April Newsletter

Dear Friends,

Happy Easter! It is such a wonderful time of the year, with our gardens, hedgerows, churchyard and surrounding countryside bursting into life. The daffodils have been especially lovely this year. Spring has definitely arrived and it is so good to have warmer days and longer nights again after a rather wet and windy winter. We are now entering Easter season in the church calendar, a time to celebrate and rejoice, giving thanks to Jesus for all that he did for us.  Easter gives us great hope, encouragement, joy and peace, no matter how difficult things may have been for us over the past year. The Easter message – that Jesus is alive and has defeated death – gives us tangible hope that doesn’t disappoint; and it gives us the strength we need whatever we are facing. Easter is a reminder to us that just as spring flowers are bursting into new life, we too can look forward with hope. Jesus who was crucified has risen. By the power of God, Jesus rose from the dead and is alive, and in his rising allows us not only to start afresh here and now in this life but offers us the hope and promise of eternal life with him.

Wishing you a very happy April,

God Bless,

Clare

Clare Coates,
Lead Minister for Caldecote with Childerley, Dry Drayton and Hardwick

clarecoates@lordsbridge.org

07818618795

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Services in April

Sunday 7th April
NO SERVICE

Sunday 21st April
3:00-4:00pm Café Church at St Michael and All Angels Church, with Rev’d Clare and Stephen Coates. We will be exploring our beautiful churchyard and thinking about God’s creation. All welcome.

Zoom
Worship at Home – All Lordsbridge Zoom Service
Every Sunday, 11.00am. Join any time from 10.50am: https://zoom.us/j/82311473640.

On Sundays where there is no service in our church, you are most welcome to join any of our services across the team: please see our website www.lordsbridge.org for further details.


Notices

Hamper Scheme
Caldecote Church partners with our local primary school to offer a supermarket voucher to Caldecote families who might appreciate some help through the holidays. If you would like to donate to this scheme, please see the link below:

Donate to Caldecote’s Summer Hamper Scheme


What’s On

Easter Monday 1st April
2:00-5:00pm
Childerley Open Gardens

All are most welcome to come and enjoy visiting the beautiful gardens at Childerley Hall, in aid of St Michael and All Angels Church, Caldecote. There will be refreshments available and well behaved dogs on leads are welcome. Entrance £5 adults, children under 16 free.

Saturday 4th May, Come and Sing Faure’s Requiem at St Peter and St Paul’s Dry Drayton


Useful Contacts

Revd Claire Robertson, Lead Minister for Coton, Barton, Harlton and Haslingfield: 01223 874194; clairerobertson@lordsbridge.org

Revd Charles Fraser, Lead Minister for Little and Great Eversden: charlesfraser@lordsbridge.org; 01223 264974

Team Administrator: Becca Herrick; rebeccaherrick@lordsbridge.org


March Newsletter

Dear Friends,

It is wonderful to see so many daffodils emerging, brightening up our hedgerows, gardens and churchyard. I am looking forward to warmer and longer days in the coming weeks! Looking ahead, we are once again fundraising for the church at Childerley Hall’s Open Gardens on Easter Monday, from 2-5pm – please see ‘What’s on’ below, for further details. Childerley gardens are particularly beautiful in the Spring, and all are most welcome to come and explore the grounds and drop in to the chapel for tea and cake!

We are nearly at our half way point in Lent, with Mothering Sunday on March 10 this year. Please do join us at one of our services in the Lordsbridge Team, as there will be no church service in Caldecote this year. Mothering Sunday is a time for us to celebrate, honour and give thanks for our mothers and for all who have cared for us. For many of us, it’s a hard day as we may be remembering those no longer with us; or we may have no immediate family. No matter what our circumstances, we all belong to God’s family. A family which stands by one another and looks after one another, no matter what.

I hope you have a wonderful March, and a very Happy Easter!

God Bless,

Clare

Clare Coates,
Lead Minister for Caldecote with Childerley, Dry Drayton and Hardwick

clarecoates@lordsbridge.org

07818618795

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and see what we are up to across the team!

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Services in March

Sunday 3rd March
11:00am Holy Communion at St Michael and All Angels Church with Rev’d Clare. All welcome.

Sunday 17th March
3:00-4:00pm Café Church the Village Hall with Rev’d Clare. All welcome.

Good Friday 29th March
3:00-4:00pm An hour at the Cross, at Childerley Chapel, Childerley Hall, with Rev’d Clare. All welcome.

Sunday 24th March, Palm Sunday
11:00am Holy Communion, followed by our APCM, with Rev’d Clare. All welcome.

Sunday 31st March, Easter Day
11:00am Holy Communion, with Rev’d Clare. All welcome

LENT
Saturday 2nd March, Quiet Morning
10:00am-12:30pm at St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Dry Drayton with Rev’d Priscilla. All welcome.

Zoom
Worship at Home – All Lordsbridge Zoom Service
Every Sunday, 11.00am. Join any time from 10.50am: https://zoom.us/j/82311473640.

On Sundays where there is no service in our church, you are most welcome to join any of our services across the team: please see our website www.lordsbridge.org for further details.


Notices

Hamper Scheme
Caldecote Church partners with our local primary school to offer a supermarket voucher to Caldecote families who might appreciate some help through the holidays. If you would like to donate to this scheme, please see the link below:

Donate to Caldecote’s Summer Hamper Scheme


What’s On

Easter Monday 1st April
2:00-5:00pm
Childerley Open Gardens

All are most welcome to come and enjoy visiting the beautiful gardens at Childerley Hall, in aid of St Michael and All Angels Church, Caldecote. There will be refreshments available and well behaved dogs on leads are welcome.

Saturday 4th May, Come and Sing Faure’s Requiem at St Peter and St Paul’s Dry Drayton


Useful Contacts

Revd Claire Robertson, Lead Minister for Coton, Barton, Harlton and Haslingfield: 01223 874194; clairerobertson@lordsbridge.org

Revd Charles Fraser, Lead Minister for Little and Great Eversden: charlesfraser@lordsbridge.org; 01223 264974

Team Administrator: Becca Herrick; rebeccaherrick@lordsbridge.org