Ladock News, June 2025
A message from Scott Hall, Lay Reader at Probus.
Like the King, the Church celebrates its ‘official’ birthday at this time of year, at the feast commonly known as Pentecost. Pentecost is a significant Christian holy day that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ, as described in Acts 2:1–4. It occurs 50 days after Easter Sunday, hence the name “Pentecost,” which comes from the Greek Pentēkostē, meaning “fiftieth.”
Pentecost marks the moment when the Church becomes a public, spirit-empowered community. Before this event, the disciples were hidden and uncertain; after Pentecost, they began boldly preaching the good news about Jesus and gathering new believers. At the first Pentecost people from many nations heard the apostles speak in their own languages. This reflects the Church’s universal nature—one body, but inclusive of all peoples and cultures.Today, if a person asked where the church is, most people would most likely say ‘It’s up the hill next to the School, where they ring the bells’. But this would not be the view of the early church. For the first few centuries, Christians met in homes, catacombs, or outdoors. Buildings came later. What made them a church wasn’t the place, but the people, the presence of believers united in Christ.
Today this is what church tries to be: a people who simply live alongside others, sharing our lives, our hurts, our failings, our losses, our fun and of course our stories with others who we live alongside. People who simply seek to serve God through a relationship with Jesus. This is what the church is: our neighbours, our friends and work colleagues. Next time you look up at the tower, or hear the bells, remember that thanks to Pentecost, the Church is not one place but everywhere.
Our planned services and other events in June are: 
Sunday 1 June: Holy Communion 11.00 am, with choir
Saturday 7 June: Coffee Morning in Ladock Community Hall, 10.00 – 12.00.
Sunday 8 June: Holy Communion, 11.00 am
Sunday 15 June: Holy Communion 11.00 am, with choir.
Sunday 22 June: Holy Communion 11.00 am.
Sunday 22 June: Evensong, 6.00 pm
Saturday 28 June: Fete at Ladock Community Hall 2.30pm to raise funds for the Bells Restoration Project.
Sunday 29 June: Team service at St Michael Penkevil 10.00 am. No service at Ladock.
There will be a short service of Morning Prayer every Tuesday at 9.00 am.
The Church is open for private prayer every day, including weekends.
Please note that full details of online services and other events are on our website www.ladockchurch.org.uk
Ladock Church is also on Facebook.