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The audio and video recordings of this service are now available. The audio recording can be found HERE and the video HERE.

The audio and video recordings of our service are now available HERE and HERE respectively. Jackie's talk was based on John 1:1-18 and included telling us about how she became a Christian.

The AUDIO and VIDEO recording of the benefice service on Sunday 27th December are now available. We looked at the example of Joseph in Matthew 2:13-23 and how he leads us to Jesus. Please note that the 1 minute 15 seconds video clip shown during the service has not been allowed on YouTube because of copyright reasons.

Dear Friends,

A very Happy Christmas to you all.

What ever your circumstances this year may you know God’s presence as you celebrate the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the truth of the Word made flesh for our salvation.

HERE is the liturgy and readings for Morning Prayer. The Clergy will be taking some rest after Christmas and therefore will not be leading morning prayer again until Mon Jan 3^rd 2021, however everything you need is in the booklet and  if you wish to meet up with others at 9am Mon -Sat  to pray together over Zoom the  ID and passcode will still work.

Zoom Christingle Service-Christmas Eve 4pm.  This is not just for Children, and as is the case  for all our services if you would like to join us you are welcome ID 890 7383 6690  passcode 24122020

I’m looking forward to seeing ‘the light of the world throughout the  benefice shining in the darkness’ through my computer screen.

There is still time to get your Posada or nativity scene pictures in.   

Looking forward to seeing you at one of the Benefice services in a building or on Zoom over Christmas.

With every blessing

Andrea

Dear friends, 

I hope this email finds you well and with some of the hope of Advent filling your life after such a difficult year.

As Advent makes the transition into Christmas this weekend, we are having plenty of opportunities to celebrate the birth of Jesus. We look forward to welcoming to you to our worship, both online and also in our parish churches. We have tried to choose the best approach to fit the service. Therefore, Carol Services and Christingle are on Zoom because we aren’t allowed to sing carols together in church buildings and we can’t fit in the numbers we usually have, and there are Communion Services in every open parish church as we cannot receive bread and wine ‘virtually’.

The details are all below, but can I encourage you to please spread the news as widely as possible. Not everyone who would like to join in is on our email list, or reads their emails. And people in our communities who would normally come to a service may not realise what is happening, especially for those services on Zoom. Please give people a call, or pass on the details in other ways so that everyone who wishes to join in for Christmas has the opportunity. Thank you in advance.

Carol Services and Christingle (on Zoom and Facebook Live)

Sunday 20^th December:

• 14:00; Carol Service for the village of North Tuddenham (Meeting ID: 834 0140 0096, Passcode: 858873)
• 18:00; Contemporary style Carol Service, similar to that held at ASM in previous years (Meeting ID: 820 9614 6521, Passcode 20122020)

Thursday 24^th December, Christmas Eve:

• 16:00; Christingle Service – (Meeting ID: 890 7383 6690, Passcode 24122020)
• 18:00; Traditional style Carol Service, based on nine lessons and carols (Meeting ID: 879 2263 3430, Passcode 24122020)

Friday 25^th December, Christmas Day:

• 10:00; Joyful Christmas Day service with carols (Meeting ID: 834 0140 0096, Passcode: 858873)

Sunday 27^th December, Christmas 1/John

• 10:00; Morning Worship (Meeting ID: 834 0140 0096, Passcode: 858873)

Christmas Communion Services (in our parish churches)

These are happening in our parish churches (except for St. Mary’s, North Tuddenham which is unfortunately closed at the moment). They are ‘proper’ communion services, and we will be receiving both the bread and wine, but the social distancing rules apply, we must wear masks and there is still no congregational singing.

For the services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we heavily recommend that you book up in advance, because the capacity of all our churches is heavily reduced owing to the social distancing regulations. If you don’t book up, come on the day, and the church is ‘full’ then we will not be able to let you in the service!

Thursday 24^th December, Christmas Eve:

• 10:30 East Tuddenham; book through Janet Guy on 01603 880523
• 20:00 Yaxham; book through Sally Thurgill on 01362 692745
• 21:30 Welborne; book through Susan Cross on 01362 858612
• 23:30 Hockering; book through Andrea Woods on 01603 928279

Friday 25^th December, Christmas Day:

• 10:30 Mattishall, All Saints; book through Alan Cossey on alan.cossey@matvchurch.uk or 01362 857904 (email preferred, please).

