This Week's Lifeline
Week commencing 18th May 2025
Readings
Ruth 2.1-13 & John 13.31-38
Prayer for the week
Risen Christ, your wounds declare your love for the world and the wonder
of your risen life: give us compassion and courage to risk ourselves for
those we serve, to the glory of God the Father. Amen
Readings for the coming week
Monday Psalm 145, Deuteronomy 16.1-20 & 1 Peter 1.1-12
Tuesday Psalm 19, Deuteronomy 17.8-end & 1 Peter 1.13-end
Wednesday Psalm 30, Deuteronomy 18.9-end & 1 Peter 2.1-10
Thursday Psalm 57, Deuteronomy 19 & 1 Peter 2.11-end
Friday Psalm 138, Deuteronomy 21.22-22.8 & 1 Peter 3.1-12
Saturday Psalm 146, Deuteronomy 24.5-end & 1 Peter 3.13-end
For your prayers
For those struggling with their mental health. For young people in our communities sitting exams. For people to sign up to our Alpha course. For all those in our churches who are unwell, recovering from surgery or undergoing treatment, including Bob Lampert & Yvonne Guerin. For those who are grieving for a loved one they have lost including the families and friends of Dan Casey & Terence Sherwood.
Youth Taster
After our morning service at the Mission Church today, 18th May, we will be offering a taster session of the 'pizza and games' evenings, minus the pizza! This is for those in year 6 in above. Come and enjoy the fun.
Celebrate@6
Our next service will be this evening, Sunday 18th May at 6pm in the Mission Church. This informal style service is open to all and will include worship, ministry and teaching. Refreshments are served.
Our Mission statement
We are currently reflecting together in our sermons on our SWCD Churches Mission statement: 'Worship God, love our communities, grow in faith'. If you are unable to be with us on a Sunday and would value the opportunity to listen to our sermons online, please have a word with Ana. We have, in the past, added recorded sermons to the website, but we're unclear whether enough people would value this and want to gauge interest.
Thank you!
To all those who were involved in the successful and much appreciated VE day themed cream tea at Holy Trinity Walton last week. A total of £461.10 was raised.
Contacts List
We are revising and updating the benefice contacts list over the coming weeks. If you are new to the church and have not completed a ‘Welcome’ form, please do, so that we have a complete list of church members. There is a supply at the back of each church and the completed forms can be handed to your churchwarden.
Alpha Course
The Alpha course is starting on Tuesday 3rd June and will run every Tuesday until 29th July and following a short break in August will resume for a further two weeks in September. Please be prayerfully considering who you might invite to join this course. If you would like to attend the course or have invited someone to attend, please let Sonia in the office know as she is compiling the guest list. Please pray for Alpha both now and during the course.
Messy Church goes wild
Our next Messy Church for primary school aged children and their parents / carers will be on Tuesday 3rd June from 3.30 - 5pm in Holy Trinity Walton. Weather permitting, the event will be outside with lots of activities as well as worship and food. Please let those families you know about this fantastic free event.
First Sunday Breakfast
Our next breakfast at the Mission Church is on Sunday 1st June 9.45- 10.15am. A reminder that we are looking for one or two people to join the team providing this as it grows in popularity. Please speak to Sarah Ruddock (Mission Church).
Thy Kingdom Come (TKC)
As we prepare for this international wave of prayer between Ascension Day and Pentecost, please be thinking about the 5 people for whom you will be praying. To help us all get ready:
TKC resources including journals, novenas and materials for young people are available to download free from the TKC website at https://www.thykingdomcome.global/resources-0
If you would prefer to receive a paper copy, please contact Sonia in the church office by this Monday,19th May with your name, church and what you'd like so she can order them.
We will be running an afternoon of continuous prayer in the parish church, Street on Saturday 7th June from 12noon to 6pm. Please put this date in your diary and watch out for further details on how to sign up.
Food Bank Donations
There are donation points in each of our churches for non-perishable food items for the foodbank run by Street Salvation Army. Please support their work with some of the most in need in our communities particularly as we remind ourselves this week that we are called to love our communities.
Confirmation Services
The Diocese will be hosting two further confirmation services this year: Bath Abbey on Sunday 8th June at 4pm & Wells Cathedral on Saturday 18th October. If you are interested in being confirmed and would like to know more details, please speak to Ana.
Children's Work in our Churches
We would love to hear from anyone interested in getting involved with our work with children and young people across our churches. It's been great to see growth and new opportunities, the harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few. Please speak to Ana.
Ascension Day Service
Our service to mark Ascension Day will be on Thursday 29th May at 7pm in the Parish Church. This will be a communion service where we will also launch 'Thy Kingdom Come'.
Advanced Notice of our next benefice service
Our next benefice service will take place on Sunday 8th June in St Andrew's Church, Compton Dundon. We will be welcoming Bishop Michael who will be preaching, presiding and dedicating the newly restored bells in St Andrew's. The service will be followed by a light lunch (generously donated by an anonymous bell project supporter) for both the church family and invited guests who have been part of the bell project. We would love to see as many of the church family there as possible and if you need or can offer transport to Compton Dundon, please speak to your church warden
What’s on this week
Sunday 18th May
9.15am Celebration@Walton, Holy Trinity Walton
10am Morning Worship, St Andrew’s Compton Dundon
10.30am Celebration@theMission, Street Mission Church
11am Holy Communion, Street Parish Church
6pm Celebrate@6, Street Mission Church
Monday
8.45am Prayer meeting, Street Mission Church
7.15pm Housegroup, Street Mission Church
Tuesday
7pm Housegroup, Zoom
Wednesday
10am Mid Week Communion, Street Mission Church
11am Bluestone Court Home Communion
12.30pm Dan Casey’s funeral, Mendip Crematorium
7.30pm Housegroup, Street Mission Church
7.30pm Handbell practice, Street Mission Church
Thursday
9.30am Prayer meeting, St Andrew’s Compton Dundon
10.30am Coffee morning, Holy Trinity Walton
Friday
9.30-12 Little Stars, Street Mission Church
Saturday
10.30-12 Coffee, chat & snacks, Street Mission Church
Sunday 25th May
8.30am Holy Communion, Street Parish Church
9.15am Morning Worship, Holy Trinity Walton
10am Holy Communion, St Andrew’s Compton Dundon
10.30am DigDeep@theMission, Street Mission Church
1pm Robert & Elizabeth’s wedding, Holy Trinity Walton
Dates for the diary
Celebrate@6, Mission Church, 18th May
Ascension Day service, Street Parish Church, 29th May
First Sunday Breakfast, Mission Church, 1st June
Messy Church goes Wild, Walton, 3rd June
Benefice Service, St Andrew's, Compton Dundon, 8th June