Prayer for the Week

God of generations, speak over me this week the unending kindness of your love. Free me from my hurried heartaches, deliver me from my anxious thoughts, be with me in the wondrous ordinary.

Jesus, will you place your love at the centre of my story? Show me anywhere I have been focusing on my own comfort or placing my validation on being recognised by others. In this moment I ask you to highlight the ways that I have made myself the hero of the story. Give me the vision to see my life from your perspective.

Your plans Lord, not mine. 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 : 

From our Book of Remembrance: Peter John Collett, Hazel Mitchell, Irene Peake, Elizabeth Rajan, Leslie King:  May their souls rest in peace AND RISE IN GLORY

Church Warden- Mizrab    07490153847

Lay Chair- Sandie   01753 575107

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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 

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Website: standrewcippenham.org

 Cippenham St. Andrew’s, 

Anglican Parish            24^th August 2025 

 (Red) 

one God, now and for ever. Amen

Acts 5. 12-16

Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem. Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women, so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he came by. A great number of people would also gather from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all cured.

1 Corinthians 4. 9-15

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to mortals. We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honour, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless, and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.

I am not writing this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

Luke 22. 24-30

A dispute also arose among them as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest. But he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you; rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. “You are those who have stood by me in my trials; and I confer on you, just as my Father has conferred on me, a kingdom, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Post Communion Prayer

Almighty God, who on the day of Pentecost

Contact Person  

Rev. Neil Popham - 01628 661994

Bartholomew the Apostle Sunday

Holy Communion Service 9.30am– Rev Neil

Tuesday

Children’s ministry 6-8pm

Bible Study for on zoom at 6.30pm

Wednesday

Foodbank 11am-1pm

Thursday: 

Holy Communion Service 10.45am Rev Neil

Family Time 16.30-18.30pm

Friday:

Poppets from 9-11

Choir practice - 6.30pm

Saturday

Coffee shop 10-12

Trinity 11 Sunday

Holy Communion Service 9.30am– Rev Neil

Readings for Next Week

Jeremiah 2. 4-13, Hebrew 13. 1-8, 15-16, Luke 14. 1, 7-14.

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

Almighty and everlasting God, who gave to your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your word: grant that your Church

may love that word which he believed and may faithfully preach and receive the same; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

sent your Holy Spirit to the apostles with the wind from heaven and in tongues of flame, filling them with joy and boldness to preach the gospel: by the power of the same Spirit

strengthen us to witness to your truth

and to draw everyone to the fire of your love;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Prayer for teachers and students within our parish as resume classes.

Father God, we thank you for holidays as they give your children time to be still and recharge.

We pray for all those going to new establishments, give them courage and give them wisdom as they navigate unfamiliar surroundings and people.

We pray for those going back to their old schools to catch up with their friends, fill them with wonder and curiosity to want to learn more and achieve. May our children know you Lord and realise your great love and grace. Amen