Church Life Focus for w/b 14th February 2021

 

Church Life Focus  And now a few pieces of news for our Church Focus. The Elders met last week and have made the decision that there will be no InPerson Worship at AFC for the next two weeks, that’s the 14th and 21st February.  The Prime Minister is due to make a statement on 22nd February and the Elders will meet the day after to once again discuss the situation. At 11.30am on both Sunday 14th and 21st February we’ll once again be hosting an After Service Fellowship time for 30 minutes.  Our Church Administrator has written to every one on the AFC list with the Zoom access codes, if you haven’t received a code and would like to join in the Zoom fellowship time, when we split into smaller breakout rooms, do email me. I’m delighted that on Tuesday this week Tea at Three are planning to experiment with a Zoom time together.  I hope that goes really well.  The Hands Together Life and Faith Group had their first Zoom gathering last week. Lent begins this week and one of the ways we are marking it this year is to hold a service of Night Prayer on Zoom every Monday evening at 9pm.  These will begin on Monday 22nd February 2021 and run every Monday evening to, and including, Monday 29th March 2021. I will be leading these with others doing the readings, prayers and talks.  We’ll gather at 8.50pm for ten minutes of ‘catch up’ fellowship and then at 9pm we’ll move into this quiet service of Night Prayer, sometimes called Compline.  We are offering this to our friends in COTHA too.  So, if you would like to join us just drop me an email and I’ll send you the access codes, you will be very welcome. And finally, I’m sure all of us at AFC will want to warmly congratulate one of my predecessors here, The Revd Keith Riglin,who has recently been elected as the new Bishop of Argyll and The Isles.  Keith was minister here for just over seven years between September 1989 to December 1996.  After he left Amersham he served as a URC minister before his ordination into the Anglican Church ministry in 2008.  Recently he’s served as a chaplain at Kings College London.  So, we wish Keith God’s richest blessing as the next stage of his journey takes him to service in Scotland.