WHAT’S ON
SUNDAY
Morning worship : Ascension : 12nn (prayer @ 11:15)
Evening worship : Evelyn Community Centre : 6pm
(meal + worship, food prep @ 4pm)
MONDAY
Bear cubs : Leander centre : 9:30-11:30am
TUESDAY
Women's Bible Study : The Albany : 1:30pm
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Bear cubs : outdoor play / Leander centre : 10-11:30am / 1-3pm
Cooking with English : The Bear : 11:30am-1pm
FRIDAY
Bear cubs : Leander centre : 9:30-11:30am
SATURDAY
DRSA Communty Heritage Festival : The Bear : 12-4pm
THROUGH-OUT THE WEEK
Early morning prayer : zoom : 7am Mon-Fri
COMING UP
Community Heritage Festival : come along to The Bear on Saturday June 13th, 12-4pm to celebrate the end of the National Lottery Heritage Fund Deptford Ragged School Archive project. Lots to do including a Food Festival by Cooking With English, Bake Sale, History displays, film, kids activities and a Flower Show! For those who have grown a seed or sapling that was donated for the Flower Show, make sure you bring them along to add to the beautiful display. Judging takes place at 2.45pm - prizes to be won! For more information see flyer attached.
Volunteer call out : If you can spare a couple of hours in the afternoon of the festival, please get in touch with Katharine.
Guest Speaker Liz Griffiths : in a couple of weeks, we will have Liz Griffiths speaking to us. Here's a little bit about her: Liz Griffiths is Director of Bridge Builders, a small Christian charity which supports leaders in handling tension and conflict constructively and creatively. Liz is an Anglican priest and has worked in church in urban and city centre locations, and in theological education. Liz sees the work of Bridge Builders as part of her vocation in living out of the Gospel of reconciliation and is passionate how helping people make connections between faith and ordinary life.
Joint service with Ascension & garden party : we will be co-hosting a service with Ascension on July 19th and have been invited to a garden party following the service in the Vicarage across the road. Please come along and bring something to share with our Ascension extended family.
IN OUR COMMUNITY
Building project - the final push? : By the grace of God we have come so far with the building project and raised an incredible amount of money together. But we still need a little more to get us over the line. We are trying a new strategy to get us there and we need your help! If you could fill in this form, we will use this information to hopefully open up some new fundraising avenues. More information is in the link but do get in touch with Bex if you have any further questions.
Lift Train for Lily : If you are available during the day on Wednesdays and you drive a car that isn't too difficult for someone on crutches to get into, please do get in touch with Lily as she is in need of a lift to Lewisham Hospital from Brockley following her accident.
Recruit for Environmental Group : We have heard from the Environmental Group in our Sunday morning services recently and if you have specifically felt stirred, curious, or generally excited by these ideas, do consider joining the Environmental Group. They meet monthly and are developing environmental plans for us as a church.
Hugh, Jonah & Lucas cycling fundraiser : Hugh, Jonah & Lucas are doing the Big Brighton Bike Ride to raise money for The Ragged Project. Check out their fundraising page here and share and donate if you can.
CLASSIFIEDS
Embodied Peace - The Somatics of Grief : Are you finding that the communities where you gather are carrying an increased sense of grief at the moment? St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace want to equip people with facilitation skills to cultivate qualities essential to reconciliation and peacebuilding: compassion, listening, resilience, and the ability to remain human in the face of difference and change. On 26th June 9:30am-4:30pm, Tanya Forgan, mindfulness mentor and embodiment therapist, is offering a beautiful and very practical training on how we hold and care for people in grief and how to move a community of people through it together.
Call out for donations of saplings : Deptford based mental health charity are on the hunt for saplings for their new garden space. Members have expressed an interest in gardening and the hope is that the space becomes a place of welcome for their community and beyond. If you have any saplings you can spare, shoot an email over to Ishwari on ishwari@artsnetwork.org.uk.
ESSENTIAL RECOMMENDS…
🌈PRIDE MONTH SPECIAL🌈
🙈 to see : Pride at the National Theatre (based on the 2015 film)
🙉 to hear : Dancing On The Wall, new album from MUNA
🙊 to read : Pride, shame, and the possibility of life from Open Table Network Director, Keiran Bohan