Regular Events Baby Mice – Every Wednesday 10-12 in Church Room. A Notices and News – March 2011 group for parents and babies led by Geraldine from Children’s Services. Chat Tas Valley Team and get to know other parents. Young parents especially welcome. Contact St Mary, Newton Flotman; St Peter, ; St Mary, Tasburgh; St Geraldine Preston on 07827 896281 Mary, Tharston; St Mary Saxlingham; All Saints , St Mary Shotesham, Tas Valley Cell Church Bible Study Groups New members are always welcome. Please contact Philip Simmons 499041, David Lancaster 493159 or June Gibson 499004 The real Easter Egg story Church Mice – A parent and toddler group, meeting fortnightly on Thursdays David Marshall is Director of Communications for Manchester Cathedral and from 9.30am in Newton Flotman Church room. See March dates or for further Diocese. He had no particular connection with the confectionary business until information contact Dawn on 470956 or Vicky on 471506. two years ago when someone bought David an Easter egg. On the back it said; Coffee Stop – for coffee, tea and cakes Saturday Mornings 10-12 at Newton “Easter is the festival of chocolate and loveliness”. It made him laugh, but then it Flotman’s Church Room. Contact Amy Ferguson on 470925 began to bug him. For Christians Easter is much more than that. Monday Mardle – get together in Saxlingham Church Room every Monday – see David went online to look up Easter eggs and discovered that in the UK we March dates for more information. munched our way through an astonishing 80 million Easter eggs a year, but not one mentioned the Easter story of Jesus’ resurrection on the box. He also Prayer for the parishes takes place every day. Please give any special prayer thought that there would be charity Easter eggs which, like charity Christmas requests to a churchwarden, member of the clergy or prayer box or board in cards, offered a donation connected to the Easter themes of hope and new life church. but he couldn’t find any. Services at Residential Homes for the Elderly/To receive communion at David decided to have some Easter Eggs made which would be sold in a box that home/Request a pastoral visit– Contact Rev. David Sochon on 558495 explained the Christian understanding of Easter on the pack and which made a Special Agents –are children aged up to 11 with a special assignment to find out donation to a charitable project that symbolised the Easter themes of hope and all about the Christian life. We meet on Sundays at 10.45-12 to investigate bible new life. (30 pence from every egg will be donated to Traidcraft Exchange - stories, play games, sing, pray and do all sorts of crafts. New members are supporting overseas development, and a further 10% of net profits are donated to always welcome. If you want to know more, tel: Kirsten Remer 471580 Baby Lifeline – supporting new mums in the UK.) It would also need to be made of fairly traded chocolate since this guaranteed a fair return and decent living Tasburgh Coffee Pot – meets every Wednesday afternoon 2pm – 3.45pm in conditions for those who work on cocoa plantations. The egg was called “The Tasburgh Church Room for coffee and a chat – all are welcome. Real Easter Egg” and was launched in Sept 2010 as a mail order egg since the Tasburgh Sunday School meets on Sundays at 9.30 in Tasburgh’s Church supermarkets were not sufficiently confident of the demand to pre-order. The Room. Contact Jane Rae for more details 470692 product was an instant success – orders from schools and churches flooded in so that with tens of thousands of orders it is already the biggest mail order egg in the How to Contact the Staff Team UK. There is every hope that next year, “The Real Easter Rev’d Sally Gaze: [email protected] Tel: 470762, The Rectory, Church Road, Egg” will be more widely available in supermarkets. Newton Flotman Here in the Tas Valley, the cell church has ordered sixty Rev’d Adrian Miller: [email protected] Tel: 498317, The New Rectory, The eggs for sale at £4.50 per egg. If you would like to buy Street, , one or more, please sign the list at the back of your church Rev’d Chris Martin: [email protected] Tel: 470768, The New Rectory, or at your cell meeting or ring Vicky at the Tas Valley Church Hill, Tasburgh Rev’d David Sochon: [email protected] Tel: 558495, The Bungalow, Church Office on a Wednesday afternoon tel 470762. They will be sold on a first come first served basis. Why Chapel Lane, Shotesham Mr David Lancaster (Reader) Tel. 493159 not buy one and become part of the heart-warming Real Easter Egg story.

