St John's Church LemsfordNews
What’s on this week….
This Sunday (4th June) is Trinity Sunday, the first Sunday in the Trinity season and time for another of our fabulous All Together Worship services at 11am. Now, in her own words, 'During
this Sunday’s service, Rev Kathryn will be attempting to explain the
Holy Trinity in a manner that is understandable and engaging for all
ages.' That’s got to be worth coming to church for!'.
All are warmly invited to come along to a Service of Thanksgiving for
the lives of those we’ve loved and lost. The service will be held
outdoors unless the weather is bad (seats will be available). Our time of reflection, prayer and music, will be followed by a chance to get together for a chat over tea and cakes.
- Sunday 4th June.
- 8am - BCP Holy Communion
- 11am - All Together Service - Featuring 'The Trinity' - followed by refreshments in the annexe
- 3:30pm - Service of Thanksgiving in St John’s Garden of Remembrance - see below for details
- Monday 5th June
- 7pm - No Zoom Coffee and Chat this week - sorry
- 7pm - No Zoom Coffee and Chat this week - sorry
- Thursday 8th June
- 10am - Morning Prayer
This Sunday's Bible Readings
Isaiah 40.12–17,27–312 Corinthians 13.11–13
Collect
Holy God,faithful and unchanging:
enlarge our minds with the knowledge of your truth,
and draw us more deeply into the mystery of your love,
that we may truly worship you,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Last Sunday
Despite the half term holidays it was great to see many of you at the 8am and 11am Pentecost communion services last Sunday.
At 12 noon we held our APM and APCM. Jenny who stepped down as churchwarden, was thanked for her hard work over the last six years. Much of this was during the vacancy and Covid-19 lockdowns. Jenny is very much staying with us, both as an assistant Churchwarden and also vice chair of the PCC. Obviously we also thank Nigel for his hard work as Churchwarden and PCC secretary, thankfully he's not stepping down.
Parish Magazine
Now,
you may have noticed that the parish magazine became available on
Sunday as a downloadable pdf - I was waiting to update the directory
page at the back before sending it for printing. In case you missed it
click here to
download it. It'll be available in print form in church this weekend
and we'll also be delivering copies around the parish shortly after
that. Even if you've got the download copy you may want to pick up a
printed one as it contains the aforementioned directory.
Afternoon Tea and Cake - Alzheimer’s Appeal
9th June, 2 – 4pm, Church Gardens
Raffle tickets available from Jackie Spry
Cake donations on the day very gratefully received!
If
you can't attend, or even if you can, and would like to donate then you
can scan the QR codes on the right or click on this Give-a-Little linkJoint Baptism, Confirmation & Holy Communion Service – 12th June 7:30pm at St Michaels & All Angels
This is a joint service for both St Johns and St Michaels and will presided over by The Right Reverend Jane Mainwaring - Bishop of Hertford. It takes place at St Michaels at 7:30pm. You are most welcome to come and celebrate those being baptised and confirmed. Several of the St Johns Choir will be teaming up with St Michaels choir at this service and Karl will be playing the organ.
Baptism marks the beginning of a journey with God which continues for the rest of our lives, the first step in response to God’s love. For all involved it is a joyful moment when we rejoice in what God has done for us in Christ, making serious promises and declaring the faith.
Confirmation grows out of baptism and is (theologically speaking) inseparable from it. It gives to people the opportunity to affirm ‘from their own mouths and with their own hearts’ their faith in Jesus Christ. And at the same time, God ‘confirms’ his gift of the Holy Spirit, which is originally given at baptism.
Afternoon Tea and Cake - Alzheimer’s Appeal
9th June, 2 – 4pm, Church Gardens
Raffle tickets available from Jackie Spry
Cake donations on the day very gratefully received!
If
you can't attend, or even if you can, and would like to donate then you
can scan the QR codes on the right or click on this Give-a-Little linkConfirmation – 12th June
If you haven’t been able to come on the ongoing Explorer course, but are still interested in being confirmed, please get in touch with Rev Kathryn.
Confirmations will take place on the evening of 12th June at St Michael’s.
Arrival of Rev’d Kate Douglas in September 2023
In case you missed the announcement,
Rev’d Kate Douglas will be joining us from September as a
Self-Supporting Minister. Kate has just entered her third year of
curacy, and the intention is that she will then remain with us as a SSM.
Kate is also becoming full time chaplain at Queenswood School in September, and will mainly be with us on Sundays and during school holidays.
We look forward to welcoming and getting to know her in the Autumn. Please pray for her as she prepares to come and be with us.
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Our local Food Bank at the New Zion Christian Fellowship
church would appreciate receiving donations of food and other
things from us now and all year round. It would be wonderful if you
could support them by bringing various things in on Sunday mornings, and
placing them in the big plastic box which will be placed in the porch.
The sort of things the Food Bank would like to receive are:
But,
if you like the QR Code, you can point your Smartphone’s camera or QR
app at it, and it will let you give, or from your PC/Mac you can just
click this link: