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We are a Church of England Church and are proud of our strong relationship with the community of Kesgrave. You may see us out and about at Kesgrave's community meetings, retirement homes, regular community services, primary and secondary schools.
Every Blessing
Rev Robin Spittle
Vicar
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ALL SAINTS KESGRAVE CHURCH SERVICES
All Saints Kesgrave are delighted to announce to be hosting FOUR CHURCH SERVICES a week:
8.30am -9.00am Sunday Holy Communion
12.00pm - 12.30pm Sunday Holy Communion( 1st, 3rd, 5th Sunday of the month)
12.00pm - 12.30pm Service ( 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month)
6.30pm- 7.00pm Evensong
11.00am- 11.30am Thursday Holy Communion
All three services will be 20 min long, traditional BCP style or Common
worship, a simple mix of prayer, confession, thought for the day and blessing,
you will be able to listen to some music to reflect upon. Holy Communion will also be available for those who find it comforting.
To ensure safe social distancing and due to limited numbers please email
Robin Spittle on robinspittle@btinternet.com or phone 01473 623388 to confirm your attendance.
Polite reminder:
Please may we ask you
to follow our Government’s advice on mandatory face coverings.
We hope you have found some comfort and joy in attending our Zoom ASK
Services and Events. We will be continuing with those and will be
sending updates and links to those on our email ASK Directory or alternatively
you may also see our updates here on this page bellow.
We are trying to regularly update notices and information as they become
available, as well as adding items onto our pages on The Church of England's 'A
Church Near You' site - https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/2061/
If you are on Facebook, please like and follow us on our page - All Saints
Church Kesgrave
https://www.facebook.com/Askesgrave/
- where we will also upload important developments and information, videos and
ideas for prayer and worship.
COVID-19 - REVISED Wednesday 24thof September 2020
A message from your Vicar
We wish to
assure you that as a church we are continually monitoring and updating our decisions and practices with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic. During this
time of national and world-wide uncertainty, we will of course continue to
adhere to rules and guidance as set out by the Government, The Church of
England and the Diocese of St.Edmundsbury. Please see below details of our online and Church services:
Sunday 27th of September 2020-8.30am-9.00am - HOLY COMMUNION
Quiet traditional BCP style worship, a simple mix of prayer, confession, thought for the day and blessing, you will also be able to listen to some music to reflect upon. An uplifting way to start any Sunday. Holy Communion will also be available for those who find it comforting.
To ensure safe social distancing and due to limited numbers please email Robin Spittle on robinspittle@btinternet.com or phone 01473 623388 to confirm your attendance.
Polite reminder:
Please may we ask you to follow our Government’s advice on mandatory face coverings.
Sunday 27th of September 2020- 10.00am- 11.00am ASK ZOOM CHURCH- 'JOSEPH'- Family Forgiven and Reunited!
We would love you to join our All Saints Zoom Church- at 10.00 am !!!
Please click the link below to join :
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82322675926?pwd=eGlwL2V4dlFwdkNVU3hIK2dNTGpYZz09
You will be able to listen to a sermon, join in with worship and prayer-time activities. This coming Sunday 27th September at 10am on Zoom Church, we continue our ‘Joseph’ series where our theme will be ‘Forgiveness’. For our activity this week we are inviting you to join in with us in writing, drawing or thinking your prayers onto some strips of paper, and then making some paper chains! Your prayers can be pleases, thank you’s and also sorry’s - asking for forgiveness. Then when you’re finished you can join them all together. Our chains will symbolise the fact that when we are forgiven by God we draw closer to him and our relationship is stronger, and where there is forgiveness in our everyday life with others, it can help heal situations and bring people back together.
Please can you let us know in advance of any upcoming Birthdays or Anniversaries between 27.09.20 – 04.10.20 if you wish to mention them in the Service. Please email robinspittle@btinternet.com
For those joining Zoom for the first time ,
There are some simple instructions how to join
https://www.askesgrave.org/howtojoin.htm
if you wish to view our recorded All Saints Zoom Church Services on our Website
https://www.askesgrave.org/askzoomchurchrecordedservices.htm
Sunday 27th of September 2020- 10.00am-10.30am- HOLY COMMUNION at Little Bealings
The services will last for approximately 20 minutes and will be adapted to conform to all government guidelines, including physical distancing, use of hand sanitiser and wipes, and regular cleaning of the Churches. There will be social distancing rules in operation except for family members who can--of course--sit together. Please note that services will vary from church to church. While we are all getting used to this strange new world, we hope that you will come along and join us since we don’t know when we will get back to church as it used to be!
In order to safeguard all, we have to limit attendance so please call (leave a message) or email to book a place.
Please contact Churchwarden at Little Bealings Church Corinne Fear by email corinnejarvis@hotmail.co.uk or phone 07810 355511
Sunday 27th of September 2020 - 12.00pm-12.30pm -SERVICE
Quiet traditional Common worship, a simple mix of prayer, confession, thought for the day and blessing, you will be able to listen to some music to reflect upon.
