Ramsbottom & Edenfield Team Ministry

Posts from March 2020

Sunday with Andy

Just to remind you, that Andy will be live again on Zoom, Sunday at 11.00am…. If there is anyone who would like to become involved, either by doing a reading or taking intercessions, please let us know so that we can draw up a rota. It would be nice if lots of people signed up, as it is a Team effort, and…

A Meditation on the closing of churches

As Christians up and down the country adjust to a new life as churches are closed, Gilo, the Co-Editor of Letters to a Broken Church, offers this meditation Meditation on the closing of churches “Churches may be glad of the stillness. These great stone ships seldom have the chance to hunker down into replenishing silence. Christianity is too talkative. Noisy religion. The…

Prayer for today

  Prayer for today Merciful Lord, absolve your people from their offences, that through your bountiful goodness we may all be delivered from the chains of those sins which by our frailty we have committed; grant this, heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,…

Prayer for week 4 of Lent

Prayer for the week Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon and stars in their courses above, Join with all nature in manifold witness To thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; All I have needed thy hand hath provided — Great is thy faithfulness, Lord,…

Church Closures

In light of the Government guidance announced by the Prime Minister on Monday evening regarding non-essential contact, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued advice that all churches are to close with immediate effect to help halt the spread of Coronavirus. The Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England have urged everyone to follow the instructions given by the Prime…