The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Please note there will be no online services on Sunday 4th September.Sunday 4th September 9:30am Mustard Tree Church – informal service for families and children. (at St Ed’s)Sunday 4th September 11:15 am Traditional Sunday Service, Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Monday 5th September 5.00 pm Monday prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 6th September 10:00 am Tiny Tunes (music for all young people) (at St Ed’s), refreshments10am til12 noonWednesday 7th September 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Thursday 8th September 8.30am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s )Thursday 8th September 7.00pm Reflection with Compline (at St Ed’s and livestream)Friday 9th September 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 11th September: at St Ed’s, 8am Holy Communion, 9.30am Mustard Tree and 11.15am Service of the word . Plus online 11:15am Informal Service and 6pm 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: Saturday 8th October Domino Singers 3.00pm Autumn songs. For Christian Aid and St Peter’s Church.Wanted: new or used T shirts and polo shirts and new boxer shorts for wounded Ukranian soldiers in hospital. Can be left at St Ed's. Many thanks. Rev ValRev Gill Osborne will be Licensed to Taverham with Ringland by Bishop Graham in his chapel on 8th September. We are so pleased to welcome Gill and David to our church family and to our life and ministry. Gill will be speaking at a celebration service at St Ed’s on 25th September at 11.15am.Ride and Stride The annual Norfolk Churches Trust Bike Ride is on Saturday 10th September. Everyone is invited to be sponsored in walking or cycling between churches to raise money for the Trust and for our churches. Further details are in St Ed’s and St Peter’s or visit the Norfolk Churches Trust website at https://norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk/bike-ride-walk/Domino Singers will be at St Peter’s Saturday 8th October 3.00pm. Autumn songs, for Christian Aid and St Peter’s Church. Everyone welcome.Archdeacon’s visit our Archdeacon, Ven Keith James, will be visiting us on 18th September. We hope this will be a joyful celebration and affirmation of our life and ministry at St Ed’s and St Peter’s. Ven Keith will be pleased to meet members of our congregation and to join with us in our worship that day.
'But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.’ Luke ch14 verses13-14Reading for this week: Luke 14 : 13 - 14Prayer for the weekEver-loving God, we bow before you in reverence.You search for us, care for us, and welcome us home.We belong to you.Transform us into your likeness, and feed us through your generous Word.As we wait for the Spirit make us more and more signs of your hospitality, so your kingdom may come, on earth as in heaven.Amen~ from Nine Days of Prayers 2012, posted on the Diocese of Canterbury website. http://www.canterburydiocese.org/247liveit/novena2012/pocketprayers2012.pdf
The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below):Sunday 28th August 8:00am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Sunday 28th August 9:30am Mustard Tree Church – informal service for families and children. (at St Ed’s)Sunday 28th August 11:15 am Traditional Sunday Service, Service of the word (at St Ed’s)Sunday 28th August 11:15 am online Sunday service (livestream)Sunday 28th August Baptism (at St Peter's)Sunday 28th August 6:30 pm Sunday Club (livestream)Monday 29th August 5.00 pm Monday prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 30th August 10:00 am Tiny Tunes (music for all young people) (at St Ed’s), refreshments10am til12 noonTuesday 30th August Funeral (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 31st August 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Thursday 1st September 8.30am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s )Thursday 1st September 7.00pm Reflection with Compline (at St Ed’s and livestream)Also Sunday 4th September: at St Ed’s, 9.30am Mustard Tree and 11.15am Holy Communion. Plus online 11:15am Informal Service and 6pm 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: Saturday 8th October Domino Singers 3.00pm Autumn songs. For Christian Aid and St Peter’s Church.Wanted: new or used T shirts and polo shirts and new boxer shorts for wounded Ukranian soldiers in hospital. Can be left at St Ed's. Also needed a king size bed base (no mattress) for recently arrived Ukranian family. Many thanks. Rev ValRev Gill Osborne will be Licensed to Taverham with Ringland by Bishop Graham in his chapel on 8th September. We are so pleased to welcome Gill and David to our church family and to our life and ministry. Gill will be speaking at a celebration service at St Ed’s on 25th September at 11.15am.Ride and Stride The annual Norfolk Churches Trust Bike Ride is on Saturday 10th September. Everyone is invited to be sponsored in walking or cycling between churches to raise money for the Trust and for our churches. Further details are in St Ed’s and St Peter’s or visit the Norfolk Churches Trust website at https://norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk/bike-ride-walk/Domino Singers will be at St Peter’s Saturday 8th October 3.00pm. Autumn songs, for Christian Aid and St Peter’s Church. Everyone welcome.Archdeacon’s visit our Archdeacon, Ven Keith James, will be visiting us on 18th September. We hope this will be a joyful celebration and affirmation of our life and ministry at St Ed’s and St Peter’s. Ven Keith will be pleased to meet members of our congregation and to join with us in our worship that day.
When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. Luke 13 : 12 – 13Reading for this week : Luke 13 : 10 - 17Thought for the weekThough we don’t always want to admit it, as humans I think we know we need rules, boundaries, to know where we are, for life to carry on safely and well.But what happens when these no longer help, but restrict our lives? Or worse still , restrict our freedom in God, our worship, our ability to grow in our relationship with the Lord and as people. In our Gospel reading Jesus heals a woman suffering from a physical condition for eighteen years. Jesus breaks through into her life and gives her freedom from suffering and a new beginning.Jesus breaks through into the most difficult situations with His freedom, hope and peace.He also breaks through all that would trap, and restrict, in our relationship with Him. In Jesus’ time it was the restrictions imposed by the religious authorities to bring control, that stifled so many in knowing God’s love. Jesus has come to bring freedom and new life. What stifles us in our relationship with Jesus that we need to put aside? What limitations to Jesus’ grace do we need to ask Him to break through? Rev PaulPrayer for this week : A Prayer for HealingGod of life, God of hope, God of allLift us on your love like eagle's wingsSustain us, Guide us, Heal usThen send us forth into the worldThat we may love as you love.Amen.~ written by Terri, and posted on RevGalBlogPals. http://revgalblogpals.blogspot.ca/
