THIS WEEK AT TRINITY 25th March 2018 Welcome! If this is your first visit to TRINITY Church then please introduce yourself as we would love to meet you. Please do come and say hello to one of our welcome team; you are invited to stay for refreshments after the service. If you would like to join one of the many groups we run at TRINITY please contact a member of the Clergy. To find out more about life at our church, pick up a welcome booklet or visit our website below.... to see lives transformed by the love of Christ Office open Mon-Fri mornings www.trinitylewes.org office@trinitylewes.org 01273 470616
WHERE WE MEET 8:00am 9:30am 10:00am 11:15am 4:30pm 6:30pm Southover South Malling Southover St John s St John s (1st,3rd & 5th Sundays ) Southover TRINITY is a multi-site church, made up of six congregations meeting in three locations: South Malling, St John s and Southover. Each week we meet at the times shown opposite. For more details of the content and style of each service, please visit the website below. www.trinitylewes.org TO PRAY FOR THIS WEEK Please remember in your prayers those who are unwell or facing difficulties: Dawn Stanley (10am) Susanna Lunn (10am) Tony Holmes (4:30pm) Tony Idle (4:30pm) Pam Bacon (10am) Eve Empringham (9:30am) June Crees (9:30am) Elizabeth Rodger (4.30pm) Geoff Williams (11:15am) DAILY PRAYER FOR TRINITY As we now have the marvellous resource of the TRINITY Family list we would like to encourage us all to pray through the list. This week we are praying for those from Taylor to Wall. Please also remember in your prayers Milly Murphy whose sister Lucy in Devon died very unexpectedly earlier this week. Milly will be travelling to Devon this weekend to support the family. Eve Empringham, whose husband, Peter, died on Monday evening in hospital. The family of Canon Will Pratt who died earlier this week. The Jayawant family thank you for your prayers. A Thanksgiving Service for Jay Jayawant will be at 2.30pm Thursday 29th March in Kingston Village Church.
THIS WEEK S FEATURES EASTER LEAFLET DROP The publicity for all the TRINITY Easter services is now ready for distribution. If you have adopted a road please collect your bundle from the back of church. There are a few un-adopted roads if you feel able to deliver leaflets this time please pick up an unnamed bundle. Thank you BAPTISM SERVICE Sunday 1 st April 6:30pm at TRINITY Southover. Baptism is a really powerful outward sign of an inward commitment of repentance and faith. If you have decided to follow Jesus but have not yet been baptised or would like to reaffirm your faith, please speak to Steve Daughtery TRINITY CONNECT 2018 Sat 16th & Sun 17th June Get the date in your diary now for a great weekend of fellowship, worship & workshops including a concert with Jonathan Veira on Saturday evening! ENCOUNTER Creative Prayer Space Tuesday 27th & Wednesday 28th March. 10am-10pm. To help us reflect on the events of Holy Week there will be a creative prayer space set up at TRINITY Southover. There will be a time of corporate prayer and worship at 8pm on Wednesday evening. Please feel free to drop in and explore the space. (There will also be creative prayer areas for children to explore) If you are able to look after the space for an hour, please contact Dianne. SCHOOL GOVERNORS TRINITY has the unique privilege of being linked to two Church of England Primary Schools. We have excellent relationships with both South Malling and Southover schools. There are vacancies on the Governing Body of both schools for someone to represent the perspective of Christian Faith. If you feel you would like to be considered as a School Governor at this important time, See Steve or Jules.
