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Chippenham, Fordham, Isleham, Kennett & Snailwell
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Easter 7 Alleluia Christ is Risen He is Risen indeed Alleluia!
Foodbank Please don't forget to bring your contributions to the local Co-op shops. Your contributions are still very much needed and really valued. There is also always a need for toiletries - soap, shampoo, shower gel, toothpaste and so on - and pet food. Alternatively you may prefer to donate money rather than food at the moment. You can donate either by cheque
made payable to: Or if you prefer to donate online: https://localgiving.org/charity/elyfoodbank/ Thank you. VE Day Virtual Service - Friday
May 8 You can listen to a recording
of the service, which was streamed live by David and Hannah Cleugh, on You tube
at the link below. You can download the order of service from the link below http://www.islehamchurch.org.uk/ve-day-service.pdf Services in the Three Rivers Group * Coronavirus epidemic updates for the Three Rivers Group * All services in church are cancelled until further notice because of the coronavirus epidemic and our churches will remain locked. However we have an order of Service for the Seventh Sunday of Easter May 24, that you may wish to follow at home We, as always celebrate Easter for 40 days after Easter Sunday, rejoicing in Christ’s presence amongst us as the disciples did at his resurrection appearances which we hear of each week in Eastertide. God has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and has given us a place with the saints in light. We have received this light and are sent to shine as a light in the world to the Glory of God the Father. Click this link to jump to the full text You may download the service sheet from the link below: http://www.islehamchurch.org.uk/easter-7-sheet.pdf And you may listen to Mark Liverside's sermon from the link below: New Free Phone Resource This free national phoneline was launched last Sunday, will be available 24 hours a day on 0800 804 8044. Callers will hear a special greeting from the Archbishop of Canterbury before being able to choose from a range of options, including Prayer During the Day and Night Prayer updated daily, from Common Worship, and a recording of the Church of England’s weekly national online service. A section called Hymn Line will also offer callers a small selection of hymns, updated daily. An option entitled ‘Hymns We Love’, provides a hymn and reflection and is based on an initiative by Connections Virtual Church Coffee
- 11-11.40am on Sundays during lockdown To Download Zoom go to https://zoom.us/download and select Zoom Client meeting, Even if you struggle using the computer, you can still join in. You can dial into a Zoom meeting on your phone. Dial one of the numbers below and when prompted use the ID and Passwords above to join the fun. Virtual Coffee Morning
- on Tuesdays during lockdown https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89132618797?pwd=S0lHL0FkeFBOU3VRNjA1YTZpLysxQT09 Meeting ID: 891 3261 8797 Password: 006650 Virtual Compline
- on Wednesday from 7-7.30pm
Understanding the Bible - a course
via Zoom
from Monday May 4 at 7-8.30pm The course continues on Monday evenings from 7-8.30pm on Zomm at the link beloow.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82818509505 We will be using the following book: http://www.pilgrimcourse.org/books/the-bible-(book-7) All welcome, no prior knowledge assumed, although we will be following the course as laid out, there is plenty of space to talk about what you are interested in/puzzled by/would like to know more about.
If you are interested you can order your own copy of the book (physical or electronic) or if you give plenty of notice David will order a hard copy and try and deliver it as part of
his daily exercise. VE Day Virtual Service - Friday
May 8 You can listen to a recording
of the service, which was streamed live by David and Hannah Cleugh, on You tube
at the link below. You can download the order of service from the link below http://www.islehamchurch.org.uk/ve-day-service.pdf Godly Play - 4th Sunday of the month at Fordham - suspended until further notice Carol Taylor is going to start offering Godly Play sessions on the 4th Sunday of the month at the 11am Eucharist at Fordham. Children from 3 upwards welcome. The children will rejoin us to receive communion or a blessing. www.godlyplay.uk Bridget has decided to resign from her lead role at Isleham on the Eco-Church. She has taken up a new position with Cambridge Christian Climate Action. She would like to thank all the people who have given so much help and joined in with events. If anyone is interested in taking on this role please let us know. Evening Prayer - 5pm on Mondays at Isleham and Tuesdays at Fordham - suspended until further notice David will be praying on Mondays at 5pm at Isleham and on Tuesdays at 5pm at Fordham, All are welcome to join him. The Monday Prayer Group - suspended until further notice The prayer group meets at 1.30pm on Mondays for an hour of prayer. We meet at 1 West Street, Isleham. Tuesday mornings - suspended until further notice
Fordham Day Centre Lunch Club - suspended until further notice Fordham Day Centre is a lunch club for older people and meets on the 1st and 4th Wednesday of each month from 10.30am to 2.30pm. We meet at Withers’ Place community room for company, chat and food. Coffee and tea are provided on arrival, then lunch and a cup of tea before you leave. We have a “mobility” taxi available, if needed, for transport to and from the meetings. The Day Centre is run by volunteers (not carers) who cook and look after the members. Mums+ - suspended for the time being Mums+ is a monthly coffee morning for fun, conversation and sharing our questions of life, faith and parenthood – all ages welcome. For more details contact Laura Cox-Watson 01638 724839. Upcoming dates - Meet at Scotsdales in Fordham at the Sunflower Café 9.15-10.45am TBA. Contact: Laura Cox-Watson on 01638-724839 for more information. Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) - Postponed The APCM has been postponed until further notice. Those of you who would usually write a report might like to do so to keep you amused during the lockdown, but will be chased once a new date is found. Please start thinking about who might be good people to serve on the PCC or as Churchwardens and encourage them to be nominated. Dementia Friendly Village - Fordham Fordham is working towards becoming a Dementia Friendly Village. Laura Cox-Watson has agreed to be our Dementia Friends Champion. and Has atteneded some training in Cambridge. and has held two sessions to share with the community what she has learned and discuss how Fordham can move forward with this. Laura is also very keen to gain insight from families who have direct experience of living with Dementia. If anyone would like to contact Laura direct then please do so on either Mid-week services - suspended until further notice
Major Festivals: Easter, Christmas Day 8am Holy Communion BCP at Fordham. Home Communions where requested. All three schools attend church at Harvest, Christmas and Easter and at other times as they ask. Sunday Services in The Three Rivers Group - suspended until further notice
Healing Eucharist will always be on the 3rd Sunday of the month in the evening and is held at Fordham at 6.30pm.
