DERSINGHAM PARISH CHURCH NEWS with ANMER, INGOLDISTHORPE and SHERNBORNE JUNE 2021 ONLINE EDITION
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DERSINGHAM PARISH CHURCH NEWS with ANMER, INGOLDISTHORPE and SHERNBORNE JUNE 2021 ONLINE EDITION SOME PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THIS ONLINE EDITION. PLEASE CONTACT THE CHURCH SECRETARY FOR DETAILS OF ANY PHONE NUMBERS YOU MAY REQUIRE ON [email protected] June Services Sunday 6th 9:30am The Gathering – Contemporary Worship at the Dersingham Village Centre 11am Holy Communion – Traditional Worship at St Nicholas Church, Dersingham Sunday 13th 9:30am The Gathering – Contemporary Worship at the Dersingham Village Centre 11am Holy Communion – Traditional Worship at St Nicholas Church, Dersingham Sunday 20th 9:30am The Gathering – Contemporary Worship at the Dersingham Village Centre 11am Holy Communion from The Prayer Book – Traditional Worship at St Mary the Virgin, Anmer Sunday 27th 9:30am The Gathering with Holy Communion – Contemporary Worship at the Dersingham Village Centre 11am Morning Prayer with Baptisms – Traditional Worship at St Nicholas Church, Dersingham Please do book in for all services by contacting Pauline Martin on [email protected] Accessing Live Stream Worship The 11am services are live-streamed available from the YouTube Channel - “Dersingham Online Worship”. I would both recommend and encourage you to hit that subscribe button on the ‘Dersingham Online Worship’ YouTube channel. This will make it easier for you each week to see the live worship. We use 4G mobile internet and generally this is good but on occasions the connection may drop off causing some delay or pausing. Where there are major issues, we will endeavour to record the service and post it on-line later. This is a steep learning curve with new technology by our small team. Thank you for your support and prayers as we strive to offer live worship and improve it over the coming months. Rev Mark Rector 2 Parties! Parties are an opportunity to celebrate, meet family, friends and have a good time, where memories are made to be cherished ahead. Many significant occasions or parties have been affected for us all, whether that is weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, leaving dos, graduation, retirements and more besides. As restrictions are released many of us hope to have parties once again, in sensible ways. We are not alone in enjoying a good time and having a party. Lots of Jesus’s parables focus on parties, as they are a picture of the joy, hope and life of the Kingdom of God. The parable of the ‘Great Banquet’ (Luke 14: 15-24) challenges us not to miss out on this. At the time of Jesus’s earthly life, when people accepted an invitation to a banquet, they were only told the actual time on the day: ‘Come, for everything is now ready’ (17). Jesus invites each one of us to share in the life of the Kingdom. However, the guests made excuses for not coming. At the time, this would have been extremely insulting to the host. They said: ‘I have just bought a field; I must try out my new team of oxen; I have just got married’ (18-20). These are all good things in themselves, however they reveal their priorities were elsewhere. We too can be pre-occupied with our own routines of work, family, school, retirement, holidays, friends, home, social media, that we forget God’s priorities for our lives. Jesus calls for total commitment from His disciples. What priority in my life is holding me back from accepting His invitation? How did the host respond? He ordered His servants to ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ (21). He invited the unexpected and unacceptable people to his banquet. Jesus makes the point that God’s Kingdom is open to all! Thinking about our family, friends, colleagues and neighbours, even if they’re not like us or show little interest in God: Are we willing to offer them God’s invitation to share His love and life? As we steadily begin to meet again in our church fellowship, it is a form of a ‘party’ meeting with the church family. God is faithful and his mercies never end. In the first few weeks of in-person services, here are a couple of wonderful quotes from worshipers here: - “It is like coming home.” - “Not until today did I realise how much I have missed being back.” Whether you have been part of the worshipping community before or not, or connected through the online worship or are enquiring more of the Christian faith, you are really welcome to join us in fellowship together. Why not invite a friend, neighbour or