Notices for 11th February 2024
Ash Wednesday
Wednesday 14th February is Ash Wednesday. We will have a service of communion with the imposition of ashes at 6pm. All are welcome.
Sunday Teas and Coffees
We are looking to recruit more people to help with serving teas and coffees after the Sunday service. This is a great way to get to know others and help us build our church community, to find out more chat to one of the wardens or to Jo.
Wednesday Prayer Time
The Prayer Team will be holding a time of Prayer on the second Wednesday of each month with the next time for prayer being Wednesday 14th February at 11 a.m. This time will be to hold in prayer the various conflicts between nations, those people affected by such conflicts, and those who are oppressed in any way together with those affected by natural disasters. We will also be holding in prayer the Church and its ministry, and members of our Church and Parish thinking of those people who are suffering in body, mind or spirit both known and unknown to us. It is hoped that members of our Church will join us for this much needed time of prayer.
Prayer Book
There is a book placed at the back of the church in memory of Lesley Lee, in which you are invited to enter the name of someone for whom you would like to be held in prayer. Please feel free to make an entry in the book knowing those named will be held in prayer by the Prayer Group.
Lent
The Coventry Diocese are offering a 5-week Lent series on Zoom:
Equip Hub Lent Series 2024
What motivates your relationship with God? What compels you to put your faith into action?
These are the questions we will be putting to ourselves and the senior clergy of Coventry Diocese over five Monday evening zoom encounters during Lent.
The Acting Bishop of Coventry, Archdeacons, and Dean of Coventry will share their passions for faith and ministry, from sharing their faith, to seeing God in the world around us. Each weekly session will start at 8.00pm and last for 45 minutes.
Date: 5 evening sessions during Lent, Time: 8pm-8:45pm
You will need to register online. If you have any questions please speak with Sue Masters.
Craft and Hobby Fair
Our next Craft and Hobby Fair will be on Saturday 24th February from 1.30pm – 4.30pm at Eastern Green Village Hall. We are looking for:
- donations of books and jigsaws, including children’s.
- anything suitable to be used as raffle prizes
- donations of sweets and chocolates for the tombola
- donations of cakes
- help on the day with serving the refreshments.
If you can help please speak to Rebecca Martin in church or contact Julie on 07756 918847 or administrator@standrews-eg.org.uk. Thank you.
Tots Time
Tots time is our new Tots group for babies toddlers and their carers. The next few dates are: 22nd Feb, 7th and 21st March. Pop in any time from 8.45am, finishing around 10.15am.
Flower Rota
The 2024 Flower Rota is at the back of church. I have made it a two-weekly rota to help with finances. If there is a specific date on which you would like to have flowers in the church (if that date is not already listed, just let me know or write the date and your name on the bottom of the rota). As last year, I can do the flowers for you, or you can source and arrange the flowers yourselves. Julia McNaney.
Volunteering and Safeguarding
All church volunteers, whether paid or unpaid, will need to be safely recruited and possibly also require a basic/enhanced DBS check. If you have any questions about safeguarding and volunteering, please speak to Julia McNaney on 07872 614688 or Rev Jo.
Donations
Should you wish to give online to support the work of the church, the link below or the QR code will take you directly to the page. It is a secure way of supporting the churches ministry. Thank you for your ongoing support. Nick Tooby.
https://givealittle.co/campaigns/eef64318-0a22-4db7-8d81-0ab3ccddf15d
| Diary Dates | Time | Event |
| Sun 11th Feb | 10.00am | Parish Communion |
| Mon 12th Feb | 9.30am | Morning Prayer |
| 6.00pm | Alpha Course – week 3 | |
| 7.30pm | PCC Meeting | |
| Tues 13th Feb | 11.00am | Bereavement Group meeting |
| Weds 14th Feb | 6.00pm | Ash Wednesday Communion |
Please send notices for next week to Julie by Thursday, email administrator@standrews-eg.org.uk or call 07756 918847
This week’s readings are:
The Sunday next before Lent
Collect
Almighty Father,
whose Son was revealed in majesty
before he suffered death upon the cross:
give us grace to perceive his glory,
that we may be strengthened to suffer with him
and be changed into his likeness, from glory to glory;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Post Communion
Holy God,
we see your glory in the face of Jesus Christ:
may we who are partakers at his table
reflect his life in word and deed,
that all the world may know his power to change and save.
This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord.
First Reading: 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11
Spiritual Gifts
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. 3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says ‘Let Jesus be cursed!’ and no one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
NRSVA (New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised)
Gospel Reading: John 15: 1-17
Jesus the True Vine
‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. 2 He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. 3 You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
12 ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
NRSVA (New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised)