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Do you struggle with doubt?
Within the Easter story there is at
least one disciple, Thomas, who
doubted the resurrection.
Doubt is a common response to
life as we see it. Doubt can be a
good thing, it often prevents us
from rushing into something
without due caution. It is not a
sign of weakness nor is it a lack
of faith. Doubt only becomes a
problem if we persist in an
attitude which refuses to accept
the revealed truth and person of
Jesus Christ.
Do you ever look at other
Christians and wonder: ‘Do they
REALLY believe this stuff? That
Jesus really was the Son of God
who rose again, and is alive
today?’
Doubt is an honest place to be,
and is not the opposite of
Christian faith. To believe is to be
in one mind. To disbelieve is to
be in one mind also. To doubt is
to waver between the two minds.
To doubt is to be willing to
believe it – IF you can find
evidence to back up the story.
If you are in this state of ‘two-
minds’ over the Easter story, you
may find the story of the disciple
Thomas (John 20:24-29) to be
helpful. Unlike the other disciples,
he was not present on that first
news
22 May 2011
Easter night when Jesus
appeared to the other disciples.
Instead, Thomas was told some-
one whom he’d seen crucified
and dead was alive again three
days later, in perfect health.
Thomas had been devoted to
Jesus, but the fact that dead
people don’t rise again was just
too much for him. So despite the
joy of the other disciples, he
could get only as far as: ‘unless I
see the nail marks... I will not
believe it.’
It was a week later that Jesus
appeared again to his disciples
and confronted Thomas. He said
simply: ‘Put your finger here; see
my hands . . . stop doubting and
believe.’
Jesus then looked forward to all
the millions of people in the future
who would never meet him in
person, and so would have
understandable grounds to doubt.
‘Because you have seen me, you
have believed; blessed are those
who have not seen and yet have
believed.’
Thomas needed physical
recognition before he could say
‘My Lord and My God.’
Today, if you want to believe, but
honestly struggle with doubt, talk
to someone about it and try
using this simple prayer:
‘Lord Jesus, I have never seen
you in person. So I sometimes
doubt that you exist. The Bible
tells us that it’s only the Holy
Spirit who can open our ‘spiritual
eyes’, and so I ask you to do
that for me. Please give me not
physical recognition, but faith
recognition. I will do my bit, and
read about you each day in the
Bible. Through your Word,
please open my spiritual eyes so
that I can see you clearly as
Jesus, the risen Son of God.”
Alan Tuddenham
TODAY’S SERVICES
Fifth Sunday of Easter
8.00am Holy Communion
President: James Clarke
Preacher: Tim Gage
9.30am Morning Worship
President: Steve Hagger
Preacher: P-J Guy
Theme: Servant Leadership
11.15am Civic Service
President: James Clarke
Preacher: Jeremy Taylor
Theme: Servant Leadership
7.00pm Saints@7
Come at 6.30pm for coffee
Served in church
President: P-J Guy
Preacher: Sam Carter

PRAYER DIARY
First of all then, I urge that
supplications, prayers, inter-
cessions, and thanksgivings be
made for all people. (1 Timothy 2:1)
Sunday 22 May
 For Services at All Saints and
Gracechurch; for those leading
and preaching; pray especially
for Saints@7.
For the youth Confirmation
Class; pray for these young
people as they prepare for their
confirmation.
For the service at Compton
House (Tim Griffiths).
Monday 23 May
 For we have a strong and
certain hope that Jesus can,
and will, meet all our human
needs – let’s remind ourselves
of this as we bring all those in
need to Him this week.
Tuesday 24 May
For Christianity Explored this
evening; for PJ and the team;
pray that God may open eyes.
For the visit, by members of the
church family to St. Anne’s,
Limehouse.
Wednesday 25 May
For Jaffa, the after-school club,
at Lindfield Primary.
For the youth bible study led by
PJ.
For Steph at Oathall CU.
For all the young people in our
fellowship and for those known
to us personally who have long
term problems. It is such a
privilege to be able to bring all
these young lives before God
with thankfulness and faith, that
He will meet them in their
difficulties.
Thursday 26 May Sunday 29 May
 For Steve and Jo Ransley  For Walstead Place service
speaking at Coffee Plus this (Andrew Nunn); Compton
morning. House (EFC).
 For children and young people For Steve Ransley preaching at
in All Saints. For the Good Gracechurch; for the
News Club (Sun.); for those in Confirmation Course.
