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 October
Sunday, 4th October:
(18th
Sunday after Trinity)
11am Stratford SM Parish
Harvest Festival
with Communion – please note later start!
Followed by pre-booked Harvest Lunch
Sunday 11th October:
(19th Sunday after Trinity)
11am Higham Parish Harvest Festival
with Communion – please note later start!
Followed by pre-booked Village Harvest Lunch
5.30pm Evensong in Raydon
Sunday,18th October:
(20th Sunday after Trinity)
10am Holton SM Parish Harvest Festival
with Communion
9.30am Stratford SM Café Church in the
Parish Room
Sunday, 25th October:
(21st Sunday after Trinity)
10am Raydon Parish Communion
Looking ahead to November
Sunday, 1st
November:
(22nd Sunday after Trinity)
10am Stratford SM Parish 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, 22nd October, at 2.30pm.
These are the dates of subsequent meetings for your diaries:
Thursday 26th November
There will not be any meeting in December
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 continue through the vacancy in post, and seek to appoint a new minister for our benefice.
We pray for all those who are ill, among them Peter Snelling, Nicky Bull, Vivienne Wilkinson, Martin Favell and Simon Tennant and any others who need God’s healing and wholeness at this time.
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.
🙏 As we celebrate Harvest in our churches – a prayer to remind us of the Lord’s bounty:
We bless
you, God of Seed and Harvest,
And we bless each other, that the beauty of this world,
and the love that created it, might be expressed though our lives
and be a blessing to others, now and always
Amen.
- The Churchwardens, St Mary's Benefice
- See the About Us tab for contact information