Sunday 5th May 2024
Prayer for the Week
Dear Heavenly Father, as I stand at the threshold of a new week, I offer my intentions and aspirations to You. Help me set the right priorities, seek your guidance, and align my heart with your will. Grant me the wisdom to make meaningful choices and to live this week with purpose. In your name, I pray for guidance and strength as I embark on this journey. Amen
Prayers for the sick and for those recovering: Jonathan, Wendy, Auril, Ian, Zelma, Mike, Jacqui, Frank, Peter, River, Theo, Maggie, David, Priscilla, Paul, Rod, Kiera, Yolanda, Sarah, Levi, Joy, Martin, Joan , Katarina, Liz, Sharon and Vlad.
Pray for those who have died at home, in our hospitals and nursing homes.
From our Book of Remembrance:
Daisy Chingoka. May their souls rest in peace AND RISE IN GLORY
Church Warden- Christine 07929593380
Lay Chair- Sandie 01753 575107
PCC Secretary - 07810805809
PCC Treasurer-
Safeguarding Officer- 07951074256
Website Editor- Ray 07730221947
Poppets - June 07754057880
The Choir - Leiola 07710329518
Room Hire-Sylvia 07546710834
LLM – Angeline 07951074256
Church of England Parish Office email
standrewscofecippenham@hotmail.co.uk
Website: standrewcippenham.org
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Cippenham St. Andrew’s,
draw the nations to the fire of your love, to the glory of God the Father. Amen
Acts 10: 44-48
While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, ‘Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?’ So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several days.
1 John 5: 1-6
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth.
Anglican Parish 5th May 2024
(White)
Contact Person
Rev. Neil Popham - 01628 661994
6th Sunday of Easter
Holy Communion Service 9.30am –
Rev Jane Cresswell
Tuesday
Bible Study 6.30pm on Zoom
Children’s (11-13yrs) meeting 6.30-7.30pm
Wednesday
Foodbank 11am-1pm
Thursday:
Holy Communion Service 10.45am – Rev Neil
Children’s meeting 4.45-6.30pm
Friday:
Poppets 9.15 – 11.15am
Choir Practice 6.30pm
Saturday
Coffee Shop 10am-12pm
7th Sunday of Easter
Holy Communion Service 9.30am – Rev Neil
Readings for Next Week
Acts 1: 15-17, 21-26, 1 John 5: 9-13, John 17: 6-19
Dates for your 2024 diary:
PCC meeting dates:
21st May, 3rd July, 11th September & 13th November
CSCT Meeting:
4th June, 17th September & 6th November
Collect
Risen Christ, by the lakeside you renewed your call to your disciples: help your Church to obey your command and
John 15: 9-17
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
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