Royston Parish Church (Herts)

Royston Parish Church News - Sunday 4th October - Harvest Festival

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ROYSTON PARISH CHURCH - where all are welcome and God's love is shared

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Diary

Friday 2nd October

09:30-10:00 Celtic Prayer (a simple form of Morning Prayer from the Northumbria Community)

Saturday 3rd October

10:00-11:30 Church Café (Tea / Coffee / Hot Chocolate only £2 - Free Biscuits)

15:00-16:00 Wedding between Daniel Scott and Ellie Payne

18:00-21:00 Harvest Supper

Sunday 4th October

09:00-09:45 Communion Service that is quiet and reflective.

10:30-11:40 Harvest Festival Family Service with music/choir, children's groups/toy area, followed by refreshments

11:45-12:15 Treble Makers

15:30-17:00 Tea Time Praise

Tuesday 6th October

09:00-09:30 Morning Prayer (incorporating prayer requests that have been left in church)

09:45-10:45 Visiting Bell Ringers

Wednesday 7th October

11:00-11:25 Communion Service that is quiet and reflective, followed by refreshments

13:00-15:30 Knit and Natter (where all are welcome to meet and chat)

18:45-20:00 Choir Practice

19:00-21:00 Men's Group at Wetherspoons (turn up at any time, all men are welcome for a drink and a chat)

Thursday 8th October

09:00-11:00 Tots in Church

13:00-15:00 Church Cleaner

19:00-21:00 Bell-Ringers Practice

Intercessions

We pray for all Christians worldwide:

For all Christians in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
For all who minister and worship at Royston Parish Church
For the work of our mission partners, Vietnamese church, Pastor Na

Pray for the community of Royston:

For our local health centres
For all employed on our local Industrial Estates

We pray for our world and ECO projects:

4th October is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi. Even though this denotes the end of Creationtide, we pray that we may not forget our responsibilities to care for the planet in our daily lives.

General:

We pray for the Rt. Revd Andrew Rumsey installed on the 19th September as the 11th Bishop of St Albans

We pray for all who may be considering applying for our Minister of Music.

We pray for the sick and suffering:

Emma Thompson
Jackson Herbert
Marion
Paula Walker
Peggy Dawes
Pat Tidey
Mike Brown
Keith & Elaine Edwards
Val Brown
Angie & Ken Rushall
Peter Coates
Chris Stratton
Max Elliott
Clare Rice
Sandra Landells (nee Cornwell)

We pray for those who have died in the faith of Christ:

Deceased Bereaved
Sylvia Penn Family and friends
Kazimierz Nowak (Pronounced Novak) Lucas, family and friends
Barbara Goy Kate, family and friends

We pray for those whose anniversaries fall at this time:
Frances Jones, Lynda Andrews

NOTICES

ANNUAL SHOEBOX APPEAL Link-to-Hope is a Christian charity which at Christmas sends shoeboxes containing gifts for poor families in Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania. Here at St. John's we support the shoebox appeal each year, and you are invited to join in by filling your own box during the month of October.

Please collect a leaflet from church, which suggests items you can put in your box - either for elderly folk, or for families with children. You can drop your box off at church any time, but the closing date is Sunday November 1st.. If you are unable to fill a box, you may wish instead make a financial donation towards the charity's costs. Please see Duncan Rodgers about this. THANK YOU!

JULIAN PRAYER EVENING: Thursday 22nd October 7 pm at 11 Middle Drift.

HELP NEEDED PLEASE: Saturday 17th October 11.30 am we would like to organise a work party to help with clearing ivy etc, moving corner stones, and sorting a stone cross, in the Additional Burial Ground. If you are able to help in anyway please speak to the Church wardens, Kay and Richard. Thank you.

BIBLE SOCIETY MEETING: Thursday 12th November 7.30 pm for 7.45 pm. Venue: Christ Church Royston (formerly Evangelical Church) SG8 5HJ. Guest speaker Neil Rees.

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SUNDAY READING SHEET 4th October 2026 HARVEST FESTIVAL

A Reading from Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians

The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not regretfully or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. As it is written,

“He scatters abroad; he gives to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever.”

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us, for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God. Through the testing of this ministry you glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ and by the generosity of your partnership with them and with all others, while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

GOSPEL

Jesus told them a parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’ Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.” He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your span of life? If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith! And do not keep seeking what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying. For it is the nations of the world that seek all these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Luke 12:16-30

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STAFF TEAM

Vicar: Revd Steven Sivyer (rest day MONDAY)

Telephone no. 01763 580242

Email: [email protected]

Curate: Jaime Roberts (rest day FRIDAY)

Telephone: 01763 580241

Email: [email protected]

Assistant Priest: The Reverend John Fidler

Telephone no. 01763 241886

Email: [email protected]

Reader: Emma Sivyer