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Sunday 29th August 2021 TRINITY is a vibrant and outward-looking Anglican church
in Lewes, East Sussex with a vision to see lives transformed by
the love of Christ.
We are seeking to continue being church, sharing in fellowship
over the phone & social media, studying the bible and praying
together via video chat & worshiping together midweek and on
Sunday via live video feed.
Find out more at www.trinitylewes.org/live
Join us on social media @trinitylewes
SUNDAY AT TRINITY
Please remember in your prayers
those who are unwell or facing difficulties:
John & Jane Vokins (8am)
Eve Empringham (9.30am)
Amanda Gilmour (9.30am)
Bert Sharp (9.30am)
Andy Washer (9.30am)
Janet Bridger (10am)
Bill Cronk (10am)
Denis & Shirley Edwards (10am)
Jean Hudson (10am)
Derek & Stella Hull (10am)
Charlotte Pepler (10am)
Harvey Sinden and parents Sue & Jamie (10am)
Tony & Myra Idle (4.30pm)
Geoff & Shirley Williams (4.30pm)
TO PRAY FOR THIS WEEK
DAILY PRAYER FOR TRINITY
We would like to encourage TRINITY
Members to be praying for each other by focusing on a particular section of the
alphabet each week. This week we are praying for those from Griffiths to
Hodges.
Please also pray for:
Martin Dyer and family
All those who suffer through injustice
All those struggling with mental health
conditions, especially pandemic-related
Energy for all the weary, tired and
broken, and to know a place of rest in God’s arms
Those who face an uncertain future, related to work, home life or otherwise
All keyworkers as they continue to work to keep us safe and provided for
All those who continue to lead and advise, and for wisdom in the decisions
they have to make
In addition to our services we intend to
be in contact with all church members in the following ways:
Telephone
Social media posts & chats Daily Bible Notes via email
Live video worship Live pre-school groups
Content for children & youth sent to parents
Homegroups via video link
We're excited to welcome many back to
our on site services each week but we're
also aware that many will still want to
worship online and so we continue to offer
this each Sunday.
9:30am South Malling
10:30am Southover
10:30am Online
This Sunday we will be able to worship together and hear Jules speak from
10.30am at www.trinitylewes.org/live
A new Rector for TRINITY – Rev Anita Colpus
We are delighted to share that a new rector for TRINITY has been appointed.
Rev Anita Colpus has been vicar at St Luke’s in Reigate for the past 11 years and
is also currently Area Dean. Prior to that she was licensed to a benefice in
Sittingbourne in Kent and before that served her curacy in Notting Hill. She is
passionate about sharing and living out her faith and will encourage TRINITY to
do the same. She likes playing games (all sorts), drinking good coffee, being with
her family, going away in their caravan and spending time with people.
Anita is married to Richard and they have two girls, Hannah (15yrs) & Rachel
(14yrs). Richard is a premises manager at an infants’ school and is a member of
Christian Magicians and enjoys using magic to share the gospel. Hannah is going
into year 11 in September and she is a keen competitive swimmer. Rachel is
going into year 10 in September and loves to bake.
Anita is very much looking forward to serving and leading God’s people at
TRINITY and in the next week or so, we hope to have a short video message
from her.
As you can imagine we are delighted by this news and are looking forward to
Anita joining us later in the Autumn. Please be praying for her and her family as
they prepare for this move, and also for her current parish or St Luke’s who will
have just heard the news that she is moving on – we know only too well how
hard this is to hear! Please continue to pray also for the leadership here at
TRINITY as we navigate these last few months of vacancy.
With every blessing,
Rev Jules Middleton
TRINITY UPDATE
THIS WEEK’S FEATURES STEVE & AMANDA VISIT
Fri 3rd September 2-4pm /
Café12/31
As many of you will know we had hoped
to invite Steve and Amanda back for a
final goodbye celebration, as they had to
leave Lewes during lockdown back in
March. We’ve been in contact with them
to see what they would like to do and
they have suggested a drop in at
Café12/31 for anyone who would like to
say goodbye in person.
