Join us for a Service for Petertide from Dunstable Priory in Diocese of St Albans. Rector of Dunstable, Rev Rachel Phillips, will be leading the service and preaching on St Peter and the foundation of the Church.
Click the read more link to go to the service on the Church of England Website.
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Dear Friends,
This email comes to you a day earlier than normal as we have our vicarage fete tomorrow afternoon. Do come along to see all the action if you can I can guarantee a warm welcome and lots of fun things to buy and eat. We have deliberately kept prices low this year as we are all ‘feeling the pinch’, so burgers will be £2.50 and hot dogs £2.00, all tea and cake will be sold for donations.
This Sunday sees St John the Baptist celebrate its patronal festival and so there are different readings from the once published by the Church of England. Ockley will still be using the normal readings. I have attached both to this email. The services are as follows:
9.30am Matins Ockley
10.30am Family Communion Capel
The 10.30 service will be taken by Rev Jo Elvidge as Rev Liz is having a short holiday.
Looking forward to next weekend and we are again out in force supplying coffee/tea and cake to the Military Show. If anyone can help set up the marquee on Thursday 30 June from 10-12 we would very much appreciate your assistance. Please reply to this email if you are available. Thank you to everyone who has been baking cakes and have offered to help over the weekend. I shall be emailing all volunteers shortly.
Lastly, our photo of the week is a ‘before’ picture of the vicarage garden looking resplendent with its gazebos ready for tomorrow.
With love and prayers
Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008
Post expires at 8:03pm on Saturday June 24th, 2023
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Dear friends,
Well, the last couple of days have certainly been the hottest this year so far, I do hope you’ve managed to find some shade to sit in. We spent a lovely day yesterday with the littlest grandchild sitting in the shade whilst she played in a makeshift paddling pool – we all stayed cool and she had a great time.
This week’s services are as follows:
9.30am Matins Ockley
10.30am Family Communion Capel
3-5pm Church teas Capel
Do come and celebrate father’s day with us – most Dads love a piece of cake!
The Vicarage fete is now just one week away and all our preparations are falling into place. You have all been so kind with your donations so I just have one last request: the bottle tombola could still do with some more bottles, in this regard anything goes so wine is lovely but it could just as easily be squash, bubble bath, or tomato ketchup – anything in a bottle counts! Please leave any donations in the boxes in our churches.
We also hope that some of you will come to the fete next week and bring your families, there will be lots for children to do, but we also have some great stalls for the adults, a delicious BBQ with burgers at only £2.50 and hot dogs £2 and tea and cakes for donations. Entry is only £1, I have attached a flier – we look forward to seeing you there.
Looking forward to the following week we are running the coffee/tea and cake stall at the military show, Leigh is still looking for cake bakers so please contact her on 07732 825908 if you can help. We are also asking for 8-10 helpers to join us on Thursday 28 June between 10 and 1pm to put up the marquee and decorate it. Please sign the sheet in church.
Thank you for all your help.
Lastly, this weeks photo of the week is the beautiful display outside the Crown pub in Capel – thank you Vanda and Vicki for making it look so lovely
Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008
Post expires at 10:14am on Sunday June 18th, 2023
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I hope you all had a lovely Jubilee weekend and managed to see friends and family to celebrate. We had a house full of children and dogs so it wasn’t exactly restful, but certainly great fun.
You will be pleased to hear that our churches have raised over £1,300 for the DEC appeal for Ukraine. This money was raised over three services in each church: Mothering Sunday, Easter and the last being the Jubilee services last weekend. Thank you to everyone for giving so generously.
June brings with it our annual Vicarage fete. Please do help us by donating bottles for the tombola or items for our three hampers which will be given as raffle prizes. If you are able please do also buy some raffle tickets, or take some to sell to friends – they are in our churches. All the money raised goes to our local schools.
The services this week are as follows:
9.30am Holy Communion Ockley
10.30am Cafe church The Crown, Capel
Lastly, the photo of the week is the beacon on Leith Hill – a temporary structure I’m told for the Jubilee.
With love and prayers
Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008
Post expires at 2:43pm on Sunday June 11th, 2023
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Dear Friends
“For me, the life of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose birth we celebrate today, is an inspiration and an anchor in my life.” Christmas 2014
Words spoken by our Queen in one of her annual Christmas broadcasts. What a wonderful statement of belief this is. Do you know where I first heard this? It was at our local church school Scott Broadwood’s Value Assemblies which I was observing, both in my role as a school governor and parish priest just a few days ago. What a privilege it is to be able to join the children as I do on a regular basis for assemblies. However you go into school feeling – maybe stressed or tired – just being in the childrens’ company for a few minutes lifts your heart and mind. They have an amazing energy which cuts through the everyday cares of our world. In fact I would describe them as an inspiration and of course their wonderful teachers. The school goes from strength to strength with a record number of families choosing Scott Broadwood as their first choice for Reception Class next year. As the school prepares to join the Good Shepherd Trust we do so in very good shape which is very welcome news.
There are many wonderful quotations around at the moment by the Queen as several have been collated to commemorate her Platinum Jubilee. As a Christian and head of The Church of England, Queen Elizabeth has made no secret of her faith and is a practicing Christian. These words above demonstrate just how much her faith means to her in day to day practical terms as she has reigned so faithfully and without complaint, often in very difficult circumstances, for these past 70 years. I think most of you will agree with me that the Queen herself is for us an inspiration and an anchor and we pray that we may be blessed by a few more years to come! Yet as Christians we acknowledge that though she is a great Queen, there is one greater than even Her Majesty, as we together turn to this Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. In our troubled times it is easy to forget that Jesus is the Prince of Peace and how we are called to pray for peace in our world.
We will be giving thanks to God for our Queen’s long reign at two special services on the 5th June, where we will be hearing more wonderful words and quotations. The first service will be at Ockley on the Green near the Cricket Pavilion, held outside in the marquee at 9.30am. Coffee and croissants are available before and after the service. At Capel the service will be held at our usual time of 10.30am where we will join together in words and songs of celebration and praise. Our churches will be decorated to mark the jubilee which will no doubt be glorious and I hope both services will attract many to come and metaphorically raise the roof in worship!
On this same day we also celebrate something else truly magnificent; also an inspiration and an anchor; and that is the day that God’s Holy Spirit was poured out on the Day of Pentecost. The Spirit is the same Spirit that sustained, led, guided and inspired Jesus’ apostles as the church was born that day. The same Spirit that inspires and anchors Queen Elizabeth in her life and reign today. The same Spirit that inspires and anchors us in our lives today. The same Spirit that is inspiring and energising our children today – these children who are our future.
We are also looking forward this month to welcoming the community back to the Vicarage Garden for the fete after a two year break. A fairground organ is promised to grace our front lawn amongst lots of other lovely stalls and games to raise money for all our local schools. The Vicarage Fete is always held the Saturday nearest to the date of the birth of our church’s patron saint St John the Baptist and we will be celebrating his birth at church the next day. So much to look forward to this month, to give thanks to God for and lots of opportunities to get together. I hope you are able to join in the various celebrations whether that is with others or in different ways. Whichever you choose remember that we are here for you and if you need company or assistance in any way now or in the future your churches are always here to serve you in Jesus’ wonderful name.
With my love and prayers as ever
Rev Liz
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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.
Post expires at 4:24pm on Sunday June 4th, 2023
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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
Post expires at 10:23am on Sunday June 4th, 2023
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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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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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