Prayer for the Week

Lord, I dedicate this week into your hands. Bless every day with your presence, guide my steps, and make my plans fruitful. Protect me from harm and fill my heart with peace and joy. Thank You for being with me in all things. May this week bring glory to your name and reflect your goodness in every way. I seek your guidance daily. Direct my steps and help me walk in your wisdom. Let my thoughts be aligned with your will, and may my heart be sensitive to your voice. Help me to make the right decisions, and when I am uncertain, let your peace be my confirmation. Amen

Prayers for the sick and for those recovering:  Wendy, Auril, Ian, Zelma, Mike, Jacqui, Frank, River, Theo, Maggie, David, Paul, Kiera, Yolanda, Sarah, Levi, Joy, Viola, Martin, Joan, Sharon, Eileen, Rachel, Esa, Tyson, David, Sally, Jenny, Val, Frank and Joan, Ruby.

Pray for those who have departed from this world: 

Pray for all who have died in the wars around the world, in our hospitals and nursing homes.

From our Book of Remembrance: Nathan Mwamuka, Dymtro Jimmy Mariscak and Gladys Howes. May the souls of the departed rest in peace AND RISE IN GLORY

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Church of England Parish Office email 

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New events

Any Questions with Tea – Sunday 28^th June 5pm

Ask your questions about faith and life!

Men’s Breakfast – Saturday 11^th July 9am

A chance to talk about things that matter 

– as always, no pressure to say anything you don’t want to.

Starting: 1^st Communion classes on Sundays at 6.30pm see Sophia/Neil for details

 Cippenham St. Andrew’s, 

Anglican Parish           21st June 2026 

 (Green) 

through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

Genesis 21. 8-21

The child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

⁹But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. ¹⁰So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac.” ¹¹The matter was very distressing to Abraham on account of his son. ¹²But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you. ¹³As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring.”

¹⁴So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. ¹⁵When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes. ¹⁶Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, “Do not let me look on the death of the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept. ¹⁷And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. ¹⁸Come, lift up the boy and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make a great nation of him.” ¹⁹Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink. ²⁰God was with the boy, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow. ²¹He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Romans 6. 1b-11

What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? ²By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? ³Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. ⁵For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. ⁷For whoever has died is freed from sin. ⁸But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has 

Contact Person  

Rev. Neil Popham - 01628 661994

Trinity 3/ Father’s day Sunday, 

Holy Eucharist Service 9.30am – Rev Neil 

Monday

Rev Neil’s day off

Tuesday

Children’s Ministry- 6.30pm

Bible Study on Zoom 6.30pm

Wednesday

Foodbank 11am-1pm

Thursday: 

Holy Eucharist at 10.45-Rev Neil

Children’s ministry 16.45- 18.30

Friday:

Poppets 9.15-11.45

Choir practice 6.30pm

Trinity 4 Sunday

Holy Eucharist Service 9.30am – Rev Neil

Any Questions about Faith and Life with Tea 5pm

Readings for Next Week

Genesis 22. 1-14, Romans 6. 12-23, Matthew 10. 40-42.  

Dates for your Diary 2026

Q&A on faith and life at 5pm: 28^th June 

CSCT meetings at 7.30pm: 8^th July

Men’s Breakfast at 9am: 11^th July

Special quarterly envelope collection: 13^th September

Cippenham Carnival – 4^th July

^{We're All Valued Equally}

^{WAVE for Change is a movement of people with and without learning disabilities working together to create more vibrant mixed-ability places in the heart of our communities.}

^{(Our church has signed up to be a WAVEmaker)}

^Collect

^{Almighty God, you have broken the tyranny of sin}

^{and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts whereby we call you Father:}

^{give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service, that we and all creation may be brought}

^{to the glorious liberty of the children of God}

dominion over him. ¹⁰The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

                 Matthew 10. 24-39

A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; ²⁵it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household! ²⁶“So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. ²⁷What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. ²⁸Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. ²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

 Communion Prayer

O God, whose beauty is beyond our imagining

and whose power we cannot comprehend:

show us your glory as far as we can grasp it,

and shield us from knowing more than we can bear until we may look upon you without fear;

through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen

Father’s Day Prayer for all the Father figures in our lives.

Heavenly Father, today we lift up every father, grandfather, and father figure in gratitude and love. We thank You for the gift of their presence, their guidance, and the sacrifices they make each day.
For these men who’ve stood strong, even when they felt weak.
For those who led with integrity, prayed in secret, and gave sacrificially.

Today, I lift all the fathers up to You in gratitude and intercession.
Bless them, Lord.
Strengthen them in body, soul, and spirit.
Let peace cover their homes.
Let joy return to their hearts