The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Sunday 2nd February 9:30am Mustard Tree Nativity– informal service for families and children. (at St Ed’s)Sunday 2nd February 11:15 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Sunday 2nd February 4:00 pm The Gathering@Ringland (Informal Garden Church) (at St Peter’s)Monday 3rd February 1:00 pm Funeral (at St Ed’s)Monday 3rd February 5.00 pm Evening prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 4th February 10:00 am til 12 noon Community Café with activities for tots (at St Ed’s),Tuesday 4th February 6:00 pm Rspace (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 5th February 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s )Wednesday 5th February 1:00 pm Funeral (at St Ed’s)Thursday 6th February 9.00am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s )Thursday 6th February 7.00pm Compline with meditation (at St Ed’s and livestream) Friday 7th February 9:30 am to12.00 noon Arts and Craft Group , - bring anything – art or craft - you fancy doing and coffee and tea are provided. (at Trinity church)Also Sunday 9th February 2025, At St Ed’s, 8am Holy Communion, 9:30 am Mustard Tree, 11:15 am Service of the word (livestream) Also at Ringland Village Hall 10:30 Holy Communion. For on-line services, watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'.Everyone welcome.AdditionallyRingland: future services/events for Ringland St Peter’s: February 2nd 4pm informal service at St Peter’sFebruary 9th 10:30 am Communion Service (at Ringland village Hall)March 2nd 4pm informal service at St Peter’sMarch 9th 10:30 am Communion Service at St Peter’sThank you! We have now received our shares of the money very kindly donated for the Norfolk Churches Trust Bike Ride and Walk. Polly and Molly raised £650, of which St. Edmund’s church receives £309. They also visited so many churches they may be included in the wall of fame. Rev Paul raised £936.94 of which £468.47 has gone towards St Peter’s Ringland. A huge thank you from Molly, Polly and Rev Paul for everyone’s contributions and support. We are very grateful. This year’s event is on Saturday 13th September 2025. If anyone would like to cycle or walk, please let Molly or Rev Paul know.The Gathering is at St Peter’s Ringland on 2nd February, with fire pit, lights, live music, a special time of worship. From 4.00pmRosemary Cuff’s service will be at St Ed’s on Monday 3rd February at 1.00pmJanet Ransom’s service to give thanks for her life and faith is at St Ed’s on Wednesday 5th February at 1.00pm.Rachel’s Operation will take place, God willing, on Sunday 16th February. Rev Paul will be off work for a month to look after her until Sunday 16th March. Many thanks to our ministry team and to our Church Wardens for covering this time. Any help at St Ed’s during this time would be very welcome, Please pray for Rachel’s recovery.
Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” Luke 4 : 20 - 21Readings this week Nehemiah 8 : 1 – 3, 5 – 6, 8 - 10; 1 Corinthians 12 : 12 - 31; Luke 4 : 14 - 21Thought for this weekIt seems appropriate the ceasefire in Gaza has begun with the release of prisoners on both sides. Their release has brought much needed mercy and some release for those involved from the trauma and agony of the conflict.In our Gospel reading Jesus returns to His earthly home of Nazareth. Yet His visit is not to win favour. He is respected by the people at first, and praised. Yet Jesus did not come just to be given earthly accolades. As He reads from Isaiah’s prophecy, it is clear He has come to change our lives, transform our relationship with God, to put right and to set free.The episode ends with Jesus being hounded out of town, because He has come to upset, to stir, to bring justice, and to set us truly free from all that shackles, from ‘the sin that so easily entangles’ (Hebrews 12 : 1).Jesus offers us true freedom that lasts, that transforms, that calls all people back to the Lord who even restores spiritual sight to see things as they truly are, and reaches the prisoners locked in by fear, prejudice, loneliness, and all the other gaolers to afflict our lives.Jesus’ true freedom offered to each of us. True freedom for all people. Rev PaulPrayer for this week (inspired by Isaiah 61:1, Luke 4:18-19)The Spirit of the Lord is upon us! We have been called, we have been anointed, we have been given a task. So go out from this place into the mission field that is the world. We go carrying Good News to the world: news about freedom from oppression and healing for the afflicted. The time of the Lord's favour is now! Hallelujah! Amen. posted by Rev Gord on his blog, Worship Offerings. http://worshipofferings.blogspot.ca/People to pray forFor peace across the worldFor the ministry of the church amongst the poor, the oppressed, those enslaved by addictions and temptation, those who are downtrodden or broken – hearted. The ministry of Jesus today.
