Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: ‘Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.’ (Esther 4:15-16)
This Sunday, as we continue our look at some of the women presented to us in the Bible, we reach Esther. It’s wonderful account of a faithful woman, in difficult circumstances, acting to rescue God’s people from their enemy. The odds are stacked against her: the enemy is powerful; she is relatively powerless. Will she prevail? How will that happen?
Wednesday Prayer @ 10am
This Wednesday, at 10am, we’ll meet in St Andrew for a service of Morning Prayer.
We’ll be finished in time to join the Coffee Shop at 10:30.
I hope that this email is useful, and that you are able to spend a few minutes at noon each day, as we pray together as a church family. Please do keep sending your prayer suggestions to me, so that we can make sure we are praying around the needs, burdens and encouragements of our whole church family.
A Brief Report on the PCC meeting held 14th March 2022.
It was not any particular enthusiasm for items on the agenda or the need to get away from Kath suffering from a nasty cold that saw me arrive in St Andrews 25 minutes early for the PCC. I put it down to my lack of planning.
Hannah said to Eli, ‘Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord. I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he shall be given over to the Lord.’ (1 Samuel 1:26-28)
This Sunday, we welcome Archdeacon Janet to preach at both of our morning services.