This news sheet is circulated every month to all the Tas Valley churches. Sally Gaze Please send copy for the April Newsletter by March 16th to [email protected] Worship in March Fri 22nd Apr at 3pm - Good Friday Choral Service, Saxlingham Fri 22nd Apr at 9pm - Tenebrae, St. Mary’s, Shotesham 6th Sunday Worship: Sat 23rd Apr at 8pm - Easter Vigil with Praise Band, Newton Flotman Church Newton Flotman 8.00am Holy Communion 9.00am First Sunday March Dates Swainsthorpe 9.30am Holy Communion rd Tasburgh 9.30am Matins. Thurs 3 - Church Mice Newton Flotman Church Room 9.30 – 11.30am th Tharston 11.00am Holy Communion Mon 7 – Saxlingham Mardle - Coffee at Notcutts. Chance to get your Saxlingham 9.30am Holy Communion gardening needs for the Spring. th Shotesham St Mary’s 11.00am Holy Communion Mon 14 – Saxlingham Mardle – Normal Mardle. Thurs 17th – Church Mice Newton Flotman Church Room 9.30 – 11.30am 13th Sunday Worship: Mon 21st – Saxlingham Mardle – Beetle, not too serious!! Newton Flotman 11.00am Family Communion Mon 28th – Saxlingham Mardle – Reminisce your youth! Swainsthorpe 9.30am Swainsthorpe Special Tasburgh 9.30am Holy Communion & Forthcoming Dates Sunday School Saxlingham 8.00am Holy Communion MAUNDY THURSDAY PASSOVER MEAL 11.00am All Age Worship Ever wondered what it would have been like to have sat and eaten with the Shotesham St Mary’s 9.30am Morning Light disciples at the Last Supper? Ever been curious as to why certain foods were included in the Jewish Passover meal that was being celebrated then and what 20th Sunday Worship: they might mean? We will host an authentic meal in Tasburgh Village Hall, from Newton Flotman 11.00am Holy Communion & Spec Agts 6:30pm on Maundy Thursday, 21st April, which will give us the tastes, smells Swainsthorpe 9.30am Holy Communion and experience of what it might have been like, and we’ll hear about the Tasburgh 9.30am Family Service fascinating meaning of the food that was used. Contact one of the following if Tharston 8.00am Holy Communion you would like to come along: Chris Martin 470768; Richard Bond 578093; Saxlingham 9.30am Holy Communion William or Vicky Ball 471506. Shotesham All Saints 11.00am Holy Communion CALLING ALL SINGERS 27th Sunday Worship: On Good Friday 22nd April at 3.00pm, we will be having our usual Benefice Newton Flotman 11.00am Morning Prayer & Spec Agts Service of readings and choral items. If you would like to join the augmented 7.00pm Confirmation service choir on this occasion, rehearsals start on FRIDAY 18TH MARCH AT 7.30pm in Swainsthorpe 9.30am Swainsthorpe Special Saxlingham Church. All voices welcome. Last year all the churches in the Tasburgh 9.30am Holy Communion, Sunday Benefice were represented, which was lovely! Ros Lancaster 01508 493159 School & Sat Nav Tharston 11.00am Village Praise and Baptism Tas Valley Cell Church Saxlingham 11.00am Matins Cells are vital units of the body - and cells in church life are small groups, which contain Shotesham All Saints 9.30am Matins the DNA of what it means to be church. We meet to grow in faith, to pray and support each other, to learn from the bible and to join in actively sharing our faith and serving the LENT, HOLY WEEK AND EASTER PROGRAMME wider community. If you'd like to join a cell, contact Andrew & June Gibson (Tues eves) th 499004; Richard Bond (Wed eves) 578093; Linda Taylor (Weds eves) 498317; 9 March at 7pm - Ash Wednesday Healing Service at Tasburgh Church William Ball (Thurs eves) 471506; Sally Gaze new Fri morning –see above (470762); Andy All through Lent there will be Compline on Tuesday evenings, 7pm at Cox (Fri Eve multigenerational cell) Sweetlands, Low Road, Tasburgh - contact Pat Crowley on 471228. JAM Youth Group meets on Mon eves 7-8.30pm and is for young people of high school th Mon 18 April at 7:30pm - Compline, Tharston Church age. We play games, eat popcorn, watch films, go on outings, read the bible and pray. Tue 19th April at 7:30pm - Compline, Swainsthorpe Church We also support each other, make friends and have fun. SUNDAY NIGHT - Older teens Wed 20th April at 7:30pm - Compline, Saxlingham Church who want to explore their faith more deeply have recently started up a new youth cell on Thu 21st April at 6:30pm - Passover Meal, Tasburgh Village Hall Sunday evenings to discuss some of the big issues of life, pray and support each other. If Fri 22nd April at 10am - The Easter Journey (Family Friendly) Tasburgh Church - you’d like to find out more about JAM or Sunday Nite contact Chris Gaze tel: 470762; e- phone Adrian for details mail: [email protected]