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.

Click here for the Cambridgeshire County Council & Peterborough City Councils Community Support

Please see our COVID-19 page for all that we are doing as a church during this time.

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 Sunday 5th April, Sunday 12th April – Easter Sunday, Sunday 26th April, Sunday 10th May, Sunday 17th May

 

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.

Reflections: The River – recorded last September when friends of Rev Sarah visited for her licensing.

Hope in Uncertain Times – During Holy Week Hope Together will be posting daily reflections on the social media platforms.

Where is God in the Coronavirus – Article from Tearfund

An online retreat for Holy Week – from Launde Abbey

Mothers’ Union Resources to support us in difficult times

What is God’s message to us in this troublesome time – Charles Stanley In Touch Ministries

Daily Hope – A freephone number for daily hymns, reflections and prayer. Please make those without internet aware of this service – More details coming soon.

Premier on Demand YouTube Channel

 

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

Prayer for deliverance from the Coronavirus

An Hour of Prayer for the Coronavirus Pandemic

Christian Aid Prayers for Coronavirus

Call to Prayer (Prayer Points)

Hope Together – Prayer 2020

How to Pray video from Yemi Adedeji, Hope Together

Prayer hands for your windows

Our Online Prayer Room

The Prayer Room – Rev Rhona Knight

 

Worship Music
Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God

No Longer Slaves

Is He worthy?

Raise a Hallelujah

The Blessing

Waymaker

My Lighthouse

 

Family Resources

Click HERE to access all our Junior Church videos and Activity Sheets

Messy Church resources for activities at home

Mothers’ Union Faith in the Family activities

Little Worship Company – Family Devotionals

Church at Home – Diocese of Bristol

Coronavirus Social Story for SEN 

Coronavirus Book for Children

 

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

Do you know someone who has been bereaved? – COVID-19 Bereavement Support Video from Hope Together

 

 

Support for Mental Health

Coping When All is Loss – Article by Martyn Payne

BBC’s How to protect your mental health

Supporting Children with Bereavement – Child Bereavement UK

 

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. 

Government support for victims of Domestic Abuse

Make Yourself Heard – What to do if you need urgent help from 999, but can’t speak

There has been a significant rise in Bible sales, online searches for ‘How to pray’ and people attending online church. Is there someone you would like to share the Gospel with? Click Here to get a copy of Marks Gospel for £1, which you could send to someone you’re praying for.

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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Click Here for the video shown

 

Sunday 22nd March 2020 – Mothering Sunday

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

Click Here to listen to the talk or watch the service on our new YouTube Channel!

 

 

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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Click Here for The Power of Encouragement Video

 

Sunday 26th January

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

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Click Here for CROPS Slides

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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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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Click Here for the slides

Click Here for the video shown during the service

Sunday 16th February 2020

Reading: Exodus 32:1-12

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Click Here for the video shown during the service

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

Sunday 23rd February 2020

Reading: Romans 12:1-8

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Click Here for the video shown during the service

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