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A member of the Three Rivers Group
of parishes
Chippenham, Fordham, Isleham, Kennett & Snailwell
The
Diocese of Ely,
The Church of England
St
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Lent 3 * Coronavirus epidemic updates for the Three Rivers Group * The Lent courses have been suspended until further notice. The Lent Lunch on Thursday March 19 at Isleham has been cancelled. All church services in the Three Rivers Group parishes are suspended until further notice. Foodbank Please don't forget to bring your contributions to church or 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. Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) - Tuesday April 28 We will again be holding a joint APCM for the five parishes on Tuesday 28th April at Fordham School. 7pm for refreshements and the meeting will started promptly at 7.30pm Please start thinking about who might be good people to serve on the PCC or as Churchwardens and encourage them to be nominated. Services in the Three Rivers Group March 22 - Mothering Sunday - all services cancelled
Lent Lunches - on Thursday March 19 at Isleham has been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak The Mothers’ Union are running their simple lunches of soup and sandwiches to raise funds for the charitable work of the Mothers’ Union. All welcome, no charge for lunch but donations welcome.
Lent Courses - week beginning March 2 Lent courses are suspended until further notice
For more details see separate information leaflet. If you would like to take part please let someone in the ministry team know so that we can order materials. 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
Rambling Curate
- River Lark at Isleham Marina The Rambling Curate will next venture out to explore the banks of the River Lark in Isleham on Sunday March 22. Walking companions are welcome to join her, as always. Please meet at the car park to the south of Isleham Marina (ask for directions if unsure) at 2.30pm, dressed suitably for the weather. 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. Music and Readings for Passiontide The three choirs of the group will be joining forces for a special service at the beginning of Holy Week. Music from Bach, Palestrina and more contemporary composers. Sunday April 5 6.30pm Fordham Church. Mums+ - next on April 10 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
Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) - Tuesday April 28 We will again be holding a joint APCM for the five parishes on Tuesday 28th April at Fordham School. 7pm for refreshements and the meeting will started promptly at 7.30pm 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
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
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 Sunday March 15 - Lent 39.30am Isleham – Family Eucharist all-age worship Elsewhere in the Three Rivers Group
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. Hymns
Collect Eternal God, give us insight to discern your will for us, to give up what harms us, and to seek the perfection we are promised in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A reading from Exodus (17.1–7) From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. The people quarrelled with Moses, and said, ‘Give us water to drink.’ Moses said to them, ‘Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?’ But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?’ So Moses cried out to the Lord, ‘What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.’ The Lord said to Moses, ‘Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.’ Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarrelled and tested the Lord, saying, ‘Is the Lord among us or not?’ 1 O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! A reading from Paul’s letter to the Romans (5.1–11) Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. Much more surely then, now that we have been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life. But more than that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St John (4.5–42) So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink’. (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?’ (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink”, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?’ Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Go, call your husband, and come back.’ The woman answered him, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You are right in saying, “I have no husband”; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.’ The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming’ (who is called Christ). ‘When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I am he, the one who is speaking to you.’ Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, ‘What do you want?’ or, ‘Why are you speaking with her?’ Then the woman left her water-jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, ‘Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?’ They left the city and were on their way to him. Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’ But he said to them, ‘I have food to eat that you do not know about.’ So the disciples said to one another, ‘Surely no one has brought him something to eat?’ Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. Do you not say, “Four months more, then comes the harvest”? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, “One sows and another reaps.” I sent you to reap that for which you did not labour. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour.’ Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, ‘He told me everything I have ever done.’ So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there for two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, ‘It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Saviour of the world.’ Merciful Lord, grant your people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow you, the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Duty rotas Download Sunday duty rotas for January to March 2020 as a PDF file.
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.
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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