Dear Parish Friends We meet together this Sunday at St Luke’s for the second Sunday in Lent. The 9am service will also be streamed on Zoom. Attached is the weekly notice paper and the order of service for the 9am service. Our gospel passage is a hard one to read this week. It follows on from Peter’s great statement of faith, where in response to Jesus’ question “Who do you say I am?” he replies “You are the Messiah”. But then, as Jesus begins to spell out what being Messiah m
Dear Parish Friends Join us on Sunday at St Luke's for the first Sunday in Lent. The 9am service will also be streamed on Zoom. Attached is the weekly notice paper and the order of service for the 9am service. Following the 9am service, at 10.30am, we will be holding our Annual Meeting, where we will receive reports on the activities of the parish in 2020 and elect the new Parish Council for 2021. At this meeting we will also launch our Mission Action Plan for 2021-22. It is
Dear Parish Friends I look forward, as I always do, to sharing worship with you on Sunday. This week is the last Sunday before Lent and we celebrate the Transfiguration. The 9am service sheet and notice paper are attached. The gospel passage is the account of Jesus taking Peter, James and John up a mountain where they see him ‘transfigured’, shining white, with Moses and Elijah (the great Old Testament lawgiver and prophet respectively). As the cumulation of the season of Epi
Dear Parish Friends This being the first weekend of the month, there will be an online service on Saturday at 6pm in addition to our Sunday services. The service sheets for the online services are attached, along with the week’s notice paper. In our gospel this week we read that Jesus needed to go away from the busyness into a ‘deserted’ place to pray and connect with his Father. As I write in the notice paper, deserts are not barren places, but places of opportunity, so I of