Eco Church, April 2025
Eco Church
The Eco Church Team attended a joint meeting with Norfolk Wildlife Trust churchyard experts and our Diocesan Environmental Officer Barbara Bryant, exploring the difficulties that churches have with regard to managing their churchyards for wildlife. Barbara told us that there is now an expectation that all churchyards are managed in a way that increases biodiversity. It was a very good meeting as it is always encouraging to meet with like-minded people. On the strength of that meeting and in consultation with our Churchwarden Rosie, the Town Clerk Kirsty and the man who cuts the grass, it has been agreed that the banks alongside the path leading to the Town Hall and an area in the top corner between the Town Hall and St Michael’s House, will be left uncut until after our Churches Count on Nature activity day at the beginning of June, to allow small creatures to make use of the long grass and to allow children to experience walking through it on the day.
Notices
Saturday 12th April‘Broken Planet?’ 2.30 – 4 pm in St Michael’s. To reflect on, recognise and respond to our fragile earth. There will be discussion, reading, activities and refreshments. This month we will be looking at how our ‘wants’ affect the planet. Everyone is welcome.
Please note changes to services due to Easter being on the third Sunday of the month.
Palm Sunday 13th April, Holy Communion in St Michael’s 10.30 am
Easter Day 20th April, Holy Communion in St Mary’s 10.30 am
Sunday 27thApril & 4thMay, Café Church is our more informal service starting at 10.30am in St Michael’s. There will be tea, coffee, juice, croissants and muffins, as well as papers to read from 10 o’clock.
Thursday 1st May our Annual Parochial Church Meeting will be held at Reepham Sixth Form College at 7 pm, when we will elect our Churchwardens and new PCC members. Please consider whether you could help the church by becoming a trustee and PCC member. Nomination forms from Rachel
Christian Aid Week (11th – 17th May) Please note that we are no longed able to deliver envelopes, so please collect one from St Mary’s, the Methodist Church, The Bircham, Motts or the Post Office and return your donation to Motts or the Post Office. If you prefer to donate on line, there will be QR card notices available to allow you to do so.
