Next Week’s worship – 28th June 2015
Fourth Sunday after Trinity
8.00am: Holy Communion
9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Poppy Hughes
Readings: Wisdom of Solomon 1.13-15, 2.23, 24; 2 Corinthians 8.7-end
Mark 5.21-end
This week’s Diary commencing 22nd June 2015
Tuesday: / 7.00pm / Long Newnton PCC meet at Long Newnton ChurchWednesday: / 9.30am
10.30am
7.00pm / Holy Communion at Tetbury Church
“Praying the Bible” course led by Poppy Hughes at Tetbury Church
Shipton Moyne PCC meet in Village Hall
Friday: / 3.00pm / Wedding rehearsal at Tetbury Church
Saturday / 2.30pm / Wedding of Michael Collins and Jean Henderson at Tetbury Church
Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday
Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed)
Monday: Anne, Jenny, Rosie, Michael, Emma, Hjordis, Bob
Tuesday: Stuart, Janet, Shirley, Beccy, Millie, Ben, Tyrone, Tony
Wednesday:Angie, Sabrina, Molly and Skylar, Bruce, Kelly, Janine
Thursday:Cyril, Heather, David, Lindsey, Gail, Ursula
Friday: Jenny, Victor and family, Ros, Beccy, Yvonne, William
Departed: Jennifer “Jeffie” Openshaw, Hazel Bricknell
Praying for the Town: Long Street
Please pray for George Johnson who will be baptised in Shipton Moyne Church next Sunday and his parents and Godparents,
Parish Priest: Revd Poppy Hughes, The Vicarage, 6 The Green, Tetbury,GL8 8DN. Tel: 01666 502333 Day off: Monday
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Parish Administrator: Diana Sharp, All items for inclusion in the Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 8.30am at the latest. Tel: 01666 500088; e-mail:
BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON,
LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE
Third Sunday after Trinity 21st June 2015
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 Sue Phillipson-Masters
9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Sue Phillipson-Masters
Hymns: 413, 621, 383, 578
Anthem: Be still my soul – Sibelius
Collect:
Almighty God, you have broken the tyranny of sin and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts whereby we call you Father: give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service, that we and all creation may be brought to the glorious liberty of the children of God; 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
O God, whose beauty is beyond our imagining and whose power we cannot comprehend: show us your glory as far as we can grasp it, and shield us from knowing more than we can bear until we may look upon you without fear; through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen
Notices
Please pray for Kim Hartshorne who is being ordained Deacon today in Gloucester Cathedral. She is joining us as curate for 1 ½ days per week.
Christian Aid sponsored 5k run. If you agreed to sponsor our church runner – Eileen Hodgson – would you please pay her or me as soon as possible. As this goes to print before Saturday, I cannot tell you whether Eileen managed to complete it in her anticipated time of 27 minutes but will be able to let you know after the service. If anyone else would like to add to the sponsorship money, please do so as we hope to be able to hand over £300 to Christian Aid. Alison Hesketh
Can you help? Looking towards the Church Fete on Saturday 18thJuly we would be very grateful for any offers of help. Please see Diana Challis or put your name down on the list at the back of church.
Like Music? Tired of sitting on the sofa? St Marys’ Church Choir is looking for new members. (Where are the boys – now grown – who used to sing?) We sing on Wednesday evenings, Sunday mornings and for weddings. Interested? Contact Jonathan Adkins by emailing him at
A mobile phone was left in church recently. Please contact the Parish Office for more information.
Cirencester School of faith are running two courses – Faith and the Joy of the Gospel lead by Father Issy on Monday evenings at 7.00pm starting Monday 22nd June at St Peter’s Church, Cirencester. Poppy will be leading “Praying the Bible” on Wednesday mornings, starting on Wednesday 24th June at 10.30am at Tetbury Church. Please see the notice board for further details.
Thank you to all those who supported the Mothers’ Union Garden Party on Tuesday. With your help we raise £158:83p for the Mothers’ Union Big Wheels Appeal Fund. The fund is used to give support to those in need, both in this country and abroad.
A volunteer is needed to distribute the praying the town leaflets in Longtree Close. Please contact the Parish Office to arrange.
The next OMF Prayer Group meeting will be on Monday 6th July from 2.30pm until 4pm. All welcome.
Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 1pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday & 9.00am – 12 noon Friday
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SUNDAY 21stJune 2015
Third Sunday after Trinity
Old Testament Reading Job 38:1-11
The LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: ‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. ‘Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements – surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?
‘Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb? – when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, “Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped”?
New TestamentReading 2 Corinthians 6.1-13
As we work together with Christ, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, ‘At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you.’ See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation! We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labours, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honour and dishonour, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see – we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you. There is no restriction in our affections, but only in yours. In return– I speak as to children– open wide your hearts also.
Gospel Mark 4.35-41
When evening had come, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!' Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’