A warm welcome to you on this Second Sunday of Easter. Please do join us after the service to share in a cup of tea or coffee. All ages are welcome at St. Mary’s, children included. There is also a crèche in the office for the very young if you need it. If this is your first time with us, please do fill in the slip at the end of the newsletter, so that we can keep in touch with you. St Mary’s is fitted with a hearing loop system. Members of the congregation who have a hearing aid with a ‘T’ switch will find that they can hear better when it is switched to ‘T’.

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March Tote
1st Prize No. 56 Fran Goalby £27.50
2nd Prize No. 47 A. Addie £ 9.00

Thank You
A big thank you to everyone who donated money either for flowers to decorate the church today or to pay for hot cross buns after the Walk of Witness on Good Friday. It was much appreciated.
Thank you too to everyone who has worked so hard, especially in this last week to make our services go so well either by attending them or decorating or cleaning the buildings.
Please make sure that you all take an egg away with you to celebrate with us today.

A Quiet Day on 14th May
Please see Sue Morton or Tony Thistlewood for booking forms and more details. It is being held at St John’s Church Wolvey set in rural surroundings.

Tickets for Kew Gardens
Jean Hudson has obtained 4 tickets for admission to Kew Gardens to be used by June 30th for which she would like to invite bids, with the money raised going to the church redecoration fund. Bids to Jean or Barbara Hancox for a pair of tickets or all 4, by the 12th April. Thank you. Barbara Hancox

Free to a good home
Electric Organ - Yamaha Model B4BR—double keyboard with roll top and stool [approx size - small sideboard]. Anyone interested please contact Sue Morton on 024 7661 7128

Annual Parochial Church Meeting
Our Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday April 17th this year. Papers are available today. PCC have decided not to hold a shared lunch after this meeting this year but plan to do so possibly at Pentecost and Harvest time. More details of these dates will follow. Nominations for Churchwardens, 3 Deanery Synod Representatives and 8 PCC Members are now invited. Please see the forms on the Rotas noticeboard.
Our electoral roll has been revised and after new members have been added and a couple removed we now stand at a membership of 135 (134 last year).

Situations Vacant
Three situations with the Barnabas Trust, an international Church Charity based in Coventry, have been notified to us. They require a Data Entry/IT Support Officer and 2 Supporters Relations Officers. If you are interested please see the noticeboard next to the Mission Board for more details.

Quiz Evening
Advance notice of our next Quiz evening here at St Mary’s. Will and Hannah Morley-Brown have organised a quiz which we plan to hold on Friday 22nd April at 7pm. Please put the date in your diary now. Tickets will be available after Easter.

Advance Notice
On April 11th at 7.30 pm at Walsgrave Baptist Church there will be a Wyken Sector Police Consultative meeting at which Inspector Malcolm Prestwich will discuss the past and future performance of our local police. Please do go along to express your point of view, concerns or satisfaction.

Coffee Club
The next coffee club meeting is next Wednesday 6th April at 10.45am. Gwen and Bill Brown have kindly agreed to continue the coffee club whilst Edna is convalescing. They will also do a light lunch. All welcome.

Second Sunday of Easter

Collect: Almighty Father, you have given your only Son to die for our sins
and to rise again for our justification: grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness that we may always serve you in pureness of living and truth; through the merits of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

First Reading Acts 2. 14a, 22-32 [8am only]

Second Reading: 1 Peter 1. 3-9 [8am only]

Gospel Reading: John 20. 19-31 [8am only]

Post Communion Prayer: Lord God our Father, through our Saviour Jesus Christ you have assured your children of eternal life and in baptism have made us one with him: deliver us from the death of sin and raise us to new life in your love, in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This week beginning 3rd April 2005
Sunday 8 am Holy Communion
10 am Worship for All with Communion
11.45 am Baptism
Monday NO Morning Prayer
7 pm Parish Office
Tuesday 9 am Morning Prayer
7 pm Prayers for the sick - 50 Regina Crescent
Wednesday 10 am Holy Communion
Thursday 9 am Morning Prayer
Saturday 9 am Morning Prayer
Sunday10th April
8 am Holy Communion
10 am Parish Communion with Baptism
6.30 pm Evening Prayer