May 2020
Below are links to the services and prayer resources that we have made while the churches have been closed. Feedback and suggestions welcome.
Pentecost, 31st May 2020
Our Sunday service for Pentecost featuring contributions from many of our members across the parishes can be watched on YouTube.
Some Gransden bells to listen to beforehand if you'd like to set the mood!
Service sheet to print and follow at home.
The text of Rachel's reflection.
31.5.20 - Pentecost prayers.pdfMidweek reflection, 27th May 2020
A reflection for Wednesday.
27.5.20 - Midweek.pdfSeventh Sunday of Easter, 24th May 2020
Our Benefice service this Sunday is a joint service with Clare College, Cambridge, the patrons of Great Gransden church, led by Mark Smith, Dean of Clare, and Reverend Rachel.
The audio of the service and service sheet can be downloaded or accessed online at any point.
Ascension Day, 21st May 2020
A special Ascension service was live-streamed at 7:30pm on the Bluebell Benefice Facebook page. A recording of the service is now available. (Apologies for the intermittent audio quality, caused by Facebook's noise-cancellation combined with some avian background noise! We'll have a new microphone next time!)
Here is the Service Sheet with all the responses, and here is the text of Rachel's reflection.
For additional help on how to view the service, please see the Live Services page.
21.5.20 - Ascension Day.pdfSixth Sunday of Easter, 17th May 2020
Our Sunday service was be live-streamed at 10am on the Bluebell Benefice Facebook page. A recording of the service is now available.
You might like to print out the Service Sheet.
Here is the Anthem that you might like to listen to when the service ends.
For additional help on how to view the service, please see the Live Services page.
17.5.20 - Sixth Sunday of Easter.pdfMidweek reflection, 13th May 2020
This week's 'Something for Midweek' is written by Anne Constantine of Great Gransden.
This week is 'Christian Aid Week'. Please consider praying for, and donating to, the urgent and essential work they are doing to support some of the most vulnerable people in the world to meet the challenges of Covid-19.
13.5.20 - Midweek.pdfFifth Sunday of Easter, 10th May 2020
A service of peace and reconciliation for VE Day was live-streamed at 10am on Sunday on the Bluebell Benefice Facebook page. A recording of the service is available.
You might like to print out the Service Sheet.
For additional help on how to view the service, please see the Live Services page.
10.5.20 - A Service for Peace, VE Day.pdfSomething for Midweek, 6th May
Reflection and prayer for Wednesday.
6.5.20 - Midweek.pdfFourth Sunday of Easter, 3rd May
This All-Age service on The Good Shepherd was live-streamed from 10am, Sunday, on the Bluebell Benefice Facebook page, just as we have done the last few weeks. You can now rewatch the recording of the service (the service starts around 10 minutes in after some wonderful handbells and images of our bluebell woods). You might like to print the order of service if you would like to follow the responses.
See also an activity sheet for children.
3.5.20 - Fourth Sunday of Easter.pdf