Of course this isn’t the grand celebration
that we had hoped for and I know some
of you will be disappointed, but with
Covid still ongoing this seems a sensible
choice, and it is what Steve & Amanda
have suggested. So if you’d like to see
them, say goodbye, or just find out how
things are on the Isle of Wight, we’ll be
hosting a drop in at Café21/31 on Friday 3
September from 2-4pm. Do pop by and
say hello.
TREASURER ROLE
Are you an experienced accountant or
bookkeeper? Would you be prepared to
offer TRINITY an average of 18 hours per
week? The current TRINITY Treasurer,
Ruth Jayawant, is retiring in April 2022
and is looking for someone to shadow her
from January 2022, taking on full
responsibility for the Treasurer role in
April 2022. The role includes maintaining
TRINITY’s financial records, preparing the
annual budget and statutory financial
statements, working with our payroll
agency and with the independent
examiner. If you are interested, please
contact [email protected] for
further details.
CHRISTMAS FAIR TRADE FAIR
As many of you will know for many years
TRINITY has hosted a fair trade fair with
stalls from local sellers. This usually takes
place at Southover in November, and was
previously organised by Amanda
Daughtery. We are unsure if this event will
be able to continue now the Daughterys
have left, and are looking for someone, or
a group of people, who might be willing to
take it on and organise it in the current
form or potentially in a new guise. If you
might be interested in organising this
please get in touch with Jules.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR
MISSION PARTNER
Lisa and Isaac are the proud parents of
baby Levani Vitality Rapha’Adonai, born a
little earlier than expected on 21 August at
34 weeks. Lisa and Levani are both well
and going from strength to strength. Please
pray for baby Levani to continue to grow
stronger and soon be home with her
family. For Lisa and Isaac pray for strength
and wisdom in transitioning to caring for a
new little one.
FROM THE CORNWELLS
Dear Church Family/Friends,
Barbara and I want to share with you our
future plans.
After many enjoyable years of fellowship at
Southover and TRINITY Churches, sadly
the time has come that we are less mobile,
especially as I can no longer drive.
So we have decided to join our friends
here at St Mary’s Church Barcombe.
We have missed you all during the last
eighteen months, and will certainly be
thinking of you and praying for God’s
blessing especially as the new incumbent
commences her ministry. Praise Almighty
God for this wonderful news!
Thank you for the love and friendship you
have given us, and being our spiritual home
for almost thirty nine years.
John and Barbara Cornwell
DAILY BIBLE READINGS
DELIVERED TO YOU!
Mon 30th 1 Samuel 4: 1b-11
Tue 31st 1 Samuel 4: 12-22
Wed 1st 1 Samuel 5
Thu 2nd 1 Samuel 6: 1 - 7: 1
Fri 3rd 1 Samuel 7: 2-17
Sat 4th 1 Samuel 8
Sun 5th Psalm 11
This week we hope you will enjoy receiving
these notes which we are emailing to
everyone on our Church Family List so that
we can explore God’s word together.
You can access the same content via our
website at www.trinitylewes.org/daily
OPEN FOR PRAYER
TRINITY Southover is open for individual
private prayer Monday & Wednesday 12:00
noon till 4:30pm, Tuesday, Thursday &
Friday 9:30am till 4:30pm. Please feel free to
come and use the building to pray.
MALCOLM DYER
Martin Dyer's father Malcolm passed away
peacefully on Sunday 22nd following a 2½
year journey with Advanced Prostate
Cancer and is now reunited with his wife
Sue who went ahead in January. Please pray
for Martin and the whole family as they
grieve the loss of a wonderful father and
grandpa.
LIVING IN LOVE AND FAITH
Rev James Hollingsworth, our Rural Dean,
is facilitating a deanery course on the Living
in Love and Faith project, exploring how we
understand Christian teaching and learning
about identity, sexuality, relationships and
marriage. The deanery LLF course will be
on five Mondays: 13th, 20th & 27th Sept, 4th &
11th Oct. Time, 7pm for 7.30pm ending by
9pm. 13th Sept and 11th Oct to be held at St
Leonard’s Church, Seaford (no zoom
option). The other evenings are likely to be
only by Zoom.
The course is not just for Synod Reps but is
open to all church members. Those
attending will need to adhere to the
pastoral principles of respect and listening
to one another. The aim is to emerge from
this with a deeper insight into these
important matters and questions facing the
church right now. If you’d like to learn
more about LLF, do look here - https://
www.churchofengland.org/resources/living-
love-and-faith
It does require commitment. You will be
sharing with a small group of about six and
will be in that group for the whole course.
You will need your own LLF course book
so please mail [email protected] by
30th August to say you want to come and
bring £5 to pay for and collect your book
on the first evening.
LEWES PASSION PLAY
Celebration afternoon Sunday September
12th 3.00-4.30pm Christ Church, Prince
Edward’s Road, Lewes BN7 1BL
Were you part of LPP 2020? Would you
like to be involved in future Passion Play
events? Come and say hello over Tea and
Cake.
Want more details? Contact us Email:
Tel: 07971 398146
GIVING
If you would like to give to support the
mission of TRINITY please visit our
website https://trinitylewes.org/about/
giving/, or you may give cash or cheques to
the clergy or post cheques to the office. If
you wish to gift-aid your donation, please
inform our Treasurer by emailing
Anyone wishing to join the PGS scheme,
and set up a regular Direct Debit gift to the
church, can call the dedicated
telephone number 0333 002 1271. Our
church name is TRINITY Church Lewes,
PGS parish code 100610471.
Pictured are Lisa, Isaac, Isaac’s mum
(Mama Syfa), Haddy (Isaac’s sister) and her
husband Steven at Haddy’s school under
construction in Gomba.
The next day I met up with Chege
Kagunda of LIA to fly with MAF from their
airport at Kajjansi in the south to
Adjumani in the north, near the border
with South Sudan. This saved me from an
arduous journey of 2 days in the heat and
on rough roads. We made a brief stop at
Gulu to let out the 6 other passengers
before the final leg up to Adjumani when I
was invited to sit alongside the pilot who
knew Danny Gill well.
Coming into land at Adjumani (see photo)
we circled the runway until the pilot
judged that the cow grazing on the edge of
the landing strip would not cross our
path!
A personal testimony from Rob Hoy
As we come to the end of August it is the
last Sunday this year we will be featuring
the work of Mission of the Month, MAF.
We’ve heard of some of the many ways
MAF has enabled the work of the
Gospel to flourish in some remote areas
of the world.
First we heard about Deborah who has
run Operation Mobiliation’s children’s
ministry in Madagascar since 2017 being
airlifted out of a remote village after
falling seriously ill.
On 8th August, MAF pilot Danny Gill,
our local partner for many years, told us
via a video message about his
experiences helping in the pandemic
response to fly out medical teams to
test and vaccinate communities in South
Sudan. After 3½ years there he went on
to say how has has been called to another
ministry based in London to help young
people from disadvantaged backgrounds
find employment.
Last week we heard how MAF enabled to
2 medical students from Germany to help
at remote clinics in Papua New Guinea.
For this final article I would like to
recount how MAF helped me when I
visited Uganda and Rwanda to carry out
water-related projects from 2nd-26th Feb
2019.
It was a very intensive period with 12
flights including layovers (yes I do feel
guilty!) starting with 4 days in Uganda. The
first was spent visiting Lisa and Isaac and
their family in Gomba, learning about their
plans and looking at the options for a
water supply.
THIS MONTH’S MISSION FEATURE MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP
welcome those participating and record
their names. The churches will be open
from 9am to 5pm and we need people to
cover one-hour slots through the day. If
this is something you can do, please contact
Andrew White 07816 168408/
Southover. Jenny Lovell
[email protected] for St John's SC
and Kate Rothery [email protected]
for South Malling. Thank you.
TRINITY FOR MEN
Men's Weekend, 15th-17th October
The men's group are returning to Bowles
outdoor centre for our annual men's
weekend, with speaker Simon Allaby.
Book your place online here: https:/
trinitylewes.churchsuite.com/
events/7r3ycpbs
BRING AND NO SHARE
Bring and NO share picnic Ketchup. Sunday
5th September from 12ish in Church End
Gardens, TRINITY Southover. A one-way
system will operate indoors with a
minimum number recommended and a
sanitary cleaning station will be available
too. See you there in the first for a long
time.
URGENT ACCOMMODATION
REQUEST
Kym Vealé, a recent member of the team
as our venue administrator is currently
looking for a peaceful two bedroom
property/accommodation to rent, would
consider, due to a challenging time, a short
term arrangement. Excellent references.
Please contact Kym – Mobile: 07731991272
or 01825 751195
Email: [email protected]
FOOD BANK CONTRIBUTIONS
Items for the Lewes Food Banks may be left
in the TRINITY Southover porch.
There followed 2 days intensive training of
locals and refugees from South Sudan –
beneficiaries of 100 water filters. They had
arrived the week before but had taken 6
months to get there!
MAF’s help had enabled me to arrive fresh
to undertake the training and afterwards
complete the 3 weeks of a packed
programme in Rwanda. But that’s another
story.
FEATURES
RIDE & STRIDE
Saturday 11th September
We are looking for volunteers to be on
duty at all three TRINITY churches, to
TRINITY Office Contact Details
The TRINITY Centre, Abinger Place, Lewes BN7 2QA
Phone: 01273 474377 Email: [email protected] All events, ministries or notices for publication in any of our media should go to the office by
email. Please note that the deadline for the notice sheet is Wednesday 9am.
Please note Monday is the Clergy and Youth Minister’s day off, and Friday is Janette
Watkins’ day off (Pastoral Minister) so they are not available on those days
except for emergencies.
Safeguarding
We take the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults seriously. Therefore if you have
any concerns please speak to any of our Lead or Deputy Safeguarding Representatives:
Jane Lee - Lead representative, 07825 576936, [email protected]
Amanda Burgess - Deputy Safeguarding Representative for Children
Jenni Taylor - Deputy Safeguarding Representative for Vulnerable Adults.
Tuesday 31st
Family Fun Day (HL) - see website
7:30pm(SO) Bell Ringers
Wednesday 1st
9:00am(SO) BCP Communion
Thursday 2nd
7:30pm(SJ) Gaming café
Friday 3rd
8:00am Open to God Prayer
Live on Zoom
7:30pm(HL) The HUB / The Edge
Sunday 5th
9:30am(SM) Morning Praise
10:30am(SO) Holy Communion
10:30am(SJ) Morning Praise
Sunday 5th (cont.)
10:25am(HL) Sunday Club & Pathfinders
10:30am TRINITY Live
www.trinitylewes.org/live
4:30pm(SJ) Evening Prayer
6:15pm(HL) Fuel
Post service virtual coffee via Zoom each
Sunday. Details by email.
Non alcoholic wine and gluten free wafers are
available at communion services.
Please make your requirements known to the
servers. Thank you.
THIS WEEK AT TRINITY
TRINITY Live By Phone
From 10:25am Dial 0330 606 0403 (Charged as a standard local call)
Enter access code when prompted 4603170 followed by # (hash symbol)
SO = Southover CH = Chapter House (SO) SJ = St John sub Castro
CE Church End (SO) HL = Church Hall (SO) SM = South Malling
