At our meeting last Sunday at Number 72, 14 of us where gathered in the ’Upper’ room, lead this meeting by Brian Thake. I’m sure those that where there found it a very spiritually uplifting and personally refreshing & prayerful time together with the added bonus of fellowship and fun.

Our next meeting is on Sunday 27^th May at Number 72 North Street starting at 6:00pm.

o come along if you can you might be surprise who turns up! Our Lord will be with us that’s His promise to us all:-

‘When one or two are gathered in my name I shall also be there’.

Refreshment will be available a wonderful ‘Apple Upside Down’ cake was provided by Katrina Dalgleish, for our last meeting, what culinary delights do we have awaiting us at our next meeting?

We need your help!

If your child attends a Sudbury and District school they will probably have Open the Book assemblies and have an n:vision club that they could attend.

Both of these are offered FREE of charge to the schools but to keep them going we need funds. 

HELP by coming to the Future Vision BBQ (bring your family) at All Saints Middle School, Acton Lane, on Saturday 30^th June at 6 pm, to hear about the work and make a donation so that the seed can continue to be sown in the year ahead.

Contact: Chris Rowe 370844.

                    Looking forward to seeing you there.

(Ticket entry only, with donations on the evening.)

See flier.

The next CTiS&D Open Forum is on Thursday 14^th June 2012 at Lavenham Church at 7.30pm preceded by a barbecue and refreshments from 6.30pm. The main focus will be:

Missing Generation?

Our recent survey shows 93% of local 18-35s have little or no involvement with church.  What’s to be done?

Hear and question  Dave Gardner, Vicar of St John’s Woodbridge, who has a passion for outreach.

ALSO: a full report on our Survey of 18-35s in local churches

AND:  we review the debut of SOUL CAFÉ in Sudbury

AND:  more …..

The Accidentals and Flat Broke – 27th May Concert St Peter’s Church, Sudbury, 3pm

An afternoon featuring the best of our blend of easy listening classic songs and instrumentals at St Peter’s Church, Sudbury.

Come and listen to the world premiere of our new 70s Gold TV Themes instrumental medley – magic!

Tickets £7.50 available from Compact Music, 90 North St, Sudbury or on the door.

The Accidentals is a 5 piece local female harmony group;  Flat Broke is their backing band.

From Jude Ayling

Eden’s is one of five charities that are a part of the Spirit Of Sudbury fund-raising initiative this year and one of the fund-raising aspects of this is ‘The Cabin’ in Belle Vue park that sells ice-creams and drinks. 

There is a paid member of staff working in there whenever it is open but they would like this person to be supported by volunteers. 

If we are able to provide volunteers to help staff this facility then Eden’s will get a cut of the profits according to the amount of volunteer hours provided. 

So if you have any spare time on your hands and would be willing to help Eden’s raise some money by volunteering in the park cabin then please contact the Eden’s office on 01787 375247 or email info@edensproject.co.uk.

Saturday 9th June

10am – 3pm

See Poster for details.

from Julie Mansfield

Dear All,

Remember me? I’ve been laying off the ’issues’ emails but here are two things for circulating:

The first is such a good idea I just had to share it with you.  It comes from Pam Bayliss who is the Methodist minister in Halesworth. Pam writes:

Halesworth Methodist Church hosted a Knit Bunting Day! We are still adding to the string, which we will use at our Jubilee celebrations and then pass on to the MHA The Martins in Bury St Ed. to use at their Golden 50 year celebration. Other strings may go to local homes for use at Garden parties etc., over the summer. So they will not be wasted! I find lots of our older folk love to be involved and this helps them to still feel part of things. They can knit at home!!  Hope some of your local churches will join in too. See Bunting-letter-reply-slip.pdf.

Pam

The second comes from Jane Stretch, Administrator at St Peter and St Mary’s Church, Stowmarket. Jane says:

Stowmarket Festival begins this year on 1st June and Churches Together in Stowmarket is organizing ‘An Evening with Geraldine Latty’ on Friday 1st June at 7:30pm, which is being held at St Peter and St Mary’s Church. Geraldine is a well known and respected worship leader, and led the worship at this year’s Spring Harvest, so we are delighted she is able to come for this event.  It should be a truly inspirational evening.  Our aim as Churches Together is to provide a good quality Christian input into the week of Festival events.

Tickets are £5 and are available from the church office, 01449 774652, or via e-mail: stowmarket.parish@tiscali.co.uk. See Poster-Geraldine-Latty.pdf.

That’s all for now.  Please do send me your news and ideas for circulating.

 Julie.

Saturday 26^th May at St Gregory’s Church Hall, Prince Street.

Opens 6.30pm start 7.00pm.

Tickets £4.00 each available from Graham Gilbert on 01787 373470 or from Greg Grant 01787 311172.

Maximum 4 in a team.

Light bites will be available but please bring your own drinks.

The proceeds go to St Gregory’s Church funds.

From David Ford, on behalf of Cornard Christian Fellowship

Time is now of the essence. We have heard from the agent, in this country, for The Living Waters Village in Borneo, that they hope to send the container on 26th May.  This shortens the time that we have at C.C.F. to collect any possible gifts that you might be able to give to them. Whilst not of an urgent nature, time can pass by very quickly and would therefore seek your kind attention, as soon as possible so, in turn, we can arrange collection and the ultimate transportation to the ‘collecting point’. There is an accompanying poster if you could utilise it to further spread the information.  Many thanks.

Items are required by 20^th May.

As a follow up to the recent visit to C.C.F., as a Church, we are endeavouring to assist with the small matter of trying to fill a Container that is due to leave this country towards the end of this month.

Ronney  Heyboer’s contact in this country advises that the Container is partly filled with electrical equipment that has been given with regard to the building of further school premises within the existing ‘village’ 

The cost of transport is for the container and not its contents.

So the project is to fill the Container full with additional items that the ‘village’ requires.

Many of those who were able to join us when Ronney visited were able to assist in supporting the village and the children, but others may now wish to assist also.

For more information please see Borneo container poster A4 .

David

Visit 13 – 14 October 2012

Jen will be returning to Sudbury in October to run a “Quiet Day” at Assington on 13th October. There will be very limited availability for this special day. On Sunday 14th October, Jen will be guest speaker at the United Service at St Peter’s, commencing at 6.30pm where there will be an opportunity for the ministry of laying on of hands for healing and wholeness.  Plans are still being developed for the weekend and full details will be circulated in the summer.