Services in the 4 Marys Benefice
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Benefice Churches Open
All the churches in our benefice are open for visiting every day during daylight hours.
Church Services for March
Sunday 1st
March:
2nd Sunday of Lent
10am
Stratford Morning Worship
Sunday,
8th March:
3rd Sunday of Lent
10am Higham Parish Communion
Sunday, 15th March:
10am Holton Service for Mothering Sunday
9.30am Stratford St Mary Café Church
(in the Parish Room)
Sunday 22nd March:
5th Sunday of Lent
10am
Raydon Parish Communion
Talk: Julian Crisp
Come and welcome Julian & Kristen
as they share an update about their
Mission ‘Feeding Faith’ in Guatemala
Sunday 29th March:
10am Stratford Service for
Palm Sunday
Monday of Holy Week
30th March:
7pm Compline Holton
Tuesday of Holy Week 31st March:
7pm Compline Higham
Looking ahead to April
Maundy
Thursday Service on 2nd April:
7pm in Stratford
Sunday 5th
April:
Easter Day
10am Raydon Benefice
Service for
Easter Day & Farewell to Rev’d Manette
All our services are followed by
coffee
& cake / biscuits.
Do stay for fellowship and a chat.
It’s a good way to meet people
if you are new to one of the villages.
If you have any questions, please get in
touch
with Rev’d Manette or one of the churchwardens –
for contact details, see About Us
Benefice Bible Study / House Group
The next House Group
session will be on
Thursday, 26th February at
2.30pm.
These are the dates for
subsequent meetings for your diaries:
26th March
& 23rd April
Please get in touch
with Judith, Sandy, Christine if you would
like to know more.
Prayer pointers for the Benefice
Please pray for the couples who are preparing to get married in our churches this year.
We pray for all those who are ill, among them Peter Snelling, Nicky Bull, Amanda Berry, and Vivienne Wilkinson, and any others who need God’s healing and wholeness.
We remember all those who have died. May they rest in peace and rise in glory. We remember with gratitude Bill Woods-Ballard and Coleen Keeble. May all who mourn be held in God’s love and comforted in their grief. And we bring before God all those who have had to come to terms with the loss of a young life cut short. May they know God's healing presence as they mourn.
A
Prayer for Renewal for Lent (Based on Psalm 51)
"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within
me. Heavenly Father, silence the noise in my soul. Empty me of cravings for
things of this world that do not truly satisfy. Fill me with the bread of your
presence and the living water of your mercy".
Amen
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- Hadleigh Road
- Raydon
- Suffolk
- IP7 5LH
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