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†   St Andrews

Proclaiming Christ in Clewer

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Pews News: July 2015 Trinity

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Welcome, in the name of Jesus Christ, to this house of prayer.

Rector’s Ramblings

The Rectory garden is really beginning to take shape. We now have a pond area, a greenhouse and a rose garden. Plus a huge area of lawn that was turfed back in the spring. We’ve been given lots of plants and seeds to help fill all the space, one of them being a white climbing rose, Rambling Rector. It is currently sitting in a pot waiting for the planting area to be prepared. This particular rose is one which is known for its amazing climbing abilities, either up through apple trees, over trellis or walls. But you can’t just put plants anywhere, you have to think about the soil, the light and shade and surrounding plants. Building a garden takes time, careful planning and hard work. Young plants need the soil to be prepared and once planted the nurturing process continues and then we are rewarded with a beautiful healthy display of flowers and foliage. As time goes on the old wood has to be cut out and seasonal pruning takes place.

So it is with our faith and our church. New seeds are being sown and the young plants are beginning to flourish. Yesterday nine families enjoyed our first Prayers and Bears Teddy Bear Picnic in the Rectory garden. The weather was wonderful, the children were able to run around the garden and play in the paddling pool and the grownups sit with a cool glass of Pimms! These families are some of a growing group that are now members of our church community and growing in faith. The Wednesday evening ‘Bible Challenge’ is bringing together another new group, people who are new to St Andrews and those who have been longstanding members. Each week we have a different combination of people just wanting to read the bible together. The work put in to try new service times, styles of worship and ways of learning faith together is beginning to blossom.

Some pruning has been carried out as at the moment we are not having a midweek service, but this will begin again in September.

So we are now well into the church season of Ordinary Time, a time of growing and renewing. Part of our ‘nurturing growth’ is to have a Parish Quiet Day, a day away from all the busyness that keeps us from focusing on God and will give us a chance to reflect, cut out the old habits and renew our relationship with God and each other. The invitation is for everyone (please see the notice page for further details).

Enjoy this wonderful summer weather, enjoy belonging to one faith in Christ Jesus and through prayer and thanksgiving, may your faith grow and blossom beyond imagination!

Revd Rosie

 

Sunday Services for the Month of July

1^st Sunday

5 July – Trinity 5

10.30am Family Service

reading: Mark 6.1-13

5pm Parish Eucharist

Readings: Ezekiel 2.1-5; 2 Corinthians 12.2-10; Mark 6.1-13

2^nd Sunday

12 July – Trinity 6

10.30am Parish Eucharist

Readings: Amos 7.7-15; Ephesians 1.3-14; Mark 6.14-29

5pm BCP Evensong

readings Psalm 66; Job 4.1, 5.6-end; Romans 15.14-29

3^rd Sunday

19 July – Trinity 7

10.30am Parish Eucharist

readings: Jeremiah 23.1-6; Ephesians 2.11-end; Mark 6.30-34, 53-end

3pm Children’s Church

5pm Eucharist for Healing & Wholeness

readings Gospel only; Mark 6.30-34, 53-end

4^th Sunday

26 July – Trinity 8

10.30am Parish Eucharist

readings: 2 Kings 4.42-end; Ephesians 3.14-end; John 6.1-21-end.

5pm Songs of Praise

Midweek Services in May

Fridays 9.30am Prayers & Bears in the Church

Feast Days

Friday 3 July – Thomas the Apostle

Wednesday 22 June – Mary Magdalene

Saturday 25 July – James the Apostle

 

 

 

For your prayers

Healing Prayers Katie Dennis, Jack Trigwell, Jenny Evenden, baby Blake, Terry Shaw, Jasmine, Phoebe, Roly Cockman, Valerie, Jamie, Roy Pardoe, Abigail, Linda Dobraszczyk, Heather Henry, Jim Allen.

Baptisms: Charlie Blake, Spencer Blake, Tallulah Lind and Rufus Todd

 

Weddings: Edward Peacock and Sarah West (11^th) and for all couples preparing for marriage.