Pathfinders (Sun. & Thurs.);
Lu Seymour co-ordinates prayer for
PoDs (Mon.); Encrypt (Fri.) and those who would like to have their
Easy Tigers (Wed.). For Tiger names included in All Saints’ News
Cubs (weekday mornings); Prayer Diary. Contact Lu on (412076).
Rainbow (Wed.); Noah’s Ark
(Tues.); Twins’ Club (Fri.); and
crèches.
Friday 27 May
 For all those within the Church
family who are of the older
generation, that all the
difficulties, loneliness and
sometimes confusion of old
age, would be eased by the
amazing Love of our Heavenly
Father.
For the residential care homes
in the parish; for the staff and
residents.
Saturday 28 May
 For the wedding of Paul Please remember all our
Thurston and Sophie Wellman. mission partners in prayer:
Continue to pray for parents,
children and staff at Tavistock Especially this week we pray for:
and Summerhill School during a Tearfund
time of great uncertainty about
(See page four)
its future.
For P-J and Gerda and all the John and Priya, Joseph and Ayesha
family as they prepare for their Buzzard (North Star); Hans-Ueli and
Wendy, Andreas and Elisabeth
move to Horam; pray too for
Adam and Kate Pymble and Gerster; Isubilo in Zambia; Karudec
(Kagando Rural Development Centre);
their family as they prepare to Light for Life, Bulgaria; Simon and
come to All Saints. Becky, Josiah, Charys and Benjamin
For those who are preparing to Lunt; New Directions Theatre Company
lead, preach or take part in (Robin and Christine Meredith-Jones);
various ways at All Saints and Opera Brava (Bronek and Mandy, Alex,
Gracechurch this coming Joshua, Natasha and Maria Pomorski);
Ian and Anne-Marie, Peter and Taryn,
Sunday.
Michael and Rebecca Prescott; South
Rwenzori Diocese, Uganda.

Don’t forget the Tearfund Tea
TODAY at 4pm in the Tiger
Lounge. Sarah Newnham will be
giving an update on Tearfund.
All very welcome and there will
be refreshments and cakes.
Victoria Todd
Village Day
Saturday 4 June
There will be a Churches Tea
Tent again this year and we are
looking for help to serve teas
and coffees during the
afternoon. We are also asking if
people would be able to make a
Victoria or similar sponge or loaf
tin cake. Cakes should be left
uncut and would need to be
delivered to the marquee
between 10am and 12noon on
the day.
Sign up sheets are in the church
porch TODAY - please do sign
up if you can. Last year we
served 600 people!
If you have any questions
please call Clare Nibloe on
07940 584679
Come and
join in
mission
prayer
NEXT
Sunday 29 May at 5.30pm in the
Tiger Lounge at the OMF Prayer
Meeting. This is a time of prayer
for Hans-Ueli and Wendy
Gerster and for Ian and Anne-
Marie Prescott and their
families, as well as for
OMF. Audrey Caisley
Men Aloud
The next Men Aloud event will
be a breakfast at the Bent Arms
on Saturday 18 June at 8.30am.
The topic of discussion will be
Money, Money, Money, full
English breakfast - £8, tea/
coffee and toast £2. Look out for
sign up via email or the sheet at
the back of church in the next
few weeks.
Steve Hagger and Cavan Wood
Church Family Fun
Pentecost Picnic
Please make sure that Sunday
12 June is firmly in your diaries!
This is the date for the next
Church Family afternoon
together. It will be in the
Vicarage garden for a lunchtime
picnic followed by games and
afternoon tea. At 5pm there will
be a celebration service in
Church which will take the place
of the usual 6.30pm Evening
Service.
(See flyer for more details)
News from the Tower
Last Saturday we rang a ¼ peal
of Grandsire Triples for the Arts
Festival. It was Sarah Beeston’s
first ¼ peal on 8 bells.
Congratulations to Sarah.
Brenda Dart
Lunch
in the Tiger
NEXT Friday, 27 May
12.45 for 1pm. £3.50 per person
Bookings by Tuesday evening please
to the Church Office (482405)
Ministry Trainee
(Apprentice)
I am delighted to announce that
Oli Taylor will be joining us as a
Ministry Trainee from
September.
Oli is
currently
completing
his degree in
Business
Economics
at the
University of
Portsmouth
where he
has been studying for the past
three years. During that time he
has worshipped at Kings
Church, Portsmouth and has
been involved in local outreach
amongst youth and children. He
is excited by the prospect of
joining us and exploring possible
options for ministry in the future.
