Newsletter November 2025
Dear Friends,
For the Church, November is traditionally a season of remembrance. We remember and give thanks for those known personally to us and also for those who have given their lives in defence of our nation. A special Lordsbridge Team Choral Evensong service is being held at St Peter and St Paul’s Church Dry Drayton on Sunday 2 November and we will be remembering with love and gratitude all those known to ourselves who have died. Our Remembrance Sunday Service is being held on November 9 starting at 10:55am at the Peace Garden. All are most welcome to join us for this special service of commemoration and remembrance.
Christians believe that Jesus offers hope and comfort to those who grieve. Jesus himself is the sign and symbol of God’s regenerative and transcending love, the promise that God will restore life where there is death. Christians believe that Jesus can bring hope even to the darkest and most painful moments of our life. Writing after their experiences of the horrors of trench warfare in WWI, both JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis wrote of how their faith in God helped them get through their worst days, giving them hope for a better tomorrow. That goodness and light would overcome the darkness in the end, and that justice would prevail. And that is our hope and prayer for today too: that the fragile peace in Gaza and the Middle East will hold, and that justice and peace will come to Ukraine and other parts of the world currently in conflict.
God Bless,
Clare
Revd Clare Coates,
Lead Minister for Hardwick, Dry Drayton and Caldecote with Childerley
clarecoates@lordsbridge.org
07818 618795
Caldecote Church – The little church with a big vision
Services in November
Sunday 2 November
11am Holy Communion for All Saints with Revd Clare
DRY DRAYTON 5:30pm Choral Evensong for All Souls, with Revd Clare and Nigel Taylor. All welcome.
Sunday 9 November Remembrance Sunday
10.55am A special service of remembrance with Stephen Coates at the Peace Garden, and a special service of commemoration in the village hall following the laying of wreaths. Refreshments (tbc) in the hall following the service. All welcome.
Sunday 16 November
3pm Evening Prayer with Revd Clare
Sunday 23 November
10:30am Churches Joint Service at Comberton Leisure Centre. Children’s activities led by GenR8. Please sign up here: https://forms.gle/ezHUuyAqUL2BtExe9
3-4pm Wild Church at the Cabin in Hardwick. A family friendly service, exploring nature and God in the grounds of the Cabin. All welcome.
Sunday 30 November Advent Sunday
10:30am Lordsbridge Team Service at St Mary’s Hardwick with Sue Nelms leading and Revd Clare preaching and presiding. Our Advent Sermon series on Handel’s Messiah begins today and WCYM will be leading our music. 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 us at any of our services across the Team.
Caldecote Women’s Prayer group Thursday mornings in term time at 9am on Zoom Women from Caldecote and surrounding villages are warmly invited to join us online, gathering in spirit to pray, reflect and lift one another up through prayers. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88137270141?pwd=pCvjk7eQrFqYX8GrvRP6JmMZKI9bYK.1
Meeting ID: 881 3727 0141
Passcode: 655934
HARDWICK
Tuesday Toddlers in the Cabin, every Tuesday in term time 10-11:30am
All welcome to join us for free play, craft, story and fun!
Useful contacts
Church Warden, Stephen Coates caldecotechurchwarden@gmail.com
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:Mrs Emily Griffiths: thelordsbridgeteam@gmail.com
Lordsbridge Team Instagram: @lordsbridge_team
Lordsbridge Team Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/LordsbridgeTeam