Well here we are, Good Friday (Holy Friday) has been and gone with all it's sadness and reflection, the long wait (not weight) of Holy Saturday has ebbed away and here we are on Easter morning. It is a time for celebration,a time to be happy. It may seem more difficult to celebrate while we are separated as we are. However, we are combined in one body, the body of Christ the Church. Together we can today acknowledge that God has power over sin and death and anything that attempts to separate us from him and his love.
Today we rejoice, we sing, we say God you are amazing! Today changes absolutely everything that has come before, today, in surprise the disciples who had thought it was all over, who thought they had been wrong to trust him discover he is faithful even after death. He is and will always be faithful to his promise to us. He loves us, he died for us and today we can claim through Grace his promise of freedom and eternal life.
Hallelujah ! What an awesome God we have!
I hope you are having good Easter Sunday, be happy, celebrate in whatever way you can !
STAYING IN TOUCH
Just a reminder from me that there are various ways to stay in touch during this time. Please let me know if you’d like to be added to our community What’s app group, or this email list. If you know of folks who do not receive this update please share it with them and ask them to contact me to be added. I am currently sending this to around 40 of you, I’m sure there are more who have an email address that I just don’t know.
07884 232829
01752 480319
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https://www.facebook.com/ElburtonMethodist
https://www.facebook.com/PDMethodist
https://ww.elburtonmethodist.org.uk
THE COURIER
Last week I made a big mistake and put an extra S in the courier link, hence you couldn't open it. Please find the corrected courier link below ….
http://www.elburtonmethodist.org.uk/images/LinkMagazines/Courier_April_2020.pdf
If you know of someone who needs a hard copy sent please let Liz know at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
THIS WEEKS SERVICE
This weeks service will be conducted by our very own Tristan with music from Helen, who just about sounds normal. *Resists temptation to mock and get in trouble when Helen reads this. I think they have done a fantastic job, entirely remotely so a massive thank you to them ! You can find the service on our YouTube site, or by following the link below ….
https://youtu.be/XwFkBcvOhH8 <== This weeks service.
You can also view our previous services via the YouTube link here....
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJWUNcwFq8SJUjqotVfq7w/
If you are a YouTube user do subscribe and hit the Bell button and you will get notifications as soon as we post new content.
LYRICS
Due to copyright reasons I can't put the words to our songs on the video, silly I know but there we are. To compensate please find the words below for you to sing a long at home...
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NEXT WEEK’s SERVICE
This will be back to me again, but if anyone else would like to record a sermon, or if you'd prefer me to read your words that's fine also, do let me know. I am sure folks will be bored of my voice by the end of this event. No pressure, happy to carry on, but if anyone would like to do something, please shout. Equally if someone would like to record other material for us to share or prepare written devotionals study material, jokes, poems you'd like me to share do email me.
SOME SAD NEWS
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SIMON’s REFLECTIONS
I hope you are continuing to receive from Simon his devotionals and are enjoying them as much as I am, thank you Simon !!
A POEM
I have been sent by Carol a lovely poem we thought we'd share with you. To avoid any possible copyright issues I have provided a link below to an on-line version which you can read at your leisure.
https://www.karens-korner.com/printable.php?issue=4185
JAM & IMPACT
We continue to meet each Sunday at 10:30 am where we share in some remote craft for the younger JAM members and some study and questions for the older IMPACT folks. If you have children in the family that would like to join in please get in touch we meet via Zoom.
OUR RAINBOW
Have you been passed the Church on your daily exercise? If you have you may have seen our digital sign is now displaying a giant rainbow amongst it’s other encouraging slides. Take a look if you exercise that way J
That's all for today, I hope you have a great day celebrating the risen Lord !
Jon