Thank you to everyone who contributed to our harvest gifts last Sunday! Here is Nnamdi Maduka delivering your food gifts to Hillingdon Foodbank in New Denham.
You have given £200 to our mission partner SHOC/Trinity supporting homeless people in our area.
We have also received a total of £250 in vouchers for supermarkets, which will support local people and families through direct gifts and through Give & Share.
HARVEST GIFTS for Sunday 3rd Oct
Please bring your gifts to our Harvest Thanksgiving Service on 3 October at St Mary’s (10.30am)
Alternatively you can drop off your gift at our church office in the week.
Supermarket vouchers are a great alternative to food gifts and can bless people in need. We will deliver them to people in our parish and through our Give & Share team.
Our service offering will support Trinity/SHOC – one of our mission partners, who support homeless people in our area. You will also be able to make a donation by credit card / contactless on the day.
If you bring food gifts, please consider bringing some of the following, which we will donate to Hillingdon Foodbank in New Denham:
The Christian church in Afghanistan is becoming increasingly hidden, according to the charity, Release International.
It says Christians are now fleeing the cities for more remote areas in a bid to remain unseen by the Taliban regime.
There are believed to be fewer than 10,000 Christians still in the country after the Taliban regime took control last month.
Young people in the UK are twice as likely as older people to pray regularly, a new survey has found.
Some 51% of 18 to 34-year-olds polled by Savanta ComRes said they pray at least once a month, compared with 24% of those aged 55 and over.
It also found 49% of the younger age group attend a place of worship every month, compared with 16% of over-55s.
The associate director of Savanta said the numbers could reflect the move to online worship during the pandemic.
Chris Hopkins added that there were “a few theories” as to why young people made up such a large proportion of the religious landscape.
“Firstly, as the demography of the UK changes, minority faiths do tend to have a larger proportion of practising young people, and therefore as the population of these groups increases within the UK, so will the prayer habits of the population at large,” he said.
He explained it was important to “factor in the impact the pandemic has had on the ability to engage with one’s faith” with virtual prayers and services being held online.
“It is possible that the pandemic opened up more avenues to prayer to young people, and this is reflected in the findings,” he said.
In 2022 Oberammergau in Bavaria will, for the 42nd time, be staging the Passion Play telling the story of Christ’s Passion, from His entry into Jerusalem and ending with the Resurrection and Ascension.
Our Amersham Deanery Pilgrimage to the Oberammergau Passion Play, which was planned for 2020, has been rescheduled for 2022. Due to the postponement, we have had some cancellations and places are available.
Please download the brochure to find out more and to register…
New series of talks starting this Sunday (19 September) at our 10.30am service
During lockdown our ministry team took part in the “ChurchNext” programme to explore what our next steps as a local church might be. One theme emerged early on: God is asking us to put a DARE behind PRAY | WELCOME | SHARE. This series is about Christ-shaped boldness, not foolhardy bravery or ostentatious derring-do.
Our courage must be grounded in the Father love of God, shown by Jesus and mediated by the Holy Spirit.
The photo at the top is a visual representation of the goal of this series: God is gently nudging us to step into the river of his purposes for us and for the world, but he will not abandon us as we do.
Future themes: The courage to …
Our small groups will follow the same themes. Contact our church office if you’d like to join one…
As the new term gets under way, Christoph has recorded an update to help us stay connected.
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Please download the service sheet in advance (there is a link at the top of this post), which contains all the words for the service. You can print it out or have it visible on your screen.
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Please join us tomorrow at 10.30am for our online service, live from St Mary’s Church, here in Denham.
Click here for our YouTube channel…
Please download the service sheet in advance (there is a link at the top of this post), which contains all the words for the service. You can print it out or have it visible on your screen.
So how does it work?
Click here to download service sheet…..
Please join us tomorrow at 10.30am for our online service, live from St Mary’s Church, here in Denham. I am attaching the service sheet to this email.
Click here for our YouTube channel…
Please download the service sheet in advance (it is attached below), which contains all the words for the service. You can print it out or have it visible on your screen. You can also find the service sheet on our website: www.denhamparish.church/blog or click on “Blog” in the menu of our website.
So how does it work?