The Parish of Kenfig Hill St Theodore St Colman
Notices & Events Food Bank: If you would like to donate food for those people who are in need, please bring your donation of non-perishable food & put it in the basket at the back of the church. Grace takes the donations to the food bank after the services on the first Sunday of the month. Dates for your Diary No Choir practice or Craft Club this week Easter Week Eucharists—Easter Monday 11am—St Theodore’s Easter Tuesday 11am—St Theodore’s Easter Wednesday 10am– Theo’s Wed April 15th– CRUSE Bereavement Support Group. 2-3.15PM St Theodore’s 16th April 7pm Margam Deanery Conference focusing on the debate on ‘Same Sex Marriage.‘ Everyone is welcome to attend. Tuesday 28th April Holy Eucharist & Easter Vestry Meeting—7pm. Followed by wine and cheese. Tickets available next week.
If you know of some-one who needs a visit from the church please speak to Sue Kibby or Enid Rymer at the end of the service, or leave a message on their phones. We will arrange for one of the visiting team to call on them. Sunday Services Next Week 12th April 2015
Easter 2 St Theodore’s……10.00am United Parish Sung Eucharist No Evening Service Theo’s (Wednesday)……….10.00am Holy Eucharist
The Parish of Kenfig Hill St Theodore St Colman Please take this newsletter home with you. Morning Sheet
Evening Sheet
Easter Sunday We are always pleased to welcome newcomers or visitors. If you worship regularly with a different denomination and received communion there, you are very welcome to receive Holy Communion in our Church . You are also warmly invited to join us for coffee or tea following the morning service.
EASTER AMBASSADORS The message of Easter is first communicated by the empty tomb. The death of Jesus was an observable and observed fact by both friends and enemies. No one saw the resurrection. It did not involve resuscitation of a corpse. The first witnesses that something had happened were women. And what they saw was not Jesus but his empty tomb. They were puzzled and alarmed. Then Peter and the Beloved Disciple go to investigate. They find the empty tomb as the women reported. Peter just sees a loss, the absence of a body. But the other disciple sees with the eyes of one who loves and he sees a void filled with the presence of the Risen One. (Our lives too may seem to be marked by absence and loss but those who see with the eyes of love may see them filled with the presence of the risen Lord.) The Beloved Disciple sees the empty tomb and believes. He sees what cannot be literally seen. He suddenly understands the teaching of Scripture and the words of Jesus that he must “rise from the dead”. Every disciples who loves Jesus is one who sees — and believes with all his/her heart in a Risen Lord. We are called as people sent out on a mission, as “ambassadors for Christ”. We are not just disciples, followers of Jesus. We are also meant to be his living ambassadors. No one will know about Jesus and what he means for our lives unless we tell them. Many people got baptised yesterday in churches throughout the world. Not a single one of them came to the Church without the intervention of some Christian(s) somewhere. The Good News about Jesus is not to be kept a secret. There are many people out there waiting to hear it. They are depending on you and me, members of Christ’s Body, to tell them.
This week’s daily Gospel readings Monday - Matthew 28. 8-15 Tuesday – John 20. 11-18 Wednesday - Luke 24. 13-35 Thursday - Luke 24. 36b-48 Friday - John 21. 1-14 Sat - Mark 16. 9-15
SURREXIT CHRISTUS. ALLELUIA! Christ is risen ALLELUIA! Happy Easter and may the peace for which we pray touch the world this EASTER DAY. ***************** MOTHER’S UNION
April 23rd Committee meeting May 7th. Meeting in Church 2-0 pm. Talk on Hats
PLEASE PRAY FOR… Sick: Michelle Griffiths, Kai Foulger, Elliot Evans, Harry Meredith, Christine Drane, Doris Lugg. Vivian Baker, Ethan Greening, Maureen Baker, Heather Burgess, Lauren Williams, Evelyn Evans, Jamie & Nick Pyke, Ray John, Jamie Lee Coffee, Ellie May., Christine Portsmouth, Valerie Zeal, Sophie Evans, Hilary Morgan, David Pedrick, Jean Rumble, Erin Downs, Caroline Little, Gretta Rogers , Blanche Thomas, Adrian Cook, Hilary Thomas, Jeff Kibby, Frank Davies, Tony Briggs, Carla Burnell, Philip Gray, Audrey Russell. Recently Departed: Stephen Moon, Barbara Durley, Arthur Jones Anniversaries: Brian John, Thomas Endicott, Muriel Bevington, Gladys Angell, Ernest Angell, Gerard Casey.
Daily prayer intentions Mon 6th - Dowlais & Penydarren Nagpur (N. India) Tue 7th - Merthry Tydfil Christ Church Nairobi (Kenya) Wed 8th - The Mothers’ Union Nakuru (Kenya) Thu 9th - Merthry Tydfil St David & Abercanaid Nambale 9Kenya) Fri 10th - Treharris, Trelewis, Bedlinog & Llanfabon Namibia (Southern Africa) Sat 11th - Troedyrhiw w Merthyr Vale Namirembe (Uganda)
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Electoral Roll. All communicants are reminded that they need to complete a new electoral roll form this year. Forms are available from David-Lloyd or Margaret Griffiths
New Parish website http://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/l302/
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N.B. FIRE ESCAPES: In the event of a fire, please leave carefully by the main door or, if obstructed, then through the fire escape located to the rear of the vestry on the right hand side. Then please gather on the pavement on the opposite side of the road.