Children and Holy
Communion All five PCC’s have now agreed that our church family younger children (aged 7 and above) may be admitted to Holy Communion after appropriate instruction. Muriel Hood and Ruth Ogden have agreed to instruct our young people. If there are young people in your family who would like to receive communion, then please do speak with Mike. Is God calling you to something? There are a few things around which it might be good for our churches to be involved with. If anyone would like to take a more active part in prayer, reading the bible, working with young people, thinking about church growth, visiting baptism families, thinking about our faith, and many other things, then please contact David if this is something God might be nudging you towards. Midweek Communion and Coffee We’re thinking of starting a midweek 10am communion service followed by coffee/tea. Is anyone interested? Funerals (Please note close family only allowed to attend) Seventh Sunday of Easter,
May 24 2020 Hymn - Hail the day that sees Him rise, Alleluia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjofDCZlyRY&t=89s Hail the day that sees Him rise, Alleluia! Lord Jesus, you raise us to new life. I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 1 Let God rise up, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him. So when they had come together, they asked Jesus, ‘Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?’ He replied, ‘It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’ When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. While he was going and they were gazing up towards heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. They said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.’ After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, ‘Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed. ‘I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. https://youtu.be/25Zm_xnhxx8 The uncertainty in our lives has not always been helped by the messages we’ve been receiving. I don’t envy those who have to try to sum up a design for life in less characters than a text message, but there was a general feeling from those I spoke to, and saw online, that the “Stay Alert” message was not what they had been expecting, and it’s left many of us unsure how to respond. There is a plan which is gradually being revealed, but we live in uncertain times, with no real idea what will happen next. The disciples must have been in a similar position after witnessing the ascension of Jesus. Luke gives us two accounts of this moment: one which we heard on Thursday, at the very end of Luke’s gospel in chapter 24, where the disciples returned to the temple, filled with the joy of having seen Jesus restored to them. Luke’s account here, at the start of Acts, has a different emphasis: having returned to Jerusalem, the disciples devoted themselves to prayer and reflection. Where the gospel account is the culmination of Jesus’ life with us on earth, this event is repurposed in Acts as a new beginning. Both accounts are clearly possible and can be reconciled with each other, the joy of witnessing the resurrection tempered by the instruction that Jesus gave them before he ascended. (What also comes through in the reading from Acts is the sense of awe and wonder that witnessing the resurrection must have given those witnesses. Our idea of heaven and earth and their relative positions is somewhat different to that which would have been held in first century Jerusalem, but still the visual imagery of Jesus being lifted up and being removed from them as he returns to the Father retains an enormous power. I can only hope that the question from the robed figures was somewhat rhetorical: “why do you stand looking up towards heaven?” Well, wouldn’t you?) It’s within the Acts reading, immediately prior to his resurrection, that Jesus gives the disciples their final message, but clearly not one they were expecting to hear. They ask when they Jesus will restore the kingdom to Israel; a fair question, given that such a restoration had been promised for many generations. We can see that promise in the words of today’s reading from Ezekiel, that the people will be filled with a new heart and a new spirit, and then the people will be restored to the land of their ancestors. In Jesus, the disciples saw the one who could bring about that restoration, and parallels such as the twelve disciples matching the number of the tribes of Israel would surely only have confirmed that in their minds. But Jesus tells them that this is not that time, that the Father’s plan is not for them to know. He tells them that while the Holy Spirit would soon come upon them, they would need to bear witness to him, first where they were in Jerusalem, and then spreading out through Judea and Samaria and then across the earth. It must have been even more difficult to hear that message from where they heard it. Jesus ascended from the Mount Of Olives, barely two miles across the Valley of Jehosephat from Jerusalem. The city had long been a place of importance, and Jesus had instructed his followers to remain there. Now he had taken them out, given them a long-term direction, and then he was gone. No chance for follow up questions, or waiting for a fifty-page document that would come out with more specifics later on; that was it: time now to prepare for a new life in the Holy Spirit, and the challenging mission that was to come. Who