In Church Services & Virtual Gatherings

30th January 2022: Candlemas

8am Eucharist in church

10am Eucharist in church and online  the service sheet is here

Youtube link is here

Zoom link is here 
Meeting ID: 849 6087 2438
Passcode: 354002

Every Week

• Join with Daily Morning Prayer @ 9am (Monday and Tuesday) and 8.30am (Wednesday).
  Join Zoom Meeting here
  Meeting ID: 814 2870 0487
  Passcode: 499363

•  Thursday Eucharist @ 9am. You will be able to join this using Zoom. A link for the service will be sent in an email the day before. If you would like to be added to the mailing list email highburypartnership@googlemail.com. 

Virtual Groups

Lent Groups – Listening Lent: Tuesdays at 7.45pm. An invitation to listen to God, one another and the world. Every Tuesday evening we will meet on zoom to reflect on a reading, listen to lockdown experiences, and have an opportunity to share together in smaller breakout groups, finishing with a simple service of compline (evening prayer). Finishes at 9pm. All very welcome.

Virtual Book Group – The Benefice Book Group is alive and well and ‘met’ recently. The next meeting by Zoom is at 8pm on Thursday 11th February. We’ll be discussing Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens.

Everyone is very welcome. It’s an informal group – still getting to grips with the technology! Do get reading, and please contact Rob via highburypartnership@googlemail.com if you’d like to join the next discussion. Bring your own tea!

Lockdown 3 Community Art Project

Following on from our Lockdown 1 project when members of Cotham congregation and friends made textile squares which are now hanging as an exhibition in the church, Sara has proposed a new focus for Lockdown 3 art projects, with a specific invitation to our wider community to join the project – do invite family, friends and neighbours to join. 

The subject would be EARTH WIND FIRE WATER, which gives plenty of scope for interpretation at the present time! It could be biblical, ecological, scientific, artistic, philosophical or light-hearted and entirely up to you…

You may wish to choose just one of the elements or as many as four. This time the 12-inch square could be created using any medium e.g. textiles or any description, paint, drawing, collage, words on canvas, print, photography, mixed medium and anything else you can think of as long as it’s not dangerous and is suitable for the subject matter and place.

THE WORK HAS TO BE PRESENTED ON A 12-INCH SQUARE CANVAS AS BEFORE.

It only remains to be said that your skills and expertise are not being judged – this is just an opportunity to be creative, have fun and diversion and share the outcome whatever it is with our community beginning at Cotham Church.

Please contact Sara Metelerkamp for more details: Email: sara@sara-easby.com

Pastoral Support

• Call or email the office if you would like a phone call or to let us know if you need support. 0117 973 3395, highburypartnership@gmail.com

• Prayer list. Firstly, please know you are all being prayed for daily. Those on our intercessions list will be circulated with our weekly email newsletter. If you would like to pray with someone over the phone, or wish your prayer request to remain anonymous, please email highburypartnership@gmail.com and one of our clergy will be in touch. 

• Phone a friend. Whilst we can’t be together in person, we can call, WhatsApp or even write a good old fashioned letter, let’s be in good touch with each other and beat social isolation.

• Bristol Sanctuary Offer a mental health service in partnership with the NHS that would normally provide a safe physical place for people to come to for a few hours in the evening if they are struggling emotionally. Whilst currently not seeing people face-to-face they are offering telephone support seven nights a week from 4-10pm. Call 01179542952 or 07709295661 from 4pm

• Oasis Trust Friendship Phone Line, if you fancy a chat Oasis have opened a special Friendship phone line during Covid-19. Open M-F, 11-3pm: 020 7921 4272.

• MIND resources. Mental health charity MIND have created an excellent set of resources for coping with all that Covid-19 is meaning for our mental health, particularly in coping with social distancing, anxiety and depression. Click here for more information. 

• Clic – Free online community supporting everyone with their mental health
  Clic is a free online community here to support everyone with their mental health. A place to connect with others for mutual support, share your thoughts and find helpful information.

Online Resources – new resources added

• Pray As You Go App – a wonderful 10 minute led daily prayer meditation, with music, scripture, space to pray and reflect. Highly recommended. Download here for computer, or search for the App on your tablet/smartphone.

• Daily Meditation (via email) from the Centre for Contemplation by Fr Richard Rohr. A short centering email meditation, offering helpful perspective and spiritual resources for our current situation. Visit www.cac.org to sign up for the daily email. 

• A Prayer for Sleep – an 18 minute guided prayer for when you are finding sleep hard, from Spiritual Director Julian Maddock. Link here.

• Insight Timer: a smartphone app to support a spiritual practice, with meditations and prayers lead by people from all religious traditions

• Reimagining the Examen: another smartphone app, this time with wonderful takes on the Examen

• Sacred Space: screen-based prayer, with options for prayer in this time of pandemic.

• The BBC’s Daily Service and Sunday Worship 

• Prayer for the day – each day the Church of England publishes audio and text of the Prayer for the Day.

• Smart speakers – daily prayer and other helpful audio content can be accessed via our smart speaker apps.