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Dear Friends, This week it is not Dineke, but I doing the honours to write the weekly news sheet. Dineke is away on a short trip to see her sister in the Netherlands. Remembrance Sunday is upon us and in the morning Cafe Church in Capel will reflect in their special way on remembering and grief. There will also be traditional Remembrance Services in each of our churches. For good measure services are as follows: * 10:30 Café Church Capel, St John the Baptist * 10:45 Remembrance Service Ockley, St Margaret’s * 15:00 Remembrance Service St John the Baptist The services will of course be especially poignant give the turbulent times in which we find ourselves. May the God of Love and Life have mercy on us all. Today’s picture is snap I took a few weeks a go when I walked to the murder mystery play and I happened to pass St John’s at just the right time. Blessings Dik notes-20230820-5th-November.pdf Weekly Notes REMEMBRANCE-SUNDAY-BLUE-SHEET-23.pdf Weekly Readings (special version) Post expires at 5:52pm on Sunday November 10th, 2024

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Dear Friends, Following yesterday’s worship, Liz would make a prayer booklet for Gaza and Israel available. Please find this attached for download and printing. Alternatively, there would be some copies in church too to pick-up. In addition next Tuesday there will be a vigil at St John – Capel next week. Tuesday 14th 19:00h. Blessings, Dik prayers-for-peace.pdf Prayers for Peace Post expires at 7:15pm on Wednesday November 6th, 2024

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Dear friends, The weather isn’t letting up so I decided to go over some holiday pictures. The one above is of a Weka or Maori hen, a flightless rail native to New Zealand. Like many other flightless birds in the southern hemisphere the status of this species is ‘at risk’. This individual was particularly tame all those 23 years ago. We should get a couple of sunny days so make the most of them! God bless, Dineke van den Bogerd notes-20231105.pdf Weekly Notes Readings-20231105.pdf Weekly Readings Post expires at 3:12pm on Monday November 4th, 2024

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Dear friends, Autumn is definitely with us now and the picture shows the strawberry tree we bought many years ago and has finally started to flower. Hot off the press is Inspire magazine, which you can read or download using the following link: www.capelandockleychurch.org.uk/2023/10/28/issue-no-78-november-2023/<www.capelandockleychurch.org.uk/2023/10/28/issue-no-78-november-2023/> There will be some hardcopies in both our churches as well. To receive notification of the arrival on the website of Inspire, Liz’s letter to the local magazines or the weekly notes you can subscribe here: www.capelandockleychurch.org.uk/subscribe/<www.capelandockleychurch.org.uk/subscribe/> Tomorrow will be the next LOAF (Local, Organic, Animal-friendly and Fair Trade produce) stall, this time after the parish service in Ockley. I have re-ordered the tea advent calendars as they sold out on the first day I displayed them. There will be various tea & coffee items (including biscuits) and more Christmas goodies. God bless, Dineke van den Bogerd notes-20231029.pdf Weekly Notes Readings-20231029.pdf Weekly Readings Post expires at 1:15pm on Monday October 28th, 2024

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The November issue marks Remembrance Sunday and there will be services at both churches, including cafe church at Capel. “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them”. Remember … ‘Even if prayers are not answered in the way we want or hope for, the act of praying changes the one who prays’. November_2023_autocol.pdf Post expires at 11:55am on Monday October 28th, 2024

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Everything seems to pale into significance doesn’t it when we consider the terrible events that have unfolded in Israel and Gaza in recent weeks. War is always a terrible thing but there has been a particularly horrible brutality which threatens to destabilise the whole region aside from the suffering of those innocent victims, ordinary Israelis and Palestinians, caught up in this escalating crisis. As I write humanitarian aid has been allowed to come through from Egypt and I pray that by the time you read this letter, more will have been able to have been achieved. We continue to pray for peace and for humanitarian solutions to be found knowing that all our hearts and minds go out to all those affected by violence and war. I think our traditional services of remembrance will be especially poignant this year as we come together to remember all those who have died as a result of war, whether as service men and women or the many civilians who lost their lives. Please see the church calendar for further details of our Remembrance Sunday services. Last month we celebrated our Harvest Festival and collected much needed produce for Dorking Foodbank and Leatherhead START.… Read More

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Dear friends, Storm Babet has largely passed us by here in the South but the devastation in North England and East Scotland is huge. Let’s hope and pray that today further damage, injury and loss of life can be prevented. These last weeks there hasn’t been much opportunity to take photo’s so I delved into the archives and found this beautiful slide of the sky in Cornwall on a 1995 holiday. I hope we get some more of that in the next few days. God bless, Dineke van den Bogerd notes-20231022.docx WeeklyNotes Readings-20231022.pdf Weekly Readings Post expires at 12:42pm on Monday October 21st, 2024

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Statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby: ‘Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee’ (Psalm 122) Our grief and shock only grows greater as more devastating news and images emerge from the abhorrent terrorist attacks in Israel. The agonising suffering endured by those who were targeted and their families can scarcely be imagined. Our hearts are broken open by the grief of Israelis and our Jewish brothers and sisters around the world, for whom this trauma and loss stands in the dark and terrible shadow of the worst days of their history. I beg that those who have been taken hostage are set free into safety, that they and their loved ones might be released from the horror of their captivity. The anger felt by the people of Israel at the cruelty they have experienced is entirely justified. Many around the world share in that anger. But in the face of a ground offensive in Gaza, I plead that the sins of Hamas are not borne by the citizens of Gaza, who themselves have faced such suffering over many decades. The price of evil cannot be paid by the innocent. Civilians… Read More

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Dear friends, We all look on with dread at the horror that is playing out in Israel and how it spills over into the world. Rev Liz has asked for the following prayer to be included in the weekly email: A Prayer for the Holy Land By Rev. Rhona Knight Loving God Praying for the Holy Land and its people, praying for your deep peace, praying that swords are turned to ploughshares, we ask that your kingdom will come on earth as in heaven. May those in power seek your heart. May those suffering know your presence. May those mourning be comforted. May we, who watch at a distance, be open to seeing with your eyes of compassion and understanding and know how to pray and respond justly, mercifully and humbly. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. God bless, Dineke van den Bogerd notes-20231015.pdf Weekly Notes Readings-20231015.pdf Weekly Readings Post expires at 10:13am on Monday October 14th, 2024

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Dear friends, We’ve just returned from a lovely break in Norfolk. We had planned a trip to Sicily but when that couldn’t happen we changed plans and had a lovely time. The picture is of one of numerous boot scrapers we noticed outside older houses in Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds and even built in walls of churches. We had never seen these before and had to take some pictures. This week I will be ordering organic and fair trade Christmas goodies for the LOAF stall next Sunday after the parish communion service. Also on sale (on behalf of Stuart Cole) will be Traidcraft Christmas cards. Please come and have a look whilst you enjoy an after service coffee. Only a few more days left of balmy weather before autumn sets in: do make the most of it! God Bless, Dineke van den Bogerd notes-20231008.pdf Weekly Notes cafe-church-Oct-2023-David-Grant-MENU.pdf Cafe Church Menu Readings-231008.pdf Weekly Readings Post expires at 1:42pm on Monday October 7th, 2024

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