Next Week’s Worship –13thMarch 2016
Fifth Sunday of Lent
8.00am: Holy Communion
9.30am Parish Eucharistwith Revd Poppy Hughes
Readings: Isaiah 43.16-21; Philippians 3.4b-14; John 12.1-8
This week’s Diary commencing 7th March 2016
Monday: / 2.30pm7.00pm
7.00pm / OMF Prayer group meet
Lent Group meet
Lent Group meet
Tuesday: / 7.00pm
7.00pm / Lent Group meet
Lent Group meet
Wednesday: / 9.30am
10.15am / Holy Communion at Tetbury Church
Lent Group meet at the Vicarage
Thursday: / 5.30pm
7.00pm
7.30pm / Wedding rehearsal at Tetbury Church
Lent Group meet
Tetbury PCC meet at Primary School
Friday: / Noon
12.30pm / Wedding of Clifford Cook and Lucy Jones at Tetbury Church
Lent lunches in St Michael’s Church Hall
Saturday: / 2.30pm / Kingsley House Remembrance Service at Kingsley House
Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday
Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed)
Monday: Jane, Kelly, Toby
Tuesday: Dennis, Chris
Wednesday:CharlotteAnne, Charles and family
Thursday:Justin, Lucy, Alan
Friday:Tracy, Charlotte
Departed: Stuart Freeman, Shirley Swayne
Praying for the TownChipping Street
Praying for St Mary’s School Year 3/4 Class Beech with KatherineWilsonandJulie Rush
BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON,
LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE
Mothering Sunday 6th March2016
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 with Revd Ursula Gray
9.30am:Family Service with Holy Communion with Revd Poppy Hughes
Collect
God of compassion,whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary, shared the life of a home in Nazareth, and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself: strengthen us in our daily living that in joy and in sorrow we may know the power of your presence to bind together and to heal; 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
Parish Priest: Revd Poppy Hughes, The Vicarage, 6 The Green, Tetbury,GL8 8DN. Tel: 01666 502333 Day off: Monday
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Curate: RevdKim 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
There will be no Choral Evensong this evening.
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. Please talk to Poppy or Alison Hesketh for more information or an application form.
TACT Soup luncheson 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.
Cleaning the church:We are cleaning the church in preparation forBishop Rachel's visit on 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
Lucy Jones and Clifford Cook are getting married at Tetbury Church next Friday 11th March at noon. All are welcome to come to the service.
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 will continue to advertise ... do please continue to pray. With thanks, Poppy
On Tuesday 15th March we shall be welcoming 72 children from St Mary’s School to “Experience Easter” with us. We are in need ofa few props for our story telling. If you could lend us any of the following we would be most grateful. We will be setting up the church on Monday 14th March at 2.30. We need several large house plants the bigger the better! 6 large (about 6” in diameter Approx) stones or rocks. For more information contact Margo Smith
A big,Thank You to all those who have already supported me in my London Marathon run for Christian Aid on 24 April. For further details contact Eileen
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 is open every Thursday from 2 pm to 4 pm on the ground floor of the Council Offices. Come and become a Member! Ethical banking run by members for members. No salaries, no bonuses. Encourages members to save and lends to members who are in need at very low interest rates. Trained volunteers give a friendly, discreet and confidential service. Give it a try! Help your community. Pass on the word.
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
Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail:
Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 1pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. web-site:
Sunday 6th March 2016
Mothering Sunday
Old Testament Reading Exodus 2.1-10
A man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him for three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him. The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him, ‘This must be one of the Hebrews’ children,’ she said. 7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?’
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Yes.’ So the girl went and called the child’s mother. 9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.’ So the woman took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, ‘because,’ she said, ‘I drew him out of the water.’
New Testament Reading Colossians 3.12-17
As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Gospel Luke 2.33-35
The child’s father and mother were amazed at what was being said about Jesus. Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, ‘This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed - and a sword will pierce your own soul too.’