29th June 2025 - The 2nd Sunday After Trinity     9.30am  Worship To watch the livestreamed service from St Mary’s please click here Collect Faithful Creator, whose mercy never fails: deepen our faithfulness to you and to your living Word, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Prayers this week 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 Adele, Frank and the family as they grieve. For our church family members: John Churchill and Chris & Mary Cole Mission Giving this month:  New Generation Burundi (NGB) In Burundi over 50% of the population are under 18 years old. Many of these children end up living on the street with no family to support them. NGB was founded by Dieudonne Nahimana to give these children a positive future and unlock their potential. Funds are being raised to build the Street Children Centre, which will be a safe space and education centre in Bujumbura. · We pray for the street children that they may know security, friendship, and love. · We pray for all the staff and volunteers of NGB as they seek out these children. · We pray for more funding so that more children can be reached. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to: Emily Davis, Odhran Dardis and Bridie-Lu Dardis

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Next week LLOYD is off from 3rd to 5th July We’ll be trying some different chair configurations over the next few weeks, including Sundays - this is a pre-warning for those who like to know things like that before they turn up! One of the blessings of our building is that we don’t need to sit in rows - so let’s see how we can take advantage of not having pews by making our space reflect our fellowship as part of our worship. Please join us for the Service for the Collation of Revd Emily Davis, as Interim Priest at St Barnabas Church Northolt Park. Date: Thursday 10th July 2025 Time: 7pm Location: St Barnabas Church, Raglan Way, Northolt, UB5 4SX                                                    For the full invitation please click here RSVP to Jane Cox, PCC Secretary jbcox@btinternet.com

Reminders & Events

REMEMBERING RICHARD DAVIDSON On Sat 28th June I will be doing the 26 mile ‘Mighty Hike’ in the Yorkshire Dales with Catherine, Harriet & Isobel Davidson and Amanda Champion to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support who helped the Davidson Family so much during Richard’s illness.  If you would like to sponsor me, I’d be really grateful, either online using this link or a cash donation can be given to me.  Thank you, Caroline Robson A Churches Together SERVICE CELEBRATING LAY MINISTRY Sunday 29th June 4pm, at St Michael’s Church. Tea & Cake served afterwards. All welcome A service to celebrate all the wonderful various giftings people bring to the life of the Church. Please bring with you a symbol or picture of your ministry: eg: music book/instrument, coffee pot, praying hands, duster, etc which will be laid on the altar. Wanted: a person from each church to give a sentence on what they do and why. Please contact Hazel Chow on 01494 675832 or chowmayhazel@outlook.com. 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 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! ST THOMAS’S DAY – SUN 6 JULY – BRING & SHARE LUNCH There will be a church bring and share lunch on Sun 6 July from 1pm to 3pm in the church building to celebrate (one of) our patronal festival dates! Please bring along some buffet food (savoury or sweet) and a drink. Thank you! Rev. Lloyd. St Thomas’s Church is recruiting 2x DEPUTY CHURCH WARDENS (to be formally elected as Churchwardens at an extraordinary Annual Church Meeting in Autumn 2025 or at the planned Annual Church Meeting in Spring 2026) to be a part of the church’s leadership team with the vicar.  As an Anglican Church, the selection/election of deputy churchwardens/churchwardens is essential in demonstrating that we are a functioning church with a short and long term future. The vicar considers recruiting to these roles the church’s primary administrative priority, and essential if the pastoral, prayerful, evangelistic and outreach activities of the church are to continue, grow and succeed.  These are 2x voluntary positions, for which you must: • Be a baptised Christian and member of the St Thomas’s Church community (demonstrable by weekly attendance at worship, inclusion on the church’s electoral role and a willingness to affirm and live by your faith as set out in the Nicene Creed); and, • Not be disqualified to act as a charity trustee for any reason(s); e.g. criminal or financial.  The vicar looks forward to talking with anyone who meets these criteria and who is willing to discern a call to sharing in the church’s leadership with him. Details about the requirements of the role are available to read in the draft role description, copies of which are available to take away from the side table in the sanctuary.  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. SACRED SPACE A new 40 minute reflective space of words, music, images and prayer starts this Sunday, 20th July, with a focus on creation in poetry. 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!

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