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Weekly Newsletter 5th August, 2023

Dear friends,

I hope you are well. Today I want to invite you to join Naomi and me at the Vicarage for an exciting new adventure as we explore what it means to bless.

Beginning in September Naomi and I will be hosting The Blessings Course at the vicarage on Wednesday evenings. The Blessings Course is intensely practical. Key themes we’ll explore are:

  • THE GOD WHO BLESSES/ Grasping the goodness of God

  • BEING BLESSED/ Our Personal Discovery of Foundational Truth

  • CALLED TO BLESS/ The Priestly Role of Every Christian

  • BLESSING/ The Person in Front of Me

  • BLESSING/ The Land

  • BLESSING/ Areas, Regions, Nations

  • BLESSING/ A New Life and a New Community

By the end of the course you should expect to be more confident in your personal relationship with the Lord; enjoying the experience of his blessing on your life; and effective at blessing others through words as well as deeds.

If you are interested, please could you sign up below. If you’d like to know a little more please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Love

Grant



are hedges your thing?

We are looking for a green fingered, hedge lover, with some free time and suitable equipment, to trim the Beech hedge behind the War Memorial, in the St. Stephen’s car park.  It is quite pricey to maintain if allowed to grow past its current manageable height. It would be good to have it cut back, anytime from now onwards. If you can help please let Jo Eley know.  Thank you.


SERVICEs THIS WEEKend

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across the villages

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Services next Sunday 13th August

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morning prayer and worship is now having a break for the summer.


LAtest episode of our Podcast

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