together, yet they are fearful, even terrified of what will happen next. Yet what happens next changes everything. The Risen Lord appears to them, reassures them, guides them, breathes on them with the Holy Spirit. They are transformed.Jesus meets with them, and knows their confusion and need. He speaks His peace into their minds and hearts. He shows them the wounds to show it really is Him. He tells them their mission – to be sent by Jesus into the world. He breathes the Holy Spirit into them. Jesus meets us in our need. He knows our insecurities, our fears, our need for reassurance. For guidance. We meet with the Risen Jesus whenever we pray. Jesus is alive, and is always ready to meet with us, transform every situation we find ourselves in, and change our hearts with the reassurance, encouragement and boldness He alone can give. As we celebrate His Resurrection, we can celebrate all He would have us become, all He enables us to be. Christ is Risen!Rev PaulPrayer for todayRisen Christ, for whom no door is locked, no entrance barred:open the doors of our hearts, that we may seek the good of othersand walk the joyful road of sacrifice and peace,to the praise of God the Father. Amen
The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Sunday 16th April 9:30am Mustard Tree Church – informal service for families and children. (at St Ed’s)Sunday 16th April 11:15 am Holy Communion with Baptism (at St Ed’s)Sunday 16th April 11:15 am Online Sunday service (livestream)Monday 17th April 5.00 pm Monday prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 18th April 10:00 am Tiny Tunes (music for all young people) (at St Ed’s), refreshments10am til12 noonTuesday 18th April 6:00 pm Rspace (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 19th April 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 19th April 6.30 pm Alpha (at St Ed’s)Thursday 20th April 8.30am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s )Thursday 20th April 7.00pm Reflection with Compline (at St Ed’s and livestream)Friday 21st April 9.30 am Burial in churchyard (at St Ed’s )Also Sunday 23rd April, 8am Holy Communion, 9:30 am Mustard Tree Church,11:15am Service of the word.Additionally at 8am daily (except Sunday) we will be posting a ‘Daily bitesize prayer’ on the St Ed's Facebook page.For on-line services, watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'.Everyone welcome.AdditionallyRingland: future services/events at St Peter’s: 14th May Holy Communion 10:30am14th May APCM 12 noon11th June Holy Communion 10:30amRobert Beevor ‘Sue, Helen and Paul want to thank everyone for their lovely messages, cards and flowers at this sad time. The family will say goodbye to Robert at a private cremation and this will be followed by a thanksgiving service at St. Edmund’s at midday on Friday 28th April and afterwards at Wensum Valley Hotel. We welcome you all to join us for these. Please come in coloured clothing of your choice which may include yellow and green!’Baptisms at Easter welcome to Sky, Rocky and their family. We are delighted that Sky will be baptised at 11.15am today, and we will also have a Thanksgiving for Rocky. Welcome!Christian Aid Paul Scarff is again looking for volunteers to deliver envelopes this Christian Aid week, ideally between 7th and 16th May. Last year we delivered over 1,700 envelopes in Taverham and Ringland, and raised over £1,000! If you can help, please contact Paul at paul.scarff57@gmail.com or 868939.Diary date : Open Doors Speaker Sunday 30th April Open Doors originated in the ministry of Brother Andrew who distributed Bibles to persecuted Christian communities in Eastern Europe during the 1970’s. On Sunday 30th April (a fifth Sunday) we will have a visiting speaker at the 11.15am service to tell us more about the work of Open doors today and the plight of the persecuted church. Please put the date in your diaries to come along if you can.St Peter's Church Ringland–Annual Church Parochial Meeting and Annual Vestry MeetingThese will be at St.Peter’s at 12noon on Sunday 14th May and all our church family are encouraged to attend, to celebrate, reflect and pray for our life and ministry as Christ’s believers in this place.All those on the Electoral Roll are eligible to vote and please ask the Churchwarden for a form if you would like to go on the Electoral Roll.Nomination forms for Churchwardens and PCC members are available from the churchwarden or in St Peter's. Please pray if you feel the Lord is calling you or someone else to these roles. All candidates who are successfully elected will be subjected to our safeguarding processes before their appointment is confirmed.
Go quickly and tell his disciples, “He has been raised from the dead,[b] and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him.” This is my message for you.’ Matthew 28 : 7This week’s reading : Matthew 28 : 1 - 10Thought for the week Matthew’s account of Jesus’ resurrection is truly dramatic. Within a few words an earthquake, an angel like lightening, the stone rolled away, and a message, “He is not here, for He has been raised”.So often we use many words. Reports are written that amount to hundreds of pages. Technology produces reams of paper. Words, numbers, tables. Social media alone involves millions of words each day.Yet for the greatest day in history. For the most earth shattering event. For the day that changed all our lives, and the news is still ringing around the earth, few words are actually needed. Jesus is Risen from the dead. He has conquered sin and death. He offers eternal life to all who believe and trust in Him. We can put our trust in Jesus, because so few words are needed to testify to the power of the Lord’s love and new life in Him. The Lord’s greatest gift to us. This is the truth of who Jesus is, who has broken through all that is disruptive, troubling, even destructive in our lives, to bring us new life, even eternal life.Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Who gave His life that we may have Life. He is Risen indeed. Allleluia! Rev PaulPrayer for todayLord of all life and power, who through the mighty resurrection of your Son overcame the old order of sin and death to make all things new in him:grant that we, being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ, may reign with him in glory;to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be praise and honour, glory and might, now and in all eternity, Amen