family member to come to the worship with you? The worship we offer is loosely a kind of ‘party’ for God at church. Services each week on Sunday’s are 9:30 Contemporary and 11am Traditional service (location details are in the magazine). Who will you invite to the ‘party’? Rev Mark Capron Rector of Dersingham, Anmer, Ingoldisthorpe and Shernborne YouTube Channel: ‘Dersingham Online Worship’ www.stnicholasdersingham.org.uk 3 Advance news: Dersingham Open Gardens 2021 Saturday 4th September and Sunday 5th in September 11am-5pm St Nicholas Church 10am-12pm Tickets are £4 in advance available from Refreshments Dersingham Post Office or £5 on the day available from the Village Centre. Proceeds Please see page 6 for information on from this event will benefit St Nicholas planned Coffee Meetings Church and The Village Centre. Following on from last year's success, we are again opening our gardens later in the year. We will have approximately 12 gardens open and who knows what delights and surprises are hidden from us! There will be refreshments served in the Village Centre from 10.30 on each day. We are restarting our meetings on An added attraction this year will be floral Wednesday 30th June at 2.00pm in the displays in St Nicholas Church from Friday- Upper Room of the Village Centre (there is a Sunday with the theme "Together Again", lift!) and this is a sentiment that we will all be feeling as we welcome regular visitors and We would like to welcome back all our new faces. members and anyone else who would like to join us at our first meeting where we will be For further information visit our website: having a cup of tea/coffee and a chat about www.dersinghamopengardens.co.uk how we have coped during the Lockdown. Jane Jestice Thereafter each month we will meet in the A prayer for when times are hard: Upper Room of the Village Centre at 2pm on th the 4 Wednesday of the month: th th When life is tough, Lord, - 28 July, 25 August, nd th grant us both strength 22 September, 27 October, th nd but peace, in knowing 24 November and 22 December. you are there beside us in darkness and in light, Pauline Martin never further away than Dersingham Branch Leader a silent prayer is heard and arms reach out to hug. Amen 4 Parish Magazine The Church Choir, (a limited number due to restrictions) of which Edgar was a long time member, will be singing for the service in The church magazine continues to be valued church. The Service can be attended by a and much loved in our communities and limited number of church members and further afield. The PCC have reviewed the friends, in addition to the family. The costs of photocopying and so from this number will be confirmed in the coming month the cost will be 50p per issue which weeks. Please bear in mind it might not be compared to many church magazines is a possible to accommodate everyone wishing bargain! Over a 12-month period for the 8 to attend. regular issues and 2 double issues this will now be a simpler amount to collect of £5. We are working on live streaming the funeral service directly from church, though the Many people remark on how much they look viewing of this will be different from how our forward to receiving their copy each time regular live stream worship is accessed. and I am pleased that we are able to Access will be from a direct link (to follow). continue to do so ahead. Thank you to Jackie our Editor (I hope she doesn`t delete this bit!) We pray for Edgar’s daughter Sue and the for her continuing hard work and dedication family at this time. and the volunteers who deliver your Rev Mark magazine come rain and shine. At this point I would like to inform readers A prayer for all who mourn that for a long time Edgar Cooper used to do the printing of this magazine, sat with his Almighty God, source of all mercy and giver lunchbox tending the machine. This was one of comfort, deal graciously with those who of his many contributions to the church and mourn, that casting all their sorrow on you community. In the short-term Pauline Martin they may know the consolation of your love; is currently kindly copying the magazine until through your son, Jesus Christ our Lord. we are able to move the printer and paper to a warm dry location then we will looking for Amen a small printing team of volunteers. Enjoy another great edition of your parish Ed’s note: Some quotes with Father’s Day in magazine. mind Rev Mark What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by ~~~~~ posterity. Richter Edgar Cooper Directly after God in heaven comes Pa- Sadly Edgar Cooper died last week.