The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Sunday 16th October 9:30am Mustard Tree Service – informal service for families and children. (at St Ed’s)Sunday 16th October 11:15 am Traditional Sunday service, Holy Communion (at St Ed’s) Sunday 16th October 11:15 am online Sunday service (livestream)Monday 17th October 5.00 pm Monday prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 18th October 8:45 am Prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 18th October 10:00 am Tiny Tunes (music for all young people) (at St Ed’s), refreshments10am til12 noonTuesday 18th October 6:00 pm Rspace (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 19th October 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 19th October 1:45 pm Nightingale School Harvest (at St Ed’s )Thursday 20th October 8.30am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s )Thursday 20th October 2.30pm Burial of ashes (at St Ed’s )Thursday 20th October 7.00pm Reflection with Compline (at St Ed’s and livestream)Friday 21st October 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) Also Sunday 23rd October: 8am Holy Communion, 9.30am Mustard Tree, and 11.15am Service of the word; Plus online 11:15am Informal Service and 6.30pm Sunday Club.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: Sunday 13th November 10.45am Livestream service for Remembrance The Domino Singers concert at St Peter’s raised an amazing £500, to be shared between Christian Aid and St Peter’s. A huge thank you to Domino Singer sand everyone who came.Pakistan Floods Appeal donations can be made through the DEC website : https://donation.dec.org.uk/pakistan-floods-appeal, or cash left in the vestryShoeboxes We have started organising our shoebox appeal for this year. We would really appreciate empty shoeboxes please. These can be left at the back of St Ed’s. Our Shoebox service will be on 30th October. There is a list in St Eds of items that can be included.We will be collecting Christmas Shoeboxes as part of the Blythswood appeal – see more details on their website https://blythswood.org/shoeboxappeal/Shoebox tea we will meet in church on Wednesday 26th October from 2.00pm when you can bring boxes, wrapping paper, items to fill boxes. We will make shoeboxes together. If you want to contribute but are unable to provide a full box - empty shoeboxes and individual items can also be left in church before October 26th. These will then be put together into shoeboxesRemembrance Sunday is on 13th November. We will have a service in St Eds with the Taverham Band, starting at 10.45am. The service will include thoughts and prayers for Ukraine.Foodbank sincere thanks for the donations from the local Foodbank for Harvest. “We are a voluntary group; without the vital support we receive from yourselves and from the rest of our local community the Food Bank would cease to exist. Thank you once again for your extreme kindness and generosity, please continue to support us”. Gerry Munday & Sarah Jane Douglas Taverham, Thorpe Marriott & Drayton Community Food Bank
When he saw them, he said to them, ‘Go and show yourselves to the priests.’ And as they went, they were made clean. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.Luke 17 : 14 - 15Reading for this week : Luke 17 : 11 - 19Thought for the weekOur Gospel reading reminds us of how Jesus breaks through into every difficult and seemingly hopeless situation with His love, compassion, healing and hope. The ten ‘lepers’ (they may have had any kind of skin disease) would have been told their situation was beyond help. Forced to live apart, with only each other for support.Our world is full of troubles today. Scenarios emerging that seem full of suffering and emptiness. Famines, war, climate pain, economic disaster. How much more then do we need to return to Jesus. To humbly throw ourselves at His feet. To praise God for Jesus’ presence, hope and love.This Harvest it is so important we give thanks, to adjust our vision and open our hearts to the Lord who perseveres with us. Who never gives up on us. Who brings life and healing.The man who came back to thank Jesus was a Samaritan. Jesus’ power and transforming love speaks through barriers caused by greed, apathy, prejudice, hatred.Let us praise God ‘with a loud voice’ today for His love that makes all the difference. Rev PaulPrayers 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, AmenGod, the Holy Spirit,You are the restless wind of love that sweeps through the world.You blow where you will, breaking down barriers,Stirring hearts to change, making all things possible.Make us restless for change – even impossible change.Come, Spirit of God,Sweep through our world bringing great change.May the harvest of your goodness bring justice and hope.And, for us, transformation in our praying and living,So all may share in the harvest of your blessings. Amen.~ posted on the Third Space website. http://third-space.org.uk/blog