Prayers for the Departed: Rosemary Danbury, and those whose anniversary of death falls at this time.

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Please pray for all those who live and/or work in Hermitage Lane, Longbourn, Maidenhead Road, Rays Avenue, Wells Close, Vale Road, and Buckland Crescent.

Please let Revd Rosie know of any prayer requests.

Dates for your Diary and Notices

Choir Practice – Tuesday evenings at 6pm in church, this may be changed due to Heather not being with us for a time.

Children’s Church.  This wonderful service for children and families and is proving to be very popular.  We need your help!  Setting up, making refreshments, clearing away and most importantly – welcoming families, all part of Living and Loving at St Andrews.  If you have not been before then why not come along and experience this style of worship, we do not have age limits, your help and support would be very much appreciated.

26^th July 5pm Songs of Praise. This is a great opportunity to sing all those favourite hymns and worship songs. If you have a favourite and would like to nominate it and say why, then please add it to the list on the notice board. And of course..join us for refreshments afterwards.

 

Church yard tidy –we would like to do this once a month to keep onto of the weeds! Second Saturday of the month (13^th) in the morning, if you have an hour to spare please join us at 10am.

Don’t forget church cleaning on Friday afternoons at 2pm

8^th August –Yorvik Theatre Company –Wuthering Heights is coming to

St Andrews. Volunteers to help with refreshments and hosting this event. Tickets on sale soon. Please see the posters and spread the word!

Calling all photographers!  2016 Parish Calendar

Do you have an eye for All Things Bright and Beautiful?

We are looking for inspirational images for the St Andrews 2016 parish calendar to sell at this year’s Festival Fair. The competition is free and open to everyone, the entries will be exhibited in church 13-30^th September. Voting will be announced at Harvest Festival. Please pick up a flyer with all the details and an application form. Deadline for entries is 6^th September.

 

 St Andrews Sewing Bee -9 July 11-2 in the Lodge, bring your sandwiches.

We met for the first time and now have some projects to work on. You don’t even have to be a church member. If you would like to be involved, have design ideas, can make something new out of something old, then why not get involved, many hands make light work and a great fundraising opportunity. Please bring fabrics to make bunting and story bags, and sewing needles etc (we have a machine). We will be visiting St Michael’s Tilehurst on 16 July, to see their Millennium project. If you would like to join the trip please let Revd Rosie know.

 

Fundraising

A new group has formed to make a start with the ideas from the board.

If you would like to be part of this inspiring and active group, known as the M&M group (meetings and money/ social and fundraising!), then please talk to Heather Albless. Keep your eye on the notice board for events coming up.                                                                

 

Bible Challenge Wednesday Evenings 7.30pm at church

A church that is not reading the bible together will not grow.

Come and join us in our bible challenge, reading from the beginning to the end!

It will be interesting, fun, you may even learn something!  All welcome, we can even provide the bibles and if you can’t read well, you can enjoy listening. If you miss a week don’t worry, check the website to see where we have got up to and catch up.

 

Opportunities to help

We are now entering wedding season and soon all the end of term school services.

If you can help out by welcoming, setting up and offer general support, please let the Church Wardens know – Revd Rosie can’t do it all by herself!

STERF Year 8 -11.30am 20^th July and Clewer Green Year 4 – 5.45pm 21^st July

 

Parish Quiet Day 25^th July at Ascot Priory. 9.30-3pm. Bring a packed lunch. The day will consist of time together, listening, reflection, prayer and worship. Please sign up on the sheet at the back of church. There may be a small charge towards the venue and refreshments. Everyone welcome, bring a friend and car share. The day will be led for us by the Revd Dr Peter Day, Vicar of Christ Church Reading.

Fr Peter will continue with the theme of growing faith

 

 Revd Rosie Webb. Rector, St Andrew’s Rectory, 16 Parsonage Lane. Tel: 01753 852334

 

Email: rector@standrewsclewer.org. Parish website: www.standrewsclewer.org