HUNDRED RIVER & WAINFORD BENEFICE Brampton, , , , , , , , Weston Sunday 25th July 2021—Trinity 78 COLLECT FOR TRINITY 8 Almighty Lord and everlasting God, we beseech You to direct, sanctify and govern both our hearts and bodies in the ways of Your laws and the works of your commandments; that through Your most mighty protection, both here and ever, we may be preserved in body and soul; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with You, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

WORSHIP THIS SUNDAY SUNDAY READINGS 9:30am St Peter, Brampton Holy Communion Morning 10:00am All Saints, Ringsfield Holy Communion 2 Samuel 11.1-15; Psalm 14; Ephesians 3.14-21; John 6.1-21 11:00am St John Baptist, Shadingfield Holy Communion Evening St Andrew, Ilketshall Morning Worship Psalm 74*; Job 19.1-27a; Hebrews 8; Luke 11.1-13 4:00pm St Peter, Redisham Evening Worship REFLECTION FOR TRINITY 8 God. Such a small word. God. A word used millions of times each day. God. Sometimes as an expletive, sometimes an expression of pleasure, sometimes deep shock, many times spoken in prayer. Whatever the word means or doesn’t mean to you, we all use it every day. For me, God is the ‘Otherness’, that sense, that understanding, that belief, that there is more to life than the right here, right now. God is a mystery; for God to be God He must always be beyond our human understanding, beyond our imagination. For me, God is the creator of all that is around us; the grasses, the flowers, the trees and their fruits, the animals of the land sea and air. God reveals Himself in and through creation. God is the creator of each one of us. For me, God is the one who loves us completely, unconditionally. Not just emotionally but practically. When faced with a crowd of over five thousand God in Jesus provided them with food. When people came to Him with their problems and diseases, He healed them. It is through Jesus that God has shown us the full extent of His love. And He invites us to have that love at the centre of our lives, for that love to be the foundation of all that we do and think and say. St Paul writes: And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fulness of God. Ephesians 3: 17-19 God, such a small word that describes an ‘Otherness’, something beyond our understanding, someone who surrounds us in His creation, who surrounds us with His unconditional love, who invites to know and experience that love for ourselves. The God who laid the earth’s foundations, the God who’s Lord of every nation, the God who tends each generation is here. The God who makes his home inside us, the God who teaches and inspires us, the God who leads and guards and guides us is here, is here. CCLI Song No 7126847. Words & Music © Lesley Kennedy & Andy Clark / RESOUNDworship.org Rev Phil WORSHIP NEXT WEEK READINGS—Sunday 1st August - Trinity 9 Wednesday 28th July Morning 10:00am St Peter, Redisham Mid-week Communion 2 Samuel 11.26 - 12.13a; Psalm 51.1-13; Ephesians 4.1-16 Sunday 1st August—Trinity 9 John 6.24-35 8:00am All Saints, Ringsfield Holy Communion Evening—Lammas 9:30am St Margaret, Sotterley Morning Prayer Exodus 16.11-15; Psalm 104.10-15; 2 Corinthians 9.6-11; 10:00am All Saints, Ringsfield Family Worship John 6.28-35 11:00am St John Baptist, Shadingfield Worship for All 11:15am St Andrew, Westhall Holy Communion 6:30pm St Peter, Weston Evening Worship for Lammas

BAPTISMS We will be welcoming a number of children into God’s family over the next couple of months. Sunday 29th August Amelia Rose Leggett All Saints, Ringsfield Please hold Amelia and her family in your prayers. TRACTOR RUN The Tractor Run will be taking place this year on Sunday. The Run will be starting at 10:00am from the lake at Sotterley Hall, arriving at Brampton & Stoven Village Hall at around 12noon for lunch, before returning to Sotterley. VOLUNTEER DAYS From Friday 23rd July, Ringsfield Hall will be running weekly Volunteer Days. This is a chance to help the work and mission of Ringsfield Hall in hands-on, practical ways. For more information please contact Jo Townend at the Hall on 01502 713020. WEDDINGS 2021 We’re beginning the wedding season. Please pray for the couples getting married across our Benefice. Saturday 31st July Thomas Fleming & Kay Fleming All Saints, Ringsfield Friday 13th August George Viner & Megan Price St Peter, Weston Saturday 14th August Mark Jermy & Alison Davidson St John Baptist, Shadingfield Saturday 21st August Simon Moore & Stephanie Scott Sotterley Chapel(Blessing) Saturday 28th August Robert Jackson & Samantha Dole St Peter, Weston BRAMPTON PLOUGH DAY Brampton Plough Day will be happening this year! Sunday 5th September is the date for your diaries. More details to follow. REDISHAM ROUND-UP There is to be a Country & Western afternoon on Sunday 12th September, midday onwards, at The Old Vicarage in Redisham. ‘An afternoon of BBQ food and live Country & Western music. Tickets are £10 for adults, £5 children under 12, under 5’s free. Tickets are available from Terry Seaman 01502 575282 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine … to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3: 20-21

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS: • God’s vision for us as a Benefice • All who visit our church buildings • For the Lightwave initiative: small groups shining Christ’s light all over • The work of Ringsfield Hall • Mental Health Services and charities • The parishes and congregations of Waveney and Blyth Deanery • All refugees fleeing oppression that they may find safety and be able to start a new life • Farmers and farm workers as the harvesting season begins • Those recently bereaved: the families of Teresa Kent, John Foster, Denise ‘Penny’ Parsons, Julie Self

CLERGY CONTACTS Revd Philip Miller Rector (Day off: Monday) Revd Claire Kiddy Associate Priest (Day off: Friday) 01502 714786 [email protected] 07469 718695 [email protected]

Website: www.hundredriverandwainfordbenefice.org.uk