
Sunday 22 May 2022

Derrick leads us in worship as we explore the ascension and return of Christ.
A service order is available to view or download by clicking here.
The live stream will appear here on Sunday morning:
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Derrick leads us in worship as we explore the ascension and return of Christ.
A service order is available to view or download by clicking here.
The live stream will appear here on Sunday morning:
We receive bread and wine this morning, as we consider John's vision of a world made new and Jesus' command to love one another in the meantime.
A service sheet is available by clicking here.
The live stream is available here: https://youtu.be/eb5TkTHCpuc
We welcome Archdeacon Steven Betts to a benefice service of Holy Communion at 10am in Mulbarton Church.
A full service sheet, with all words is available to view or download by clicking here.
The service will be broadcast on YouTube and available to view or catch up later right here:
Sunday Worship in person 9am at Bracon Ash or 10am at Mulbarton Church.
The 10am service will be broadcast on YouTube and available to view live or later here.
A service sheet is available to download or view by clicking here.
The livestream will appear here on Sunday morning: https://youtu.be/iq-GYBqFJHY
Join us for worship at Hanover, or at Mulbarton Church at 10am, which will also be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.
Words for the service are available to view or download by clicking this link.
The live stream will appear here on Sunday morning: https://youtu.be/F4xYfYWt_lo
Join us in person or online for a contemporary Easter communion service, suitable for all ages.
Service sheet here:
Online stream here: https://youtu.be/wIBblHzDiRA
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEWS IN... A NEW OPPORTUNITY has arisen to help a family of 6 Ukrainians, currently trapped in Europe en route to find refuge in UK. Details and to donate click here (If donating, please note you do not have to add extra to your gift for GoFundMe - select "Other Amount" and type 0 in the box - thank you!) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are ways we can all help with the desperate situation unfolding in Ukraine, not least by prayer. Even better if we can join up our thinking and efforts. Please let me know if you think you could offer practical support with any of the following… You can simply give, from your own purse or through a fundriasing effort. There are various agencies doing good work. One that is especially receommended is The Disaster Emergency Committee fund: https://www.dec.org.uk/ Local people are doing what they can. In Flordon, people have collected goods for local collection points. Others in Mulbarton are planning to fill their vans with local donations and drive to the Ukrainian border to offer support. Others are thining about fundraising events to raise money for the DEC appeal. Look out for fundraising events at the Village Hall and news of local collection points. A big development this week has been the new government scheme, to open UK homes to Ukrainian refugees: https://homesforukraine.campaign.gov.uk/ Please do consider if you can help with the housing effort, should we have applicants directed this way… |
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An interactive Palm Sunday service for all ages.
Service words available by clicking here.
Online Stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1wb5awL70g
Jill leads us in worship on this "Passion Sunday" at Mulbarton's 10am service, which will be broadcast here in the normal way.
Words for Service available to view or download by clicking here.
YouTube stream:
Outrageous love - the theme of today's special Mothering Sunday service, at which we welcome a new addition to the church family, as we baptise young Annabelle.
Service sheet available to view or download here.
Live broadcast here or on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/u7PHPBq9awo
Join us this Sunday, either in person at Mulbarton Church, or remotely right here or on our YouTube channel. We share communion, and explore the teachings of Jesus as we continue to travel through Lent.
A service sheet with all words is available here: https://mulbchurch.org.uk/res/Service_Sheets/2022_03_20_Lent_3_Communion.pdf
The live stream is: https://youtu.be/dT_XrInekJo
Join us for morning worship at Mulbarton Church at 10am, or remotely on our YouTube channel or embedded below.
A full service order is available here: https://mulbchurch.org.uk/res/Service_Sheets/2022_03_13_Lent_2.pdf
Livestream on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/DS_PCDifOAg
Derrick leads us in worship for this first Sunday in Lent, exploring three common temptations, and leading us in special prayers for Ukraine.
Service sheet available to view or download here: https://mulbchurch.org.uk/res/Service_Sheets/2022_03_06_Lent_1.pdf
Live YouTube stream will be here Sunday morning: https://youtu.be/0VF-86JfAVk
We welcome Annabelle's family to the service today as we celebrate her baptism, and as we consider the mountain top experience of the first disciples of Jesus, at his transfiguration. Moments of change.
A service sheet is available to download here: https://mulbchurch.org.uk/res/Service_Sheets/2022_02_27_Annabelle_Baptism_Next_Before_Lent.pdf
APOLOGIES! No broadcast for the service this morning, since the internet is down in Church!
This week, Derrick leads our worship, and reflects on the next part of Luke's gospel, following on from last week, as Jesus explains to his disciples how his coming fulfils the Jewish religion.
All the words for the service are available to view or download here: https://mulbchurch.org.uk/res/Service_Sheets/2022_02_20-1.pdf
The service will be broadcast on YouTube here on Sunday morning: https://youtu.be/ihVKfqUWWsE
Join us in person or remotely this Sunday morning at 10am, for a service fo worship in Mulbarton Church.
A service sheet is available to download here ahead of the service, in case you want to join in remotely: https://mulbchurch.org.uk/res/Service_Sheets/2022_02_13_3rd_Before_Lent_Communion.pdf
The service will be streamed live on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/jc_nMZ5Fuek
A creative worship response is available here, which you might want to print off and use at home: https://mulbchurch.org.uk/res/Service_Sheets/JugandJar_Reflection.pdf
If you want to follow along, you can download a PDF with all words here: https://mulbchurch.org.uk/res/Service_Sheets/2022_01_30_Meditative_Enough_and_more.pdf
Two videos are used in the service:
The service is live on YouTube, and available to catch up with later here: https://youtu.be/m75ai_b9k48
Join us in person or remotely for worship this Sunday morning, as we explore the commission of Jesus from Isaiah.
