Happiness, love and Jesus We began this month’s Sunday club by drawing people who help us: a teacher, a policemen, a lollipop lady, grandma and even the lady at the check-out in Morrisons. Next, we had lucky dip to find hidden words. We discovered there were two kinds of words, words that were ‘like Jesus’, and others that … [Read more…]
Top choristers to return to St George’s With great delight we’ve just heard the news that the amazing King’s Men choir of top-notch singers from King’s College Cambridge are coming back to our church again on Sunday 16 July for what is bound to be another spellbinding performance. Please get the word out so that … [Read more…]
July’s magazine is now out! And, as well as all the usual features, it has a bit of a ‘busy bee’ theme to it, particularly as we celebrate what our young people have been up to with reports from Sunday Club, Brownies and Dance Atikk. For the ‘young at heart’ there’s an article about keeping … [Read more…]
The story of Pentecost – the coming of the Holy Spirit on our Lord’s first disciples after he had ascended into Heaven – which falls this year on this Sunday, 4 June, is full of symbols. Our cover image of Celtic flames represents the Holy Spirit coming like fire to ignite and transform whatever it … [Read more…]
Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer movement, which invites Christians around the world to pray between Ascension and Pentecost for more people to come to know Jesus Christ. What started out as an invitation from the Archbishops’ of Canterbury and York in 2016 to the Church of England has grown into an international and … [Read more…]
In a pastoral letter to the parishes and chaplaincies of the Church of England published in early May, Archbishops Justin Welby and John Sentamu urge people to set aside “apathy and cynicism” and draw new inspiration from the ancient Christian virtues of “love, trust and hope”. The three-page letter, intended to be shared in churches … [Read more…]
This month’s Parish News has all the usual columns, naturally, including the Children’s Pages, puzzles, recipes, Castaway and Out and About, and flags up lots of upcoming opportunities for exploring our faith and the Bible a little more together – Growing Spirituality at St George’s on 4 May, Exploring Stories from the Book of Exodus … [Read more…]
The sermon which Rev Andrew Knowles gave at our Easter Day Holy Communion service has just been uploaded to the website. Full of the Easter hope, he reminds us that we have much to rejoice about. We have only to look more closely to see history-changing effect of the Resurrection even in the bleakest of … [Read more…]
This issue of our Parish News, published just before Mothering Sunday which marks the midpoint of Lent, includes information about all the Easter activities at church from Palm Sunday, through the Passover meal on Maundy Thursday to the sunrise service at the Castle and Holy Communion at church on Easter morning. In it, our Editor, … [Read more…]
St George’s members are taking part a trial being run within Ely Diocese during Lent with Radley Photography and Paul Sanders Photography. Aim of the project Lent through the Lens aims to help people both within the church and those who have little or no engagement to learn to see their local environment in new ways. The … [Read more…]
