ØDates for your diary

At last week’s meeting of the JCC the following dates were agreed

Thursday 6^th April : Maundy Thursday service – (foot-washing)

Sunday 14^th May : APCM.  (following the service)

Sunday 21^st May : Christian Aid Lunch

Saturday 24^th June : Summer Fair. 

Friday 29^th September : Macmillan Coffee Morning

Saturday 18^th November : Christmas Fair 

ØVictims of last month’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria are still in desperate need of humanitarian aid if you you wish to make a further donation to this cause visit https://www.dec.org.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAiA85efBhBbEiwAD7oLQA1yXVVkGtMOUrqkE3ueD4-172dlo0WtOUdbuXLHd-xIIzd3oEOejBoCDzoQAvD_BwE

Or contribute via the collection boxes in church on Sunday.

ØMany people continue to struggle Please consider donating to a local foodbank – either in the course of your weekly shop via local supermarket collection or via our collection in church which will be given to the Spearhead trust-

Reflection on the Samaritan Woman John 4vs5-42

¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

¹¹ “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

¹³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

An outcast in her own community, the Samaritan woman even despised herself, but Jesus recognised her spiritual thirst and engaged with her. The grace of God is always there for everyone. Regardless of the entanglements of our lives, He values all of us enough to actively seek us, to draw us to His intimacy.