To ensure safe social distancing and due to limited numbers please email Robin Spittle on robinspittle@btinternet.com or phone 01473 623388 to confirm your attendance.
Polite reminder:
Please may we ask you to follow our Government’s advice on mandatory face coverings.
Sunday 27th of September 2020- 4.00pm- LIVE STREMING of Mike Bryer's Licensing
Many congratulations to Mike Bryer who will be Licensed as a fully qualified Church of England Reader in the Cathedral on September 27th at 4.00pm. The service will be streamed live at www.facebook.com/stedscathedral/posts for those who wish to watch from home.
Here at All Saints Kesgrave we would like to pray for Mike and his future journey. Now that we are blessed to have an internet connection at church, we will be watching the Licensing Live at 4.00 pm on Sunday 27th of September. Please join us!
Please
contact Robin by email robinspittle@btinternet.com or text 07443924285 if
you would like to view it from All Saints itself.
Sunday 27th of September 2020- 6.30pm-7.00pm- EVENSONG
A simple traditional Book of Common Prayer evening service. We look forward to seeing you!
To ensure safe social distancing and due to limited numbers please email Robin Spittle on robinspittle@btinternet.com or phone 01473 623388 to confirm your attendance.
Polite reminder:
Please may we ask you to follow our Government’s advice on mandatory face coverings.
Monday 28th of September 2020- 2.30pm-3.30pm -SILVER SCREEN LITE
One of the sadness’s of Lockdown has been the suspension of our work amongst the so called “silver” generation. From Silver Screen, through Silver Café to Silver Games we were able to spend time together, to socialise and, above all, have a jolly time! As things begin to “open up” we would like to make a small step back to normality with “Silver Screen Lite”.
The proposal is to watch an episode of Fawlty Towers together (with Social Distancing) and encourage everyone who wishes to bring their own refreshments. Because our toilets can only be used in the event of necessity, we are proposing the whole thing to last no longer than an hour with the practicality of leaving at the half way point if needed.
We are planning to meet at 2.30pm on Monday September 28th.If you have not already indicated through the Help Centre that you would like to attend please let Robin know by either phone 623388 or email robinspittle@btinternet.com Numbers are limited by the need to sit at least 2 metres apart from people who are not in our household.
Tuesday 29nd of September 2020 -10.00am- 11.00am- MESSY CHRUCH at Home
This coming Tuesday 29th September will be Zoom Messy Church at Home, where our theme will be ‘Creation (Day2) - Sea & Sky’!
We’d love for you to join us at 10am for some crafting, singing and story time fun, and of course bubble prayers!
You will find the following items useful...
- An A4 piece of paper, blue squares or a wave shape for sticking to create the sea, and white paper or cotton wool for clouds;
OR a colouring sheet printed using this link:-
https://coloringhome.com/coloring-page/1737832?album=creation-coloring-pages&fbclid=IwAR3L2_Y2mG7WpPdfEploJG6pI5Uknssl4UJ9FvbIbh0f9pBAzQlcphIh7-M
- pens/crayons, glue
- Bubbles
We look forward to seeing you then!
LINK TO FOLLOW!
(Please note for safeguarding purposes all participants must be prepared to share video for the duration of the service. Thank you.)
Thursday 1st of October 2020-11.00am-11.30am - THURSDAY HOLY COMMUNION
Quiet traditional BCP style worship, a simple mix of prayer, confession, thought for the day and blessing, you will be able to listen to some music to reflect upon. Holy Communion will also be available for those who find it comforting.
To ensure safe social distancing and due to limited numbers please email Robin Spittle on robinspittle@btinternet.com or phone 01473 623388 to confirm your attendance.
Polite reminder:
Please may we ask you to follow our Government’s advice on mandatory face coverings.
I have now produced “Thoughts For The Times” videos and (amazingly to me) these seem to have been very well received! They can be accessed through this website
https://www.askesgrave.org/thoughtforthetimes.htm
To help us communicate with each other our Ministry Team are using Zoom for Morning Prayer and a Staff Meeting each Monday
Look out for the Prayer, Listening and Practical Support Schemes that are coming into practice
https://www.askesgrave.org/supportline.htm
You can also keep in contact with us through our Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/Askesgrave/
At the moment we are still allowing funerals at All Saints. Having said that the number that are allowed to attend is very low and the suggestion is that a basic funeral can be followed by a Thanksgiving Service later in the year. I want to reassure those who can’t attend that to simply remember their loved one at home during the time of the service is both itself appropriate and also what that loved one would want them to do.
Please be assured that the community of Kesgrave is continually in our thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.
Robin
A prayer for this time of difficulty...
Keep us, good Lord,
under the shadow of your mercy.
Sustain and support the anxious,
be with those who care for the sick,
and lift up all who are brought low;
that we may find comfort
knowing that nothing can separate us from your love
in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
