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Dear Friends of Christ Church Bexleyheath,

Church Re-opening for Public Worship This Sunday 

I hope that everyone is aware that we are restarting public worship this Sunday 7th March.  

For the foreseeable future services on Sunday will be:
- 9.15am Holy Communion Book of Common Prayer 
- 11am Holy Communion or Family Service on second Sunday in the month
- 6pm Evensong or Holy Communion on second Sunday in the month

The Wednesday 10.30am Holy Communion service will restart from 10th March 

Just because you can come to church doesn’t mean that you should. Nobody is under under pressure at all to return to public worship. My message to you all at this point is, come to church if you wish.


We will continue with our Facebook services each Sunday at 9.30am and our work among children and young people will continue to be online only. 

We will also continue with the Sunday 11am - cuppa and chat session on zoom for the next few weeks.

As we recommence public worship do keep us in your thoughts and prayers. We still need more welcomers/stewards people to help with the 11am service. 

This week on Tuesday we celebrated Chad, the Bishop of Litchfield (672).  
I commend to you this most beautiful prayer for Bishop Chad as we reopen Christ Church:
Almighty God,
from the first fruits of the English nation who turned to Christ,
you called your servant Chad
to be an evangelist and bishop of his own people:
give us grace so to follow his peaceable nature,
humble spirit and prayerful life,
that we may truly commend to others
the faith which we ourselves profess;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and forever.


Amen.

Rev Trevor Wyatt
Almighty God,

whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain,

and entered not into glory before he was crucified:

mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross,

may find it none other than the way of life and peace;

through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,

who is alive and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever.

Sunday 7th March – Third Sunday in Lent
 
9.15 Holy Communion (BCP)
Rev Trevor Wyatt

Psalm: 19: 7-end 
Old Testament: 1 Cor 1: 18-25
Gospel : John 2: 13-22


11am Holy Communion (Common Worship)
Rev Trevor Wyatt

Psalm: 19: 7-end 
Old Testament: 1 Cor 1: 18-25
Gospel : John 2: 13-22


6pm Evensong (BCP)
Rev Trevor Wyatt/ Neil Bunker

Psalm: 11
Old Testament: Exod 5.1 - 6.1
New Testament: Phil 3: 4b-14


Wednesday 10th March at 10.30am – Holy Communion
Rev Trevor Wyatt

Psalm: 147: 13-end
Old Testament: Deut 4: 1, 5-9
Gospel: Matt 5: 17-19


For those of you not able to attend church there is also:-
 
9.30am Online Facebook Service (Richard Percival)

Psalm: 19: 7-end 
Old Testament: 1 Cor 1: 18-25
Gospel : John 2: 13-22


11.30 am Phone Only Service (Andy Golds)
PRAYER LIST -  7th March 2021
 
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR MISSION PARTNERS:
 
The Bible Society, Christian Aid and the Town Centre Chaplaincy
 
PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE IN NEED:
 
Christine Blackham
(Sister of Tony Duck)
Christine Kelly Jackie Hawkins
Margaret Cheal Michael Baker Sarah Dunn
Ann Batchelor Sheila Jarvis Helen O’Sullivan
Maria Martin Nigel Vasoff Della O’Sullivan
Pam Padfield   Maggie Upward
  
PLEASE CONTINUE TO KEEP IN YOUR PRAYERS:
 
Georgina Bowen Ade Okubule Edna Passmore Maureen Hawkins
Martin Robinson Tricia Dyer Lorraine Mistry Colin Souter
Charlie Megan Ray Melody Salom Sylvia Smith
Julie Knight Sheila Vickers Vicky Folkes Theresa Hammond
Susan Audrey Noy Edna Bassett Barbara Perkins
Elliott Sherry Snowden Derek Rumsey Dave Long
Ray Wood Nick Perfect Trudi Robinson Mark & Lydia Fuller
Dawn Brooks John Bernard Clewes Gladys Goodwright
       
PRAYING FOR THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED:
 
Leslie Lindsay (9/3)  
Sandra Barnes (9/3)  
Joan Coleman (11/3)  
Megan Tobitt (15/3)  
Betty Hilless (17/3)  
Audrey Dorothy Avery (19/3) Reece Bigwood (19/3)
John Wallington (22/3)  
Victoria Garwood (26/3)  
David Hall (29/3)  

FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED
 
Alice Lyons
25 June 1966 Barbara Reynolds marries George Cooper (Henry Cooper’s twin) at Christ Church Bexleyheath (for those of you who haven’t yet seen it on Facebook)!
Sunday at 11am Cuppa and Chat 
(hosted by Richard Percival and Roy Humphrey)

Meeting ID: 857 0867 4401
Passcode: 54321
Click this button - 11am Sunday to join zoom Cuppa with the Vicar
Favourite hymns – Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us

By Rachel Miles

This well-known, well-loved hymn is a favourite for Lent, but is equally appropriate for these COVID times. One could say that this past year has been, in some ways, like one long Lent, with all of us having been obliged to make considerable sacrifices and suffer some degree of hardship. In addition to the tragic direct effects of the pandemic, it has brought such burdens as loneliness and isolation, poverty and hunger – and, for some Christians, one of the most stringent tests of faith that they have ever had to face. This hymn’s first verse is a prayer to God the Father, for His guidance, sustenance and protection through trying times, with the comforting assurance that if we trust in Him we will be blessed.

The question many of us, as Christians, have asked ourselves countless times in the past year – and have probably been asked by others too – is “Why has God let this happen?”.We may sometimes have felt that our prayers have not been heard or even, at our lowest moments, that God has abandoned His world.We may have been struggling for answers but, as the second verse of this hymn reminds us, one thing we can be certain of is that God the Son shares all our suffering. Through His experiences on earth, Jesus knows at first hand the physical, mental and spiritual weaknesses we endure. He has been walking with us through the COVID wilderness, lifting us up when we fall physically, strengthening us when we crumble mentally, and forgiving us when we fail spiritually.

The last verse of the hymn is a prayer for the gifts of God the Holy Spirit. To a non-Christian it would probably not seem appropriate to be asking to be filled with joy at a time when so many in our world are grieving. The “heavenly joy” referred to here is, however, not a transient, reactive joy but a perpetual state of serenity, which only the Holy Spirit can give us, and which, together with the Spiritual gifts of love and peace, will sustain us through life’s trials.
 
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us | O’er the world’s tempestuous sea;
Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, | For we have no help but thee;
Yet possessing every blessing | If our God our Father be.
Saviour, breathe forgiveness o’er us: | All our weakness thou dost know;
Thou didst tread this earth before us, | Thou didst feel its keenest woe;
Lone and dreary, faint and weary, | Through the desert thou didst go.
Spirit of our God, descending, | Fill our hearts with heavenly joy,
Love with every passion blending, | Pleasure that can never cloy:
Thus provided, pardoned, guided, | Nothing can our peace destroy.
 
P.S. One final thought on the Lent/COVID comparison: if Easter is the emergence into light at the end of the darkness of Lent, then surely the end of all social restrictions and the return to normal life (on 21 June, God willing) will be our COVID Easter, and for that we will truly praise God with Alleluias!
To ensure a covid safe return to worship at Christ Church, we desperately need stewards to help at every service.
If you feel you would be able to take on this role
please contact Rev Trevor Wyatt 

07860 306746 - revtrevorwyatt@outlook.com
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