Next Week’s worship – 20thDecember 2015

Fourth Sunday of Advent

8.00am: Holy Communion

9.30am:Parish Eucharist with Revd Peter Hyson

Readings: Micah 5.2-5a; Hebrews 10.5-10; Luke 1.39-55

6.00pmCandlelit Carol Service

This week’s Diary commencing 14th December 2015

Monday: / 6.00pm
7.00pm
7.00pm / Rotary Carol Service in Tetbury Church
Advent Group meet
Advent Group meet in Shipton Moyne
Tuesday: / 7.00pm
7.00pm / Advent group meet
Church wardens meet in Shipton Moyne Village hall
Wednesday: / 9.30am
10.15am
6.00pm / Holy Communion at Tetbury Church
Advent Group meets at the Vicarage
Carol singing around Shipton Moyne,
Thursday: / 9.20am
7.00pm / St Mary’s Primary School Experience Christmas at Tetbury Church
Advent group meet
Saturday: / 3.30pm / Crib Service at Long Newnton Church

Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday

Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed)

Monday: Tony, Jay, Charlotte, Sam, Issy

Tuesday: Kelly, Grace, Robert

Wednesday:Charlotte-Ann, Charles, Anne

Thursday:Janet, Peter, Anthea, Derrek

Friday:Catherine, Gilly, Ian, Ruth, Lisa

Departed: Those we remember with love

Praying for the TownWheat Hill, Wisteria Road & Woodward Close
Praying for St Mary’s SchoolYear3/4 Class Beech withKatherineWilsonandJulie Rush

Years Mind: Margery Poole(14/12)

(“Year’s Mind” is to mark the first anniversary of a death – often a difficult time for family and friends)

Please pray for Bruno and Rita McMeekin who are being baptised next Sunday at Beverston Church and their parents and Godparents.

Curate: RevdKim Hartshorne email:

BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON,
LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE

Third Sunday of Advent 13thDecember 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

9.30am:Parish Eucharist with Revd Poppy Hughes

Hymns:29, 587, 516, 375, 435

4.00pmChristingle Service

The Second Sunday cash collection is for the Children’s Society.

Collect

O Lord Jesus Christ ,who at your first coming sent your messenger to prepare your way before you: grant that the ministers and stewards of your mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready your way by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at your second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in your sight; for you are alive and reign with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Post Communion Prayer

We give you thanks, O Lord, for these heavenly gifts; kindle in us the fire of your Spirit that when your Christ comes again we may shine as lights before his face; who is alive and reigns now and for ever.

Parish Priest: Revd Poppy Hughes, The Vicarage, 6 The Green, Tetbury,GL8 8DN. Tel: 01666 502333 Day off: Monday

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Notices

The Christingle Service will be this evening at 4pm at Tetbury Church in aid of the Children’s Society. Tesco have kindly donated the oranges again this year.

Among Friends This evening St Marys’ hosts a special acoustic Christmas concert. American Heather Bristow joins fellow Tetbury-based singer Nicola Clark and other local roots musicians, for an evening of festive folk and country. Expect a heart-warming mix of sacred songs and tinsel twang! Doors open at 7.30pm and concert starts at 8.00. Tickets priced £6 (mulled wine included). Still a few left, so please see Garry (Poppy’s husband) today.

Carol singing around Shipton Moyne on Wednesday 16th December at 6pm starting at the Unwin’s house, and finishing at the Cat and Custard Pot.

On December 17th we will be welcoming 97 children from St Mary’s School into the church to “Experience Christmas”

Our candlelit Carol Service will be next Sunday, 20th December at 6pm followed by mulled wine and mince pies. Donations of mince pies gratefully received.

Magnificat Glass Door celebrating 700th anniversary of the re-dedication of Tetbury Church Our new bishop, Right RevdRachel Treweek has kindly agreed to dedicate our new glass door at the 0930 service on 10th April 2016. To contribute towards this project please place your donations in one of the blue "Gift Aid" envelopes, marking it clearly "GLASS DOOR". Please make cheques payable to Tetbury PCC.

Tickets are now available for the Seasonal New Year Party at Chavenage, with entertainment by the Choir. Thursday 14 January Tickets are limited and priority is given to the Friends of the Choir and then if numbers permit to members and friends of the congregation.Please consider becoming a Friend. Membership forms are available from Ian Thomas or Diana Challis or may be collected from the back of the Church. Tickets for the Party available from Diana Challis. £7.50 for members, £8,50 non-members

Prior Warning – there will be no Holy Communion on Wednesday 23rd December in Tetbury Church.

St Marys’ Social Committee would like to thank everybody who helped, supported or ran stalls for the Christmas Market. We raised£900.

Saturday morning prayers: the monthly half-hour time of informal prayer and reflection will re-commence on the first Saturday in January (2nd) at 10.00-10.30am in St Marys’ church, followed by refreshments.

Sincere thanks to all those who collected for Christian Aid at Tesco last weekend. Together we raised a total of £495.The total was a little down on last year but we were competing with another collection and seated behind a Christmas tree but never the less a fantastic result. Because of the competition Tesco has offered us an additional day to collect next year! Watch this space

St Marys’ Church Social Committee are organising a Barn Dance on Saturday 6th February at 7pm at St Mary’s Primary School. We have booked a great band and caller, “Baileys Beads, and the evening should be a lot of fun. Please do come along and support us and help raise funds for our Church. Tickets are £10, which include a Fish and Chip Supper and you can bring your own drinks – so don’t forget your glass. Tickets are available from Diana Challis or Carol Van-Sloots or after the Church 9.30am services, or from the Parish Office. Get your tickets soon and bring all your friends.

A volunteer is needed to distribute the praying the town leaflets in Windsor Gardens and Elizabeth Gardens. Please contact the Parish Office to arrange

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:

Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 1pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.

web-site:

Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail:

Sunday 13th December 2015

Third Sunday of Advent

First Reading Zephaniah 3:14-20

Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem. The LORD has taken away the judgments against you, he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster no more. On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands grow weak. The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing as on a day of festival. I will remove disaster from you, so that you will not bear reproach for it. I will deal with all your oppressors at that time. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth. At that time I will bring you home,at the time when I gather you; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the LORD.

Second Reading Philippians 4:4-7

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Gospel Luke 3:7-18

John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our ancestor'; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. Even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire." And the crowds asked him, "What then should we do?" In reply he said to them, "Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise." Even tax collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him, "Teacher, what should we do?" He said to them, "Collect no more than the amount prescribed for you." Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what should we do?" He said to them, "Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages." As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, "I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." So, with many other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people.

COME AND JOIN US THIS CHRISTMAS

St Marys’ Tetbury

Sunday 13th December 4.00pm Christingle

Sunday 20th December 6.00pm Carol Service

Christmas Eve 4.00pm Crib Service

Christmas Eve 11.30pm Midnight Mass

Christmas Day 9.30am Parish Eucharist

Sunday 27th December 10.30am Benefice Eucharist
with Christmas drinks in the Vicarage afterwards

St John the Baptist Church, Shipton Moyne

Sunday 20th December 4.00pm Carol Service

Christmas Eve 4pm Crib service

Christmas Day 11.15am Holy Communion

St Mary’s Church, Beverston

Monday 21st December, 6.00pm Carol Service

Christmas Day 9.30am Holy Communion

Holy Trinity Church, Long Newnton

Saturday 19th December 3.30pm Crib Service and Children’s Party

Christmas Eve 6.00pm Carol Service

Christmas Day 11.15am Holy Communion