Friday 3rd April 11.30am 

w/c Sunday 5th April 2026

Dear Friends,

A Year of Prayer in the Mission Community

As we look around at our world, we can often feel hopeless.
Easter reminds us that there is hope – the hope that Jesus won for us on the cross and revealed to us in His resurrection.
The hope of an eternity with a loving God – an eternity that starts in the here and now.
How much we, our neighbours and our world need to hear about and know that hope.
As a Mission Community and a Diocese we have a vision to share and know that hope – its encompassed in the words Pray, Grow, Serve.
To serve our communities; to grow as disciples and to bring others to know Christ; and to surround all we do in prayer.
Prayer has to be the bedrock, because without it we are in danger of trying to do things in our own strength.
We want to strengthen our communal prayer life across the Mission Community, to make it a real focus of our life together.

So, on April 19^th we are kicking off A Year of Prayer.
To start with, this means we will be inviting anyone who can join us to a monthly time of prayer.
The prayer sessions will be on the 3rd Sunday of the month at :-

St Petroc’s – coffee from 8.30am; prayer from 8.45-9.15am in the church room

St Luke’s – coffee from 10am; prayer from 10.15-10.45am in the café

Please do come and join us and let’s Pray Grow and Serve!

Thought for the week:  

He is not here. He is risen. Mtt 28v6

These are the words spoken by the angel to Mary Magdalene on that first Easter morning as she looked into the empty tomb.
Jesus was risen! What amazing words of hope and confidence.

The death that had seemed to be the end of all hope has been overcome in the resurrection.
The relationship between people and God which was so broken has been healed and restored.
Just as Mary was a witness to those first disciples, so we are called to be witnesses in our own times.
To show and tell others of Christ’s saving grace.
To invite them to know something of this hope and confidence.

In a world of so much suffering and unrest, we desperately need to share this message.
I was struck by the words from the Very Reverend Canon Richard Sewell Dean of St George’s College in Jerusalem–  Wishing a simple ‘Happy Easter’ doesn’t feel quite appropriate to the times we are suffering.
Instead, we proclaim with confidence, Christ is risen! He is risen indeed, hallelujah!’

This then is our Easter message – a message of hope and confidence.
So let us have courage, let us

hold on to and share those wonderful words of truth:-

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed, hallelujah

Notices and Diary

Sun 5^th Apr                            St Petroc’s Easter breakfast after the Sunrise service. The Sunrise service is in the churchyard (unless wet) please bring a seat if you can

Fri 10^th Apr                            Staverton/Landscove PCC at 10.30am

                                                      Churchwardens meeting at 12pm       

St Petroc’s funeral at 2.30pm (Devlin)

Sat 18^th Apr                          St Luke’s APCM at 10am

Sun 19^th Apr                         Mission Community Year of Prayer begins

                                                      Staverton and Landscove APCM after service

                                                      Rattery Baptism at 1pm (Talbot)

Mission Community Services

 Know you are in my heart and in my prayers.
Rev Gina