Sunday Bulletin
- St Anne's
- 7 days ago
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Sunday 11th May 2025
All are Welcome
Welcome to our services this Sunday, particularly if you are here for the first time. Do make yourself known to the clergy after the service and if it's after the 10am stay for coffee/tea.
8am – Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer): Ben
10am – Sung Eucharist (Common Worship): Ben HYMNS
490 The Lord's my shepherd (first set of words) 325 Loving shepherd of thy sheep
555 Who are these like stars appearing
246 In heav’nly love abiding
484 The king of love my shepherd is The Collection is during Hymn 555
(Card donations can be made at our electronic payment system on the counter by the door)
We Pray for the Sick: Margaret, Jennifer, Diana and Mike, Imogen, Louise, Robert Bell (Priest)
We Remember: Brian L Smith, Agnes Taylor, Ivy Farrant, Edward Pullen CARING AND SHARING – The collection tin is on the font for any donations.
ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING: Do join us for our annual APCM after the service where we we will be looking at our church life together and also looking to the future; there will be a part of the meeting which is open to free discussion about our life together and our service to the community.
OUR COMMUNION SERVICES IN THE WEEK. We are committed to deepening and developing our worship. However, the Tuesday morning communion has not drawn a stable following and we will be pausing it for the moment. Note: our monthly Contemplative Communion service is back and is on Wednesday the 14th at 7pm.
EVENSONG RETURNS THIS MONTH. Do join us for this beautiful and moving service of prayer, music and readings at 6:30pm on the last Sunday of this month, the 25th.
CHRISTIAN AID WEEK, 11-17th May: For 80 years Christian Aid has worked around the world to overcome the injustice of poverty and tackle its underlying causes. If you would like to donate to Christian Aid there are lots of ways to do so: https://www.christianaid.org.uk/give/ways-to-donate. We also have envelopes available on the font.
SUPPORTING THE CHURCH FINANCIALLY THROUGH DIGITAL MEANS: If you do not have cash, do please use Dona, our digital collection plate, situated on the counter by the door. For regular digital donation, please consider the Parish Giving Scheme (https://www.parishgiving.org.uk/home/ the PGS Parish code for St Anne’s is 100610447, on entering the code you get a variety of options). Alternatively, if you would like to discuss further please ask the Churchwardens.
ST ANNE'S WEBSITE: www.stanneslewes.org.uk - Our website offers resources for our growth in discipleship. On the website you can now find recent sermons collated in one place under the tag sermons. Also, we have a regular slot called Spiritual Reflections which aims to look at questions of faith in a fresh, imaginative way. Contact Ashley or Ben if you can't find the content.
ONLINE AND CARD TRANSACTIONS: Donations can also be made through our website (the DONATE button is in the top right-hand corner of every page).
A MESSAGE FROM BEN
Please feel free to phone me or drop me an email. I'll be delighted to hear from you. My contact details are:
Rev'd Ben Brown, 01273 933357, email: rectorstanneslewes@gmail.com
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TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ChurchStAnnes
If you would like anything added to the Notices, please speak to Ashley. ashley.price@sky.com - 01273 409410
(For items to be on next Sunday's sheet, please supply to me by Thursday)
