Hi All,

This Sunday we continue the Elements sermon series, the theme is Scripture, and Anna Hope will be speaking. There will be Communion Services at 8am and 10am at St. Leonard’s.

On Wednesday 1st May, Hymns We Love will focus on Rock of Ages at the midweek service at 11am The community café will wrap around this from 10:30-12:30 in the Centre.

Tomorrow, the Inspire Women team have arranged a speaker on the Menopause. Come along to the Centre at 2pm. All are welcome – men included! Refreshments included, it’s free but donations are very welcome.

On Tuesday there is a Fellowship walk, and the Hub keep fit on Thursday. 

We are going large on Thy Kingdom Come this year in the run up to Pentecost, and there will be a programme of events suitable for all ages and abilities across the week. These include 24/7 Prayer, mini and maxi pilgrimages, Beating the Bounds, and online morning prayer. More info and contact details in the Welcome Sheet attached.

If this inspires you, perhaps you might like to consider taking a step into Baptism or Confirmation in the summer. Bishop David is booked to come on 23rd June, and all are welcome to chat to Ben about this. This may be best initiated by emailing him on ben@oww.church. 

The APCM on Monday was well attended and Erika, Annie and Serena were all elected to the PCC (pics in Welcome Sheet!) Thanks too to the catering and setting up teams too.

We are still collecting photos for the new Church Directory, so please take one on a phone and send it to the office email address as soon as possible if you are newish and aren’t in the 2023 version. Photos are so helpful in putting names to faces, so please bite the bullet and send one in (yes, I hate that too!)

I had a lovely day on Saturday in the Chilterns eating doughnuts whilst others were cycling 17miles up 1:7 hills, so I’d be up for that again I reckon! This weekend promises to be a lot more sedentary so I am glad I walked through Micheldever Woods this week admiring the bluebells. This ‘green bathing’ is definitely beneficial to my mental health, so I might walk through the Oil Seed Rape fields this weekend, if I can take the glaring yellow for that long! I’d recommend the Fellowship Walk this week for sure.

Whatever you are up to, stay safe,
Love Px