Worship with us for Pentecost and celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. British Forces serving in the Middle East will be leading the service.
Click the read more link to go to the service on the Church of England Website.
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Dear Friends,
I do hope you are enjoying the Jubilee celebrations and have had a chance to see family over the long weekend.
This weekend’s services are as follows:
9.30am Jubilee Commemorative open air service on the Green, Ockley
10.30am Jubilee Commemorative Service Capel
Traidcraft will be available after this service so please bring your orders with you. For those who don’t know, Traidcraft is a UK company that sells solely fair trade products. They have been trading for over 40 years and import goods directly from artisans and growers in over 30 countries. They stock a huge range of goods some of which will be on display tomorrow, but there are many more in their brochures so do ask Suzanne or Stuart Cole if you would like to have a look at one.
Please note there are no church teas this weekend as it was felt there was a lot going on!
There are sheets in both our churches for baking for the Military show. Please fill them in with your name email/phone number what flavour and how many you can make. We are looking for about 25 of each flavour. The cakes must be traybake (for ease of serving), and the chosen flavours are: Coffee, chocolate, ginger, and carrot (lemon ones have already kindly been made by Joy). Both Norman Ede (07885 439079) and myself have chest freezers that can store them, just let us know if you are dropping some off.
Lastly, Photo of the week has to be a picture of the beautiful Jubilee crown flower decoration in St John’s. The church is looking fabulous, many thanks to our wonderful flower arrangers.
With love and prayers
Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008
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I do hope you’ve all had a good week, the gardens are looking marvellous at the moment with the start of the roses and the peonies still in full swing.
This week we are having a special joint service at Ockley to celebrate Ascension day. Do remember that it will be at 9.30am tomorrow.
Both of our villages have lovely events planned for the Jubilee bank holiday weekend. I’ve attached details of both below, along with our normal weekly sheet and the readings for the week (these maybe different to the ones used in church tomorrow).
The start of June brings to mind the Vicarage Fete on the 25th, for which preparations are now well advanced. Thank you to those who have already given bottles for the bottle tombola or raffle prizes for our hampers. If you haven’t yet dropped your donations off, please do leave them in the boxes in our churches.
Our photo of the week is of the bridges at Polesden Lacey over the track leading down to the farm at the bottom. The dogs look less impressed!
With love and prayers
Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008
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We thank you that you have given Elizabeth our Queen a heart to serve her people, and have kept her devoted in this service beyond all who were before her: encourage us by her example to serve one another, and to seek the common good, until you call us all to reign with Christ in your eternal kingdom.
A celebratory issue for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Post expires at 7:43pm on Thursday May 25th, 2023
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Join us this weekend from Lambeth Palace chapel for a service for Thy Kingdom Come. Rev Canon Chris Russell, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Adviser for Evangelism and Witness, will be preaching and leading the service.
Click the read more link to go to the service on the Church of England Website.
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Worship with us from St John’s Sharow, wherever you are, on the Seventh Sunday of Easter.
Rev Ruth Newton leads this national online service, which explores the journey from Ascension to Pentecost.
Click the read more link to go to the service on the Church of England Website.
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Dear Friends,
I do hope you have had a good week and managed to dodge the rain showers that we’ve had – it’s certainly helped those of us that garden!
This week’s services are as follows:
9.30am Holy communion Ockley
10.30am Family Communion Capel
Many thanks to Jo Elvidge who will be leading the service at Capel this week.
The Jubilee holiday celebrations are fast approaching. A huge thank you to Alan Smallwood who has done a flier showing all the happenings in our two villages over the Jubilee weekend. The fliers will be in our churches from tomorrow.
Lastly, our photo of the week is from Hurtwood Common.
With love and prayers
Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008
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All are welcome to join us on the Fifth Sunday of Easter from All Saints Kings Heath, South Birmingham. Assistant Curate, Rev Tariro Matsveru, will be leading the service alongside Vicar of All Saints, Rev Canon David Warbrick, who will be preaching on ‘Learning to cherish.’
Click the read more link to go to the service on the Church of England Website.
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Dear friends,
Like many I have welcomed the rain we have had this week. As a keen gardener the dry weather of the last few weeks was beginning to make it difficult and many plants were either stunted from lack of rain or going over more quickly than normal. It is amazing how even a heavy shower ‘perks’ things up.
A big thank you to Alan Smallwood who has kindly taken over the role of producing the weekly sheets for our churches until the end of May.
This weeks services are as follows:
9.30am Matins Ockley
10.30am Family communion Capel
Please note Stuart and Suzanne will kindly be bringing the Traidcraft stall to church at Capel this Sunday so do bring cash with you if you would like to buy anything.
We also have church teas at Capel this Sunday from 3-5pm – join us for Joy’s lovely cakes in a very welcoming environment – I hope to see you there.
The Vicarage fete draws ever closer, so I attach a flier for you to see just what is on offer. Please do mark the day in your diary and come and help if you can, or donate raffle or tombola prizes, remember all proceeds from this event go to our local schools. All the details are on the weekly sheet.
Lastly the photo of the week is a great view of wild garlic and bluebells combined from a walk a couple of weeks ago.
With love and prayers
Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008
Post expires at 6:13pm on Sunday May 14th, 2023
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Just a quick email today as I am on Granny duties so writing this whilst the youngest grandchild is having her morning nap.
We have two services for you this weekend:
9.30am Holy communion Ockley
10.30am Cafe church The Crown Capel
You will note that cafe church is back at the Crown so do come and join us for coffee, croissants, great music and lots of discussion.
Thank you to all those who made pudding for the Capel village lunch this week, they were delighted with our creations!
We have two major events coming up in June and July, the Vicarage Fete, back after a gap of two years and the Military Fair where we will be running the Coffee and tea stall. Please help is you can. There are forms in both our churches so do sign the if you can give up a few hours.
The vicarage fete also is looking for a number of items. They are:
1. Gazebos to shelter our stalls from the sun – please reply to this email if you have one that you can lend us
2. Bottles for the bottle tombola – these don’t have to be alcohol. Boxes will be in our churches to collect these
3. Raffle prizes to go in 3 large hampers featuring food and drink, pampering and gardening.
An enormous thank you in advance for all your kind contributions.
Picture of the week this week is of course the Bluebells which are now fading fast, but whilst walking with a friend on Ranmore yesterday we came across a lovely patch – her spaniel Bertie thought so too!
With love and prayers
Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008
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