Author: STOKE HOLY CROSS

The Venta Group
Arminghall, Caistor St Edmund, Stoke Holy Cross with Dunston
26th March 2017

COMING UP

Mothering Sunday

2nd April: 9.00am Traditional Holy Communion at Caistor, 10.30am Morning Worship with Baptism at Stoke Holy Cross Church, 4pm Traditional Holy Communion at Dunson
9th April: 9.00am Traditional Holy Communion at Arminghall, 9.30am Praise & Worship at Caistor, 10.30am Café Church at Stoke Church Hall
Details of all our services and events for the whole of the Easter weekend inside!

A very happy Mothering Sunday to all of you who are joining us at our services on 26th March. Some of us will be with our mums, or remembering our mums, but it is also a great opportunity to reflect on what it means to be a mother and a woman in the place where God has put us. (And well done to all you ladies—and gents—who managed to get yourselves, and in some cases your families, to church ‘an hour early’ today!)

Palm
Sunday

9th April, 10.30am
at Stoke Holy Cross Church Hall
Activities for the whole family! Come and join us there…
Breakfast, chat, songs, craft, prayer, thought for the day...
CAFÉ CHURCH IS NOW ON 2ND SUNDAYS EVERY MONTH!

Stoke Holy Cross Church Hall
Monday 9.00-1.00
Wednesday 1.15-4.15

Cakes and drinks
Easter crafts
Easter Egg Hunt

Family activities
in and around
Stoke Holy Cross pavilion
Good Friday
April 14th 2017
2-4pm

2017 Big group celebration and APCMs
Sunday 30th April, 10.30am at Stoke Church
We are so excited to be joining together for our APCMs as a whole group this year, with a celebration service at Stoke including communion, a children’s group, and the chance to hear about our CDE vision as it moves forward. Lunch and our church meetings will follow. Save the date!

All this information and more on our new website
www.venta-group.org. Please have a look and let us know what you think!
You can also find us on Facebook ‘Venta Group of Churches’ and twitter @venta_group

Sparklers Tuesdays 10-11.30
Until Easter Holidays
Stoke Church Hall

Welcoming all 0-4s, and their parents, grandparents and carers...

Sparklers Stoke Holy Cross

26th March at 10.30 in Stoke Church Hall
and continuing on 4th Sundays

New ways
to pray

Good
coffee!

A place for questions

New ways to pray

Language you can understand

Contemporary music

Join us for Lent this year as we go deeper into the Scriptures, using the Pilgrim Course. It will help us, and teach us how to make bible reading part of our regular life with God. Join us at each of these. You can sign up on a Sunday, or email lent@venta-group.org. 8.30-10am every week. 1st April Stoke Church Hall and 8th April at Arminghall Village Hall.

St George’s Dementia Support Café St George’s Hall
2nd and 4th Mondays from 10-12.
We look forward to seeing you on the 27th March and the 10th April.
Telephone 01508493661 or 01508492938 for information about the cafe or becoming a volunteer.

Easter in the Venta group of churches
Maundy Thursday 13th April
7.30pm reflective evening with simple supper in Arminghall Village Hall
Good Friday 14th April
10am Good Friday service at Caistor St Edmund
11.15 am Walk of witness in Stoke Holy Cross
12pm Service around the cross at Stoke Church Hall, with light lunch
2-4pm Family fun afternoon at the Pavilion
Easter Sunday 16th April
9am Easter celebration & communion at Arminghall
10.30am Easter celebration & communion at Stoke Holy Cross

Prayer corner
Following the attack on Westminster on Wednesday, pray for the families of all who have died, or been injured, and for others caught up in the events who will have been affected by what they have seen. Thank God for the swift and courageous response of emergency personnel and others. Pray for our nation and its leaders, that we will live in increasing unity and peace, and for a change of heart for all who would seek to create fear, death, and destruction.
Thank God in the midst of all this that in Jesus he has given us something to hope for which helps us in the midst of trouble, and promises us an inheritance which does not perish, spoil or fade, and is kept in heaven for us. (1 Peter 1:4)
Following the decision at General Synod not to take on board the Bishops’ recommendations in the difficult area of human sexuality, please pray for wisdom and grace for all who are working to make the church a place of radical welcome, and of faithfulness to what God has handed down to us in the Scriptures.
D is for discipleship: please pray for our Lent course, which is going really well. Pray that all those who join in would come to a new and deeper love for the Scriptures. Come and join us there!
Please pray for the following people, and anyone else who are in trouble of any kind:
Juliette Jarrold, Joyce & Brian Williams, Viv & David Carrington, Bette & John Pordage, and Pat Howlett, all having medical treatment.
Judith King, Daphne Ranson, Dorothy Martins, Elsie Gardner, and others receiving residential/domestic care.
The families of Reg Lester, Michael Rayner, and Joy Mills, who have died recently.
Please let us know of any others to add to this sheet: please ask their permission before giving us their information for printing.

Contacts
Vicar
Rob Baker, The Vicarage, Mill Road, Stoke Holy Cross, Norwich, NR14 8PA
01508 492305 rob@venta-group.org
Angela Bell, Church Administrator admin@venta-group.org 01508 491619
Churchwardens:
Arminghall – Pat 01508 492622 & Annie 01508 495580
Caistor St Edmund – Jani 01508 493572 & Graham 01508 493430
Stoke Holy Cross & Dunston - Peter 01508 471529 & Viv 01508 493438
NEW WEBSITE ONLINE NOW AT www.venta-group.org