20th September 2020 - Emmanuel Church, Plymouth
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20th September 2020 Issue No. 892
Services and Online Gatherings
at Emmanuel and St Paul’s over August and early September
Services you can attend in church are in blue & those on Facebook are in red
WEEKDAYS:
9.00am Monday – Saturday:
Morning Prayers at 9.00am on Facebook ‘Go Live’ (From September
we will probably have it earlier in the morning at a time to be decided).
10.30am On Wednesdays: An informal service breaking the Word & Bread to-
gether at 10.30am at Emmanuel Church, using both bread and wine (in
individual cups) to celebrate the Lord’s grace, mercy and covenant of sal-
vation. 25 individuals or more if seated in households.
9.00pm Every day of the week: Compline at 9.00pm will be on Facebook ‘Go
Live’ the Emmanuel and St Paul’s page and available afterwards as a
recording.
SUNDAYS: now look like this
8.00 Holy Communion from Book of Common Prayer (BCP) IN Emmanuel
CHURCH (not live).
10.00 Morning Service from St Paul’s alternating between Holy
Communion and Morning Prayer.
10.30 'The Gathering’: Informal Agapé Communion IN Emmanuel CHURCH
(Also live on Facebook).
4.00pm ‘Drum Crazy Praise’: A short, informal service for families with
children at Emmanuel (Also Live on Facebook).
9.00pm Compline (on Facebook).
Home Groups are being invited to take part in a new routine (or to remain do-
ing their own thing! Meeting ID: 279 338 2327 Passcode: Click Here
1st Wednesday 7:30pm : Parish Prayer Meeting on Zoom
2nd Wednesday 7:30pm: Home Groups meeting on Zoom - initially together for
clergy input on the Bible passage, then in breakout rooms in their groups for
discussion, then together for feedback, then breakout for prayers, then together
before departing.
3rd Wednesday 7:30pm: Zoom prayer room - ‘Praying with the voice of the
Psalmist’. Taking a lead from a Psalm and praying together for personal, church,
national and international needs
4th Wednesday 7:30pm: Home Groups meeting on Zoom - initially together for
clergy input on the Bible passage, then in breakout rooms in their groups for
discussion, then together for feedback, then breakout for prayers, then together
before departing.
5th Wednesday: FREE !
APCM
Annual Parochial Church Meeting Emmanuel with St Paul’s 2020
The APCM will be held at Emmanuel on Sunday 18th October at 10.30am as an
integral part of the morning service.
Our hope is that we can incorporate the APCM with an act of worship, and if
possible, hold our proceedings outdoors. If this is possible, why not bring along a
picnic to enjoy afterwards? (Socially distanced, of course!)
The APCM is a great opportunity to hear about the work of the Parish and to
participate in looking forward to the year ahead, so please come. It will only last for
about half an hour.
There are a number of vacancies coming up on the Parochial the Parochial Church
Council. Nominations for lay people to become members of the PCC and/or
Deanery Synod are invited. The PCC meets 3-4 times a year, dependent upon the
needs of parish business, for approximately two hours on a Thursday evening and
takes a parish-wide overview of the work of the two churches.
Nomination forms are available in both churches and voting will take place at the
APCM. At Emmanuel the forms can be found in a container attached to the notice
board at the back of the church and there is a gold-covered box for completed
forms near the exit. Please could you complete the forms by 4th October so that a
list of nominations can be displayed in the churches by 11th October.
TONYS’ REFLECTIONS A THANK YOU FROM ANN
Last week, the reflection looked at a
Thank you so much for all the cards and
Royal Honours list and found some messages that you sent for my ordination.
surprising entries – Psalm 91:15. Despite the circumstances I felt that it was a
wonderful occasion and strangely intimate
By the time you read this, Tony’s in the cathedral setting.
next weekly reflection will be Every blessing
available on the website. Ann
Read Ann’s Au Revoir in the Parish
Magazine on page 46
A PUZZLING PUZZLE…..
A tricky question or puzzle for you…
Who is the world’s largest tyre manufacture?
Answer on NOW ON BACK PAGE!THANK YOU
My Dear Friends ,
We would like to thank you all per-
sonally, so please forgive us that
this is a letter - but nevertheless it
is with a humble heart that we
thank you for your contribution to
our food bag project during Covid.
We delivered over 200 food bags
to Efford families which included
tins, packets and store cupboard
items from your donations.
We were also able to include fresh meat, vegetables and fruit from our cash dona-
tions. We also gave almost 100 emergency food bags to George House homeless
hostel for the lockdown period. These were a lifeline and we were delighted to hear
that after the lockdown period they wanted their vulnerable folk to start to manage
their own food shopping and money.
The feedback has been amazing, we are completely bowled over to the response
to our project.
What a way to show God’s presence in Efford !
Thank you to you all for praying, donating, sorting, shopping and delivering and for
making it happen.
Love and Blessings to you all.
Jo, Margaret, Bev and Barrie
PRAYER LOUNGE WEDNESDAY PRAYERS
Come and join our informal prayer meeting on Come and join the open
Zoom. prayer room on zoom led by
We are on a prayer journey through Psalms, the Rev Tony every Wednesday
only 100% inspired prayer book, learning how to between 7.30 and 8.30pm. A
pray with a Psalm each week. chance to join in with fellow
This week, Psalm 5 …. members of the congregation
Zoom ID 141 678 79 (usual password) praising God and interceding
for the World, the church and
BEREAVEMENT JOURNEY COURSE ourselves,
https://us04web.zoom.us/
A few spaces are still available for the Bereave- j/141678796?
ment Journey Course, which will commence on pwd=VERURTVtcWQzbkZvd
Monday 28th September at 7.30 pm via Zoom. XFRMnJpKzg3dz09
It is suitable for anyone who has been bereaved, ID : 141 678 796
whether recently or dating back several years Usual password
and will run for six weeks.