TRINITY-WIDE NEWS & EVENTS Lent Prayer Early Friday Morning 6:30am TRINITY Southover Church Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God s gift of himself." Come and join us in quiet prayer during the Fridays in Lent Gardening at TRINITY St John s Holy Saturday, 31st March 10am - 12 Post-building work we re going to have a working party to tidy up the garden in the front of St John sub Castro. If you have green fingers, can help prune, plant or tidy, please drop Jules an email: jules@trinitylewes.org Easter Tea Saturday 7th April 3:30pm All the young at heart are welcome to join us at the TRINITY St John s for tea with home made cakes. Lifts are available. Please let Janette Watkins or the office know if you would like to attend and need transport. Handel's Messiah Workshop TRINITY Church is inviting choirs and individuals to an Afternoon Workshop of the choruses of Messiah by Handel on Saturday 28th April at TRINITY St John's for those who know the work. Anyone wanting to join us as we learn it,is welcome at TRINITY Southover 7:15 8:15 pm on Fridays April 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th. Venue/Bookings Administrator We are delighted to let you know that Jenny Evans will be joining the team at TRINITY and taking on this important role. We are planning a phased hand over from Zoe with Jenny taking on full responsibility from the end of April. Good Friday Walk of Witness Friday, 30th March, Please join other Christians outside St Pancras Church at 6pmfor a silent procession of witness following the cross to the Mount in Mountfield Road. Daily Bible readings delivered to you! This week we hope you will enjoy receiving these notes which we are emailing to everyone on our Church Family List so that we can explore God s word together. If you have any questions about the passage please email Steve and he will add his response in a following broadcast. You can, of course, unsubscribe at any time. Mon 26 Matthew 26:69 75 Tue 27 Matthew 27:1 10 Wed 28 Matthew 27:11 26 Thu 29 Matthew 27:27 44 Fri 30 Matthew 27:45 56 Sat 31 Matthew 27:57 66 Sun 1 Matthew 28:1 20 We believe God speaks to us through his Word and Spirit. Part of a living relationship with Jesus is to take time to listen and to learn God s will for our lives. As a church we encourage each other to set aside a portion of the day meditating upon God s word. One way of doing this is to use the Scripture Union WORDLIVE programme which is a simple and practical way to pray, read, reflect and respond to God s word, with additional material to help you go deeper into the background of the Bible passage. https://www.wordlive.org/session If you have any questions about the passage please email a member of the leadership team.
CONGREGATION SPECIFIC NEWS 9:30 am CONGREGATION Easter Craft Morning Saturday 31st March, 10 to 12 noon at South Malling Church. 11:15am CONGREGATION Brighton Marathon Naomi Fry is running the Marathon on Sunday 15th April to raise money for Tearfund. If anybody from the Church Family would like to sponsor her she has a just giving page which I think can be found by typing Naomi Fry in the search box of just giving. 11:15am & 4:30pm CONGREGATIONS Parking outside TRINITY St John s Please note that now the building work is over and we are restoring the gardens at the front of the TRINITY St John s we can no longer allow parking within the gates under any circumstances. 10:00 am CONGREGATION Help with decorating for Easter. Saturday 15th April. 9am. Please let me know if you would like to come along and help so I know how many to expect. Lin Pilfold LEWES CHURCHES & COMMUNITY Visit Wolf Fields Community Gardens On Saturday 19th May a mini bus day trip has been arranged to A Rocha UK's flagship urban nature reserve - Wolf Fields Community Gardens - in West London. We will be leaving Church End at 8 a.m. and aim to be back early evening after a day of prayer, food and listening to stories (all outdoors ) of how this place has grown from brokenness to beauty at the height of Spring. There will be a modest nominal charge to cover costs but don't let that deter you, get in touch, first come first served for the 16 seater. Contact David Melville Named Lost Property Among the lost property clothes from TRINITY Southover were the following children's named articles: Lucy B - green jacket Gigi Casey - white shirt, Christine - white top Ella M - orange sweatshirt This is a last chance to claim these items - if you know the person concerned, please get in touch with me immediately! thanks. Mary Boyum Lewes Passion Play: Saturday March 31st For this Easter we are preparing Tableaux Vivants, living pictures to express the message of Easter, which will be performed throughout Saturday at different venues in Lewes town. Each presentation will contain all 11 tableaux and last approximately 15 minutes. We aim to perform at approximately half past each hour from 10.30 3.30. 10.30 Eastgate Church Hall 11.30 Cliffe Precinct 12.30 The Depot Cinema Gardens 1.30 Grange Gardens 2.30 Lewes Castle Precinct 3.30 Cliffe Precinct
THIS MONTHS MISSION FEATURE In the picture you can see the exact space where we hope the youth centre will go! River Of life Church Uganda My name is Lisa Meadows; for the last 18 months I have been working with River of Life Church in Masaka Uganda. My main purpose is to help others find hope and a future with Jesus through various projects. This week I would love to share with you our vision for developing the ROLC youth ministry in the coming year. We feel it s so important for young people to find a place of belonging, especially as many young people in Masaka are from broken families or backgrounds. So, we are hoping to build a basket-ball court for running sports to connect with local youth from outside of the church as well as build a new youthcentre attached to the back of ROLC. The youth centre will provide a relaxed & "homely" environment for inviting in youth that we have connected with from the streets or the community, enabling them to experience the love of Jesus before later introducing them to the church. The centre would create a safe place for young people to come & hang out, hold youth fellowship gatherings, groups, Bible studies, mentoring, creative workshops, skills training & other programs. Once the centre is built, we aim to shift the Amazing Generation Bring & Share group from my home to the centre; as well as our "Pearl of Grace" creative Bible group & tailoring classes. There would also be the opportunity for teaching musical instruments, for movie nights a library & more! We have some quite new Christian young people and the youth pastor has agreed for me to help with running a youth Alpha when the youth centre is up & running. We can also invite other local non- Christian youth to explore the faith too.
