This weekend’s Bible readings: 1 John 5:1-6 (p 1228) and John 15:9-17 (p 1083)Annual meetings: We are now in the season of our annual church meetings (APCMs). The meetings will be held after the services are on:The Mundens: 5th MaySacombe: 7th MayStandon: 12th MayHelp needed for cleaning St Mary’s: We need, please, more volunteers to help clean St Mary’s. Several members of various of the current cleaning teams are waiting for tests and treatment and will need to stand down temporarily or permanently in the near future. At the moment we have 6 teams, so each person only needs to commit to helping every 6 weeks. If you can help, please speak to Rita.Mayday, Monday 6th May: We will be manning St Mary’s and serving teas in Standon Village Hall on Monday, and we would love to see you. The more ‘church family’ we have on hand to welcome visitors, the better. Standon Sing, our local community choir will be singing in St Mary's from about 2.30pm until 3. Do come along and listen.Ascension Day: This year, we will not be holding an Ascension Day service on 9th May. Instead, we will celebrate at the Tuesday service in Sacombe on 7th.Knit & Natter group: If you like knitting or crocheting, come and join us for a couple of hours in Standon village hall at 2pm usually on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Tea & cakes will be available. Our next meeting will be on Thursday 9th May. For more information please contact Diane on 01950 821130 or Marion on 01920 745683.Dane End Open Gardens 23rd June: Please can you spare an hour or make some cookies? On June 23rd, 12noon - 5pm, the Dane End Parish Council is holding an Open Gardens on behalf of All Saints church, to raise funds to “repair the roof “. We will be providing tours inside and outside of the church, with refreshments served by volunteers from the church.Please let Deborah know if you could help on a rota in the church to serve refreshments on that day. Also if anyone would be able to make some ‘manhole cover cookies’ to serve, please ask Deborah for a recipe, or reply to the email when you receive this sheet, and Caroline will send it to you.And Standon Open Gardens 8th June: The FOSM Open Gardens event will take place, as usual, on the second Saturday in June, from 11.00 am until 5.00 pm. We will be looking for helpers for that one too, and people to bake for the various tea and cake stops around the route. Please contact one of the committee if you can offer your services.Sunday lunch at the Star: Heather’s next Sunday lunch will be on 26th May at 12.15pm at The Star in Standon. If you would like to book a place please contact Heather on 07909065550 by Monday 20th May.Cybercrime and fraud prevention talk by Hertfordshire Police 11th July: Fraudsters and cyber criminals aren’t fussy. They’ll pick on anyone. Nobody is immune from fraud and cybercrime. The criminals behind it target people online and in their homes, often emotionally manipulating their victims before they steal money or personal data. By staying vigilant and always taking a moment to stop, think and check whenever we’re approached by text, email, phone, or online, we can help to protect ourselves and each other from fraud and our accounts from being hacked. Come along to We will be hosting a cybercrime and fraud prevention talk by Hertfordshire Police in St Mary’s on Thursday 11th July between 11am-12.30pm. Teas, coffees and cakes will be available from 10.30am. All are welcome.For more information, please contact Caroline J (not ‘our’ Caroline!) on 01920 821442.Website: Our benefice website is on the www.achurchnearyou.com platform. The benefice page can be reached via this link: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice/32-240BF/. The forward from https://ubsms.org.uk should point to that page.Services for the next few weeksMidweek services each week:Tuesdays, 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP) & Bible study, St Catherine'sWednesdays, 9.30am Morning worship & Bible study, St Mary'sSunday services:5th May 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Morning worship, All Saints12th May 10.30am Holy communion, St Mary's19th May 8.00am Ante communion, St Mary's10.30am Morning worship, All Saints26th May 10.30am All age worship, St Mary's6.00pm Choral evensong, St Mary's2nd June 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Morning worship, All Saints
