St Peter's Yaxley

…reaching out in love and faith

Helpful Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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We’re aware that there may be lots of resources coming your way and sometimes you may want to just file them away for later. Hopefully this page will help!

If we come across anything that may be of help, we will post a link in here. This is a working document and will continue to grow. You can help grow this document too; if you see anything that you think may be useful to others, please send us the link.

Here is the latest Government & NHS advice on Coronavirus.

St. Peter’s Church Platforms of Communication
Church Office (Laura): 07939 449255 / email
Rev Sarah: 07498 230858 / 01733 248690 / email

Sign up to the weekly e-newsletter on our home page – we will keep you updated with online service details and church news

Our Facebook Community Group – Our virtual community, a place we can come together, chat, ask for prayer, watch videos together and connect

Our Facebook & Instagram Pages– A place of encouragement & hope 

Our YouTube Channel – The place to go for all our Sunday Services and other videos. If you subscribe to the channel you should receive notifications on new videos as they are posted.

Service Sheets – Sunday 22nd March, Sunday 29th March

Zoom – You can sign up for zoom for free, using your email address. This allows you to make video calls via your phone, tablet, laptop, PC, with lots of other people.

Regular Services, Devotionals, Reflections and Teaching
The Diocese of Ely will be posting regular reflections on their YouTube Channel. 

Other local churches, such as CSK, Chatteris and the Stilton group all have YouTube Channels & Facebook pages too and are posting regular content.

The Church of England are posting regular services on their YouTube channel & Facebook page too.

The Leprosy Mission are posting devotionals and services on their YouTube channel 

On the Spring Harvest YouTube Channel, between 13th-17th April, you will be able to virtually attend their conference!

A new Facebook group has been launched, Arts with God. The aim of the group is to build a community of people who want to discover more of God through the arts.

Podcasts
Mike Pilavachi & Andy Croft from Soul Survivor are doing a Daily Podcast

Encouraging Videos
Psalm 23 by Mike Pilavachi 

Scripture Union’s Message

Prayers from Watoto

Prayer
Prayer Stations at home – Look up, look in, look out Facebook Group

Thy Kingdom Come Family Prayer Adventure

Added 01.04.2020 Prayer for deliverance from the Coronavirus

Added 01.04.2020 An Hour of Prayer for the Coronavirus Pandemic

Worship Music
Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God

No Longer Slaves

Is He worthy?

Raise a Hallelujah

The Blessing

Waymaker

Ways to help others
Tap Twinning 
Yaxley & Farcet Covid-19 Support Network Facebook Group
Support Number 01733 794513 & email

Miscellaneous
If you are currently pregnant The Birthing Hub Facebook Group are answering all sorts of questions. They are providing an online community for local women to chat and get advice. The group is led by Lisa-Marie, an independent midwife, who has a pool of professionals that she is drawing on for advice in all areas. 

March Talks Available HERE

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Talks are now located within the news section of the website due to technical difficulties with the Talks webpage.

Sunday 8th March 2020

Reading: Genesis 17:15-18:15

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Sunday 15th March 2020

Reading: Matthew 25:31-46

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Sunday 22nd March 2020 – Mothering Sunday

Readings: Exodus 2:1-10 & John 19:25-27

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February Talks Available HERE

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Talks will temporarily be located within the news section of the website due to technical difficulties with the Talks webpage.

Sunday 9th February 2020

Reading: 1 Chronicles 16:8-36

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Sunday 16th February 2020

Reading: Exodus 32:1-12

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Click Here to listen to Matt Redman’s Heart of Worship

Sunday 23rd February 2020

Reading: Romans 12:1-8

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The Hope that Easter Brings

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Written at the beginning of March

Dear Friends,

I have lived in lots of different places in my lifetime. All of them have been in this country but all of them have had very different scenery around them from outer London to the Shropshire Hills, Salisbury Plains to the Fens. I am always amazed by the variety and diversity around us in this country let alone the world.

I love this time of year and the beauty around us which I think shows something of the extravagance of God. We might see this in the spring flowers, in the sunset or sunrise (depending if you are a morning person or not!). We might experience it in love and care from friends and family.

Fear is building in our country and our world at the moment, yet our Easter story is one where life overcomes death, where light comes through the dark as Jesus overcomes death and the grave. As we enter April this year, April 12th is Easter Day, when we think about the ultimate new life – the new life that we have received because of the life, the death and the resurrection of Jesus.

Our Easter story of Jesus sharing The Last Supper, going to the cross and rising on that first Easter Day was I am sure a time of so much uncertainty for those first disciples as they saw what their friend went through. Even they thought it was the end, but on that first Easter Day we find those women going to the tomb to find that it was empty – Jesus was not there. They are met by angels telling them “Do not be afraid” and they go and tell Jesus’s friends the message that Jesus was alive. Jesus then came among the disciples and his words to them were “peace be with you”. Jesus ate with them, he talked to them and he walked with them. Jesus had overcome death; he had beaten the darkness and made a new relationship with God for us that we could live with him forever.

Whatever is happening in your life today, whatever fear or worry you might have, I pray that you know again these words of do not be afraid and peace be with you. As we journey through Lent and into Holy Week and await the sunrise on Easter Sunday, I pray you will know this story is for you and for me and for a world full of worry and fear. Jesus overcame the grave to show God’s love, God’s life and God’s light for each one of us. As you look around at the beauty around us, may you feel the joy and the wonder of that first Easter morning, of the hope that Easter brings to us and may you know the blessings and the extravagance of God who loves you, with you this Easter time and always. Join us in our Holy Week preparations and our Easter celebrations.

