Weekly News
Rogation Sunday - The Sixth Sunday of Easter - 9th May 2021
Dear all
Onsite Worship this week:
8.30am - Holy Communion at Oare
9.30am - Eucharist at Winterbourne
11.00am - Eucharist at Stockcross
11.00am - Outdoor Family Service at Boxford
4.00pm - Evening Prayer at Beedon
As always we will be operating under fairly tight conditions following the government guidelines.
Online Worship
Also, this Sunday there will be a recorded Holy Communion service, this week coming from St Barnabas', Peasemore. As previously the video will be live from 8.30am on Sunday morning, streaming from that time and then available at any time later for you to use in your devotions. The videos for all benefice services can be found on the benefice website, YouTube, and Facebook. As always, subtitles will be available.
Next week there will be four onsite services:
9.30am - Eucharist at Chieveley
9.30am - Eucharist at West Ilsley
11.00am - Holy Communion at Farnborough
6.00pm - Evening Prayer at Peasemore
See below for further announcements about services .
Private Prayer
Churches in the benefice open for private prayer are:
Beedon – by arrangement with the Rector
Boxford - Sundays (10am-4pm)
Chieveley – by arrangement with the Rector
Farnborough – by arrangement with churchwardens
Peasemore - Open every day as previously
West Ilsley - Sundays (9.30am-6pm)
Also included below along with the Weekly Sheet we have a sermon for Ascensiontide, 'Divine Ascent' and a sheet with notes of the Saints' days of the week. A list of services in the benefice for May is below. There is also a copy of the Diocesan course book for the coming term. As always, there are some excellent courses on offer, so do take a look.
Finally, the APRIL issue of the Benefice Magazine is available here.
Please do still encourage others to keep in touch with what is going on by signing up to these updates just cut and paste the link to them in an email:
https://mailchi.mp/d58d3b280189/east-downland-sign-up
Very importantly, if there are any people who you know would like a hard copy of this then please print it off for them or let me know, and I’ll take care of it.
For now, as always, all the best, God bless, and keep safe
John
Pew Sheet
9th May 2021
Rogation Sunday
Sermon
Ascensiontide
Divine Ascent
Saints for this Week
For the week commencing
9th May 2021
Equipping for Life
Courses from the Diocese
for April to July 2021
Services in the East Downland
For the month commencing
2nd May 2021