A ful service sheet, including all the litrugy, Bible readings and words for songs can be downloaded here: https://mulbchurch.org.uk/res/Service_Sheets/2022_01_23_Epiphany_3.pdf
The YouTube link is here and embedded below: https://youtu.be/aq3GQNW23Kk
Join us remotely for our monthly communion service at Mulbarton Church, where Adrian will be leading an exploration about the story of Jesus turning water into wine at the outset of his public work.
A service sheet, with all the words for the service, including song lyrics is here (this will open in a new tab): https://mulbchurch.org.uk/res/Service_Sheets/2022_01_16_Epiphany_2_Communion.pdf
YouTube videos of the worship songs are here, in case you'd rather watch along:
The live YouTube link failed today! I thought I had turned the power switch on for the laptop charger when I set the live stream going before heading to Bracon Ash; but in fact the laptop was running on battery, so went into standby and ended the stream before the service had begun.
So, no recording of the service today, but the service sheet is there, with links to the songs!
In my talk, I reflected on three things arising out of the passage about when Jesus turned the water into wine, from John 2:1-11.
Transformation of water into wine. Using the Jewish ceremonial washing pots, symbolising the fulfilment of the Jewish traditions, in how Jesus came to bring transformed religion that revealed the love of God in fresh ways. 150 gallons of water into the same amount of wine! This was serious transformation. We have a God who turns things around and brings change - which is welcome news for many of us at the outset of 2022!
Obedience of the servants, after Mary had told them "do whatever he says". Not obeying human authority, which can often mislead us, but listening for the voice of Jesus, and our own God-given conscience, above the authority of the church or the given dogma. There is an innate human need to belong and fit in, and comply, which can be exploited, and has been used to control people inside the church as much as outside of it. Our task as Christians is to obey Jesus only, and in any leadership responsibilities we have, to do as Jesus did in leadership, to serve and not to be served - to offer a direction and not to demand obedience, to be safe and not exploitative.
Everyday context of the miracle. It wasn't a special religious setting in which Jesus showed this first miraculous sign, which revealed his glory. It was a wedding party, where the wine had run out prematurely, and risked bringing shame on the family. There was a real need in a non-religious setting, and Jesus helped meet it - and most people there were unaware that a miracle had happened. The quiet, unnoticed miracles, meeting a need in every day ordinary life - that's the essence of what Christianity calls us to. Making a difference with what we have where we are, to help our neighbours. The specific religious stuff, like Sunday worship, praying with others, singing worship songs, preaching a 3-point sermon with points, whose first letters spell "TOE", etc. - all of that can be really helpful and is important to try to get right - but it is intended to resource God's people for service, and not to be the end in itself. And sometimes that stuff can be used in a hypnotic way, to control thoughts, beliefs and behaviour. The account of water into wine at a wedding to meet the need as it presented itself draws us back to the heart of servanthood worship.
Join us as we worship God together and explore what the baptism of Christ means for us, at the start of this season of epiphany.
YouTube live stream is available on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/WbsFO7-ZsFA
Or embedded right here below:
Adrian leads a communion service, as we explore the journey of the magi, and our own journey into a new year.
Service without music on YouTube Channel here:
We also introduced Norwich Diocese adapted "Covenant Prayer" and the new hymn Susannah Gunner has written for 2022, full text reproduced below...
I am no longer my own but yours.
Put me to prayer.
Put me to deepening my life with you by deepening my life of prayer.
Put me to the faithful setting aside of time;
put me to listening;
put me to wonder;
put me to holding a broken world in your love;
put me to trusting.
I willingly expect to be changed by prayer:
I freely and wholeheartedly yield to being transformed by Christ.
Let me be changed by you and so change the world for you.
Glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, you are mine and I am yours.
So be it.
And this covenant now made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven.
Amen.
Transform, O Christ, your people
assembled in this place;
our longing to be prayerful
is gathering depth and pace:
just as those first disciples,
we too make our request –
‘Teach us to pray, Lord Jesus,
and lead us on our quest.
We glimpse you in the gospels
before the break of day,
alone there in the shadows
and making time to pray:
inspired by your example,
give us the grace to dare
to deepen our discipleship
through deepening times of prayer.
Who knows how this will change us?
What challenges await?
Who knows where prayer might lead us?
What love might come from hate?
So light the fire within us,
stir us afresh to pray;
we’re frail but long for faithfulness: transform us, Christ, today!
We long for peace and plenty
where all we see is war;
we long to feed the hungry,
to change the global law
which keeps the poor from thriving
and elevates the rich;
we long for holy justice:
teach us to pray for this.
We long to heal the forests,
protect the suffering seas,
to halt the melting ice-caps,
increase the hum of bees;
we know our need for wisdom
(so close to the abyss),
for unity, humility:
teach us to pray for this.
Transform, O Christ, your people assembled in this place,
attune us to your presence,
still us in your embrace:
then grace us as we listen,
hearts opening until,
with boldness and with vision,
we’re nerved to do your will.
Susanna Gunner, November 2021
This Sunday, we celebrate holy communion, as we worship God using lively contemporary settings of traditional carols.
The service will be broadcast on YouTube as normal - available below.
With covid cases increasing, we continue to take the rules seriously, and require those attending worship to wear masks, unless exempt on age or health grounds.
Live stream on YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/RLBQrxJezCI
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