We look forward to welcoming
him later in the summer. James
Coffee Plus
We next meet on Thursday 26
May. We welcome Steve and Jo
Ransley who will lead us as we
look at Jesus as ‘The Good
Shepherd. As usual coffee is
available from 9.30am.
Sarah Hagger

This week’s mission partners’ focus is on:
Please pray for:
 Urgent recruitment of the senior management
positions in Tearfund's DR Congo and South
Sudan programmes, that the right people would
be selected
 Safety for staff in the Pakistan programme
after the recent terrorist-related events
 for families who lost their crops last year in
the Pakistan floods who have benefited from seed
distributions, and are hoping for a good harvest
to rebuild their livelihoods
 Praise God for the first 40 houses that have
been built so far and pray for the successful
building of the next houses.
Service of Commemoration and
Thanksgiving
Sunday 19 June at 3pm
A service in which we remember with joy and
affection loved ones who have departed this life
and where those who have been bereaved find
strength and comfort from God.
Followed by tea in the Tiger Lounge
A Message from
Ian and Anne-Marie Prescott:
We have enjoyed the
opportunity to be ‘missionaries
in residence’ as P-J titled us on
the recent mission focus Sunday
(May 8). We have caught up
with those who know us and
have prayed for us and got to
know a few more a little better.
We have also enjoyed
contributing in some small way
to the life of the church. Thank
you for the support of the church
family thus far, and hope it will
continue! We appreciate the
partnership of the church family
especially in prayer, finance and
interest.
A number are asking when we
are leaving Lindfield! We plan to
join the church weekend away at
Ashburnham in September and
move to our flat at All Nations on
Monday 12 September.
There is still time to meet with
us, so contact us as soon as
possible, as we are away for
much of the next two months.
Ware, is not so far away and
you are welcome to come and
visit and see All Nations where
we will be working.
Ian and Anne-Marie Prescott
Sunday Creche Team
Mandy Yelverton has joined
Dave Reed and Diane Abbott to
complete the leadership team
for the Sunday crèche. Let’s
remember to pray for this
‘behind the scenes’ ministry
which is so valuable to many of
the young families in the
church. Ken Markham
Fond Farewell Cream Tea for the Guys Pymble’s Larder
Saturday 16 July from 3-5pm in the Vicarage garden. A vintage Adam (our new curate) and
afternoon of good old fashioned fun(!), to say farewell to P-J, Gerda, Kate Pymble and their family
Amy, Orlando and Mahalia Guy. arrive in Lindfield on 10 June
Please book the date in your diaries and look out for a sign up sheet, and we would like to welcome
nearer the time, to provide scones, cakes, bunting etc. them with a full fridge and a
We would like to compile a ‘memories’ book to give to the Guys from stocked larder.
the whole church. Therefore, please can you drop a photo of Look out for a sign up sheet in
yourself/selves (either with the Guys or on your own) and a message the porch to provide essential
to them/funny memory/joke, into the Church Office, or email it to: food and household items for
allsaints@lindfield.info asap. Sarah Hagger them as they move in.
Sarah Hagger
PJ’s Induction
PJ will be inducted to the living of Christ Church, Horam on Tues- Ashburnham sign-up
day 30 August. The time of the evening service is to be confirmed. A very encouraging start last
Members of All Saints are welcome to attend the service. Please let Sunday to the bookings for our
the Tiger Office know if you would like to go. They will then let Christ Church Away Weekend at
Church know, to enable them to arrange seating and refreshments. Ashburnham! Over 200 people
are already signed up so, if you
NADFAS Volume haven’t yet committed to it, don’t
Despite our appeals, the missing Volume 2 of this set of record
delay! Ashburnham is blessed
documents of the furnishings of the church has not been handed in.
with plenty of twin en-suite
It’s going to cost £63 to replace it so this is a final appeal. If you
rooms so don’t be reticent about
have ever borrowed any of the volumes (A4 size dark green applying for one, if that’s what
binders), please search that ‘pile of papers waiting to be attended to
you’d really like.
when you’ve got time’ to see if the NADFAS volume is there. The
The Organising Team
‘amnesty of grace’ for return of the volume is continuing for a little
while longer! Ken Markham
Compton House Plant Sale
The day was bright and sunny, the garden was splendid as always
and plants and people kept arriving! Fears that the Lindfield Arts
Festival would conflict with the Plant Sale were unfounded. In fact
COMPTON HOUSE
there seemed to be more people that usual! There was a very happy
atmosphere and quite a buzz around all the plant tables. The cakes CHRISTIAN
sold out and only a few plants were left at the end of the morning NURSING HOME
(the remainder are still for sale!).
