SERVICES THIS SUNDAY THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
No 8am Holy Communion service (BCP) this morning due to clergy holiday. 8am service at St Mary the Virgin (Mark taking) and St Luke's
10:30am Family Service with Music Group - Centre
Bible Reading: Parable of the Lost Sheep
(Refreshments following)No Team Evensong by Zoom - instead everyone warmly invited to Choral Evensong at St Luke's at 6:30pm.
Importantly we are now sharing with you details of the Ukraine Toolkit that has been produced by the Church of England.
Also details of a 'local' collection for Ukraine and what they want.
NEWSLETTER
For those on the run, highlights below - full details in this week's newsletter
Church opening times
April Magazine at the back of church
Coffee and cake fellowship dates
Electoral roll notice in readiness for our APCM.
Holy Week services included.
Christian Aid Frugal Lunch and Christian Aid Collection at Railway Station
Loaves and Fishes Food Bank - update of items required and not require
Forward Move
The April issue of Forward Move, the church magazine, is now on the website.
Bishop of Rochester
It has been announced that HM The Queen has approved the nomination of the Rt Rev Jonathan Gibbs as the next Bishop of Rochester. Bishop Jonathan is currently the Bishop of Huddersfield in the Diocese of Leeds. He also holds the national portfolio of Lead Bishop for Safeguarding, a role he will bring with him into his post as Bishop of Rochester.
Responding to his appointment Bishop Jonathan says: “I am delighted to have been announced as the new Bishop of Rochester. My wife Toni and I are so excited about the prospect of moving to this wonderful Diocese. “For us, Rochester will be a new place to explore and we’re so looking forward to getting to know the people of our churches and our communities, and to working together with you to encourage God’s kingdom to grow in this wonderfully varied and rich place. “We’re very conscious of the diversity of the communities that we serve, from urban and suburban to profoundly rural, and I am looking forward to the opportunity to explore all these different places with you and to share with you in the journey of growing God’s Church, of serving the communities, and of proclaiming the good news of Christ to the people whom we seek to love and to serve in Jesus’ name.”
He is expected to take up his duties in September