Prayer for the Week

Lord, help every believer in the Body of Christ to grow spiritually. Strengthen our faith and deepen our understanding of Your Word. Help us to mature in character and obedience. Remove spiritual laziness and inconsistency from our lives. Let us grow daily in Your grace and truth. Lord, fill us with genuine love. Remove hatred, bitterness, and jealousy from our hearts. Help us to love one another as You have loved us. Teach us to forgive quickly and walk in kindness. Lord, send revival to the Body of Christ. Ignite fresh fire in our hearts. Restore passion for prayer and Your Word. Wake us up spiritually and draw us closer to You. Let revival spread across nations. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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

Pray for those who have departed from this world: 

Pray for all who have died in the wars around the world, in our hospitals and nursing homes.

Remembering Dennis who died recently, please hold Rev Neil and his family in your prayers.

May the souls of the departed rest in peace AND RISE IN GLORY

Church Warden- Mizrab    07490153847

Lay Chair- Sandie    01753 575107

PCC Secretary - Matt       07984321334     

PCC Treasurer- Sunny     07850321156               

Safeguarding Officer-     07951074256

Website Editor- Ray        07730221947

Poppets – Rev Neil        01628 661994

The Choir - Leiola         07710329518   

Room Hire-Sylvia         07546710834 

LLM – Angeline            07951074256

Church of England Parish Office email 

standrewscofecippenham@hotmail.co.uk

Website: standrewcippenham.org



 Cippenham St. Andrew’s, 

We're All Valued Equally

WAVE for Change is a movement of people with and without learning disabilities working together to create more vibrant mixed-ability places in the heart of our communities.

( Our church has signed up to be a WAVEmaker)

boldness and perseverance. Transform us into your likeness, and inspire us to build your kingdom of justice and love on earth. Amen

Acts 17. 22-31

Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. ²³For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. ²⁴The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, ²⁵nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. ²⁶From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, ²⁷so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ ²⁹Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. ³⁰While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, ³¹because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

1 Peter 3. 13-22

Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? ¹⁴But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, ¹⁵but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defence to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you;

¹⁶yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. ¹⁷For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.

¹⁸For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, ¹⁹in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, ²⁰who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.

Anglican Parish            10th May 2026 

 (White) 

Contact Person  

Rev. Neil Popham - 01628 661994

Christian Aid Week

Holy Eucharist Service 9.30am –Rev Neil and Rachelle

Monday

Rev Neil’s day off

Tuesday

Children’s Ministry- 6.30pm

Bible Study on Zoom 6.30pm

Wednesday

Foodbank 11am-1pm

CSCT meeting 7.30pm

Thursday: 

Holy Eucharist Service at 10.45

Children’s ministry 16.45- 18.30

Friday:

Poppets 9.15-11.45

Choir practice 6.30pm

Easter 7 Sunday, 

Holy Eucharist Service 9.30am – Rev Neil 

Readings for Next Week

Acts 1. 6-14, 1 Peter 4. 12-14, 5, 6-11, John 17. 1-11.  

Dates for your Diary 2026

CSCT meetings at 7.30pm: 13^th May

PCC meetings at 7pm: 20^th May, APCM 31^st May, 

Special quarterly collection – 8^th June

^{We're All Valued Equally}

^{WAVE for Change is a movement of people with and without learning disabilities working together to create more vibrant mixed-ability places in the heart of our communities.}

^{( Our church has signed up to be a WAVEmaker)}

^Collect

^{Faithful God, we come before you with our gifts and strengths, and with our faults and weaknesses, knowing your unfailing love for us. Open our hearts and our minds, that we may hear your word and act on it. Foster in us}

²¹And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²²who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

               John 14. 15- 21

If you love me, you will keep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. ¹⁷This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.

¹⁸”I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. ¹⁹In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. ²⁰On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”

Post Communion Prayer

God our Father, whose Son Jesus Christ gives the water of eternal life: may we thirst for you,

the spring of life and source of goodness,

through him who is alive and reigns, now and for ever. Amen

Prayer of thanksgiving for Christian Aid Week

 Almighty God, we love one another because you first loved us. Send us out to act in loving service, strengthened by the knowledge that the one who calls us is faithful. We give thanks for the vital work of Christian Aid and for all those who pour themselves out for the cause of justice. May our actions and offerings plant seeds of change that grow and flourish. Guide us as we seek a world where every person can live a full life, free from poverty. Amen.