With every blessing
Rev Sarah

01733 248690 / 07498 230858 / vicar@saintpeters.co.uk

A Stormy Night

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Dear Friends

I am writing this during a night when the country is being battered by storm Ciara and the winds are certainly chasing around the church I am spending the night in. It is a real privilege to serve in the night shelter tonight.

I cannot imagine what it must be like for people to have had to spend all of today trying to find shelter, let alone overnight. The people I have met here in both the volunteers and the guests have been people with such interesting stories and some of them, so sad.

It seems such a right use of our churches to open the doors in many different ways to welcome people in, to offer hospitality and host those in need of this. Jesus spent most of his ministry working with people at the margins of society. We hope in time that St Peter’s, Yaxley will be able to host the night shelter. Building work is planned and approved, we are just in the process of fundraising and grant application before we can go forward with any work which might be 2021 or 2022. Many of you will have been in to our beautiful church and know that one of the downsides is the fact that we only have 1 toilet and that will need to be changed before we could offer accommodation.

Hopefully as you read this, the weather will be brighter and spring really will have sprung. The night shelter project will be coming to an end for another year and the church will be in the season of Lent – hopefully you enjoyed your pancakes on Shrove Tuesday?! Lent for Christians is a season of preparation, a time when we think about the journey that Jesus took to the cross on that first Good Friday over 2000 years ago. We remember that Jesus went into the desert for 40 days and Christians may give up something that they love and give that money to charity or some will take on something such as reading a specific book or a project and aim to create space and time to spend with God.

Mothering Sunday this year is the 22nd March and for some this will be a joyful day and for others a harder day. We will have a service of Holy Communion at 9am and an All Age Service at 11am. Do come and join us for these or for any of our services, you will be very welcome.

Stay safe in our weird weather!

With every blessing
Rev Sarah (Vicar)
01733 248690/07498 230858/vicar@saintpeters.co.uk

January Talks Available HERE

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Talks will temporarily be located within the news section of the website due to technical difficulties with the Talks webpage.

Sunday 12th January

Readings: Isaiah 42:1-9 & Matthew 3:13-17

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Sunday 19th January

Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5

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Sunday 26th January

Readings: 1 Samuel 3:1-11 & John 6:5-15

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Sunday 27th October Talk Available HERE

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Reading: Romans 12

In today’s talk we think about Romans 12, the passage that Sarah chose for her licensing and how that may apply to us individually and collectively. The passage calls us to be renewed, be genuine and live our lives for God’s glory and in service of others. We think about this passage and the letter written to the angel of the church in Yaxley when the church was going in to vacancy. How can we focus on this and those areas for ourselves and for our church and community.

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November Talks Available HERE

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Talks will temporarily be located within the news section of the website due to technical difficulties with the Talks webpage.

Sunday 10th November

Reading: John 15:9-17

In today’s talk we think about Romans 12, the passage that Sarah chose for her licensing and how that may apply to us individually and collectively. The passage calls us to be renewed, be genuine and live our lives for God’s glory and in service of others. We think about this passage and the letter written to the angel of the church in Yaxley when the church was going in to vacancy. How can we focus on this and those areas for ourselves and for our church and community.

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Sunday 17th November

Reading: Romans 8:12-25

Romans 8:15 tells us that we have the privilege and wonder of being adopted into God’s family. We explore how that impacts on us by giving us a new identity and means we call God our Father in prayer. This comes with the responsibility of carrying God’s name, honouring that and allowing God to change us to be more like Him. We unpack how adoption also impacts on the way we relate to others , our church family, those with whom we work and play and the weak and vulnerable in our society.

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Sunday 24th November

Reading: Colossians 1:11-20 & Luke 23:33-43

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Do you have questions?

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Dear Friends

This is often a time when New Year’s resolutions are made, perhaps broken and then hopefully reinstated. It is a time when people think back and plan forward and it is a time when we look forward to spring, the shoots are already coming up as I write this and many spring flowers will no doubt be in bloom as you read this.

You might have decided to start a new hobby, to get fit, to give yourself some time for you or to do some study. There might be something that you have always wondered about and have decided to find out more about that subject. There are many people who want to ask questions about different areas, and I know that there are many people who want to know more about Christianity and more importantly about God and who is Jesus.

In this New Year, I would love to invite you into Saint Peter’s Church to a place and space where you can ask questions that you might have about who we are, what we do and why we want to tell you about the God who loves every person including you and why we come to church and how we want to live our lives. We will do this through an Alpha course which will start on the 10th February in Saint Peter’s Church at 7.30pm.

I grew up in a Christian home but I still know how hard it can be to walk in to a church. I get this but I can assure you of a really warm welcome at Saint Peters and some good refreshments. Why not come along and see and hear for yourself. The course runs for 7 sessions – 10th Feb, 17th Feb, 24th Feb, 2nd March, 9th March, 23rd March and 30th March and it would be great if you can come to them all, but if you just want to come for a taster you are really welcome.

If you have any queries, please do contact me or come along and see for yourself. Please bring friends and family with you – everyone is welcome and there are no silly questions.

Hope to see you in February. With every blessing.

Rev Sarah (Vicar)
01733 248690/07498 230858/vicar@saintpeters.co.uk