Sunday 27^th December, Christmas 1/John

• 10.30 Yaxham; no need to book in advance

We look forward to seeing you all at some point(s) this Christmas season.

Wishing you a joyful and safe time.

Mark McCaghrey

Rector: Mattishall and Tudd Valley Benefice
Benefice Office, Church Rooms, Dereham Road, Mattishall,
Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 3QA.
​Phone: 01362 882260
Office: 01362 858873
www.matvchurch.uk
Skype: mark_16515

North Tuddenham's Mardle magazine for January 2021 is now available either from the Resources section or directly from HERE.

The video and audio recordings are now available. The video is available from HERE and the audio from HERE or the resources section of this benefice web site.

The audio and video are now available. As usual the audio can be heard and/or downloaded from the resources section of this benefice website or directly from HERE and the video can be see HERE. 

The audio and video recordings of the benefice Zoom service on 29th November, which is the first Sunday in Advent, are now available. The audio recording can be found in the resources section of the benefice website or directly HERE. The video can be seen HERE.

The audio and video recording of the benefice service on 22nd November 2020 are now available. The audio recording can be found in the resources section or directly from HERE. The video is available from HERE. Mark was speaking on Matthew 25:31-46.

The 1 hour time of information, prayer and worship spoken about in the service today (15th November 2020) has been recorded and can be seen at HERE.

The audio and video files of this service are now available. The video is available HERE and the audio file can be found on the resources section of the website or, directly, HERE.

The Evangelical Alliance has called a UK day of prayer on 13 November. To quote their website, "We are working with networks, denominations and churches to bring people together to pray. As communities across the UK face further restrictions and lockdowns, as many churches are forced to stop their in-person gatherings, as suffering and loss affect so many families, we hear the call again to unite and seek God together in this time of trouble"

For more information, please go to their website at https://www.eauk.org/what-we-do/prayer-centre/uk-day-of-prayer-november-13th-2020

The recordings of the Remembrance Sunday service are now available. The audio recording can be heard from the Resources section of this web site or directly from HERE and the video recording is available from our YouTube channel HERE.

With the new lockdown now in place in England, there are restrictions on how worship can take place. Basically, we cannot hold our normal services inside our church buildings and most are reluctant to hold entire services outside due to the complexity of ensuring (= policing) social distancing, particularly if there are large numbers of people involved. For example, Mattishall normally has about a couple of hundred people involved in the first part of the service on the village green, finishing off the service inside All Saints. Mattishall Parish Council had cancelled the outside part of the service because of the problems involved in social distancing and how that would detract from the atmosphere of a respectful act of remembrance.

Before the new lockdown was announced last weekend the benefice staff team had organised local services, but on Monday afternoon started organizing a suitable Zoom service. Just after we finished the organisation, the Prime Minister announced that outside services could be held under certain stringent, documented conditions. With the problems with outside services under lockdown mentioned above we decided to proceed with the Zoom service this Remembrance Sunday as planned (apart from a short service totally outside at Yaxham, which had been the original plan there anyway).

This Sunday's Zoom Remembrance Service will include the reading of the names from all our benefice parishes who fell and thus the timing of the service is a bit more complicated than usual. We are still working out at what time we will start the service, but will let you know soon.

So, please do join us for our Remembrance Service on Zoom on Sunday and invite those you know who would normally come to Remembrance Services in our church buildings. The Zoom connection details are the usual details for each Sunday, but I have put them below anyway.

When the time of the start of the service is known we will put it on this website and email those on our distribution lists. If you are not on our distribution lists and only receive weekly email updates from this website, please check this website.

For those who join us on Sunday, please do join the Zoom meeting in plenty of time so we can try to avoid having to let people in during the actual service itself. The Zoom meeting will be open to join at least 15 minutes before the start of the service itself.

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Hope to see you on Sunday.

Alan Cossey

The audio and video files of the benefice Zoom service on 1st November 2020 are now available. The audio file can be downloaded from the Resources section or listened to directly here. The video version can be watched from here.

In her talk Mel was speaking on part of Revelation chapter 7. 

Under the proposals announced by the Prime Minister on 31st October, church services are to be severely restricted for some weeks. The proposals will be voted on in Parliament before implementation, but if they are passed unamended it will mean we cannot have Remembrance Services in our churches as planned on Sunday 8th November.

There is a benefice staff meeting on Monday 2nd November and shortly after that we hope to have more information on what we intend to do on 8th November. 

Details of the government's intended lockdown rules for churches can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-national-restrictions-from-5-november#weddings-civil-partnerships-religious-services-and-funerals

Dear Friends,

We are in a new season in the churches year, All saints tide to Advent. A time of celebrating the body of Christ which transcends even death. We remember those who have given  us an example of living in God’s grace and power to follow;   ‘ the great cloud of witnesses’ Hebrews 12:1.  We remember more locally the faithful departed and also those who gave their lives during war and conflict.

Clicking here will take you to the new liturgy and the readings for Morning Prayer for this short season.

As always everyone is welcome. We will be meeting on Zoom at 9am Monday – Friday with a more informal time of Prayer on Saturday at the same time.

If you are unable to join us but would like us to pray or give thanks for anything at all, please do be in touch.

With every blessing

Andrea  

North Tuddenham's Mardle magazine is now available either from the Resources section or directly from here.

Audio recording of the talk at All Saints, Mattishall, on Bible Sunday based on Nehemiah 8.1-12. The talk can be heard here.and is very similar to the talk given earlier the same day at the service at Hockering.

Audio and video recordings of the Zoom benefice service on Sunday 25th October 2020 with Mark speaking on Matthew 22:34-46. The audio recording can be heard here and the video recording is here.

Audio and video recordings of the Zoom benefice service on Sunday 18th October 2020 with Mel speaking on Matthew 22:15-22. The audio recording can be heard here and the video recording is here. Mel was speaking on the passage in Matthew's gospel where Jesus is questioned by the Pharisees and Herodians (usually enemies of each other) about paying a tax to Caesar. They had been hoping to catch him out, but Jesus turns the tables on them.

Audio and video recordings of the Zoom benefice service on Sunday 11th October 2020 with Mark speaking on Matthew 22:1-14. The audio recording can be heard here and the video recording is here.

The audio and video recordings are now available. The audio file can be found in the Resources section of the website here and the video from here. This week there is the bonus of the audio recording of the talk by Alan Cossey at All Saints', Mattishall at their 10.30 service (basically the same one given at the 9.00 service at Hockering the same day). This talk can also be found the on the Resources section or here.

The audio and video recordings are now available. The audio file can be found in the Resources section of the website here and the video from here.

If you wish to contribute by filling a shoe box, donating items towards a shoe box or helping towards the £5 suggested delivery fee per box, then please let me know via the Church Office (contact@matvchurch.uk or telephone 01362 858873 during office hours). Spare boxes are available with the 2020 leaflets. Many thanks and blessings - Mandy x

The video and audio recordings of the online benefice service of 20th September 2020 are now available. The audio recording can be found in the Resources section or directly HERE. The video can be watched on our YouTube channel HERE.

Dear Friends,

This Sunday you have a choice to attend any of 3 acts of Worship during the morning

• 9am All Saints, Welborne
• 10am  Zoom (Meeting ID83401400096, password 858873 or click here)
• 10.30am  St Peter’s, Yaxham.

There is also an informal service late afternoon

• 5pm All Saints, Mattishall.

If you are intending to attend any of the physical services  please wear a mask and check with the church wardens or myself for available spaces as numbers are limited.

We look forward to welcoming you at whichever act of worship you choose to attend.

With every Blessing  

Andrea

The video and audio recordings of the online benefice service of 13th September 2020 are now available. The audio recording can be found in the Resources section or directly HERE. The video can be watched on our YouTube channel HERE.

Dear friends,

Just a short reminder of our services tomorrow and Sunday around the benefice for Andrea’s first communion. Please do join us along the route and/or at the services around the benefice. Thank you also for your sponsorship of Andrea. You can still sponsor her here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/andreas-first-communion

Saturday 12^th September

• 9.30 am All Saints  East Tuddenham
• 12noon All Saints Welborne
• 4pm St Peters Yaxham

Sunday 13^th September

• 9am St Michaels Hockering
• 11am St Mary’s North Tuddenham
• 2pm All Saints Mattishall

With thanks for your support of her.

