Services in the 4 Marys Benefice
Please check our Facebook pages for any updates or email if you would
like to receive occasional updates by email.
Benefice Churches Open
All the churches in our benefice are open for visiting every day during daylight hours.
Church Services for September 2025
Sunday, 7th September
12th Sunday
after Trinity
10am Stratford Parish Communion
Saturday, 13th September 2025:
Suffolk Historic Churches Trust ‘Ride
& Stride’
‘Pilgrimage of Song’ in Stratford St
Mary
Continue the pilgrimage and visit other churches.
You can make it part of your
‘Ride & Stride’, too.
See Events for details.
Sunday, 14th September:
10am Higham Harvest Festival Communion
Sunday, 21st September:
9.30am Stratford St Mary Café Church
in the Parish Room
10am Holton Harvest Festival Communion
Sunday 28th September:
11am Raydon Harvest Festival Communion
followed by refreshments
(Please note later starting time!)
October 2025 Services
Sunday, 5th October:
11am Stratford Harvest Festival
Communion
followed by Harvest Lunch in the Parish
Room
(Please note later starting time!)
Benefice Bible Study / House Group
The House Group will meet
this month on Thursday, 25th
September at 2.30pm. Dates of our subsequent meetings for your
diaries:
23 October
27 November
(no meeting in December)
22 January
Please get in touch with Judith, Sandy, Christine if you would like to know more.
Prayer pointers for the Benefice
We pray for the wedding couples who are getting married in the churches of our benefice.
And we pray for the children and adults who are preparing to be baptised this summer.
We pray for Julian and Kristen, our Mission Partners from ‘Feeding Faith’ in Guatemala.
We pray for all those who are ill, among them Nicky Bull, Penny Watkins, Amanda Berry, Pat Ablitt and Peter Snelling, and any others who need God’s healing and wholeness.
We remember all those who have died, from our benefice Andrew Potter and Jim Lowe.
May they rest in peace and rise in glory. And we pray for all who mourn. May they be held in God’s love and comforted in their grief.
.Prayer for our Bishop-elect
We pray for our Bishop-elect, the Rt Revd Dr Joanne Grenfell and we look forward to working with her.
Loving God, we give thanks for Bishop Joanne who will join us this
autumn. May she lead with compassion, courage and faith and be filled with the
Gospel of Love.
Pour out your wisdom and grace upon her,
give her a spirit of courage and right judgement, knowledge and love; and grant her strength as she prepares to
take up this office.
May she always remain humble in heart, generous in spirit, and faithful in
service. May her ministry inspire others, bear fruit that will last and bring
glory to Your name.
And we pray for all those who serve in the name of Christ in our
Diocese, lay and ordained, that together we may walk in unity, love, and
peace. Amen.
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