Dear Sisters and Brothers, Welcome to our weekly pew sheet and updates blog. Remember to try and keep this sheet digital but do print copies for those who may need them.
Sunday Morning:
The link for our readings:
Please note the complete readings are in full at the end of the blog.
Collect Prayer:
God our redeemer,
you have delivered us from the power of darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of your Son:
grant, that as by his death he has recalled us to life,
so by his continual presence in us he may raise us to eternal joy;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Post Communion Prayer:
God our Father,
whose Son Jesus Christ gives the water of eternal life:
may we thirst for you,
the spring of life and source of goodness,
through him who is alive and reigns, now and for ever. Upcoming Dates This Week:
Sunday 5th May - Easter 6
9.30am: St Peter's Holy Communion - the service will be live streamed on ww.facebook.com/huttonparish
11.15am: All Saints' Holy Communion
6.30pm: Deanery Choir Festival at Shenfield St Mary
Wednesday to Saturday
10.00am - 12midday: Food Collection at St Peter's
Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday
9.30am-12.30: Daily Bread Cafe at St Peter's
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
9.00am: Live streamed Morning Prayer http://www.facebook.com/huttonparish
Wednesday
9.00am: Morning Prayer in the Cafe
9.30am: Holy Communion at All Saints
Thursday
9.30am: Little Fishes
4.30pm: Thy Kingdom Come Prayer meeting, St Peter's Chapel
Friday
4.30pm: Thy Kingdom Come Prayer meeting, St Peter's Chapel
7.00pm: Older Youth at the Rectory
Saturday
9.00am: Rooted Walk & Brunch
Next Sunday: 12th May Easter 7
9.30am: St Peter's Holy Communion
11.15am: All Saints' Holy Communion
4.00pm: Younger Youth at St Peter's
Notices
Seek First, Sunday 19th May at 6.00pm is a joint service with CTHS at St Peter's
Parish Announcement
Deanery Choir Festival - Sunday 5th May 6.30pm at Shenfield St Mary
All are warmly invited to attend this wonderful event. Also, are there any individual singers or choirs who would like to take part?
If so, please contact Alan Ball, the Director of Music at St. Peter’s
South Weald, who is organising the event. 07969 367789 or alanball@email.com
Thy Kingdom Come Prayer Meeting
From Ascension to Pentecost, Evening Prayer Group. This will take place at 4.30pm in the Chapel at St Peter's. 9th , 10th , 14th , 15th , 16th & 17th May.
Mothers’ Union
Wednesday 8th May 1.30pm - Holy Communion in the Chapel followed by the Meeting in the hall at 2pm. You are invited to bring along a newspaper or magazine article to talk about at the meeting.
Future date - June 12th at Bonnies for afternoon tea £19.50. October 9th – lunch, details to follow.
We look forward to seeing you. Margaret Morris 217398.
Curate Update - Reverend Sue
Sue will shortly be going on placement to West Horndon Parish as part of her Curacy training, initially for a period of 3 months. We will not see her on Sundays in Hutton Parish but she can still be contacted on sue@huttonparish.com
Planned Giving
If you give regularly via the collection plate or by card donation, would you consider Planned Giving by standing order or the Parish Giving Scheme? This makes administration easier and allows us to plan more effectively. Forms are available at the back of church, to be returned to the Parish Office.
Thank you all for your continued generosity.
Afternoon Prayer and Meditation
“Be still and know that I am God”. Psalm 46 v 10.
Quiet Prayer and Meditation on the 4th Wednesday afternoon of each month. The next session takes place this Wednesday 22nd May at St Peter's Chapel, 2pm-4pm.
Rooted Community
This Saturday is a Rooted gathering 9.00am at St Peter's.
Please email rooted@huttonparish.com for more details.
Youth Group (for Year 6 - 10)
For food, friendship, faith and fun held at St Peter's, please email sue@huttonparish.com. The first summer term session will be this Sunday 28th April at 4.00pm.
Older Youth
Join us for exploring faith, creating friendship and having fun, next session is at the Rectory 10th May, 7.00 - 9.00pm. For more information please email andy@huttonparish.com.
Bible Study
The next meeting is this Wednesday at 7.00pm at St Peter's. The Wednesday meetings will continue to be on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. Please note that the next Monday session will be taking place on the 13th May.
School Admissions - Church attendance:
If you are considering applications to either Becket Keys Secondary School or Hutton All Saints School in the next year, or another school application which will need Fr Andy to sign a Supplementary Information Form to verify your church attendance, please email andy@huttonparish.com.
In all cases, we strongly encourage parents to get involved in the life of the church and introduce themselves to the clergy, so that when the time comes for forms to be signed, it does not cause any embarrassment on either side.
Men's Breakfast
For more information please contact andy@huttonparish.com
Save the Date
The Parish is planning to take part in the Bradwell Pilgrimage on Saturday 6th July. This is a free event, more details will be available nearer the time. Please contact the office@huttonparish.com with an expression of interest.
With every blessing, Andy
The readings in full
Isaiah 55:1-11
55 Everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and you that have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labour for that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
listen, so that you may live.
I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.
4 See, I made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples.
5 See, you shall call nations that you do not know,
and nations that do not know you shall run to you,
because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel,
for he has glorified you.
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found,
call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake their way,
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Psalm 98
1 Sing to the Lord a new song, •
for he has done marvellous things.
2 His own right hand and his holy arm •
have won for him the victory.
3 The Lord has made known his salvation; •
his deliverance has he openly shown in the sight of the nations.
4 He has remembered his mercy and faithfulness
towards the house of Israel, •
and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
5 Sound praises to the Lord, all the earth; •
break into singing and make music.
6 Make music to the Lord with the lyre, •
with the lyre and the voice of melody.
7 With trumpets and the sound of the horn •
sound praises before the Lord, the King.
8 Let the sea thunder and all that fills it, •
the world and all that dwell upon it.
9 Let the rivers clap their hands •
and let the hills ring out together before the Lord,
for he comes to judge the earth.
10 In righteousness shall he judge the world •
and the peoples with equity.
Acts 10:44-48
44 While Peter was speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. 45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, 46 for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, 47 ‘Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?’ 48 So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they
invited him to stay for several days.
John 15:9-17
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.