Dear friends,
As we begin to prepare to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend coming up, do please look out for the latest updates across the villages. As you can imagine, there have been lots of updates as things have fallen into place! The Jubilee weekend also falls on Pentecost Sunday. So all our services across the parishes will be focussed on celebrating the coming of the Holy Spirit and the strength and comfort the Spirit gives us - as has been demonstrated so magnificently by Her Majesty The Queen. More on this next week!
Tomorrow evening (Thursday 26th) we are celebrating Ascension day, with a reflective communion service at St. Clement’s Ashampstead beginning at 7:30pm and then this coming Sunday we join all of our villages together for a whole benefice service at 10am in St. Stephens Upper Basildon, as its a 5th Sunday in the month.
Thank you to everybody who has contributed to the welcome gifts for the new Curate, Jen and her family. If you wanted to add anything in last minute, there is still time to do so, please do let me know so I can get it to them in time.
As always, may you know how loved you are by God, may you know how precious you are in the eyes of his Son, and may you know how through the Holy Spirit you are more than conquerors!
Love and blessings,
Grant
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Prayer Points
Please do continue to pray for the continued conflict in Ukraine. We have welcomed a Ukrainian family to Basildon Primary School. We are working closely with the school to support them. Please pray for the staff and the family as they settle into local life.
Please pray for the couples who are planning to get married in our churches, or from our villages this year. Some of whom have rescheduled quite a few times!
Please pray for the NHS continuing to serve the nation with tiredness and fatigue featuring heavily.
Please pray for HRH Queen Elizabeth II and the Jubilee celebrations this year.
Please continue to pray for those we know and love who are at this time unwell or recovering from illnesses.
Please pray for those within our parishes who have lost loved ones recently.
