- The Coffee Question
What kind of Jesus do we follow?
‘Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, ‘Hosanna!’ ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ – Mark 11:9
A week is a long time in politics and it’s a long time in Jerusalem too! The crowds that celebrate Jesus’ arrival, only days later cry out for his crucifixion. Why the change? People expected and wanted a different kind of Jesus.
However, Jesus, doesn’t conform to our preferences. He doesn’t conform to cultural opinion. He’s the all or nothing King. A King who gave everything and withheld nothing to achieve our salvation on the cross. A King who calls his disciples to be all in for him, living for him with everything we have!
looking forward
Getting ready for Easter
We look forward next week to celebrating the living hope we have in the Lord Jesus. As we prepare to gather as church family over Easter and expect to welcome lots of guests as well. We’d love us to consider a few things that will help serve our church and extend warm hospitality to newcomers.
- Please keep thinking and praying about who would could invite to join us for our Easter gatherings together. We long for our neighbours, friends and family to hear the good news of the Lord Jesus.
- With multiple services on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, we’re asking those who can, to consider walking to church or sharing lifts. This allows us to increase capacity for visitors and those in our church family who are unable to walk to church.
- Our Easter Egg Hunt Challenge will be happening after the 9.15am and 11am on Easter Sunday.
Please note, our live-streamed services will be Good Friday (11am) and Easter Sunday (11am).
upcoming events
New Explore Series
Starting 22 April
8-9.15pm
Over Easter, we’ll be inviting guests to our next Explore series, starting on Tuesday 22nd for 5 weeks. We’d love to encourage us, as a church family, to be thinking and praying about who we could invite and bring with us to these sessions. We’re excited that some in the church family have invited friends and booked on already!
Find out what to expect each week and where to book using the link below.
World Mission Sunday
Sunday 27 April
World Mission Sunday is on Sunday 27th April. We seek to be a church resourcing gospel ministry to grow God’s kingdom, both locally and globally. Martin Ayers, Rector of St Silas in Glasgow, will be coming to open up God’s word to us on that Sunday.
After The 10:00, we plan to serve a lunch where we’ll hear more from Martin and Matt about global mission, church planting and how we’re getting involved here at Saint James. There’s no sign up for the lunch, but the best thing you can do is make a note in the diary to come along afterwards!
Men’s Breakfast
Saturday 10 May
7.30-9am
We are bombarded daily about what it means for a man to be successful in this world. Today, perhaps more than ever, the voices about what a man should be like and what a man should do have risen to the top of conversation in our culture, dividing opinion and creating confusion. Often this leaves men with the pressure to perform and conform to the ideals of success we see around us…
But what does the Bible say success looks like for a man? How does God view the world’s version of success? And why should we even care?
Book your place below.
dates for your diary
Students & 20s this Easter
Sundays and Tuesdays
With lots of our Students back for the Easter holidays we’ve got some great opportunities to get together and catch-up.
Women’s Breakfast
Saturday 7 June (9-11am)
What is healthy and unhealthy guilt? How do we navigate it and what does God have to say? Join us for time together in God’s word, discussion, sung worship with delicious food.
The Saint James Weekend
28-29 June 2025
Booking links have now opened for our Saint James Weekend in June! We look forward to enjoying time in God’s word, looking at our theme ‘Living Hope: The Joy of the Resurrection‘ brought to us by guest speaker, Matt Lloyd. The weekend will also have an array of activities, entertainment and times of fellowship around food.
For now, please book on, it’s the most helpful thing we can do. Information about donations will follow after Easter.
looking around
Geoffrey Segrove
Please remember in prayer the family and friends of Geoffrey Segrove, who died last weekend. Geoffrey will be well remembered by many at Fulmer. A service of Thanksgiving will be held at Fulmer on Monday 28 April at 12:30pm. All are welcome.
APCM
On 28th April 2025 we will be holding our APCM (Annual Parochial Church Meeting), and APM (Annual Parish Meeting). Thank you to everyone who has joined the church Electoral Roll, this is now published on the church noticeboards or here: saintjames.org.uk/apcm. The meeting documentation and the financial statements are available from the Centre or can be downloaded via the link above.
Give thanks for the those standing for election/re-election; pray that they would be gospel-minded as they serve:
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- John Young: standing for election as Churchwarden (give thanks for Andrew Bell as he steps down from the role).
- Bola Akinseye, Richard Lawrence and Simon Bailey: standing for re-election.
Prayer Focus April 2025
Download the latest copy of our Prayer Central booklet to keep praying for all thats going on at Saint James and beyond.
Monday Morning Prayer
30 minutes, each week, open to everyone at Saint James, to pray for our church and its impact on the wider world, to the glory of God. Monday at 9am. Join via the Zoom link here.