Items for the Quantock Food Bank. Please leave Benefice News donations in the Church Centre porch before 11.00am on Quantock Villages Benefice th Monday 5 April. Thank you to everyone for your “Not just going to church, continuing wonderful donations to Quantock Foodbank. but being the church” It is making a huge difference. Parishes of Aisholt, Enmore, , , and with Charlynch USED STAMPS APPEAL: Books for Life are collecting used stamps to help raise money for safe houses in Hyderabad Sunday 4th April for children who have been rescued from trafficking. Easter Sunday Used envelopes can be placed in the black letterbox attached to the wall. Please contact Mervyn Todd on

07507 237483 for more information.

The Stowey Shuttle community car scheme is able to offer trips to covid vaccination centres for people living in the parishes of Nether and Over Stowey and will be free to those who are bus pass holders. Please telephone on Services 07943 923742 9:30am Holy Communion at Goathurst Church Ministry Team 9:30am Holy Communion at Spaxton The Ministry Team is here for everyone. If you would 9:30am Holy Communion at Over Stowey like prayer for yourself, or someone else, please do 11:00am Holy Communion at Nether Stowey contact anyone on the list. Any of these people will be 11:00am Holy Communion at Enmore happy to talk to you, pray for you, add a name to the list 11:00am Holy Communion at Aisholt in the Benefice News or send a prayer request round the prayer chain. This week there will also be an online service and a

service on paper as usual. Additionally, there will be a Rector: Revd. Eleanor King 01278 734777 pre-recorded online Evensong for Easter from Aisholt (usual day off Monday) Church with Bishop Peter’s Easter address. Email: [email protected] Today’s Readings Associate Priest: Revd. Kate Sax 01278 671168 Acts 10.34-43 Email: [email protected] Peter testifies to Christ crucified and risen. (Working days – Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday) John 20.1-18 Hon. Associate Priests: The empty tomb: Mary Magdalene meets the risen Lord. Revd. Peter Attwood 734588 Revd. Malcolm Bole 741297 Collect (Prayer for the Day) Revd. Peter Williams 732768 Lord of all life and power, who through the mighty Readers: resurrection of your Son overcame the old order of sin Jeanette Bole 741297 and death to make all things new in him: grant that we, Maggie Harrison 732532 being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ, may Sarah Upfield 671539 reign with him in glory; to whom with you and the Holy Viv Chesterton 733568 Spirit be praise and honour, glory and might, now and Alison Hoare 732350 in all eternity.

Benefice Administrator: Rebecca Tinnelly (currently Post Communion Prayer working from home) Email: [email protected] God of glory, by the raising of your Son you have Padlet Prayer wall link: broken the chains of death and hell: fill your Church https://padlet.com/eleanorking2/7t29jwrfwmadnkvl with faith and hope; for a new day has dawned and the Website: www.quantockvillagesbenefice.org.uk way to life stands open in our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Quantock Villages Benefice Benefice Service on paper - This week we offer a service Covid –19 For current guidance please see the on paper for Easter Sunday, with thanks to Revd Peter Diocesan website: https://www.bathandwells.org.uk/. Attwood. This Benefice takes Safeguarding seriously and follows the Diocesan Safeguarding policy, which includes the Church of Churches open for private prayer on Wednesdays: Policy on Safeguarding. If you have any concerns, All Saints Church, Aisholt; 12noon - 3pm please check the church notice boards for the full policy and a St Mary’s Church, Nether Stowey; 11am - 12pm list of parish safeguarding officers, or the benefice website St Peter & St Paul Church, Over Stowey; 12noon - 4pm www.quantockvillagesbenefice.org.uk/safeguarding St Margaret’s Church, Spaxton; 12noon - 3pm For our Prayers Services next Sunday 11th April 2021 Baptisms and Weddings: we pray for all who are planning 2nd Sunday of Easter for these services. 9:30am Morning Worship at Spaxton Please remember those who are unwell or in need 11:00am Morning Worship at Nether Stowey including: Barbara Carter, Luke, Jane Marshall, Anthony 11:00am Holy Communion at Enmore Beach, David James, Bishop Peter, Ken Stone, Maureen Anderson, Jackie Slade, Mary Bown, Terry Trout, Isabella, Readings for next Sunday Doreen Walker, Olive Holroyd, Rosie Chesterton, Matt, Ian, Acts 4.32-35 Mavis, Jack and Julia, Jenny Ceffa-Payne, Nicholas Beach, The apostles share their possessions in common. Susan A, Patrick Goss, Michael Pulvermacher and for others known to us. John 20.19-end God is light and in him there is no darkness at all; he is Please pray for the friends and families of those who have the atonement for sins. died recently: Norman Hodge, Belinda Penn, Gabrielle Treharne and Graham Wilson. In addition, this week there will be an online service and a service on paper. Locally: It is World Autism Awareness week. For some +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ families life is not easy and their experiences may be Services during Lockdown different to ours. Please help us in our understanding. Today there will be services in all of the churches in the

Nationally: for our Government and leaders. Benefice. Please do continue with the usual restrictions - wear a face covering, hand sanitise as you come into and Worldwide: Melbourne in Australia and The Most Revd leave the church, and observe the 2m social distance. At Philip Leslie Freier (Primate) the end of the service, please only mingle with others in your bubble. Thanks: for our Risen Lord! I hope and pray that we will soon be able to worship THIS WEEK’S EVENTS together in full churches and with plenty of singing! With best wishes, keep safe and keep well; Eleanor. Please do visit the Journey to Easter in Spaxton Churchyard this week and look out for Easter Gardens in In and around the Benefice …. the churches News of Bishop Peter, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Sunday 4th – next pre-lunch drinks are on the 11th April. It is with great sadness that we heard recently that Bishop Peter is to retire at Pentecost. He has been Monday 5th – Quantock Food Bank - Collection of Bishop to us here in for seven years and many donations from St Mary’s Church Centre at 11.00am. will have treasured memories of the impact he has on our lives. Tuesday 6th – Goathurst PCC meeting at 7:30pm We continue to hold Bishop Peter and his wife Jane in prayer at this time. We also pray for Bishop Ruth who Wednesday 7th - Celtic Morning Prayer at 9.30am will become Acting Diocesan Bishop, her husband https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86115457845?pwd=NHp5RT Howard, and the Diocesan staff team as they lead the RjSm1nYmxnNERMWkMyMnF3QT09 Diocese through these challenging times now and into the future. Meeting ID: 861 1545 7845 Passcode: 397549 nd Details of his final service, which will be on 22 May, will - Deanery Chapter at 8:00pm be available in due course. - Over Stowey PCC meeting at 2:00pm We expect that many of you will want to give a gift or ------send a message. Nether Stowey – Lent Lunches Please can you send messages to Around 30 of us have enjoyed soup at lunchtime on the [email protected] by Friday 14th Fridays during Lent. Generous donations have enabled us May and donations for a gift to the following: to send £250 (including gift aid) to The Open Door, Cheques: Payable to The Bath & Wells Diocesan Board of and Quantock Foodbank. Thank you to all Finance involved.' Post To: The Bishops’ Office, The Bishop’s Palace, Wells,

Somerset, BA5 2PD BACS: Account Name: The Bath & Wells Diocesan Board Christ of Finance Sort Code 60-23-06 Account Number 52161242 is Reference Bishop Peter (Please ensure you put this reference when making the transfer) Risen!!