DATES FOR YOUR DIARY GROWING TOGETHER Sunday Services - 10.00 and 18.30 Please join us for our Easter celebrations this This Spring we’ll be year and for other events in the months ahead running our popular Wednesday Service - 11.30 Marriage Course, Maundy Thursday - 24 March - 19.00 hosted this year by Eating, worshipping and praying together Kate and Alwyn Webb. It’s based on Good Friday - 25 March - 10.00 Christian principles, CORNERSTONE Edition 8 - Easter 2016 Morning Service but you don’t have to be a Christian or have a church background to benefit from Good Friday - 25 March - 12.00 these evenings. Topics will include building strong foundations; Sheen Park, Richmond, TW9 1UP | 020 8404 1112 | [email protected] | Vicar - Rev. Trevor Patterson The Passion Richmond (Richmond Riverside) the art of communication; resolving conflict; the power of forgiveness; the impact of family past and present; intimacy Easter Sunday - 27 March - 10.00 and love in action. It’s a safe environment, so do not fear - All Age Holy Communion - celebrate with us! there will be no group discussion and no requirement to BEING OTHERLY LIFE IN BARNES disclose anything about your relationship to anyone else! At the start of each year we spend But if you return to me and obey my commands, Easter Sunday - 27 March - 18.30 a Sunday thinking about our then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, Evening Service Join us on Thursdays at 19.45 (coffee and pudding) evenings church’s vision. We believe God I will gather them from there and bring them to the place from 21 April to learn how to build an even stronger marriage. has called us to be a church with I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name Friday 15 - Sunday 17 April an open door, reaching out with Nehemiah 1:9 Men’s Weekend Away God’s love and power, and THE LAST WORD FROM TREVOR helping one another live for Holy Trinity Barnes is over three years old as a church plant from HTR, and as Wednesday 20 April - 20.00 A hope that does not disappoint Jesus. This year we sense He is one of our churchwardens said a while back, looking around at everyone Joint Churches Evening calling us to focus especially on gathered for our Sunday worship, ‘I think we can now call ourselves a church.’ (St Stephen’s Twickenham) “After some time he felt for his pipe. It was the one another part of this - being otherly. The book of Nehemiah begins with heartfelt prayer, and so it was for us when Sunday 24 April - 10.00 not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some we asked for God to use us to bring a fresh start for HT Barnes and its mission Annual Church Meeting to this community. I recall being asked when I was interviewed by a panel prior tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not to the plant ‘How is the church going to grow?’ I am not sure I mustered a very Saturday 30 April - 10.00 complicated answer in replying ‘We’re going to tell people about Jesus.’ And so Women’s Refresher Morning find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.” it has been. Wednesday 18 May - 20.00 Like Bilbo Baggins in this wonderful quote from The Hobbit , we all face disappointments in life! People let us down and We gather on Sundays at 10.00 and now Joint Churches Evening have a number of different Community situations don’t turn out as we had hoped. That is why the Our church is a wonderful message of Easter is such good news! Paul says in his letter Groups meeting in homes during the week. Sunday 12 June community to be part of. But this We run Alpha every term in a local café Picnic after the Morning Service to the Church in Rome that ‘hope does not disappoint us…’ year we want to strength further The hope that God brings is not a vague aspiration. It is a and, thus far, we have always had a few our sense of being God’s family people coming to us with questions about Sunday 19 June glorious confidence that lasts forever. God loves us so much as we walk together in faith and that in Jesus He came to live on earth as one of us; by dying the Christian faith. This remains the main Gift Day life. So we’d love you to consider way into church life for those joining us. and rising again he rescued us forever from the deathly the part you can play in this … consequences of our sin and selfishness. Saturday 25 June - 09.00 We are so thankful to God for all He has Men’s breakfast We pray together … how and People let us down but God never will. In Jesus, God removed done in and through us that was enabled by HTR through their amazing where can I do this? generosity in sending both people and resources to Barnes. Please pray for yet Saturday 2 July - 09.00 forever the barrier that human sin had created. A holy and We serve together … what part loving God bore the brunt of your mess so that you might come more blessing on us in the months and years ahead. Recently, we have needed Women’s Breakfast does God have for me to play? to buy more chairs which, as we reflect, is a very happy problem to have! home to Him. We learn together … how can I However, as we are always aware - it’s all grace. Sunday 10 July learn this year? Barbecue after the Morning Service If you put your trust in Jesus you will enter into life in all its We eat together … who can I fullness forever, something that the apostle Peter says ‘can David Cooke invite? never perish, spoil or fade. We weep together … how can I VERSES TO LIVE BY stand alongside others practically GIVING IT AWAY and in prayer when life is tough? For the Spirit God gave us does not make us WELCOME TO HTR We grow together … how can I Did you realise that last year we gave away over £50,000 to timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. support other people and organisations carrying out God’s We’d love you to join us at any of our share my life to include others in (2 Timothy 1:7) our church family? work? Locally this included Kick London, Riverbank Trust, events. If you’re free on a Wednesday, Richmond Street Pastors and Prison Fellowship (running why not come along to our Morning This verse has been important to me since I was God wants to build His church, Sycamore Tree courses in Feltham Youth Offender Institution). a teenager, and I believe God directed me Service and lunch? Or how about our Marriage Course? - it might just change and we see this happening towards it soon after I became a Christian due to already in some wonderfully Further afield in the UK we supported Central London Vineyard me lacking self-confidence and caring too much the rest of your life. And there’s always Grace Church and church planting work through the Urban Action Trust. Sundays, morning or evening. diverse ways. But with our God about what other people thought about me. there’s always more - more to Overseas, in Uganda we were able to support both the ministry of Karis Kids Through this verse God helps me to be confident and a building project at our link church of St Peter’s Wandegeya. Elsewhere we discover of his grace and mercy about who I am, and it encourages me to be the to us, and more ways to show His provided funds for the work of Open Doors, Interserve, the International Justice person God is calling me to be. Mission and Wycliffe Bible Translators. Call 020 8404 1112 or go to www.htrichmond.org.uk love to others because of His love for us. So join us this year on this @church_htr HTR - Holy Trinity Richmond Mark Anderson exciting journey! Thank you for your tremendous generosity in making this possible! LIFE FOR REAL YEEHAW! RIVERBANK SUNDAY THE RELUCTANT GOVERNOR Life Groups are a great place to discover The last Saturday evening more about being otherly. Most meet on in January saw our My biggest concern on becoming a Governor at Holy Trinity Primary weekday evenings, although there is a church transformed for a School was whether I would have anything useful to contribute. A Tuesday afternoon group and one for large group of adults and background in media and communication hardly seemed a good fit with women (Oasis) on Friday mornings. Every children to enjoy a riotous responsibilities like “holding the head teacher to account,” “setting the group is different, but common to all are Barn Dance. Anything the ethos, vision and strategic direction” and “overseeing the financial learning, worshipping, praying, supporting dancing may have lacked performance” of the school “to ensure money is well spent.” For someone and encouraging, with food and laughter in terms of finesse was with little knowledge about teaching and learning beyond the children’s Mothering Sunday is a very special school reports and my own vague memories, as well as a fairly cavalier featuring highly! more than compensated time for the Riverbank family, as we for by energy and attitude to credit card spending, I reckoned I would serve out my four-year thank God for the wonderful mums term and quietly sidle away.