Dear Friends,
Holy Week begins this Sunday with our Palm Sunday celebrations at 9:30am. We will be starting our service outside this week, on the roadside, beside the large cross which we will be putting up again this year for this week. We will be tying ribbons on to the cross as symbols of our prayers to God. We will then process into the church and join the congregation for the rest of our service. Wild Church is meeting from 3pm in the afternoon, with lots of fun activities planned. Looking ahead and into Holy Week, on Wednesday morning, we will be in the church for Morning Prayer at 9am, followed by coffee in the Cabin. On Maundy Thursday at 6pm, we will be holding a quiet, contemplative Communion service, with hand washing, to commemorate the last supper. On Good Friday, the church will be open from 10am to 5pm with a series of prayer stations for private prayer and reflection, and also on Holy Saturday from 10am to 12noon. As we walk through Holy Week together, let us spend time considering Jesus’s call and challenge to learn to love others as he loves us: through the way of the cross. Love one another. No exceptions.
I hope you have a good weekend.
God Bless,
Clare
Revd Clare Coates,
Lead Minister for Dry Drayton, Hardwick and Caldecote with Childerley
clarecoates@lordsbridge.org
07818618795
Sunday Services in April
Sunday 2 April Palm Sunday
9:30am Holy Communion led by Revd Clare. We will be starting the service at the foot of our Holy Week Cross, which will once again be placed on the main road, at the bottom of the church. We will then process into the church during our first hymn. All welcome.
3pm Wild Church. A fun service for families and children. All welcome.
Wednesday 5 April:
9am Village Prayers in person, in the church for Holy week, and coffee afterwards in the Cabin. All welcome.
Maundy Thursday 6 April
6pm Maundy Thursday Holy Communion, led by Revd Clare. All welcome.
Good Friday 7 April
On Good Friday the church will be open from 10 to 5pm with a series of prayer stations for private prayer and reflection.
Holy Saturday
The church will be open from 10 to 12noon with a series of prayer stations for private prayer and reflection.
Dry Drayton
12 noon an hour of quiet reflection, prayer and music for Good Friday, led by Revd Clare. All welcome.
Childerley Chapel
3pm an hour of quiet reflection, prayer and music for Good Friday, led by Revd Clare. All welcome.
Sunday 9 April Easter Day
9:30am All age Holy Communion with Howard and Clare Bigg. All welcome.
Sunday 16 April
9:30am Morning Worship led by Clare Bigg with Sunday Club. All welcome.
Sunday 23 April
9:30am Holy Communion led by Revd Clare with Michaela McNeill, followed by our APCM. All welcome.
Sunday 30 April
10:30am Team service of Holy Communion at Harlton, led by Revd Clare and with Revd Claire R preaching. All welcome.
Zoom Services
Worship at Home – All Lordsbridge Zoom Service
Every Sunday, 11.00am. Join any time from 10.50am.
Weekday Services:
Wednesday 5 April:
9am Village Prayers in person, in the church for Holy week, and coffee afterwards in the Cabin. All welcome.
And from Wednesday 12 April, on zoom
What’s on:
Tuesday 4 April
Toddlers will be back next term!
12:15 Meditation with Howard Bigg. All welcome.
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Thursday 6 April
10:30 – 12: Bumps and Babes with Ali in the Cabin. All welcome.
Friday 7 April
7:30 Night Prayer on zoom
Save the date!
All are welcome to come and enjoy the gardens at Childerley Hall on Easter Monday, from 2-5pm and later on in the year at the Caldecote Open Gardens events;
Saturday 29 April, 4pm-6.30pm (incl. a cup of tea, and ‘performance’ at 6.00)
Recommended donation of £10/£5, on the door.
We will be having a sing through (with ‘light-touch’ rehearsal) of two classics of the Coronation repertoire:
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Parry: I was glad
as well as a new work specially composed for the coronation of King Charles, by Joanna Forbes l’Estrange
The session will be led by Dry Draytoner Edward Wickham – Director of Music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Edward is experienced leading groups of all abilities and is happy to welcome to this event singers of all abilities. See poster below!
More details to follow!
Useful contacts
Clare Bigg, LLM cebigg53@gmail.com
Revd David Newton, Team Rector & Lead Minister for Comberton and Toft: 01223 665654; 07736 944396; davidnewton@lordsbridge.org
Revd Claire Robertson, Lead Minister for Coton, Barton, Harlton and Haslingfield: 01223 874194; clairerobertson@lordsbridge.org
Revd Charles Fraser, Lead Minister for Little and Great Eversden: charlesfraser@lordsbridge.org; 01223 264974
Team Administrator: Becca Herrick; rebeccaherrick@lordsbridge.org
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