Next Week’s worship – 25thOctober 2015
Bible Sunday
8.00am: Holy Communion
9.30am:Parish Eucharist with Revd Maslen
Readings: Isaiah 55.1-11; 2 Timothy 3.14-4.5; John 5.36b -end
This week’s Diary commencing 19th October 2015
Tuesday: / 7.00pm2.30pm / House Group meet
Mothers’ Union meet in Dolphins Hall
Wednesday: / 9.30am
10.15am
2.30pm / Holy Communion at Tetbury Church
Prayer Circle meeting following Holy Communion at Tetbury Church
Funeral of William Walker at Tetbury Church
Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday
Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed)
Monday: Eden, Joy, Win, Jim, Alan, laura, Alison, Tony
Tuesday: Stuart, Janet, Peter, Sue, Ethan, Helen, Mike
Wednesday:David, Monica, Anna, Carmel, Lorraine, kate
Thursday:Monica, Val, Lucas, Ella, Kevin, Holly, Lee
Friday:Hayley, Kath, Pat, Doreen, Catherine
Departed: Margaret “Joan” Hurn, William Walker
Praying for the TownSherwood Road, Linfoot Road & Holder Close
Please pray for Darcy Dyerwho will be baptised at Beverston Church this morning and her 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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Curate: RevdKim Hartshorne email:
BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON,
LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE
Harvest Thanksgiving 18th October 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:Harvest Festival Eucharist with Revd Poppy Hughes
Hymns: 270, 253, 274, 254, 275
Anthem:Thou visitest the earth – Greene
Collect
Eternal God, you crown the year with your goodness and you give us the fruits of the earth in their season; grant that we may use them to your glory, for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.
Post Communion Prayer
Lord of the harvest, with joy we have offered thanksgiving for your love in creation and have shared in the bread and wine of the kingdom: by your grace plant within us a reverence for all you give us and make us generous and wise stewards of the good things we enjoy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Notices
The produce donations fromour Harvest Festival Service thismorningwill go to the Community of the Sisters of the Church in Bristol.
Harvest Lunch today – a few tickets still available. Please see Diana Challis.
Mothers’ Union will meet this week on Tuesday 20th October at 2:30 pm in the Dolphins Hall. Please join us to hear our speakerAnn Greenhalgh. Subject of talk; Life in a Lusaka township. Do come visitors are always welcome.
Operation Christmas Child Thank you for those who have started filling boxes of goodies to send to children who would not otherwise have Christmas presents. We know that some people like to fill a whole box but others would prefer to give several items. There are leaflets at the back of the church which will give you some ideas. Some we would like to have are hats, scarves and gloves, tooth paste (but not toothbrushes - we have plenty), a cuddly toy (these need the CE sign), balls or skipping rope. Do enjoy choosing some items for a child who would not otherwise have a Christmas gift. Some people prefer to give money which will be used to help the cost of transportation or for us to buy other gifts for the shoeboxes. Please speak to Hjordis Halliwell or Janet Edwards for more information.
Saturday morning prayers: the monthly half-hour time of informal prayer and reflection will re-commence on the first Saturday in November (7th) at 10.00-10.30am in St Marys’ church, followed by refreshments. During the following first Saturday prayers on December 5th we shall focus on the Advent Quiet Day themes of Faith, Hope and Love. On the first Saturday of the New Year, January 2nd, our prayers will be on the year ahead. Please make a note of these events in your diary. All are very welcome.
Save ‘n’ Borrow, Tetbury, will commence on Thursday 5 November at 2 p.m. and thereafter will open weekly from 2 –4 everyThursdayafternoon. The venue will be The Council Offices at the end of Long Street.
We will have an Advent Quiet Day on Saturday 28th November in the Shipton Moyne Village Hall, followed by three Advent House Group meetings in the weeks beginning Monday 30th November,
Monday 7th and Monday 14th December. More details to follow.
The Avening Ceilidh will be on Friday 13th November from 7.30pm until 11.30mpm in Avening Memorial Hall. For tickets and more information please contact Piers Hansen,
Newspapers are again needed for the Hedgehog Hospital run by Mary Hinton. Mary is currently looking after 14 hedgehogs and is expecting a lot more. Please can you leave your newspapers (please no glossy magazines or staples) in the box in the ambulatory or on Mary’s doorstep. Donations of non fish cat food are also very welcome.
Prayer Circle - We hope that all involvedwith our Prayer Circle groups will come together for the Communion Service on Wednesday21st October at 9,30am. If this is not possible, do join us at 10.15am for coffee and an open discussion on ways to encourage our prayer commitment to confidentially help those in need. New ideas and reflections will be strengthening for us. Poppy will be with us which will be of great help. We welcome anyone who is interested in joining us and may help us in the future. All are welcome.
The Social committee are organising the Christmas Fayre to be held in the Market Hall on Saturday 5th December. They are keen for some new ideas for stalls, and volunteers that would be happy to help. Please contact Diana Challis or the Parish Office.
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.
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Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail:
SUNDAY 18th October 2015
Harvest Thanksgiving
Old Testament Reading Joel 2:21-27
Do not fear, O soil; be glad and rejoice for the Lord has done great things! Do not fear, you animals of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the trees bear its fruit, the fig tree and the vine give their full yield. O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he has given you the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before. The threshing floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent against you.
You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame. You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I, the Lord, am your God and there is no other. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
New Testament Reading I Timothy 6:6-10
Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment; for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it; but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
Gospel Matthew 6:25-33
Jesus taught his disciples, saying: ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you— you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?” For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.