This weeks Church News sheet, Readings,
Sunday Look, and Live the Word
We've moved our news items onto their own pages to make them easier to read; Click on the items in blue to find:
News and Events Sheet
Prayer for the Turkey and Syria Earthquake Appeal
"God of time and space, we cry to you for your children - our neighbours - in southern Turkey and northern Syria, following the earthquake that has devastated hundreds of lives. Only they and you know what it is like to experience such trauma in the middle of the night.
We give thanks for the aid that is already being given and for the promises of help that have been made by many nations.
Comfort, we pray, those who are trapped in collapsed buildings; those who have lost loved ones; those who wait for news and those digging through rubble to save others.
Grant the gift of hope, so that those caught between life and death know that you are with them and that others are ready to support them as they seek a future that overshadows the experiences of today.
We ask this in the Name of Jesus, who endured so much for love of them."
Amen
For copyright reasons we can no longer include "Live the Word" and "Look".
Messy church has started, but with a difference.
Below is the picture of our collection of promises we made on Climate Sunday. They were sent to COP26 to show our concern for the effects of climate change on God's beautiful world. We will add the list of our promises to the website in our next update,
News and Events Sheet
Prayer for the Turkey and Syria Earthquake Appeal
"God of time and space, we cry to you for your children - our neighbours - in southern Turkey and northern Syria, following the earthquake that has devastated hundreds of lives. Only they and you know what it is like to experience such trauma in the middle of the night.
We give thanks for the aid that is already being given and for the promises of help that have been made by many nations.
Comfort, we pray, those who are trapped in collapsed buildings; those who have lost loved ones; those who wait for news and those digging through rubble to save others.
Grant the gift of hope, so that those caught between life and death know that you are with them and that others are ready to support them as they seek a future that overshadows the experiences of today.
We ask this in the Name of Jesus, who endured so much for love of them."
Amen
For copyright reasons we can no longer include "Live the Word" and "Look".
Messy church has started, but with a difference.
Below is the picture of our collection of promises we made on Climate Sunday. They were sent to COP26 to show our concern for the effects of climate change on God's beautiful world. We will add the list of our promises to the website in our next update,
During our Climate Sunday service, we made pledges about how we would try to reduce our impact on the planet, as individuals and as families.
These included:
These included:
- electric cars, driving less & walking more or using public transport
- heat pumps and better home insulation - or simply turning the heating down
- cutting down on the meat in our diets and avoiding palm oil, not wasting food
- switching off lights and closing the fridge properly
- reducing plastic use and recycling as much as possible
- caring for local wildlife and saving water
- switching away from banks investing in fossil fuels . . . and lots, lots more!