Message from the Vicar, March 29, 2020.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:2)
Welcome! If you would like to join us for worship, please use Our Online Sunday Services page and follow the instructions to partake in a service of Holy Communion via video and downloadable service sheets and activities, complete with a Children's Talk and resources.
As you see, we have adopted the motto the building is closed, but Church is alive. We are a dispersed community of faith, yet we are still a community held together in prayer by the Holy Spirit.
No doubt, many will miss being able to come to the actual Church building for the sense of being in a sacred space, and physically being alongside others in worship. Now we have to find our own sacred space and grow our awareness of being in Communion with our community in Christ, not only in our locality, but across the world and across the ages ‘surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.’ (Hebrews 12:1). It can be comforting as you pray, to think of others praying with you across time and space. The Anglican daily prayer services for morning and evening (see Other Online Resources) are used by Anglicans across the world.
From today there are resources on this website to enable worship and prayer in your own space and with those you are able to be with. Each Sunday there will be new resources for the week both on the Our Online Sunday Services and Children’s Ministry pages.
We are fortunate to have these digital resources available in a time like this. I encourage you to care for others by getting in contact through email, social media apps and good old-fashioned phone calls to remind one another we are not alone, and to share God’s love one to another.
God be with you.
Jennie
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:2)
Welcome! If you would like to join us for worship, please use Our Online Sunday Services page and follow the instructions to partake in a service of Holy Communion via video and downloadable service sheets and activities, complete with a Children's Talk and resources.
As you see, we have adopted the motto the building is closed, but Church is alive. We are a dispersed community of faith, yet we are still a community held together in prayer by the Holy Spirit.
No doubt, many will miss being able to come to the actual Church building for the sense of being in a sacred space, and physically being alongside others in worship. Now we have to find our own sacred space and grow our awareness of being in Communion with our community in Christ, not only in our locality, but across the world and across the ages ‘surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.’ (Hebrews 12:1). It can be comforting as you pray, to think of others praying with you across time and space. The Anglican daily prayer services for morning and evening (see Other Online Resources) are used by Anglicans across the world.
From today there are resources on this website to enable worship and prayer in your own space and with those you are able to be with. Each Sunday there will be new resources for the week both on the Our Online Sunday Services and Children’s Ministry pages.
We are fortunate to have these digital resources available in a time like this. I encourage you to care for others by getting in contact through email, social media apps and good old-fashioned phone calls to remind one another we are not alone, and to share God’s love one to another.
God be with you.
Jennie