For further information please contact Kathryn
McGuinnessDIME
Future DIMES zoom meetings are planned through the Autumn on the first Satur-
day of the month at 11am.
• October 3rd - Becky Bale will give her testimony.
• November 7 - Rebecca Smith will speak about being a Christian involved in
politics. She is a church warden of St Matthias Church and a Plymouth Councillor
and works for Gary Streeter MP.
December 5th - We will have a Meditation led by Mavis Holmes
Here is the link and contact details:
https://tinyurl.com/y2g95sqq Meeting ID: 872 8636 7757
Usual password (contact Linda on 01752 227003 if you need it)
MAYFLOWER 400
It’s not just the 150th anniversary of Emmanuel’s mission this week, it was also
400 years since The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth. If you missed it here are
some links to catch up on
Bishop Nick
The Bishop of Plymouth, the Right Reverend Nick McKinnel, reflects on the legacy
of the Mayflower and the Christians fleeing persecution; looking for somewhere
they could live with greater religious freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOoIl75C6bk
Songs of Praise
Aled Jones is in Plymouth where 400 years ago, a group of Christians embarked
on an epic journey across the Atlantic that changed American history – the voyage
of the Mayflower.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000mn4b/songs-of-praise-mayflower
EMMANUEL 150
Emmanuel is celebrating 150 years of ministry - over the next few newsletter
editions we will touch on part of the story. You can find the whole story - and the
blurb! - in the latest Parish Magazine. Find it on the website at:
https://www.emmanuelplymouth.co.uk/Publisher/File.aspx?ID=262647FROM THIS... LAND IS GIVEN FOR A NEW CHURCH
The little ‘chapel’ in Lower Compton village, presided over by Emmanuel’s first vicar, the Rev.
George Fletcher, was clearly inadequate, and one can imagine many social reasons, in the Vic-
torian age, for its being found unsatisfactory for those living in what was seen as a ‘superior’
suburb. Thus it was in 1866 that Compton’s new curate-in-charge, the Rev George Henry
Fletcher, M.A., and the Rev Henry Addington Greaves, M.A., vicar of Charles Church, began
to plan a new church for the burgeoning suburb. At a meeting in Compton Schoolroom, held
on 15th December 1866, a half-acre site to the east of Tavistock Road and north of Walmer Vil-
la was offered by Mrs Betsy Revel and her daughter Miss Elizabeth Ann Revel. The name of
the church was to be ‘Emmanuel’.
VIA ALL OF THIS...
Now, through time and memorial half-acre of land became a mission field for ministry -
developed, re-ordered and adapted, through wars, unstable economic climates, ringing,
singing and technologically advancing. Emmanuel has stood firm in its remit to know God
and make God known.
And somehow crop circles, Port Said, a hockey-playing
vicar, a cookery book, Big Ben, Coventry Cathedral, two
wars and a pandemic have all played a part, oh, and
there’s the strange recurring connection with Buckland
Monachorum!
TO THIS A MISSION FOR MINISTRY: DIGITAL DEVELOPMENTS
From the first steps into website use and email communications, to a whole different way of
doing Church using internet services. Emmanuel, along with St Paul’s has, like most parishes
across the country now had to adapt to the challenges the daily life that most of 2020 has
thrown at us, and that has made us rely heavily on digital technology as a means of worship,
devotion, services, sermons and fellowship.The completed first stage of the building was consecrated on 19 th September 1870 with a seat-
ing capacity of 470 - and now on the 19th September 2020 (the day after or the day you have
received this!), 150 years on, we embark on the next chapter; in our own strange times, keep-
ing connected whilst apart, our part in Emmanuel’s history, and the history of the parish, is
being built, foundations in faith, fellowship cemented and a restoration of togetherness.
WEBSITE LINK
https://www.emmanuelplymouth.co.uk/
Publisher/File.aspx?ID=262647
Psalm 24 was read at the open-
ing of the church.
* That’s is, exclusive to Keeping Connected and not featured in the
current magazine
Emmanuel Church, 1 Compton Ave, Mannamead, Plymouth, PL3 5BZ
Tel: 01752 260317
Email: office@emmanuelplymouth.co.uk
Website: www.emmanuelplymouth.co.uk
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Deadline for this publication: Wednesdays 12noon via the email address above or direct to the editor> THE ENVIRONMENT
SUN
Heavenly Father, you have taught us, that all creation is your handiwork.
Grant us your grace that we may exercise wise stewardship of this Earth.
God of creation, who loves all he has made and all that has evolved, open
MON the eyes of your people, that your love might be reflected in our care for the
planet.
Help us to cherish Earth’s resources; so that our children may enjoy its rich-
TUE es, throughout all generations, and your name be glorified through all that
you have made.
Turn us from careless tenants to faithful stewards, so that there will be clean
WED air, pure water and rich earth and one generation may proclaim to another
the wonder of your works.
Eternal God, renew your creation, and restore your image in your people
THU through Jesus Christ, your living Word, in whom the fullness of your glory is
revealed.
FRI
Lord Jesus, forgive our over consumption and the waste that results from
our greed and selfishness. Show us how we can change our ways.
Help us to lift our voice for lasting change and to live well and gently on the
SAT earth to the glory of your Son, the Living Word through whom you made
this precious world.
THESE PRAYERS WERE PROVIDED BY: Churchofengland.org
If you are interested in writing the weekly prayers for the noticesheet, please contact Linda on 227003
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