Dear Friends,
Spring is finally here and it has been wonderful to see spring flowers and blossom appearing, and to hear the joyful song of birds each day. This April we will be celebrating Easter fairly late, on April 20th. Holy Week begins with our Palm Sunday service on April 13th and there will be a variety of Holy Week services at our Church and in other parishes within the Lordsbridge Team. Please see below for further details. All are most welcome to join us in our Easter celebrations on Easter Morning at the church. On the very first Easter morning, something totally unexpected happened. Imagine the womens’ surprise when they found an empty tomb, and an Angel who asked them: why are you looking for the living among the dead? Jesus is not here, but he has risen (Luke 24:5) The news brought by the women that Jesus was not dead, but alive and waiting for them, didn’t make sense to Jesus’s friends that first Easter morning. Luke tells us that the apostles did not believe them, dismissing it as an impossible fairy story. The news that Jesus is alive and raised from the dead flies in the face of what we know to be true – that death is the end; no way back; the end of our earthly existence. The logical response is unbelief because our own life experience teaches us death wins. But the Easter message is that death is not final because in and through Jesus we can have eternal life with God, if we choose to follow Him. Thanks to Jesus’s death and resurrection, life and love get the last word. Love is stronger than death. What an incredible message of hope. Regardless of who we are, how we have lived our lives, or what we believe (or don’t), God’s promise of life and love remains open to us all.
Wishing you and your family a very happy and blessed Easter.
God Bless,
Clare
Clare Coates,
Lead Minister for Caldecote with Childerley, Dry Drayton and Hardwick
clarecoates@lordsbridge.org
07818618795
Services in April
Sunday 6 April
11am Holy Communion with Revd Clare followed by our APCM. All welcome.
Sunday 13 April Palm Sunday
11am Morning Worship for Palm Sunday with Stephen Coates
Thursday 17 April Maundy Thursday at St Mary’s, Hardwick
6pm Holy Communion with handwashing, led by Revd Clare
Friday 18 April Good Friday at Childerley Chapel
3pm An hour at the Cross, with Revd Clare
Sunday 20 April Easter Day
11am Holy Communion with Revd Clare
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.
What’s On
Useful Contacts
Churchwarden: 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: Becca Herrick; rebeccaherrick@lordsbridge.org