St Thomas' Newsletter

Weekend News

25th May 2025 - The 6th Sunday of Easter

9.30am Café Church

To watch the Livestreamed Service from St Mary’s at 10am, please click here.

Collect
Risen Christ,
by the lakeside you renewed your call to your disciples:
help your Church to obey your command
and draw the nations to the fire of your love,
to the glory of God the Father.

Amen.

Prayers this week

For baby Noah, now in God’s safe and loving care; and for Adele, Frank and the family as they grieve.

For Hazel Francis, Barbara Ferris, Jennifer Lewis, Frances Butler, Fiona Collins, Adele’s aunt Mandy, Khursheda Matin; Briony and Nadine Walsh - we remember all who care for them.

For our church family members:
Lois, Mark, Charlie & Freddie Simpson and Anne & Samuel Smith

Mission Giving this month: Beaconsfield Advisory Centre

As the Beaconsfield Advisory Centre (BAC) celebrates 60 years of service this month, give thanks for all the advisors and drivers who have served throughout those years.

Pray for wisdom, patience and appropriate knowledge for the advisors as they listen and guide the clients.

The clients have many different needs from housing, benefit applications, transport and sometimes just a listening ear. Pray that through their encounter with BAC they feel that they are cared for and know the love of God.

There is a need for more advisors and for drivers to take clients to medical appointments. Pray for people with the right skills to volunteer so that the service may continue.

Happy Birthday to Helen Buchanan

News

LLOYD is on ANNUAL LEAVE from Sunday 25 May (after church) and returns on Wednesday 4 June.

ASCENSION DAY TEAM SERVICE
Thursday 29th May at 8pm at St Michael’s

CHURCH FAMILY CRICKET TV WATCH-A-LONG
Sun 8 June at St Thomas’s House – 2:15pm for a 2:30pm start, finishing c. 5:30pm – England v West Indies T20 – Just let Lloyd know if you’re planning to come, feel free to bring a drinkie and/or a table snack!

Reminders & Events

HELP NEEDED
If you have any professional or charity experience with regards to composing risk assessments and/or safer recruitment/role descriptions, and might have a few hours to spare over the coming months, please speak to/contact me (Lloyd.) I’d love a little help as I take on additional roles in the absence of churchwardens. I know what I’m doing, but I will disappear into an office 24/7 without some help, and I don’t want to do that! Thank you.

SEEKING THE PSALM
Please join Revd Sharon Roberts for six sessions on exploring the psalms in the CCRC meeting room at St Michael’s on Mondays from 7.30 to 8.45pm on 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th June. All welcome from across our three churches, no need to book and no need to come to every session!

We are aiming to explore context and genre (more interesting than it sounds!) and, looking at a range of individual psalms, discovering what they meant then, what they mean now and what they might mean to us. As we might expect, music and prayer will feature!

CALL FOR SINGERS
We are very pleased to invite keen singers from the local community to sing with us for the second half of our upcoming ‘Concert for Peace’, which is set to be a musical highlight for the Beaconsfield Team
Churches. The concert marks the 80^thAnniversary of WWII, remembering those who have died in military conflicts but also looking forward in hopes of a brighter future.

We will be singing a choral suite from Karl Jenkins’ much loved The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace and ‘Fallen Soldier’ by Gareth Williams and Frederick Forsyth. Both of these items will be accompanied by an instrumental ensemble, and the latter will be sung alongside singers from local schools.

Rehearsals: Sunday 1st June 2-4pm; Sunday 15th June 2-4pm; Friday 20th June 4-6pm

Concert: Friday 20th June, 7pm (expected finish 8.45pm)

Venue: (for all the above): St. Mary & All Saints Church

Concert dress: smart all black

Please signup here: https://forms.gle/7mZHYAyf4JnNmeFPA

If you'd like to take part but are unsure if you can attend all rehearsals, please contact us at music@stmarysbeaconsfield.org.uk before signing up. Please contact us at the same address if you have any questions.

SACRED SPACE

A new 40 minute reflective space of words, music, images and prayer will start from 15th June.

For poster please click here

LIGHTHOUSE 2025: 11-15 AUGUST

The children’s registration is now open and please consider signing up as an adult helper, as we cannot run Lighthouse without you. To register a child or volunteer, please click here.

We also collect craft supplies as per this list in the box next to the piano. Thank you!

STEWARDSHIP - PARISH GIVING SCHEME

St Thomas’ has started using the Parish Giving Scheme for donations and we would appreciate it if you could transition your stewardship from Standing Orders to the Parish Giving Scheme (PGS), especially if your donations qualify for GiftAid. You can sign up…