Next Week’s Worship – 18th August 2013
Twelfth Sunday after Trinity
8.00am: Holy Communion
9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Richard Maslen
Readings: Jeremiah 23.23-29; Hebrews 11.29-12.2; Luke 12.49-56
6.00pm: Evening Prayer
This week’s Diary commencing 12th August 2013
Wednesday: / 9.30am / Holy Communion at Tetbury ChurchThursday: / 5.00pm / Wedding rehearsal in Shipton Moyne
Friday: / 12.30pm / Wedding of Mark Kipling and Rachael Williams in Tetbury Church
Saturday: / 3.30pm / Wedding of Hugo Payne and Katherine Lewis in Shipton Moyne
Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed)
Monday: Margo Holborow, Denise, Joyce
Tuesday: Mark, Paul, Sue, Salinger family
Wednesday: Gill, Alfie, Gary, Debbie, Martin
Thursday: Dick, Ann, Donnelly family
Friday: Peter, Sandra, Pam, Andy, Tommy
Departed: Those we remember with love
Praying for the Town: Northfield Road
Years Mind: Mavis Betty WOOD (11/8) (“Year’s Mind” is to mark the first anniversary of a death – often a difficult time for family and friends)
TETBURY PARISH CHURCH
Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 11th August 2013
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 Nick Tucker
Hymns: 380 (omit vv 4&5), 40, 96, 455
6.00pm: Evening Prayer
The second Sunday cash collection today is in aid of the Dolphins Hall.
Collect
O God, you declare your almighty power most chiefly in showing mercy and pity: mercifully grant to us such a measure of your grace, that we, running the way of your commandments, may receive your gracious promises, and be made partakers of your heavenly treasure; 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.
Post Communion Prayer
Lord of all mercy, we your faithful people have celebrated that one true sacrifice which takes away our sins and brings pardon and peace: by our communion keep us firm on the foundation of the gospel and preserve us from all sin; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Notices
The Venerable Martyn Snow, has been appointed as the new Bishop of Tewkesbury. The role of the Bishop of Tewkesbury covers the whole of Gloucestershire and beyond. In practice, this means that he will act as the assistant bishop for Gloucestershire, working alongside Bishop Michael. Martyn, aged 45 is currently the Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotherham and will be ordained and consecrated as a bishop by the Archbishop of Canterbury on 25 September at Westminster Abbey. He will also have an official service of welcome in the Diocese on Saturday 12 October in Gloucester Cathedral.
Spring Clean – We are planning a “Spring Clean” on Saturday 31st August from 2.00pm until 4.00pm prior to Poppy’s installation. Further details later. Please see Sue Thomas and Frances Collinson.
Prayer Calendars for August, September and October are on the table at the back of the church. Please could those who visitour indoor members take as many calendars you need.Although these are designed for those who are no longer able to come to church regularly, if anyone would like one of these to use in their own devotions please take one.
Helpers Needed for September 6th Licensing Service. Your help is needed for serving the refreshments. We need people for setting up on Friday afternoon, helping to serve after the service and washing up afterwards. Offers of help please to the parish office or Diana Challis. Any help gratefully received.
Revd Poppy Hughes will be moving into the vicarage on August 14th. Do welcome her if you see her around town, but remember she is not officially in office until after the licensing service on September 6th and she would welcome some space to settle in.
Poppy has written to say “I would prefer to be known as ‘Poppy / Poppy Hughes / the Revd Poppy Hughes’. For very formal listings where we need to refer to me as Veronica, I prefer ‘the Revd Veronica (Poppy) Hughes.’”
Please pray for Poppy and her family as they move to Tetbury this week.
Summer Lunch at Dolphins Hall Tetbury on Tuesday 20th August in aid of Save the Children. Guest speaker, Graeme Dougan - The Elsa Conservation Trust, Kenya. Tickets £16 from Maureen Clarke
Leila Second Update 6th August 2013 Thank you once again for the kind donations to Lewis Munday, via Keith. (Lewis is the local boy whose family is trying to raise £35,000 towards an operation to help him walk). Please visit: justgiving.com/lewis-munday1
If there are any further donations, mentioning Keith’s yacht "Leila" in the comments box, will help track whatever is raised. Alternatively donations can be passed on toAnne Essam or Francis Collinson. If you would like to follow Keith’s blog, it can be seen at: http://sailingleila2.blogspot.co.uk/
There is an update on Keith’s trip on the notice board at the back of church.
Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 12noon on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and 9.00am – 11.00am on Friday
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:
Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail:
web-site: www.tetburychurch.co.uk
Sunday 11th August 2013
Eleventh Sunday after Trinity
Old Testament Genesis 15.1-6
The word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, ‘Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.’ But Abram said, ‘O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?’ And Abram said, ‘You have given me no offspring, and so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.’ But the word of the LORD came to him, ‘This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very own issue shall be your heir.’ He brought him outside and said, ‘Look towards heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘So shall your descendants be.’ And he believed the LORD; and the LORD reckoned it to him as righteousness.
New Testament Hebrews 11.1-3,8-16
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. By faith he received power of procreation, even though he was too old– and Sarah herself was barren– because he considered him faithful who had promised. Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, ‘as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.’
All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth, for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.
Gospel Luke 12.32-40
Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.
But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.’