Pew Sheet Easter 2018

Today: Easter Sunday, April 1st 2018 9:00am Holy Communion St Paul's Church, Horn Hill 10:00am Combined Service St Peter's Parish Church 10.30am Sung Eucharist All Saints' Church, Oval Way Wednesday, April 4th 2018 10:00am Holy Communion St Peter's Parish Church Encounter God, Encourage Others, Engage Our World Chalfont St Peter Parish Churches Upcoming Confirmation Classes - Finding a Deeper Faith. A series of evenings to explore taking your faith to a deeper level of commitment and preparing to receive Holy Communion. Meetings will be at 7:30pm on Thursday Evenings beginning May 10th. Please speak to Sandra, Luke, John or Wendy if you are interested. For those that want to, there will be an opportunity for Confirmations on Sunday, 15th of July. Welcome to this service, a time to encounter God, gather together and worship. Melody Makers Community Choir All Saints' Church Hall This new choir has started and anyone who would love to sing would be welcome. It is on Tuesday mornings from 10.00am to 11.00am. Everyone is welcome! Fun, friendly and relaxed with a mixture of pop and gospel music. No experience needed. Toys, snacks and refreshments will be available. If you are able to help out with teas and coffees and getting out toys, please contact the Church Office in the first instance on 01753 880067 or office@csp.church. Toddler Group Our toddler group grows from strength to strength and is a great place for chatting about church. Luke is looking for help with serving teas and coffees at Toddler Group on Wednesday mornings between 9.30am and 11.30am. If you feel called to do this occasionally, please contact Luke on 01753 206172 or email luke@csp.church. Home Groups News The next Graham Home Group will be at 10.00am on Monday 9th April at The Box, Hillfield Road. We shall be continuing our series on the Twelve Disciples. All are welcome. If you would like to join us please contact the Revd Wendy Graham on 01753 885066.  The Baxendine Home Group will now recommence in the autumn. Contact Elizabeth Baxendine on 01753 882792 for more details. Pentecost Evening, 17th May 8pm St Peter's Parish Church Acts 2:17–18 NIV 17 ‘ “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. In celebration of Pentecost and as part of our week long commitment to the global Thy Kingdom Come prayer initiative, we will have an evening of Worship, Teaching and Prayer focused on the Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts led by Revd John together with Charles and Sue Whitehead. Our speaker Charles is internationally renowned and the author of "An Invitation to the Spirit-Filled Life: The Promise, the Power, the Gifts, the Fruits". The evening will be a prayerful and fun introduction to what it means to live a Spirit filled life! If you are interested in coming please let Sandra know at sandra@csp.church. Prayer Box If you would like prayer for yourself or anyone you know, please complete a prayer request slip and post it into one of our prayer boxes ‒ one is situated in the Parish Church on the font and there is also one at All Saints’ Church. Any prayers left will be treated in confidence and members of our prayer group will pray for them. A big thank you to everyone who came and supported Cheryll Older's Tea & Sales afternoon. A grand total of ₤180.51 was raised for the Children's Society Grow It Lent campaign - fantastic! Search for 'Chalfont St Peter Parish Churches' Q) What is the Church Electoral Roll? Are you one of us? Parish of Chalfont St Peter Charity Number: 1146043 http://csp.church/ COLLECT God of glory, by the raising of your Son you have broken the chains of death and hell: fill your Church with faith and hope; for a new day has dawned and the way to life stands open in our Saviour Jesus Christ. FIRST READING Acts 10.34–43 A reading from the Acts of the Apostles. 34 Peter began to speak to those assembled in the house of Cornelius: ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, 35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. 36 You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ – he is Lord of all. 37 That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. 39 We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; 40 but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, 41 not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. 43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.’ SECOND READING 1 Corinthians 15.1–11 A reading from the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians. 1 I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, 2 through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you – unless you have come to believe in vain. 3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, 4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them – though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you have come to believe. GOSPEL John 20.1–18 Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. 1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’ 3 Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. 4 The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, 7 and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; 9 for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples returned to their homes. 11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; 12 and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13 They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.’ 16 Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”’ 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that he had said these things to her. POST COMMUNION God of Life, who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son to the death of the cross, and by his glorious resurrection have delivered us from the power of our enemy: grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his risen life; through Jesus Christ our Lord.   Readings for 1st April 2018 Easter Sunday Next week: Sunday, 8th April 2nd Sunday of Easter 8:00am Holy Communion All Saints' Church, Oval Way 9.30am Contemporary Service St Peter's Parish Church 11:00am Sung Eucharist St Peter's Parish Church 3:00pm Tea & Hymns St Peter's Parish Church Hall 4:00pm Evensong St Paul's Church, Horn Hill http://csp.church/ MINISTERS Vicar Revd John Goodman  01753 882389 john@csp.church Revd Wendy Graham 01753 885066 wendy@csp.church Children and Families Minister Luke Maxted 01753 206172 luke@csp.church PARISH VERGER Gerry Hanham 01494 874940 PARISH OFFICE Open Mon - Fri: 9.30am-12.30pm Katherine Melling Samantha Carter 01753 880067 office@csp.church MISSION OPERATIONS MANAGER Sandra Clark 01753 880067 sandra@csp.church A) While it is primarily the basic list of all those entitled to speak and vote at our Annual Parochial Church Meeting, the Electoral Roll also shows the active membership and strength of the church both locally and nationally. Having your name on the roll is a way of saying "I belong” and, if you wish, opens up the way for greater involvement in the life of the church, at deanery, diocesan and national levels. So, do make sure you are represented and that your current address is shown. Forms and more information are available from the office or any of the team - entries close Tuesday 10th April. 