It is on my heart to help raise the funds for this project to help enable this ministry to develop. We're excited to see great potential in the youth ministry to grow through the building of this centre so your prayers are greatly appreciated! Thank you so much for your support! Please pray For God to help us meet the needs of our young people. For successful fundraising of 1000. Praise God For new Christian young people this last year! Please do get in touch, lisameadows613@gmail.com Please also join us on facebook @ River of Life Uganda for more updates and take a business card from the back of church to remind you. Loose Collections Every loose collection will be shared amongst our mission partners. This week we are focusing our prayers on Lisa Meadows; with River of Life Church in Masaka Uganda. If you would like to give to the Church and not to the current mission partner please use the appropriate envelope: either a Gift Aid one or a nontaxpayer's one. Non-taxpayers please note: under the Gift Aid Small Donor Scheme (GASDS) the Church can claim gift aid on cash donations of 20 or less, no details are required. Please ask a Church Warden if you cannot find the correct envelope. If you have a notice... All events, ministries or notices for publication in any of our media should go to office@trinitylewes.org Please note that the deadline for the notice sheet is Wednesday 9am. Please note Monday is the Clergy, Youth Minister s and Children s Minister s day-off, and Friday is Janette Watkins day-off (Pastoral Minister) so they are not available on those days except for emergencies. Safeguarding We take the safeguarding of children and adults seriously. Therefore if you have any concerns please speak to the relevant Child Protection Representative or Adult Safeguarding Officer in each location. Please speak to Kirsty Stannard, or Amanda Burgess at South Malling or Jenni Taylor (adults) at Southover.
THIS SUNDAY AND NEXT 25th March 2018 Palm Sunday 8:00am(SO) BCP Communion Carole Darling 9:30am(SM) Morning Praise Jeremy Bamber ld 10:00am(SO) Holy Communion Steve Daughtery ld Carole Darling pr 11:15am(SJ) Informal Communion Jules Middleton ld Carole Darling pr 6:30pm(SO) Informal Worship Jeremy Bamber ld Jules Middleton pr 1st April 2017 Easter Sunday THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE 8:00am(SO) BCP Communion Jules Middleton 9:30am(SM) Easter Communion Jeremy Bamber 10:00am(SO) Easter Celebration Jules Middleton pr Followed by a short Communion service 11:15am(SJ) Easter Celebration Jules Middleton pr 4:30pm (SJ) Easter Communion Dick Field pr 6:30pm(SO) Easter Praise & Baptisms Steve Daughtery pr Non alcoholic wine and gluten free wafers are available at communion services. Please make your requirements known to the servers. Thank you. TRINITY ENCOUNTER PRAYER & PRAISE THIS WEEK AT SOUTHOVER Monday 26 th 10:00am(CE) Monday Club Tuesday 27 th 11:00am(SJ) Trinity Voices 7:00pm(SO) Bell Ringers 10am-10pm(SO) Creative Prayer Space Wednesday 28 th 10am-10pm (SO) Creative Prayer Space 8:00pm(SO) Encounter Prayer & Praise Thursday 29 th 10:00am(SJ) Boogie Bunch 12:00pm(HL) Lunch Bunch 1:45pm(CE) CAMEO 7:30pm(CE) Alpha 8:00pm(SM) Reflective Service (Tenebrae) Good Friday 30th 6:30am (SO) Lent Prayer 10:00am(SM) Iona-style Meditation 10:00pm(SO) Family Service 2:00pm(SJ) Reflective Service 6:00pm Walk of Witness Saturday 31 st 9:00am(SO) Easter Flower Decorating 10:00am (SM) Easter Craft Morning Sunday 1 st 12:00pm(CE) Bring & Share Lunch 8:00pm(CE) After Hours & 18:25 LOCATION KEY CE = Church End (SO) SO = Southover Site CH = Chapter House (SO) SM = Malling Site HL = Church Hall (SO) SJ = St John s Site SJH = St John s Hall