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Readings for this Sunday 

Acts 2:1-21(NIV UK) 

2 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. ² Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. ³ They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. ⁴ All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

⁵ Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. ⁶ When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. ⁷ Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? ⁸ Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? ⁹ Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome ¹¹ (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” ¹² Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

¹³ Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”

¹⁴ Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. ¹⁵ These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! ¹⁶ No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:  ¹⁷ “‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. ¹⁸ Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
¹⁹ I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.  ²⁰ The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.  ²¹ And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

John 7:37-39 (NIV UK) 

³⁷ On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” ³⁹ By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.

News

Half Term - the Church will be open for Welcome Space on Wednesday as usual but most of our groups will not be running this week and the Centre and Church will be closed all day on Monday for the Bank Holiday.

School news: The Open the Book team is having a break from the assemblies for 2 weeks for Half Term. Can I encourage you to pray for our young people in year 11, who have started their GCSE exams and are using this week for more revision. 

Ecoaction for May - find out more about our local marine environment, for example the seagrass beds, the Torbay and Lyme Bay marine conservation area - and put Marine Ecofest (organised and hosted by St Matt's) on 18th July in your diary!

Torbay Men’s Breakfast – the Hotel will be increasing the cost of a full English from £12.00 to £13.00. The feedback received to date has indicated that most are happy to stay where we are and pay the extra £1.00. If you are one of the people that hasn’t yet commented on this, may I invite you to do so. Charlie Allansen-  torbay.mens.breakfast@gmail.com

Newcomers’ Tea – if you joined us in the last year or so, and haven’t yet received an invitation to our newcomers’ tea, please contact the office.

Dates for your diary

Awake Torbay 27 is a vision many people have of an open air, public, united Christian Festival of worship and celebration or Festival over three days on Torre Abbey Meadows.  The next prayer meeting is set for Wednesday the 27th of May at 2:00pm at St Mary Magdalenes. All welcome. For more information email: awaketorbay27@gmail.com

 Girls Allowed 28^th May @ 7pm - All ladies are invited to an evening with Susie Williams, who will be hosting a quiz followed by a short talk on her call to ministry and how she came to be our Church Administrator. Donations of £3 welcome. Light refreshments. Please email judithstannard@outlook.com 

Bishop James will be on pilgrimage walking between churches and you have the opportunity to join him for 10 minutes of prayer at around 10am in the Francis Chapel on Tuesday 2 June.  Please arrive through the external door from the car park as toddlers will be in the main body of the church.

Christians Against Poverty provides a short free course in Torquay advising people on how to better organize their money and budget (not debt advice) the next course is on: 4th, 11th & 18th June  7pm -9pm at Upton Vale Baptist Church. You will need to book for all 3 sessions phone: 01803 400403 or on capuk.org/trymoneycoaching

Friends of St Matthias Charity Theatre night is on Monday 15th June at the Little Theatre("Spring and Port Wine ") and tickets will be available from after this Sunday's 11am service We have an allocation of 50 good seats and it is important that we try to fill all of these to enable us to qualify for a similar allocation in the 2026/2027season  Nick Hewlitt (Chairman)

Crosslight – Paul Burbridge and Les Ellison’s One-Act Passion Play at the Royal Lyceum 18-20 June @ 7.30pm, Saturday Matinee at 2.30pm. Crosslight draws us into the room with Mary, John and Peter hours after the crucifixion and into the experience of one disciple who failed, despite everything he believed so passionately…’  Book online at www.unleashedtheatrecompany.com/

Prayers for the week

Please submit contributions for next week’s notice sheet by Tuesday lunchtime. You might have problems contacting the office on Thursday as our phone lines are being ported: by Friday we will be fully digital.