This weekend’s Bible readings: John 15:1-8 (p 1083)Pop up shop: The pop up shop with Fairtrade goods and Christian gifts on sale, will be open at the 10.30 service at St Mary’s this Sunday. Please come and support this if you can - all profits go to our local food bank.And benefice bookstall: Our monthly bookstall will also be up and running at the service this weekend. If you’ve ordered a copy of J John’s Ten and have not yet picked it up, Lizzy will have it there, ready for you, along with a selection of Christian books. If there’s something you’d like her to order, please let her know.Choral Evensong this Sunday at 6pm: The choir will lead us in worship singing Stanford's beautiful Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis as well as John Rutter's anthem 'This is the day' composed for the wedding in 2011 of the then Prince William and Catherine Middleton. There will be hymns for all to sing including Love divine and Lord for the years. Do join us as we worship together and receive God's blessing in music and word using a liturgy which has largely remained unchanged in 500 years.Annual meeting reports: Thank you to those of you who have sent reports to our secretaries. Please remember that if your group is benefice wide, you need to send it to all three secretaries, Peter, Lizzy and Rebecca, not just to the one for the church which hosts it. Rebecca is collating the Mundens ones in Jeremy’s absence, but he’ll be back for the meeting next weekend.And APCM papers: If you are willing to receive the papers for the appropriate annual meeting by email to save printing costs (and trees), please let your secretary know so that s/he can send them to you when they’re collated. Hard copies will be available in our churches a week before the relevant meeting.The meetings will be held after the services on:The Mundens: 5th MaySacombe: 7th MayStandon: 12th MayHelp needed for cleaning St Mary’s: We need, please, more volunteers to help clean St Mary’s. Several members of various of the current cleaning teams are waiting for tests and treatment and will need to stand down temporarily or permanently in the near future. At the moment we have 6 teams, so each person only needs to commit to helping every 6 weeks. If you can help, please speak to Rita.All Saints@6: Sadly, we have decided to call a pause on All Saints@6 while we prayerfully consider how to move forward. This means the proposed 10 Commandments course will not now be running. Please pray as we seek how to move forward in the future.Choral evensong in Bury: On Saturday 4th May our benefice choir will be singing Evensong at St Edmundsbury Cathedral at 3.30pm. Whilst we are not having a coach this time, it would be lovely if any folk wanted to spend some time in Bury St Edmunds that afternoon and join the service. Do speak to Michael or Marion if you want to know more.Mayday, Monday 6th May: If you can bake or help on the day, please sign up at the back of St Mary’s or let Stephanie, Diana or Caroline know.Standon Sing, our local community choir will be singing in St Mary's on May Day from about 2.30pm until 3. Do come along and listen.Ascension Day: This year, we will not be holding an Ascension Day service on 9th May. Instead, we will celebrate at the Tuesday service in Sacombe on 7th.Website: Our benefice website is on the www.achurchnearyou.com platform. The benefice page can be reached via this link: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice/32-240BF/. The forward from https://ubsms.org.uk should point to that page.Services for the next few weeksMidweek services each week:Tuesdays, 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP), St Catherine'sWednesdays, 9.30am Morning worship & Bible study, St Mary'sSunday services:28th April 10.30am All age worship, St Mary's6.00pm Choral evensong, St Mary's5th May 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Morning worship, All Saints12th May 10.30am Holy communion, St Mary's19th May 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Holy communion, All Saints26th May 10.30am All age worship, St Mary's6.00pm Choral evensong, St Mary's
This weekend’s Bible readings: Ezekiel 34:1-10, 33-34 (p 865) and John 10:11-18 (p 1076)Midweek Music at St Mary’s: On Wednesday 24th April at St Mary’s, Barbara Manning will be presenting a short concert of piano music at 12.30. Refreshments will be served as usual from 11.30. We look forward to welcoming you.Pop up shop: The pop up shop with Fairtrade goods and Christian gifts on sale, will be open at the 10.30 service at St Mary’s on Sunday 28th April. Please come and support this if you can - all profits go to our local food bank.And benefice bookstall: Our monthly bookstall will also be up and running at the service next weekend. If you’ve ordered a copy of J John’s Ten and have not yet picked it up, Lizzy will have it there, ready for you, along with a selection of Christian books. If there’s something you’d like her to order, please let her know.Annual meeting reports: It's coming up to the Annual Church Meetings (APCMs), so if you are involved in a group or activity, please make sure that someone lets the relevant PCC secretary or secretaries have a short report on the last year. It's a really good opportunity to celebrate the huge range of activities that go on, from flower arranging to homegroups to Mothers Union. If you’re involved in a group that is not specifically limited to one church, please send your report to all three secretaries, so that everyone in the benefice is able to hear what we are doing for God in this place.Reports should be sent as soon as possible, and certainly before next weekend, please, to the following people for each