Prayer for the Week

Christ our companion, you have given us friends to love us and to be loved by us. You have been with us on our varied journeys. You have encouraged and strengthened us through the gift of one another and the beauty of creation and the harvest you generously give us. Continue to be with us on our life journey, challenging us strongly to uphold our faith, to shine your light in the world and encourage others to do the same. As we go through this week may we spread love peace and joy to all those we meet. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

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

Pray for those who have departed from this world: 

Pray for all who have died in our hospitals and nursing homes.

From our Book of Remembrance: Nathan Mwamuka

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

Church Warden- Mizrab    07490153847

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PCC Treasurer- Sunny     07850321156               

Safeguarding Officer-     07951074256

Website Editor- Ray        07730221947

Poppets – Rev Neil        01628 661994

The Choir - Leiola         07710329518   

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LLM – Angeline            07951074256

Church of England Parish Office email 

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Website: standrewcippenham.org

Notices:

1^st Communion classes on Sundays at 6.30pm see Sophia/Neil for details

Urdu Services on Sundays at 6pm

Dates for your Diary 2026 

PCC meeting at 7pm: 15^th October 2026

CSCT meeting – 11^th November 7.30pm

Next Special quarterly envelope collection: 13^th December

CSCT collection for church upkeep every 3^rd Sunday of the month

your glory, for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being; through Jesus Christ your son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you , in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God now and forever. Amen

Deuteronomy 8. 7-18

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills, ⁸a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, ⁹a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper. ¹⁰You shall eat your fill and bless the Lord your God for the good land that he has given you.

11 Take care that you do not forget the Lord your God, by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I am commanding you today. ¹²When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, ¹³and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, ¹⁴then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, ¹⁵who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, an arid waste-land with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He made water flow for you from flint rock, ¹⁶and fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you, and in the end to do you good. ¹⁷Do not say to yourself, ‘My power and the might of my own hand have gained me this wealth.’ ¹⁸But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.

2 Corinthians 9. 6-end

The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. ⁷Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. ⁹As it is written,
‘He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor;
   his righteousness endures for ever.’
¹⁰He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. ¹¹You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us; ¹²for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God. ¹³Through the testing of this ministry you glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ and by the generosity of your sharing with them and 

Cippenham St. Andrew’s, 

Anglican Parish          11^th October 2026 

 (Green) 

Contact Person  

Rev. Neil Popham - 01628 661994

Trinity 19/ Harvest Sunday

Holy Communion service 9.30am Rev Neil

Please bring your Harvest gratitude gifts and they will be donated to Food Bank

Urdu Service 6pm – Mr Mizrab James at 6pm

Monday

Rev Neil’s day off

Tuesday

Children’s Ministry- 6-8pm

Bible Study on Zoom 6.30pm

Wednesday

Foodbank 11am-1pm

Thursday: 

Holy Eucharist Service 10.45 Rev Neil

Children’s ministry 16.30 - 18.30

PCC meeting 7pm

Friday:

Poppets 9.15 – 11.15am

Choir practice 6.30pm

Sunday:

Luke the Evangelist/ Trinity 20 Sunday:

Readings for Next Week

Isaiah 35. 3-6, 2 Timothy 4. 5-17, Luke 10. 1-9. 

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Collect

Eternal God, you crown the year with your goodness and you give us the fruits of the earth in their season: grant that we may use them to

^{with all others, 14while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you. 15Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!}

                ^{Luke 12. 16-30}

 ^{Then he told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly. 17And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” 18Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” 20But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” 21So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich towards God.’}

^{22 He said to his disciples, ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. 23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? 26If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest? 27Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 28But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith! 29And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying. 30For it is the nations of the world that strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.}

^{Post Communion Prayer}

^{Lord of the harvest, with joy we have offered thanksgiving for your love in creation and have shared in the bread and the wine of the kingdom: by your grace plant within us a reverence of all that you give us and make us generous and wise stewards of the good things we enjoy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen}