Eight churches have been brought together under the Chellington Team Ministry with two full-time stipendiary priests. These are: St.Peter’s Harrold & St.Mary’s Carlton with Harrold United Reform Chapel known as ‘Churches Together in Harrold & Carlton’, together with All Saints’ Odell, All Saints’ Turvey, St.Mary the Virgin Stevington, St.Lawrence Wymington, St.Mary the Virgin Podington (united benefice). Contacts for Churches Together in Harrold & Carlton, service times and the clergy letter are below.
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Chellington Team Ministry |
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Services in Harrold, Carlton and Odell April – May
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St Peter’s, Harrold |
URC Chapel, Harrold |
St Mary’s, Carlton |
All Saints’, Odell BCP Book of Common Prayer CW Common Worship |
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Sunday 7 April |
Joint Communion at St Mary’s |
1100 Service 1600 service @4
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1100 Joint Communion with St Peter’s |
1100 Morning Prayer |
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Palm Sunday 14 April |
0930 Communion |
1100 Service |
0815 Communion |
1100 Worship Together |
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Monday 15 April |
2000 Compline |
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Tuesday 16 April |
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2000 Taizé Prayers |
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Wednesday 17 April |
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2000 Compline |
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Maundy Thursday 18 April |
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1900 Communion and Hand washing |
1630 Communion |
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Good Friday 19 April |
1045 Procession of Witness |
1100 Prayers on the Green |
1400 Hour at the Cross |
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Easter Day 21 April |
0930 Communion |
1100 Communion |
1100 Communion |
1100 Easter Day Communion BCP |
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Sunday 28 April |
0930 Morning Worship |
Morning Worship at St Peter’s |
1100 Family Service |
1100 Communion CW |
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Sunday 5 May |
Joint Communion at St Mary’s |
1100 Service 1600 service@4 |
1100 Joint Communion with St Peter’s |
1100 Morning Prayer |
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Sunday 12 May |
1100 United Anniversary Service at URC |
0815 Communion 1100 United Anniversary Service at URC |
1100 United Anniversary Service at URC |
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Sunday 19 May |
0930 Joint Communion with St Mary’s |
1100 Service |
Joint Communion at St Peter’s |
0930 Communion BCP |
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Sunday 26 May |
0930 Morning Worship |
1100 Service |
1100 Family Service |
1100 Communion CW |
Happy Easter 2019
Holy Week has to be the most emotional roller-coaster ride ever invented. The month of April contains both April Fool’s Day and Palm Sunday. Indeed, we are called to be fools for Christ, our communal vocation. And Christianity is indeed the way of foolishness: who would ever believe that from death can come New Life and that weakness can be used to produce strength?
Palm Sunday is the day we welcome Jesus with great joy and anticipation into Jerusalem. Like the crowds, we too want a Saviour who will overcome and set us free. Like the crowds, we put our bet on Jesus. But very quickly as the week unfolds we start to lose our confidence. We don’t want to be arrested and unjustly tried and condemned. We didn’t follow this vulnerable way to be killed. We wanted instant results, instant justice as if by magic. We didn’t want justice through suffering.
Maundy Thursday halts our despair. After all, it is only a familiar meal that Jesus wants to share with us. But low and behold Jesus washes our feet and suggests that we wash the feet of others. Devoted service is what our future holds; service to the weak, the vulnerable and the undeserving. No wonder we feel like turning away. This is what happens when a God born in a stable opens the door.
At first the meal appears to be our familiar Passover: reminding us that through Moses, God set his people free from slavery. But Jesus alters the symbolism. Bread represents Jesus’ body and wine Jesus’ blood and we are required to celebrate the Eucharist in memory of Jesus.
And then the real shock. Jesus dies the death of a common criminal. God’s last stand is on a cross between two robbers. Whatever next? Obviously, disappointment, fear and most certainly our minds have changed from welcome to hostility. We join our voices with those of the crowd in condemnation: Crucify, Crucify. And then it is all over. Jesus is dead.
However the real sting in the tail occurs early on Easter morn. Like a jack-in–the-box, Jesus springs to life. Resurrection has overwhelmed suffering and death with New Life and joy. Exhausting, exhilarating, liberating. We are fools who follow a dead but now alive God. Confused.com.
Happy Easter.
Rev Peter Turnbull, Revd Jacqueline Curtis and Revd Lynne Sandle
Peter Turnbull and Jacqueline Curtis
3 The Moor, Carlton MK43 7JR. Telephone 01234 720961. Email: chellingtonteam@gmail.com