Parish Priest: Fr. Jonathan Durley CA 01656 670148 Parish Deacon: Revd Deacon Claire Stowell Parish Reader: Grace Wylde 743840, or 07966 083196, Theo’s Parish Shop: 01656 670327 Parish Wardens: Margaret Phillips 665547/ 07748 678827 David-Lloyd Jones 741354 / 07747 151205 Sacristan & MU Branch Leader: Christine Portsmouth 742987 Treasurer: Ken Rymer PCC Secretaries: Margaret Griffiths & Heulwen Strathearn Safeguarding Officer: Sue Kibby
If you know of some-one who needs a visit from the church please speak to Sue Kibby or Enid Rymer at the end of the service, or leave a message on their phones. We will arrange for one of the visiting team to call on them. Sunday Services Next Week 12th April 2015
Easter 2 St Theodore’s……10.00am United Parish Sung Eucharist No Evening Service Theo’s (Wednesday)……….10.00am Holy Eucharist
The Parish of Kenfig Hill St Theodore St Colman Please take this newsletter home with you. Morning Sheet
Evening Sheet
Easter Sunday We are always pleased to welcome newcomers or visitors. If you worship regularly with a different denomination and received communion there, you are very welcome to receive Holy Communion in our Church . You are also warmly invited to join us for coffee or tea following the morning service.
EASTER AMBASSADORS The message of Easter is first communicated by the empty tomb. The death of Jesus was an observable and observed fact by both friends and enemies. No one saw the resurrection. It did not involve resuscitation of a corpse. The first witnesses that something had happened were women. And what they saw was not Jesus but his empty tomb. They were puzzled and alarmed. Then Peter and the Beloved Disciple go to investigate. They find the empty tomb as the women reported. Peter just sees a loss, the absence of a body. But the other disciple sees with the eyes of one who loves and he sees a void filled with the presence of the Risen One. (Our lives too may seem to be marked by absence and loss but those who see with the eyes of love may see them filled with the presence of the risen Lord.) The Beloved Disciple sees the empty tomb and believes. He sees what cannot be literally seen. He suddenly understands the teaching of Scripture and the words of Jesus that he must “rise from the dead”. Every disciples who loves Jesus is one who sees — and believes with all his/her heart in a Risen Lord. We are called as people sent out on a mission, as “ambassadors for Christ”. We are not just disciples, followers of Jesus. We are also meant to be his living ambassadors. No one will know about Jesus and what he means for our lives unless we tell them. Many people got baptised yesterday in churches throughout the world. Not a single one of them came to the Church without the intervention of some Christian(s) somewhere. The Good News about Jesus is not to be kept a secret. There are many people out there waiting to hear it. They are depending on you and me, members of Christ’s Body, to tell them.
This week’s daily Gospel readings Monday - Matthew 28. 8-15 Tuesday – John 20. 11-18 Wednesday - Luke 24. 13-35 Thursday - Luke 24. 36b-48 Friday - John 21. 1-14 Sat - Mark 16. 9-15
SURREXIT CHRISTUS. ALLELUIA! Christ is risen ALLELUIA! Happy Easter and may the peace for which we pray touch the world this EASTER DAY. ***************** MOTHER’S UNION
April 23rd Committee meeting May 7th. Meeting in Church 2-0 pm. Talk on Hats
PLEASE PRAY FOR… Sick: Michelle Griffiths, Kai Foulger, Elliot Evans, Harry Meredith, Christine Drane, Doris Lugg. Vivian Baker, Ethan Greening, Maureen Baker, Heather Burgess, Lauren Williams, Evelyn Evans, Jamie & Nick Pyke, Ray John, Jamie Lee Coffee, Ellie May., Christine Portsmouth, Valerie Zeal, Sophie Evans, Hilary Morgan, David Pedrick, Jean Rumble, Erin Downs, Caroline Little, Gretta Rogers , Blanche Thomas, Adrian Cook, Hilary Thomas, Jeff Kibby, Frank Davies, Tony Briggs, Carla Burnell, Philip Gray, Audrey Russell. Recently Departed: Stephen Moon, Barbara Durley, Arthur Jones Anniversaries: Brian John, Thomas Endicott, Muriel Bevington, Gladys Angell, Ernest Angell, Gerard Casey.
Daily prayer intentions Mon 6th - Dowlais & Penydarren Nagpur (N. India) Tue 7th - Merthry Tydfil Christ Church Nairobi (Kenya) Wed 8th - The Mothers’ Union Nakuru (Kenya) Thu 9th - Merthry Tydfil St David & Abercanaid Nambale 9Kenya) Fri 10th - Treharris, Trelewis, Bedlinog & Llanfabon Namibia (Southern Africa) Sat 11th - Troedyrhiw w Merthyr Vale Namirembe (Uganda)
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Electoral Roll. All communicants are reminded that they need to complete a new electoral roll form this year. Forms are available from David-Lloyd or Margaret Griffiths
New Parish website http://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/l302/
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N.B. FIRE ESCAPES: In the event of a fire, please leave carefully by the main door or, if obstructed, then through the fire escape located to the rear of the vestry on the right hand side. Then please gather on the pavement on the opposite side of the road.
Parish Priest: Fr. Jonathan Durley CA 01656 670148 Parish Deacon: Revd Deacon Claire Stowell Parish Reader: Grace Wylde 743840, or 07966 083196, Theo’s Parish Shop: 01656 670327 Parish Wardens: Margaret Phillips 665547/ 07748 678827 David-Lloyd Jones 741354 / 07747 151205 Sacristan & MU Branch Leader: Christine Portsmouth 742987 Treasurer: Ken Rymer PCC Secretaries: Margaret Griffiths & Heulwen Strathearn Safeguarding Officer: Sue Kibby