church:St Mary's - LizzyAll Saints – JeremySacombe – PeterAnd APCM papers: If you are willing to receive the papers for the appropriate annual meeting by email to save printing costs (and trees), please let your secretary know so that s/he can send them to you when they’re collated. Hard copies will be available in our churches a week before the relevant meeting.The meetings will be held after the services on:The Mundens: 5th May Sacombe: 7th MayStandon: 12th MayAll Saints@6: Sadly, we have decided to call a pause on All Saints@6 while we prayerfully consider how to move forward. This means the proposed 10 Commandments course will not now be running. Please pray as we seek how to move forward in the future.Sunday lunch at the Star: Heather is organising our next Sunday lunch, on 28th April at 12.15pm in the Star at Standon. Please let Heather know if you would like to book a place. If you are on your own at home for Sunday lunch we would welcome anyone who hasn’t joined us before. Please contact Heather on 07909 065550.Choral evensong in Bury: On Saturday 4th May our benefice choir will be singing Evensong at St Edmundsbury Cathedral at 3.30pm. Whilst we are not having a coach this time, it would be lovely if any folk wanted to spend some time in Bury St Edmunds that afternoon and join the service. Do speak to Michael or Marion if you want to know more.Mayday: We will not be offering a salad stall this year, but we could do with more help in the village hall for the tearoom. If you can bake or help on the day, please sign up at the back of St Mary’s or let Diana or Caroline know.Ascension Day: This year, we will not be holding an Ascension Day service on 9th May. Instead, we will celebrate at the Tuesday service in Sacombe on 7th.Website: Our benefice website is on the www.achurchnearyou.com platform. The benefice page can be reached via this link: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice/32-240BF/. The forward from https://ubsms.org.uk should point to that page.Services for the next few weeksMidweek services each week:Tuesdays, 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP) & Bible study, St Catherine'sWednesdays, 9.30am Morning worship & Bible study, St Mary'sSunday services:21st April 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Holy communion, All Saints28th April 10.30am All age worship, St Mary's6.00pm Choral evensong, St Mary's5th May 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Morning worship, All Saints12th May 10.30am Holy communion, St Mary's19th May 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Holy communion, All Saints
This weekend’s Bible readings: 1 John 3:1-7 (p 1226) and Luke 24:36b-48 (p 1062)All Saints@6: Sadly, we have decided to call a pause on All Saints@6 while we prayerfully consider how to move forward. Numbers have been low for a little while and this seems a sensible time to reconsider how we move forward in mission. This means the proposed 10 Commandments course will not now be running. Please pray as we seek how to move forward in the future.If you’ve ordered a copy of J John’s book, ‘Ten’, please let Lizzy know if you would like to cancel that order (Lizzy@ubsms.org.uk).Sunday lunch at the Star: Heather is organising our next Sunday lunch, on 28th April at 12.15pm in the Star at Standon. Please let Heather know if you would like to book a place. If you are on your own at home for Sunday lunch we would welcome anyone who hasn’t joined us before. Please contact Heather on 07909 065550.Choral evensong in Bury: On Saturday 4th May our benefice choir will be singing Evensong at St Edmundsbury Cathedral at 3.30pm. Whilst we are not having a coach this time, it would be lovely if any folk wanted to spend some time in Bury St Edmunds that afternoon and join the service. Do speak to Michael or Marion if you want to know more.Mayday: We will not be offering a salad stall this year, but we will be a little short-handed in the village hall for the tearoom. If you can bake or help on the day, please sign up at the back of St Mary’s or let Diana or Caroline know.Ascension Day: This year, we will not be holding an Ascension Day service on 9th May. Instead, we will celebrate at the Tuesday service in Sacombe on 7th.Website: Our benefice website is on the www.achurchnearyou.com platform. The benefice page can be reached via this link: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice/32-240BF/. The forward from https://ubsms.org.uk should point to that page.Services for the next few weeksMidweek services each week:Tuesdays, 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP) & Bible study, St Catherine'sWednesdays, 9.30am Morning worship & Bible study, St Mary'sSunday services:14th April 10.30am Holy communion, St Mary's21st April 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Holy communion, All Saints28th April 10.30am All age worship, St Mary's6.00pm Choral evensong, St Mary's5th May 8.00am Holy communion, St Mary's10.30am Morning worship, All Saints12th May 10.30am Holy communion, St Mary's