The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Sunday 26th January 8:00am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Sunday 26th January 9:30am Mustard Tree Nativity– informal service for families and children. (at St Ed’s)Sunday 26th January 11:15 am Service of the word (at St Ed’s)Sunday 26th January 11:15 am Online Sunday service (livestream) Monday 27th January 5.00 pm Evening prayers (at St Ed’s)Tuesday 28th January 10:00 am til 12 noon Community Café with activities for tots (at St Ed’s),Tuesday 28th January 6:00 pm Rspace (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 29th January 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s )Thursday 30th January 9.00am Church caretaking team (at St Ed’s )Thursday 30th January 7.00pm Compline with meditation (at St Ed’s and livestream) Friday31st January 9:30 am to12.00 noon Arts and Craft Group , - bring anything – art or craft - you fancy doing and coffee and tea are provided. (at Trinity church)Also Sunday 2nd February 2025, At St Ed’s, 9:30 am Mustard Tree, 11:15 am Holy Communion. Also at Ringland St Peter’s 4pm "The Gathering @ Ringland" .For on-line services, watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'.Everyone welcome.AdditionallyRingland: future services/events for Ringland St Peter’s: February 2nd 4pm informal service at St Peter’sFebruary 9th 10:30 am Communion Service (at Ringland village Hall)New Rural Dean Rev Tim Yau has been appointed as the new Rural Dean for Norwich North. Tim is the Interim Associate Priest in the Sprowston & North Norwich Team Ministry. He has wide experience in enabling churches to grow (he has spoken at our APCM in the past), and is involved in Connect Norwich, the network that links churches across the city. Tim will be Licensed in March.Our ministry we have much to give thanks for this week as Prayer Spaces, our home visits, Home Communions, visits to Care Homes and school visits have all begun again. Please pray for our ministry and outreach. Janet Ransom’s service to give thanks for her life and faith is at St Ed’s on Wednesday 5th February at 1.00pm.Rosemary Cuff’s service will be at St Ed’s on Monday 3rd February at 1.00pmRachel’s Operation will take place, God willing, on Sunday 16th February. Rev Paul will be off work for a month to look after her until Sunday 16th March. Many thanks to our ministry team and to our Church Wardens for covering this time. Any help at St Ed’s during this time would be very welcome, Please pray for Rachel’s recovery.Christingle Collection candles and envelopes to support the work of the Children’s Society can be returned to church up to Sunday 26th January.
This miraculous sign at Cana in Galilee was the first time Jesus revealed his glory. And his disciples believed in him. John 2 : 11Readings this week Isaiah 62 : 1 - 5, 1 Corinthians 12 : 1 - 11, John 2 : 1 - 11Thought for this weekWe are easily unsettled by change. If a bus stop is moved, or a favourite programme changes time, or the supermarkets move their groceries about, we can be thrown. Some may even have a sense of outrage.At the wedding of Cana everything changed. Maybe Jesus had an idea about His first miracle, but here He was confronted by a situation of human need, and He responded. This was to be the pattern of His whole ministry, having to change course, yet always showing His love and compassion.Jesus’ relationship with His disciples, and with Mary, changed. He had revealed His power within a deeply human situation, and ‘they believed in Him’.Jesus also used the jars of water for purification rites. This was a deep change in terms of ritual and the new life Jesus is bringing.Yet the deepest change is within us. In our attitudes and priorities. The work of the Holy Spirit that brings the fruit of the Spirit, so we become more loving, more joyful, more peaceful, (the list goes on!) Believing in Jesus brings change in our lives. When we are open to that change, the Kingdom is unstoppable. Rev PaulPrayer for this weekAlmighty God, in Christ you make all things new: transform the poverty of our nature by the riches of your grace, and in the renewal of our lives make known your heavenly glory; 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. AmenEternal Lord, our beginning and our end: bring us with the whole creation to your glory, hidden through past ages and made known in Jesus Christ our Lord. AmenPeople to pray forFor peace today in Gaza and IsraelFor Christian Unity across the worldFor those preparing to be marriedFor young people facing uncertainty
