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worship from the SEC - still available on Sunday mornings at 11
am Daily Prayer - Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer (Compline)
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Scottish Christians asked to join in prayer every Sunday at 7pm Coronavirus updates and resources - Updated 20 November
Vestry Secretary's Report Church
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In the event that the Government guidance changes, the Vestry will adapt the services as necessary. If you do not feel comfortable attending a service at the present time, the alternative arrangements for online and postal worship will continue for as long as they are needed. Toilet
Project 12
Days of Giving Competition Please follow this link to nominate St Johns, and get family and friends nominating too. Click on the Nominate a charity orange button No need to complete the Search field as our name is already entered below Complete the fields below (under Who are you select Supporter) Answer the next two questions It is not necessary to complete the options to receive updates unless you wish to Finally select Submit Thank you. Jeanette
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Dear All, I wished to say a very big thank you to those who have helped each other over the past year. Thank you to those who helped reopen our churches, overcoming various different obstacles to provide a safe (as safe as we can be) place for us to gather in public worship. I am very grateful to those who have shown each other grace, care and compassion as our mental health and physical health has been stretched in ways that we never thought possible over the period of Lockdown and as some of us continue to shield. Had this pandemic happened a decade ago, or even a few years, the idea or concept of doing church online would have been almost non-existent. All made available with more affordable broadband. Yet, for some concurrently, even this is not possible. So thinking of a myriad of different ways of communicating and staying in touch has taxed the ministry teams. And of course as we begin to reopen our churches, we need to make sure that we don't just drop those who we have reconnected with over the past few months. Ministry can never return to the previous model where it was building centric. Ministry going forward has to be both/and. I am acutely aware that each charge has a very wide and dispersed community across the county (and probably further afield). For example, we have more people at a Tuesday midweek service on Zoom (to which anyone can join) than we had in St Peter's for a long time. The need to connect online is real, but doesn't suit everyone. Much of the clergy's time is spent reflecting on how well the previous Sunday's worship went and what can we do this coming Sunday that is more inclusive, or helps the congregation worship more deeply. What can we do better? And the idea what happens at Christmas time is probably something on our minds from Easter onwards. What does Christmas mean to us when all the trimmings and Victoriana is stripped away? Having just had a Vestry meeting where the question of whether we could have a Christmas tree came up, shows just how different this year is, in comparison to other years. To have to actually consider physically distancing while decorating it and how we're going to decorate it. Can we include the community? And who, from the community? Just those coming to church? Or everyone who we have contact with from around the county? Christmas, as it is presented by society will be different this year. But the essence of Christmas will be exactly the same. Before that we have the journey towards Christmas through Advent. An adventure, I hope that will enable us to reflect and come closer to Christ as we think about his birth, and what that birth meant over 2000 years ago and what it means now. We will be exploring a series of Advent reflections provided by the Province. These will be posted out weekly and there will be an opportunity to meet (virtually) on Wednesday evenings (7:30-8:30 pm), using the Zoom link as provided in the weekly newsletter. You can join us by phone (in the same way as many of you joined the Provincial Sunday service), with the details in the same newsletter. The aim of these Zoom meeting is to study the Scriptures and reflect on what is provided. Ellie |
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