The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Sunday 9th October 8:00am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Sunday 9th October 9:30am Mustard Tree Harvest Service – informal service for families and children. (at St Ed’s)Sunday 9th October 11:15 am Traditional Sunday service, Harvest (at St Ed’s) Note there is no 11:15am livestream this week (9th October). Last week's service was for harvest and is still available via the St Ed’s facebook page – the service sheet is available on the livestream page Sunday 9th October 6:30 pm Sunday Club (livestream)Monday 10th October 5.00 pm Monday prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 11th October 8:45 am Prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 11th October 10:00 am Tiny Tunes (music for all young people) (at St Ed’s), refreshments10am til12 noonTuesday 11th October 6:00 pm Rspace (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 12th October 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Thursday 13th October 8.30am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s )Thursday 13th October Ghost Hill Year 2s in church (at St Ed’s )Thursday 13th October 7.00pm Reflection with Compline (at St Ed’s and livestream)Friday 14th October 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 14th October 2.30pm Langley Pre-Prep Harvest in church (at St Ed’s )Also Sunday 16th October: 9.30am Mustard Tree, and 11.15am Holy Communion; Plus online 11:15am Informal Service and 6.30pm Sunday Club.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: Sunday 9th October 10:30 am Harvest Holy Communion followed by refreshments (at 11:30am)Sunday 13th November 10.45am Livestream service for Remembrance Harvest will take place on 9th October with Harvest services at both churches. At St Eds this will include a soup and bread lunch in church for all those who are able to stay. Thank you! To everyone who contributed to decorating the church for our celebration of Harvest. The arrangements look wonderful. Thank you also to everyone who has contributed food for the Foodbanks.Pakistan Floods Appeal donations can be made through the DEC website : https://donation.dec.org.uk/pakistan-floods-appeal, or cash left in the vestryShoeboxes We have started organising our shoebox appeal for this year. We would really appreciate empty shoeboxes please. These can be left at the back of St Eds. Our Shoebox service will be on 30th October. There is a list in St Eds of items that can be included.We will be collecting Christmas Shoeboxes as part of the Blythswood appeal – see more details on their website https://blythswood.org/shoeboxappeal/Shoebox tea we will meet in church on Wednesday 26th October from 2.00pm when you can bring boxes, wrapping paper, items to fill boxes. We will make shoeboxes together. If you want to contribute but are unable to provide a full box - empty shoeboxes and individual items can also be left in church before October 26th. These will then be put together into shoeboxes.Remembrance Sunday is on 13th November. We will have a service in St Eds with the Taverham Band, starting at 10.45am. The service will include thoughts and prayers for Ukraine.
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you. Luke 17 : 5 - 6Reading for this week : Luke 17 : 5 - 10Thought for the weekThe impact of Hurricane Ian in America has begun to emerge. Images of devastation. Stories of terrified people. Emergency Services barely able to cope. As always in these situations there are so many occurrences of strangers helping one another. Of Emergency personnel risking their lives. Untold acts of bravery and sacrifice.In our Gospel reading Jesus urges and encourages His disciples in acts of faith and obedience. Not in ways that are necessarily recognised or even appreciated, but to live out our faith in ways that mean living out the Gospel, revealing the power of Jesus’ forgiveness, compassion and hope, often in ways and in prayers that are unseen and unknown by the world.Just as a mustard seed is immersed in the soil, and grows, so Jesus urges His believers to be immersed in obedience and to live lives of faith. It is great to be thanked, appreciated, and even recognised from time to time. Yet as always Jesus challenges and turns everything upside down. Living in His love and lives that fulfil His Kingdom promises are truly abundant lives. So we are called to trust, believe and pray, and let the world know Jesus is alive. Rev PaulPrayers for this weekLord of creation, whose glory is around and within us: open our eyes to your wonders, that we may serve you with reverence and know your peace at our lives’ end, through Jesus Christ our Lord. AmenBlessing based on 2 Timothy 1: 1-14 :As you go from here, may God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.Do not let your faith or your witness grow cold. Remember: God’s gift of faith is like a flame;when the embers of that flame have cooled, you must fan them again to keep them ablaze.So remember what you have been taught and what you have experienced.Live in such a way that all who know you may see the light of God reflected in you.And may the grace of God, the love of Jesus Christ, and the presence of the Holy Spirit be with you and among you in the days ahead. Amen.