Mark

The first full series (Trusting the Gospels) is now available to listen to online HERE.  The people involved are Andrew Ollerton, who led The Course, which many of us (50+) in the benefice have taken part in, as well as staff from Tyndale House, headed up by Peter J. Williams, who, again, some of us have heard speak in videos.

If you want to learn more about why the gospels are trustworthy, particularly if you want to tell other people, this is a short series well worth checking out.

If you have any questions, do please contact Alan Cossey (see the Who's Who page on this benefice web site for details).

So looking forward to doing this next week end 12th and 13th September. If you are able to sponser me that would be great. I would love it if any of you wish to join Mark and I as we walk between the churches. The route will be posted here and on the benefice Facebook page later in the week.

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The audio and video recordings of the service, in which Sally preached on Jonah chapter 3, are now available. The audio recording can be found in the Resources section of this website or directly from here. The video can be viewed at here.

The audio and video recordings of the service, in which Andrea preached on Revelation, are now available. The audio recording can be found in the Resources section of this website or directly from here. The video can be viewed at here.

The September 2020 edition of The Mardle from North Tuddenham is now available from the Resources section of this website or directly from here.

The audio recording of the service has been uploaded to the Resources section of this website and can be accessed directly from here. The video of the service can be accessed from our YouTube channel here.

Mark was preaching on Philippians 4:2-9.

The audio recording of the service has been uploaded to the Resources section of this website and can be accessed directly from here. The video of the service can be accessed from our YouTube channel here.

The August edition of North Tuddenham's Mardle magazine is now available form the Resources section of this website.

Do join us for worship together this Sunday, 2nd August. We are having two benefice services again with Welborne hosting our "physical" service and there again being a Zoom service. Joyce Turner will leading and preaching at the service at Welborne. Alan Cossey will be preaching in the Zoom service, which can be accessed in the usual manner using the link here or starting Zoom and entering a meeting ID of 834 0140 0096 with a password of 858873. Both services start at 10.00.

For the Welborne service there will be some things you will need to do to keep yourself and everyone else involved safe. Part of this is that you are strongly encouraged to wear a face covering (there will be disposable ones available at the service).

For the Zoom service, please ensure you have joined before 10.00.

We look forward to seeing you at one of the services.

There is a new audio series on Trusting the Gospels by Andrew Ollerton (from The Bible Course which over 50 of us have done in the benefice) and Peter J. Williams from Tyndale House in Cambridge, which covers material similar to Peter Williams excellent, 140-page book "Can we trust the Gospels?" which came out earlier this year. Both Andrew Ollerton and Peter Williams know their stuff and, importantly, how to put it across in a way that the ordinary man or woman can understand. If you are interested in knowing why we should trust the Gospels (that should be all of us), then do have a listen to the first episode. You can hear it online at https://trustingthebible.buzzsprout.com/.../4327502... and you can download the actual audio file from https://www.buzzsprout.com/.../4327502-trusting-the...

PS Peter J. Williams doesn't include the "J." in his name, because he is a poser, but to distinguish himself from at least two other UK Christian leaders called, "Peter Williams".

The video of the service and audio of Jackie Crisp's talk on Philippians 2:19-30 are now available. The video can be seen at on our YouTube channel here and the audio file can be listened to or downloaded from the Resources section of this website or directly from here.

This morning Betty Trinder preached on Philippians 2:12-18 as part of our series on Philippians, with Sally Thurgill leading the service. Thank you, Betty, for joining us just ahead of your retirement.

The audio recording can be heard from the Resources section of this website or directly from here. There will also be a video recording available on your YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0vlLiqkyImh3iiloD4Mm9w/videos

Recordings of the benefice service of 12th July 2020 are now available. The audio recording can be listened to or downloaded from the Resources section of this website or directly from here. There is also a video recording which can be seen at our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnDTnsmgMdk Andrea was our preacher speaking on Philippians 2:5-11.

The video is also on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/matvchurch/