Saturday 4th August at 11am. Blofield and surrounding village bakers are invited to join us in celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee Year by baking one of your favourite cakes for a competition. The five cakes, judged to be the best in each category will become part of a Blofield Recipe Book to be sold locally for church funds.
The competition will be followed by a Grand Afternoon Tea at the church from 2pm. The entry fee of £4.00 for the competition includes afternoon tea on the 4th and a chance to have your recipe included in the recipe book.
Application forms for the competition indicating entry categories can be downloaded from here.
Our annual Open Gardens event will be on Sunday July 1st 11am to 5pm. Ride a vintage bus or enjoy a leisurely walk around delightful village gardens. Garden maps available in church porch £5 (accompanied children free) including cream tea served in church from 1pm. Bus rides from 2pm.
Also in some gardens: an artist painting, musicians playing, singers singing, a spinning wheel in action and more. Also try a light hearted garden quiz.
The Israelites spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness – the congregation at Hemblington were only away for 13 weeks – but it felt like forever. We are very grateful to Heathlands for letting us use their facilities while the church floor was rebuilt.
They say there is nowhere quite like home and that was our experience on returning on the 13th May. All Saints’ Church is a special place valued by many. With the work now completed the church will be open each day – do make use of our special and spiritual home.
The start of June will be focused on the Diamond Jubilee. There are lots of events in Blofield and Blofield Heath over the Bank Holiday weekend to mark the occasion and these will all play a part in celebrating together and creating community bonds. You cannot beat a good party!
We too at the churches want to mark this significant event too. Our Queen has been good for the nation and an excellent Supreme Governor of the Church of England so we have much to be thankful for. Our main services on the 3rd June are suitable for people of all ages and take place at St Andrew & St Peter’s Church, Blofield at 11.00am (after the breakfast club, which starts at 10.00am) and 5.00pm at All Saints’ Church, Hemblington. We hope you will be able to join us.
Children’s Diamond Jubilee Prayer
Great God,
whose Son Jesus looks after us,
we thank you for our wonderful Queen.
At this special time of Jubilee,
please give her love, joy and peace
as she does what you ask her to do
and looks after us her people;
through Jesus Christ who loves us all.
Paul
With the nights getting longer we will be taking a service of Night prayer (Compline) around the deanery churches. These services are approximately two weeks apart and will start at 8.00pm with a brief introduction to each church followed by Night Prayer.
You can find more details here.