Thank you to all those who came and made the occasion a very We currently have
happy time, and, not least, those who spent money on plants and vacancies for
garden items! either permanent care or
A very big thank you to all those who gave time to help with the sale. respite care
Everyone who volunteered to staff the plant tables, help with the
refreshments or help in other ways, were so helpful and enthusiastic All enquiries welcomed to
as they greeted buyers and did so well selling the plants! Thanks too Registered Manager :
for those who prepared the garden during the previous week. Jennie Herring
The net total, to date, amounts to £650 which will be shared with Telephone : 01444-482662
OMF, Tearfund and Compton House Christian Care Home.
Alan Tuddenham
 ctivities and Prayer
CONNECT GROUPS MEET THIS
WEEK
Sunday 22 May
9.30am Good News Club
Church and Tiger
9.30am Pathfinders - Church and
Vicarage
4pm Tearfund Tea - Lounge
Monday 23 May
Daytime Tiger (Monday to Friday
activities in The Tiger)
9am Tiger Cubs Pre-School -
Tiger
7.45pm Encrypt (POD)
59 Finches Gardens
7.30pm Hand Bells - Stable
Tuesday 24 May
9am Tiger Cubs Pre-School
Tiger
9.30am Noah’s Ark - Stable, Crypt
and Schoolroom
7pm Encrypt (PODs) - Crypt
7.15pm Christianity Explored Meal
8pm Session - Lounge
7.45pm Tower Bells Practice
Church
Wednesday 25 May
9am Tiger Cubs Pre-School
Tiger
2.30pm Rainbow
Schoolroom and Stable
Thursday 26 May
9am Tiger Cubs Pre-School
Tiger
9.30am Coffee Plus - Lounge
7pm Pathfinders - Tiger
8pm Music Rehearsal - Church
All Saints’ News
Editor: Alan Tuddenham (454940)
Copy in ASN pigeon-hole by:
Wednesday, 9.30am
or email: asntuddenham@o2.co.uk
and allsaints@lindfield.info
Please keep notices brief, but they
may still need to be amended at the
Editor’s discretion.
Church Office telephone no: 482405
Tiger Hosts
21-22 May:
Shirley Taylor and Katharine Markham
(for 9:30am service)
28-29 May:
Ken and Gill Martin
Friday 27 May
7am Early Morning Prayer For bookings & weekday access
Crypt contact the Church Office
9am Tiger Cubs Pre-School
Tiger Pastoral Care
Noon Holy Communion-Church For pastoral care
12.45pm Tiger Lunch - Lounge
needs, please
7.30pm Choir Practice - Church
ring the
8pm Encrypt - Tiger
dedicated
Saturday 28 May confidential
8.45am Prayer for nation and telephone line
community - EFC and answering
1.30pm Marriage of Paul Thurston Annie Hance
machine (487540),
and Sophie Wellman
leaving your own name and
Sunday 29 May telephone number. All calls are
5.30pm OMF Prayer Meeting - followed up – initially by Annie
Lounge Hance who is our All Saints’
Pastoral Coordinator.
. . . and finally . . .
 The English test had only one
question: ‘Write an essay on ‘The NEXT SUNDAY’S SERVICES
Most Beautiful Thing I Ever Saw’.
One of the students finished his (29 May)
essay in less than a minute. It read
in its entirety: ‘The most beautiful Sixth Sunday of Easter
think I ever saw was just too
beautiful for words.’ He got the only 8.00am
A in the class. Holy Communion
President: James Clarke
 A little boy’s prayer: ‘Dear God, Preacher: Jez Lowries
please take care of my daddy and
mummy and my sister and my 9.30am
brother and my doggy and me. Oh, All Age Worship
and please take care of yourself, President: James Clarke
God. If anything happens to you, Preacher: Steve Ransley
we’re gonna be in a big mess.’
11.15am
Holy Communion
President: James Clarke
All Saints’ Website:
Preacher: Jeremy Taylor
www.allsaintslindfield.org Theme: Dealing with Immorality
For any editorial queries please con-
tact the Church Office 6.30pm
ASN and the website share the same
Evening Worship
President: Cavan Wood
contents. Please send items for both to
the email addresses above. Preacher: James Clarke
Theme: Relationships and bodies