Prayer for the Week

Great and glorious King, I draw near to you this week and on this faith journey. Awaken my heart to behold you, show me your glory. Let me grow in wonder of who you are, show me your glory. May gratitude overflow for all that you do, show me your glory. Remind me of your presence throughout this week, show me your glory. Lord may my heart burn only for you every single day, you and you alone are the only one I want to be on fire for. I invite you into my weariness and exhaustion- may your presence breathe new life in me always. Show me your glory Amen

Prayers for the sick and for those recovering:  Wendy, Auril, Ian, Zelma, Mike, Jacqui, Frank, River, Theo, Maggie, David, Priscilla, Paul, Rod, Kiera, Yolanda, Sarah, Levi, Joy, Viola, Martin, Joan , Katarina, Liz, Sharon, Vlad, Rachel, Esa, Sr Mary-Lawrence, Tyson, David, Sally and Jenny, Val, Frank and Joan.

Pray for those who have departed from this world : 

May their souls rest in peace AND RISE IN GLORY

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Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified: hear our prayer which we offer for all your faithful people, that in their vocation and ministry they may serve you in holiness and truth to the glory of your name; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

Amos 8. 1-12

This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit. He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass them by. The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” says the Lord God; “the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!”

Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land, saying, “When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain; and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practice deceit with false balances, buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and selling the sweepings of the wheat.” The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who lives in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt? On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

The time is surely coming, says the Lord God, when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.

Colossians 1. 15-28

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in

 Cippenham St. Andrew’s, 

Anglican Parish            20^th July 2025 

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Contact Person 

Rev. Neil Popham - 01628 661994

Trinity 5 Sunday

Holy Communion Service 9.30am– Rev Neil

St Andrew’s 55^th Anniversary Bring and share meal – from 1pm

Tuesday

Children’s ministry 6-8pm

Bible Study for 4 weeks

Wednesday

Foodbank 11am-1pm

Thursday: 

Holy Communion Service 10.45am Rev Jane

No Family Time 16.30-18.30pm

Friday:

No Poppets from 9.15-11.15am

Choir practice - 6.30pm

Saturday

Coffee shop 10-12

Trinity 6 Sunday

Holy Communion by Extension Service 9.30am– LLM Angeline

Readings for Next Week

Hosea 1. 2-10, Colossians 2. 6-19 Luke 11. 1-13.

Dates for your Diary 2025

PCC Meetings – 7pm on 17^th September, 12^th November

Songs of Praise at St Nicholas Taplow – 7^th September

Afternoon High Tea – Saturday 20^th September 2-4pm

Harvest Service – 12^th October

St Andrew’s Day Service – TBA 

Christmas Fair 6^th December from 10am

Collect

everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross. And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him— provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a servant of this gospel. I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Luke 10. 38-end

Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Post Communion Prayer

Grant, O Lord, we beseech you, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by your governance, that your Church may joyfully serve you in all godly quietness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen