Next Week’s Worship – 6th March 2016
Mothering Sunday
8.00am: Holy Communion
9.30am: Family Service with Holy Communion with Revd Poppy Hughes
Readings: Exodus 2.1-10; Colossians 3.12-17; Luke 2.33-35
This week’s Diary commencing 29th February 2016
Monday: / 7.00pm7.00pm / Lent Group meet
Lent Group meet
Tuesday: / 9.30am
9.45am
7.00pm
7.00pm / Prayer Circle leaders meet
Foodbank information meeting at St Mary’s Day centre
Lent Group meet
Lent Group meet
Wednesday: / 9.30am
10.15am
1.00pm / Holy Communion at Tetbury Church
Lent Group meet at the Vicarage
Thanksgiving Service for Shirley Swayne in Tetbury Church
Thursday: / 2.30pm for 3pm
7.00pm / Julian Group meet All welcome
Lent Group meet
Friday: / 11.00am
12.30pm
2.00pm / Funeral of Stuart Freeman in Tetbury Church
Lent lunches in St Michael’s Church Hall
Womens World Day of Prayer at St Michael’s Church
Saturday: / 9.00am
10.00am
Noon / Mens breakfast at the Ormonds.
Saturday morning prayer in Tetbury Church
Church Spring Clean at Tetbury Church
Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday
Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed)
Monday: Jane, Kelly, Toby
Tuesday: Dennis, Chris
Wednesday: Charlotte Anne, Charles and family
Thursday: Justin, Lucy
Friday: Tracy, Charlotte
Departed: Anne Wilkinson, Stuart Freeman, Shirley Swayne
Praying for the Town Chipping Steps and the Chipping
Praying for St Mary’s School Year 3/4 Class Maple with Julie Royle and Kersti Ravenhill
Please pray for Isabella Stacey who will be baptised in Long Newnton Church this morning, and her parents and godparents.
BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON,
LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE
Third Sunday of Lent 28th February 2016
Welcome to all visitors and those new to the Church. Please make yourselves known to us. Coffee will be served at the front after the 9.30am service. Join us if you can.
There is a loop system for the hard of hearing, and large print copies of the service and the hymn book are available from the sidesmen.
All are invited to come to the altar at the time of Communion. Members of other churches who would receive at their own church are welcome to do so here. If receiving communion is not appropriate, please come up to receive a blessing (it helps us if you bring a service book to indicate if you would prefer to receive a blessing). If you would like Communion brought to you please tell one of the sidesmen.
Worship Today
8.00am: Holy Communion
9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Poppy Hughes
Hymns: 494, 565, 467, Sheet, 277
Collect
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen
Post Communion Prayer
Merciful Lord, grant your people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow you, the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. . Amen
Parish Priest: Revd Poppy Hughes, The Vicarage, 6 The Green, Tetbury, GL8 8DN. Tel: 01666 502333 Day off: Monday
e-mail:
Curate: Revd Kim Hartshorne email:
Parish Administrator: Diana Sharp, All items for inclusion in the Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 8.30am at the latest. Please limit notices to 75 words. Tel: 01666 500088; e-mail:
Notices
TACT Soup lunches on Fridays at St Michael’s Church hall. There is a list at the back of church for volunteers to sign up to provide soup and bread etc. For more information please contact Princess
Water Aid, Jars of Change, Lent Appeal 2016 Throughout Lent you will find a large jar at the back of St Marys’ Church at the Sunday Services for donations of your loose change which Water Aid will use to fund New Water Facilities. Please pick up a paper jar sleeve to put into an empty jar at home to collect your change, before bringing it to church. Try making a penny donation to your jar each time you use your toilet, have a bath or shower or buy a coffee or fizzy drink. The jar sleeve is also the gift aid form which can be used to make your donation worth an extra 25% if you are a tax payer. For more information please look at the notice board at the back of St Marys’ Church.
Invitation to volunteer from Cirencester Foodbank.As a member of Churches Together, we at St Marys' are pleased to be working withCirencester Foodbank to set up a collection point here in Tetbury. There is real need, so people can easily access this support locally in times of need. The invitation: Cirencester Foodbank are runningan information morning on Tuesday 1 March from 9.45-10.45am at St Mary's Community Centre in Tetbury. All welcome tocome and hear about volunteering opportunities ahead of ouropening in Tetbury. We are looking forward to meeting you!
Women's world day of Prayer service will take place on Friday 4th March at 2 pm at St. Michael's church. All are welcome
First Saturday morning in the month prayer half-hour at St Marys: 10am – 10.30am Saturday 5th March, followed by refreshments. All welcome.
Mens’ breakfast, at the Ormond on Saturday 5th March at 9am. Cooked breakfast and coffee in their function room. Speaker: Revd Peter Hyson, who has several books to his credit will give us a short talk called “Careful or you will end up in my novel. He will explore the perils and perks of being a writer. Tickets £10 from Jim Toogood at Church after the service.
There will be no Choral Evensong next Sunday, 6th March.
Cleaning the church: Two events are planned for, one in line with "Clean for the Queen" (Nationwide exercise 4-6th March) and the second in preparation for Bishop Rachel's visit. Dates & times: Sat 5th March 1200 -1400and Sat 2nd April 1100 - 1400
The next OMF Prayer Group meeting will be on Monday 7th March from 2.30pm until 4.00pm .The speaker will be Eunice Burden, a missionary working in central Thailand. A very good speaker, all welcome
Church Stewarding commences at the start of April. All stewards are invited to a coffee morning in Church on Wednesday March 9th at 10.15am. This is an opportunity for our stewards to meet each other, to hear a Review of 2015 and the plans for this year. We hope as many stewards as possible will be able to come. We do need more stewards, so anyone interested is very welcome to come along, without obligation, just two hours once a month (or more!) is a great help. If you have any questions please ask Diana Challis
Update on recruiting a Director of Music for St Marys'. As you know, we are hoping to recruit a new Director of Music, to work with Jonathan who continues asour very able organist. This appointment is made by the Incumbent, with the PCC. We have just completed interviews with initial candidates, but sadly not able to make an appointment. We will continue to advertise ... do please continue to pray. With thanks, Poppy
Come on Eileen! Many thanks to all those who have already sponsored Eileen Hodgson, our Christian Aid London Marathon runner. Eileen, a regular member of St Marys’ Tetbury congregation, has undertaken to raise £2,000 plus for Christian Aid but is still some way off her target. If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to sponsor her and by so doing enable Christian Aid to continue to help the very poorest people in the world, please consider doing so now. Go online to www.virginmoneygiving.com . Follow the link to Make a Donation, then under ‘friend’s name’ type in Eileen Hodgson and then press ‘Donate now’ and put in amount. This is a very safe way of giving. But, if you can’t, or do not wish to give on line, then please phone Eileen
On Saturday 21 May – the beginning of Christian Aid Week – Rev. Stuart Radford, the outgoing Minister of Christ Christ Church, and Rev. Noel Sharp, the incoming minister – will be walking from Nailsworth to Tetbury to raise money for Christian Aid and would like others to walk with them. There will be coffee at Christ Church Nailsworth from 10 –12, the walk from 12 - 3 and tea at Christ Church Tetbury from 3 – 5. We will need people to walk with them, drivers and sponsors. I hope you can do one of those three things BUT if you can’t, come and buy a cup of tea or coffee and a bun to support them in that way.
Glass Door Appeal - Many thanks for all the generous donations towards this project. We have now raised over half the projected costs. If anyone still wishes to donate then please pass their gift in a blue envelope marked clearly as "Glass Door" to the churchwardens.
Save ‘n’ Borrow your Credit Union Bank is open every Thursday from 2 pm to 4 pm on the ground floor of the Council Offices. Members deposits are safe and loans are at a very low interest rate. Trained volunteers give a friendly, discreet and confidential service. You can become a member simply by taking in some form of proof of identity, eg. passport, also proof of address eg. utility bill, and also your National Insurance Number, paying a one of membership fee of £2 and making a first minimum deposit of £5. Give it a try! and pass the message on to those you know.
Ride and Stride – the trust is looking for a volunteer form our church to co ordinate this sponsored event which will be on Saturday Sept 10th. Volunteers are sponsored to walk or cycle between various churches (say within our benefice) enjoying a fun day out. I have been coordinator for many years but this date clashes with holidays. I am happy to support anyone who would like to take this on. The Trust were very generous to our church when we were raising funds for the East Window Appeal. If you can help, please let me know and I will pass on your details. Thank you. John Saynor.
Sunday 28th February 2016
Third Sunday of Lent
Old Testament Reading Isaiah 55.1-9
The LORD says this: Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live.
I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts;let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
New Testament Reading 1 Corinthians 10.1-13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness. Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.’ We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.
Gospel Luke 13.1-9
There were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them - do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.’ Then he told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener, “See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?” He replied, “Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.”’
Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail:
Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 1pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. web-site: www.tetburychurch.co.uk