Sunday 28th June, Festival of St Peter & St Paul
9.30 am | Services page | Eucharist from Little Gaddesden Church for the Berkhamsted Team Ministry | (JR) |
The broadcast will begin shortly after 9.20 am on the Services page and the Eucharist itself at 9.30 am.
Tuesday 30th June
10.30 am | Zoom | Café Zoom – Tuesday morning Coffee and Cake | (see below) |
Wednesday 1st July
10.00 am | Services page | Midweek Communion from Great Gaddesden Church for the Berkhamsted Team Ministry | (JR) |
This will be a playable-on-demand video recording on the Services page available from 10.00 am.
7.55 pm | Zoom | Midweek Discussion Group | (see below) |
Sunday 5th July, Trinity 4
9.30 am | Services page | Eucharist for the Berkhamsted Team Ministry | (JR) |
Notices
Coronavirus
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, there will be no formal acts of worship at our three Parish Churches for the foreseeable future.
Little Gaddesden Church is open for private prayer at the limited times shown on the Front Page of the website.
There will be a broadcast Eucharist service at 9.30am on a Sunday and a midweek Communion at 10.00am on a Wednesday for all the Berkhamsted Team Ministry. See the Services page. This Sunday’s service for the Berkhamsted Team Ministry comes from Little Gaddesden Church to mark the Patronal Festival of St Peter & St Paul.
zoom Meetings
Several meetings are now being held on the Zoom video conferencing platform. Details of two of them are below. Here’s some general guidance about this technology, which many people in the village are now getting familiar with.
Joining instructions for each meeting will come by email from the person who’s hosting it. You’ll need a computer, tablet or smartphone with working microphone, speakers/headphones and camera to participate fully. If you’re using a tablet or smartphone and haven’t used Zoom before you can get ready ahead of time by downloading the Zoom Cloud Meetings app from the App Store (for iPads and iPhones) or Google Play (for Android tablets and phones). If you’re using a desktop or laptop, the software will download automatically when you join your first Zoom meeting, or is also available for manual download in advance here (choose Zoom Client for Meetings).
Café Zoom
Tuesday morning’s Coffee and Cake sessions are now online. We are getting together virtually by Zoom on Tuesdays from 10:30am to 12:00noon. Contact Barbara Sheard at barbara@sheard.com, preferably a day or so beforehand, to ask for joining details for this week’s Café Zoom. You’ll need to make your own coffee…and bring your own cake!
Midweek Discussion Group on Zoom
The Midweek Discussion Group has now been meeting via Zoom on Wednesday evenings for the last weeks, since the COVID-19 lockdown, and these are planned to continue.
The sessions start with a general welcome chat to hear how everyone is getting on, then some discussion centred around a Bible passage (usually studies in Matthew’s Gospel), with a short time of prayer at the end. Everyone will be considered to be fully present if they have signed in, but there is no need to say or share anything. You can spend the whole time ‘mute’ if you wish!
There are the usual protocols about confidentiality, as anything shared must be respected as being confidential to the group. All are welcome, but if inviting others please contact Anthony first.
The next series of ‘meetings’ are as follows:
- 1 July Matthew 10:40-end
- 8 July Matthew 11:16-19, 25-end
- 15 July Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
- 22 July Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
- 29 July Matthew 13:44-46
Sign in is at 19.55 hrs and the sessions end at 9.30pm sharp. The Zoom invitation is sent a few days beforehand, usually with some background material. Please contact Anthony Archer on anthony.archer@bridgewaterassociates.co.uk or 07721 504125 with any questions
Regular Giving
Please remember that the church continues to function even with the buildings closed, so we do ask that you continue with your regular financial giving to support the ministry. If you normally give weekly in church, you may like to consider paying direct through your bank account. Click or tap here to visit the Donate Page to find out more.
Do you need any Financial Help?
If you, or anyone you know, is in financial difficulty, the Vicar has access to a hardship fund. Please feel free to contact him in the strictest of confidence on 01442 214898 or at vicar@littlegaddesdenchurch.org.uk
New Videos
A Video recording of last Sunday’s service has been released on the Services Archive page of the website.
Sung Eucharist for St John the Baptist (released on Sunday 21 June 2020)
And on the Front Page Anthony Archer, Reader, shares his Thought for The Day for 25 June 2020: