Hearts of Hope and more!

We thought people might like a hopeful message after all that we’ve been experiencing in the past year, so from 19th March have been hanging packages containing an Easter message of hope, a prayer of blessing, a hand crafted heart, ‘mindful’ colouring sheets for adults and booklets for both younger and older children, in various locations throughout the village. Look out for them in the Playing Field, along Weston Street, and in front of the church gate. Please do help yourselves to them, and take them home with our love. To encourage everyone, you might like to put your coloured pictures of hope in your window, and send your photos of them and your crafted hearts, to the Chinnock Chimes and the village website at eastchinnock.net We will probably keep them up for a couple of weeks after Easter Day. 

Other activities

- St Mary’s is now open for private prayer(closed 1st April Maunday Thursday pm until 4th April Easter Sunday midday to allow ‘covid safety quarantine’ for Easter Service) Meanwhile, there is a Benefice Family Service on zoom at 9.45am every Sunday. Contact Sheila Carpenter on robinsheila@icloud.com for an invitation. 

- Rev Colin Simpson is holding a weekly Holy Communion service by zoom and Facebook at 11am on Sundays, and he plans to broadcast this from one of our local churches soon. 

- A zoom invitation for all services led by Colin Simpson to join this can be found on the Coker Ridge Weekly news sheet, which is on the Benefice website www.cokerridge.org.uk 

Up to date information can be found on our Benefice Facebook page, The Coker Ridge Benefice, including Virtual Easter Messy Church and our Benefice Facebook page too.

On 4th April, Easter Sunday, there are three Services actually in church(Hurray!)

11am Sutton Bingham Book of Common Prayer HC(led by Richard Tyrrell)

11am Live service via zoom and Facebook from East Coker Church(led by Colin Simpson)

4pm Easter service at St Mary’s East Chinnock(led by Colin Simpson) * form of this service still to be decided. Watch the village notice boards and the Coker Ridge Website for up to date information. 

Kids Corner

See below the latest Kids Corner for the littles ones (and big ones) over Easter.

Messy Church

Also please find below the Messy Church PDF which has a delightful retelling of the Easter Story by children, and some enjoyable activities for children to do over Easter. 

Feel free to contact me for any further information on gilliantettmar@gmail.com