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
Sunday, 6th September:
(14th Sunday after Trinity)
10am Stratford SM Parish
Communion
Sunday,13th September:
(15th Sunday after Trinity)
10am Higham Parish Communion
Led by the Rev Rosalind Paul
Sunday,20th September:
(16th Sunday after Trinity)
10am Holton SM Parish Communion
9.30am Stratford SM Café Church
in the Parish Room
Sunday, 27th September:
(17th Sunday after Trinity)
10am Raydon Parish Harvest Festival
with Communion
Looking ahead to October
Sunday, 4th
October:
(18th
Sunday after Trinity)
11am Stratford SM Parish Harvest Festival
with Communion
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 one of the churchwardens –
for contact details, see About Us
Benefice Bible Study / House Group
The next House Group
session will be on
Thursday, 24th September, at 2.30pm.
These are the dates of subsequent meetings for your diaries:
Thursday 22nd October
Thursday 26th November
Please get in touch
with Judith, Sandy, Christine if you would
like to know more.
Prayer pointers for the Benefice
Please continue to pray for our Churchwardens and PCCs as we move forward during the vacancy in post, and seek to appoint a new minister for our benefice.
It has been a summer of four weddings in our benefice and with one more to come in October, please pray for the couples who are starting their married lives together and / or preparing to get married in our Benefice.
We pray for all those who are ill, among them Peter Snelling, Nicky Bull, Vivienne Wilkinson, Martin Favell and any others who need God’s healing and wholeness.
We remember all those who have recently died, may they rest in peace and rise in glory, and may those who mourn be held in God’s love and comforted in their grief.
A September Prayer
Dear God, as we step into September, we ask for Your guidance and blessing over new beginnings. Help us embrace change with faith and optimism. May Your presence lead us through every transition and challenge. Grant us the strength to pursue our goals and the wisdom to make the right decisions. Bless our efforts and help us to honour You in everything we do. Amen.
Annual Suffolk Historic Churches Trust
The Annual Suffolk Historic Churches Trust, Ride & Stride
Do support this annual event if you can, by walking, cycling or driving to as many of our beautiful churches across Suffolk as you can. Our local benefice organisers have been encouraging support on the parish pages of Quartet, and it is worth remembering that 50% of the monies raised by each individual through sponsorship, goes back to their nominated church. Our churches have benefited enormously from grants awarded by SHCT in the recent past e.g. to help with funding to replace the roof at Stratford St Mary, when the lead was stripped by thieves. Repair and maintenance of these historic buildings is only possible with the support of charities such as SHCT – do join in or sponsor someone taking an active part, if you can.
Thank you.
- The Churchwardens, St Mary's Benefice
- See the About Us tab for contact information