November Newsletter

St Peter and St Paul’s Dry Drayton

A small church with a big heart

Newsletter November 2025

Dear Friends,

For the Church, November is traditionally a season of remembrance. We remember and give thanks for those known personally to us and also for those who have given their lives in defence of our nation. A special Choral Evensong service is being held at the Church on Sunday 2 November and we will be remembering with love and gratitude all those known to ourselves who have died. Our Remembrance Sunday Service is being held on November 9 starting at 10:50am. All are most welcome to join us for this special service of commemoration and remembrance.

Christians believe that Jesus offers hope and comfort to those who grieve. Jesus himself is the sign and symbol of God’s regenerative and transcending love, the promise that God will restore life where there is death. Christians believe that Jesus can bring hope even to the darkest and most painful moments of our life. Writing after their experiences of the horrors of trench warfare in WWI, both JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis wrote of how their faith in God helped them get through their worst days, giving them hope for a better tomorrow. That goodness and light would overcome the darkness in the end, and that justice would prevail. And that is our hope and prayer for today too: that the fragile peace in Gaza and the Middle East will hold, and that justice and peace will come to Ukraine and other parts of the world currently in conflict.

God Bless,

Clare

Revd Clare Coates,
Lead Minister for Dry Drayton, Caldecote with Childerley and Hardwick
clarecoates@lordsbridge.org

07818 618 795

Services in November

Sunday 2 November

5:30pm Choral Evensong for All Souls, with Revd Clare and Nigel Taylor.

Sunday 9 November Remembrance Sunday

10.50am A special service of remembrance with Revd Lynda.

Sunday 16 November

11am AA Holy Communion with Revd Clare

Sunday 23 November

10:30am Churches Joint Service at Comberton Leisure Centre. Children’s activities led by GenR8. Please sign up here: https://forms.gle/ezHUuyAqUL2BtExe9

3-4pm Wild Church at the Cabin in Hardwick. A family friendly service, exploring nature and God in the grounds of the Cabin. All welcome.

Sunday 30 November Advent Sunday

10:30am Lordsbridge Team Service at St Mary’s Hardwick with Sue Nelms leading and Revd Clare preaching and presiding. Our Advent Sermon series on Handel’s Messiah begins today and WCYM will be leading our music. All welcome!

Online Services

Sundays at 11am Lordsbridge Zoom Service

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88221400075?pwd=b3VQeDArQVJRREtYTlgrZ0tEbDdWdz09

Meeting ID: 882 2140 0075

Passcode: 534531

Caldecote Women’s Prayer group Thursday mornings in term time at 9am on Zoom

Women from Caldecote and surrounding villages are warmly invited to join us online, gathering in spirit to pray, reflect and lift one another up through prayers. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88137270141?pwd=pCvjk7eQrFqYX8GrvRP6JmMZKI9bYK.1

Meeting ID: 881 3727 0141
Passcode: 655934

What’s on:

First Wednesdays every month, Coffee morning in the Village Hall, 10am-12noon.

Hardwick:

Tuesday Toddlers in the Cabin, every Tuesday in term time 10-11:30am

All welcome to join us for free play, craft, story and fun!