AS WE enter the national celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, churches are once again gearing up to join in and help facilitate events and celebrations around the city.
Some of them are listed under the Events section below. The Queen has a central role in the religious life of the nation, as the monarch always has since Henry VIII was made ‘Defender of the Faith’.
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The ‘Grace’ that can be used wherever food is enjoyed
This special role is described in the forward of a celebration copy of the New Testament that many churches will be giving away at Jubilee events.
Her Majesty has also approved a ‘Grace’ that can be used wherever food is enjoyed in homes, halls, streets and communities.
Diamond Jubilee Events
DERRIFORD UNITED CHURCH is supporting the Derriford Community Jubilee Street Party today, starting at 3pm on Powisland Drive, outside the Church.
MORICE BAPTIST CHURCH, Ham Drive, has a Special Jubilee Family Service at 10.45 tomorrow followed by lunch in the church garden weather permitting – all welcome.
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, Clittaford Road, Southway is having a Communion Service at 10am tomorrow with patriotic hymns including the one sung at The Coronation followed by a Bring Share lunch.
We are having a Jubilee quiz and hat making competition and everyone is invited to wear red, white blue. We aim to be finished in good time for people to be home to watch the televised programme of the Queen’s Barge going down the Thames. Everyone is welcome.
THE MINSTER CHURCH OF ST ANDREW’S Diamond Jubilee Service. The Military Wives Choir will be singing as part of a special service at the Minster Church of St Andrew to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. Children from HMS Heroes will also be taking part and archive footage of royal visits to Plymouth will also be shown at the service, at 10:30am tomorrow in the presence of the Lord Mayor.
“This is an occasion to give thanks for all that Her Majesty has given over these past 60 years,” said the Rector of St. Andrew’s, Nick McKinnel. “Amid all the street parties and other celebrations we want to offer the opportunity to gather and recall before God her service to the nation and the values she represents.”
HOOE BAPTIST CHURCH, Hooe Road, Hooe, Tuesday 5th June from 12.30pm Church Community Picnic and Fun on Hooe village green
TUESDAY 5th June, New Life Fellowship and Bellmoor Residents Belliver Jubilee Street Party, 2pm-4pm behind the Belliver community shop.
BBQ, 1950s fancy dress, Paint your own plate / time / magnet, children’s competitions
OTHER EVENTS
STOKE DAMEREL CHURCH AND ABOUT TIME. A lunch party celebrating the Diamond Jubilee tomorrow. There will be a Sung Eucharist at 11am followed by the lunch party. Invited is – as usually – everybody. The food provided will be prepared by people coming from a variety of different countries.
MUTLEY BAPTIST CHURCH: Tomorrow, the visit of Chanman Achsa Shreemal, from Nepal.
Chanman is a former slave, as are his three brothers. He has been in prison for his faith. His younger brother Shiva is the first ex-slave in Nepal to have qualified as a medical doctor. All are now Christians, as are most of their 230-strong “family”. They now regard their life’s work as reaching out to their ex-slave peers with “The Freedom and Joy we have found in Jesus”.
More information from Jean Roger Aldersley, raldersley@hotmail.co.uk
EMMANUEL CHURCH, Mannamead Rd, Sat 9th June 2pm till 4pm. Annual summer fair, which this year has an Olympic and Jubilee theme.
TUESDAY JUNE 12: Plymouth Church and Ministry Leaders’ Network Lunch at Pilgrim Church, St Levan Rd. Please plan to be there as we have many exciting developments to share plus a time of prayer and seeking together.
JUNE 14, 7pm at the Marjon Chaplaincy Centre, THE ART OF PREACHING. A Public Lecture on the subject The Art of Preaching will be given by Rev Paul Smith, Superintendent Minister at Methodist Central Hall, Plymouth.
This is an open lecture and will be free of charge.
JUNE 16: Annual Summer Fayre at the Minster Church of St Andrew from 10am to 1pm.
There will be stalls selling a multitude of goods including books, crafts, plants, jigsaws, Traid Craft items, home-made preserves and chutneys, toiletries, cakes, jigsaws and our amazing bric-a-brac stall. There will be bouncy castles for the young and a coconut shy for everyone.
A selection of our musicians will be playing and/or singing both traditional and contemporary music.
JUNE 16: Ladies’ lunch with guest speaker Linda Turner from noon at Plymouth Christian Centre, Cattedown Roundabout
Linda is a travelling preacher from the Life Church of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, who goes on mission trips each year to spread the gospel to many nations. This event needs to be booked in advance, £5 each including lunch, drinks and a message from Linda followed by a time of ministry afterwards.
SATURDAY JUNE 16: The Overcomer’s Christian Fellowship International is dedicating and consecrating the new permanent Church building in Gordon Terrace, Mutley, noon-3pm.
All are welcome. For further information, contact: 07868834898- Church Secretary
SATURDAY JUNE 23. EMMANUEL CHURCH, MANNAMEAD: The Pontynewydd Male Voice Choir with the Kelly College musicians in aid of Parkinson’s UK. Tickets at the door are £9 or from Mannamead News and the church office.
JUNE 28 TO JULY 5: National Methodist Conference, at Plymouth Pavilions. This Includes some events to which all are invited: See http://www.methodistconference.org.uk/plymouth-2012
SATURDAY JUNE 30: Godspell, Salvation Army, Congress Hall, Armada Way at 7.30pm, £5 a ticket available from Methodist Central Hall. The Leaders of Worship Preachers Trust (LWPT) are presenting Godspell, a musical structured on a series of parables based on the Gospel of Matthew, interspersed with a variety of modern music, primarily set to lyrics of traditional hymns.
Performed by the Tiverton Junior Operatic Club (aged 11-21)