Prayer for the Week

Dear God, thank you for giving us this new week. Please give us the energy and strength we need to accomplish all that lies ahead. Please keep our eyes fixed on you and not on the worries of this world. Help us not to be anxious, worried or stressed. You have asked us not to worry so many times in the Bible, let us heed your word, knowing your promise that You will never leave us, just like a shepherd never leaves his sheep unattended. We commit this week and everything in it into your hands and ask for your love, joy and peace to fill our hearts. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

Prayers for the sick and for those recovering:  Wendy, Auril, Ian, Zelma, Mike, Jacqui, Frank, River, Theo, Maggie, David, Priscilla, Paul, Kiera, Yolanda, Sarah, Levi, Joy, Viola, Martin, Joan , Liz, 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.

Remembering Dennis who died recently, please hold Rev Neil and his family in your prayers.

From our Book of Remembrance: Daisy Chingoka.

May the souls of the departed rest in peace AND RISE IN GLORY

Church Warden- Mizrab    07490153847

Lay Chair- Sandie    01753 575107

PCC Secretary - Matt       07984321334     

PCC Treasurer- Sunny     07850321156               

Safeguarding Officer-     07951074256

Website Editor- Ray        07730221947

Poppets – Rev Neil        01628 661994

The Choir - Leiola         07710329518   

Room Hire-Sylvia         07546710834 

LLM – Angeline            07951074256

Church of England Parish Office email 

standrewscofecippenham@hotmail.co.uk

Website: standrewcippenham.org

 Cippenham St. Andrew’s, 

Anglican Parish            3^rd May 2026 

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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.

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Acts 7. 55-60

But filled with the Holy Spirit, he gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ⁵⁶“Look,” he said, “I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” ⁵⁷But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all rushed together against him. ⁵⁸Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him; and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” ⁶⁰Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he died.

1 Peter 2. 2-10

Like new-born infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation— ³if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

⁴Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and ⁵like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶For it stands in scripture: “See, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” ⁷To you then who believe, he is precious; but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the very head of the corner,” ⁸and “A stone that makes them stumble, and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. ⁹But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. ¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

                 John 14. 1-14

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. ²In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.

⁴And you know the way to the place where I am going.” ⁵Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father

Contact Person  

Rev. Neil Popham - 01628 661994

Easter 5 Sunday

Holy Eucharist Service 9.30am –Rev Janet Cresswell

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 Service at 10.45

Children’s ministry 16.45- 18.30

Friday:

Poppets 9.15-11.45

Choir practice 6.30pm

Easter 6 /Christian Aid Sunday, 

Holy Eucharist Service 9.30am – Rev Neil and Rachelle

Readings for Next Week

Acts 17. 22-31, 1 Peter 3. 13-22, John 14. 15-21.  

Dates for your Diary 2026

CSCT meetings at 7.30pm: 13^th May

PCC meetings at 7pm: 20^th May, APCM 31^st May, 

Special quarterly collection – 8^th June

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^Collect

^{Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ have overcome death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: grant that, as by your grace going before us you put into our minds good desires, so by your continual help we may bring them to good effect; through Jesus Christ our risen Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen}

except through me. ⁷If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” ⁸Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” ⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. ¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves.

¹²Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. ¹³I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.

Post Communion Prayer

Eternal God, whose Son Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life: grant us to walk in his way,

to rejoice in his truth, and to share his risen life;

who is alive and reigns, now and for ever. Amen

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

Message from Rev Neil and family:

Thank you all for your kind and comforting words, cards and prayers. It is always difficult to lose a loved one but you all make it easier to bear by being there for us and keeping the ship afloat.

God Bless you all.