could fault the disciples if they’d not quite managed to put all of the pieces together of what Jesus was trying to tell them? By necessity, they’d received a lot of information in a short space of time. Our gospel reading today comes at the end of Jesus’ instructions to the disciples after the Last Supper, where Jesus has outlined what is to come both for them, and for him as he will leave the world and return to the Father. Jesus prays for his followers, knowing not only what is to come for him but for them: “and now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.” The account in Acts offers one more moment of uncertainty: the affirmation to the followers of Jesus by those robed figures that Jesus would return, in a similar fashion to the way that they had just seen him depart. But, much like the date when we will be able to return to normal lives, hugging friends and family (with their consent, of course) and sitting in close proximity in church pews, no date is given to when it will occur. But Jesus’s final message, while unexpected to the disciples, couldn’t have been clearer: the Holy Spirit will be with you as you go forward through the world, witnesses to the resurrected Lord. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHcyrLTayOM Our Father, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2rKRCWmOU
(Tune-Camberwell) Virtual Church Coffee
- 11-11.40am on Sundays during lockdown To Download Zoom go to https://zoom.us/download and select Zoom Client meeting, Even if you struggle using the computer, you can still join in. You can dial into a Zoom meeting on your phone. Dial one of the numbers below and when prompted use the ID and Passwords above to join the fun. New Free Phone Resource This free national phoneline was launched last Sunday, will be available 24 hours a day on 0800 804 8044. Callers will hear a special greeting from the Archbishop of Canterbury before being able to choose from a range of options, including Prayer During the Day and Night Prayer updated daily, from Common Worship, and a recording of the Church of England’s weekly national online service. A section called Hymn Line will also offer callers a small selection of hymns, updated daily. An option entitled ‘Hymns We Love’, provides a hymn and reflection and is based on an initiative by Connections. Virtual Coffee Morning
- on Tuesdays during lockdown https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89132618797?pwd=S0lHL0FkeFBOU3VRNjA1YTZpLysxQT09 Meeting ID: 891 3261 8797 Password: 006650 Wednesday Compline
on Zoom at 7pm Understanding the Bible - a course
via Zoom from Monday May 4 at 7-8.30pm The course continues on Monday evenings from 7-8.30pm on Zomm at the link beloow.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82818509505 We will be using the following book: http://www.pilgrimcourse.org/books/the-bible-(book-7) All welcome, no prior knowledge assumed, although we will be following the course as laid out, there is plenty of space to talk about what you are interested in/puzzled by/would like to know more about.
If you are interested you can order your own copy of the book (physical or electronic) or if you give plenty of notice David will order a hard copy and try and deliver it as part of
his daily exercise.
Catching Up
Ely Foodbank Please don't forget to bring your contributions to the local Co-op shops. Your contributions are still very much needed and really valued. There is also always a need for toiletries - soap, shampoo, shower gel, toothpaste and so on - and pet food. Alternatively you may prefer to donate money rather than food at the moment. You can donate either by cheque made payable to: "Ely Foodbank" and sent to 10 Chapel Street, Ely, Cambs, CB6 1AD. Or if you prefer to donate online: https://localgiving.org/charity/elyfoodbank/ Thank you. Duty rotas Download Sunday duty rotas for January to March 2020 as a PDF file. The duty rota is suspended because there will be no services and our church will remain locked until further notice due to the coronavirus epidemic
St Andrew's Isleham - Church Key Rota for January to August 2020 Click to download the key rota for January to August 2020 as a PDF file. Intercessions books We have new books in each of the churches for people to write down prayer requests. Please write the name of the person who you would like us to pray for and your initials. The key rota is suspended because our church will remain locked until further notice because of the coronavirus epidemic Please do not feel locked into this rota, but do arrange your own swaps and indicate on lists in church and the social centre. Please inform Stuart and Rob Savage of any swaps/changes. Note:. On Fridays, the bell ringers will lock the church and return key to you. On Sunday evenings please check that relevant bin is ready for collection on pavement. Any problems or concerns, please contact Stuart, as above. Key Contacts: Alan Ashley -14 St Andrews Close - 780742. Julia Brunning - 3 Little London - 780945 Sean Edwards -1 Robins Close - 780241 Mark Fletcher - The Granary- 2B Waterside - 780550 Stuart Haggett –3 Church Lane - 781737 Richard May - 4 Elwoods Close - 780249 Andrew Stephens -41 The Causeway- 780229 Andrew (mobile) 07709872831 Mary Wightman -3 Sun Street - 781022 Emergency lockers: Ruth Ogden -35 Waterside -780646 Rob Savage -38 Sun Sreet - 780218 Second key holder: Ian Powys. 5 Church Lane - 780519
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