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 April
Sunday 19th April:
10am Holton Parish Communion
9.30am Stratford St Mary
Café Church in the Parish Room
Sunday, 26th April:
10am Raydon Parish Communion
Church
Services for May
Sunday, 3rd May:
(5th
Sunday of Easter)
10am Stratford SM Parish Communion
Sunday, 10th May:
(6th Sunday of Easter)
10am Higham Parish Communion
6.30pm Raydon Evensong
Thursday, 14th May:
Deanery Ascension Day Service
10:30am in Hadleigh
Sunday, 17th May:
(7th Sunday of Easter)
10am Holton SM Parish Communion
9.30am Stratford St Mary
Café Church in the Parish Room
Sunday, 24th May:
10am Raydon Parish Pentecost
Communion for the Benefice
(The Very Rev’d Joe Hawes,
Dean of St Edmundsbury Cathedral)
Sunday, 31st May:
(Trinity Sunday/5th Sunday)
10am Raydon Parish
Communion
Looking ahead to June
Sunday, 7th
June:
(1st Sunday after Trinity)
10am Stratford
SM Morning Worship
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
23rd April at 2.30pm.
These are the dates for subsequent meetings for your diaries:
28 May
25 June
23 July
Please get in touch
with Judith, Sandy, Christine if you would
like to know more.
Prayer pointers for the Benefice
Please
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.
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 and
Vivienne Wilkinson, 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 my those who mourn be held in God’s love and comforted in their grief.
The diocesan ‘Growing in God’ prayer.
O Lord God,
giver of life and growth
Grow in us a longing for you,
That we might deepen our faith;
Grow in us a compassion for your world,
That we might serve our neighbours,
Grow in us a vision for your kingdom,
That we might proclaim your love.
By the power of your spirit
and in Jesus name Amen
- The Churchwardens, St Mary's Benefice
- See the About Us tab for contact information