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St Andrew's Parish Church

  

St. Andrew’s Parish Church is the Church of England place of worship in the ecclesiastical parish of Wickham Skeith; it is part of a group of churches known as the "Bacton Benefice" which includes Bacton, Cotton, Wyverstone, Wickham Skeith, Old Newton and a chapel at Gipping.

 

 

  

St Andrew’s Church

beneficebacton@gmail.com

Rev’d Stephen Snelling, Tailors Green House, Tailors Green, Bacton IP14 4LL

01449 782970    07775 833824  

Email - revstephen@tailorsgreenhouse.com

 

Wardens: Liz Davidson 766622 and Margaret Jones-Evans 767121

 

 

Services in March 2024

 

All services at 9.30am in church unless otherwise stated

 

 Fri 1st March, 2pm   World Day of Prayer service at Old Newton Methodist Chapel

Fri 1st March, 2pm        World Day of Prayer service at Old Newton Methodist Chapel

3rd March               Holy Communion

10th March, Mothering Sunday  All Age Service & distribution of posies

17th March              Holy Communion

24th March, Palm Sunday, 10am  Procession with donkey & Benefice Communion

25th March, Monday, 10.30am  Holy Communion at Gipping

26th March, Tuesday, 10.30am  Holy Communion at Bacton

27th March, Wednesday, 10.30am   Holy Communion at Wyverstone    

28th March, Maundy Thursday  7.30pm   Holy Communion & footwashing at Cotton

29th March, Good Friday, 10.30am  Family Service at Bacton

                                  2pm         Stations of the Cross at Wickham Skeith

                                  6pm       The Passion story in words & music at Old Newton

31st March     Easter Sunday      Holy Communion    

For other benefice services, please view our Facebook page.

 

 Last minute reminder – don’t forget the “World Day of Prayer” service, this year prepared by the women of Palestine.  It is always an enjoyable service, everyone is welcome & we look forward to seeing a good crowd. 

 As has become our custom in the Benefice we start Holy Week with Palm Sunday at Wickham Skeith where we will process with a donkey.  Meet on the Green ready to walk to church at 10am.  Do come along but if you don’t want to walk the church will be open for you to go in and take a seat.  There will be a service in the Benefice every day during Holy week and you will be welcome at any or all of these.

 Windowsill decorators please work your magic after 4pm on Good Friday or during Saturday and if the flowers are OK please leave clearing them until after the service on 7th April.  Many thanks.

 APCM – the annual church meeting, which includes the Vestry meeting to elect churchwardens for the coming year, will take place in church at 7pm on 18th April.  

 Weekly Email and News – if you’d like to sign up to receive our weekly news email, please contact the churchwardens.

 

Flower & Cleaning Rota 

March 3rd & 10th  Mrs M Rowe & Mrs S Wright

March 17th & 24th  Mr & Mrs I Hempstead

March 31st & April 7th  Mrs E Davidson & Mrs J Willoughby

 

 

 


Church Notes From Rev’d Stephen

I’m writing this before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent; you will be reading this as we approach the middle of Lent. There are signs of new life appearing with snowdrops, daffodils, primroses and forsythia already flowering and we are looking forward to Easter and the promise of the new life that the Resurrection gives us. For Christians this is the most important festival of the year, more important, even, than Christmas. Many other people, however, celebrate with eggs and chocolate, a bank holiday and perhaps a family get-together, even if the religious aspects of the season pass them by.

As we approach Easter it has traditionally been a time when people have looked at their lives and asked God to help them let go of things in life that are not as they should be.

We could call it a personal spring cleaning. Lent is a time when we can focus on ridding our lives of what harms and replacing them, with God’s help, with what brings joy. It’s a time to let go of selfishness, greed, treating others without respect, hard-heartedness, injustice, dishonesty, resentment, uncaring attitudes, reliance on self not God, and replace them with more positive characteristics: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, humility, self-control, compassion, generosity, prayerfulness, trust and faith.

Because whatever their faith or lack of it, most people want to live a good life, and Easter can be a time for us all to think about the way in which we live. Whatever path you choose, may I take this opportunity to wish you a happy and blessed Easter.

Stephen Snelling

 

 

Data Protection

Like every other organisation the church has to consider the data protection legislation, so St Andrew’s Church and the Bacton benefice need your permission before they keep your name and details on file. The information will be used to send the weekly pew sheet, to record you as a voting member of the church on the Electoral Roll, for the Rector to know who the members of the church are so he can visit and get to know you etc.

You may have received an email with a form to fill in, or a paper form dropped through your door. Do please fill one of these in if you would like to be involved with the Church in this village and send to our new Rector, the Rev’d Carl Melville. He is eager to get to know the people in the churches and villages in his new benefice.

If you haven’t had a form through your door or via email do please ask for one from Liz Davidson or Margaret Jones-Evans

Keep safe everyone – Margaret Jones-Evans