Next Week’s Worship – 8th March 2015

Third Sunday of Lent

8.00am: Holy Communion

9.30am:Parish Eucharist with Revd Poppy Hughes

Readings: Exodus 20.1-17; 1 Corinthians 1.18-25; John 2.13-22

This week’s Diary commencing 2nd March 2015

Monday: / 10.30am
2.30pm
7.00pm / Stewards coffee morning at Tetbury Church
OMF Prayer group meet
Lent Group meet
Tuesday: / 9.30am
7.00pm
7.00pm / Prayer Circle leaders meet
Lent Group meet in Shipton Moyne
Lent Group meet
Wednesday: / 9.30am
10.15am
12.30pm
7.00pm / Holy Communion at Tetbury Church
Lent Group meet at the Vicarage
Funeral of Jean Neale at Tetbury Church
Lent Group meet inLong Newnton
Thursday: / 2.30pm for 3pm
7.00pm / Julian group meet
Lent Group meet
Friday: / 11.00am
12.30pm
2.00pm / Funeral of Timothy Maloney at Tetbury Church
Lent lunches in St Michael’s Church Hall
Women’s World Day of Prayer at Tetbury Church
Saturday / 10.00am / Saturday morning prayers in Tetbury Church

Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday

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

Monday: Anne, Nicola, Sadie, Jonathan

Tuesday: Catherine, Christine, Stuart

Wednesday:Hazel, Nathan, Peter, Valerie

Thursday:Cyril, Kevin, Stephen, Jessica

Friday:Gareth, Veronica, Alan, Joe

Departed: Jean Neale, Timothy Maloney, Bill Trumper

Praying for the Town: Chipping Steps & The Chipping

Years Mind: John Hicks (01/03), Elizabeth O’Brien (7/03) (“Year’s Mind” is to mark the first anniversary of a death – often a difficult time for family and friends)

BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON,
LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE

Second Sunday of Lent 1st March 2015

Welcome to all visitors and those new to the Church. Please make yourselves known to us. We particularly welcome the family and friends of Henry James King who is to be baptised this morning. 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:Family Service with Holy Communion and Baptism with Revd Poppy Hughes

Hymns:468,582,581,383,622

Anthem:Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake – Farrant

6.00pmSung Evensong

Collect

Almighty God, you show to those who are in error the light of your truth, that they may return to the way of righteousness: grant to all those who are admitted into the fellowship of Christ’s religion, that they may reject those things that are contrary to their profession, and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same; through our Lord Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Notices

Lent Groups continue this week. You are welcome to join in if you weren’t able to come to the first session. Please see the leaflet at the back of church for more information. The groups will be looking at Psalm 63 this week.

Lent Lunches – as usual Tetbury Area Churches Together are holding their ever popular charity soup lunches. These will take place in St Michael’s Church Hall every Friday in Lent from 12.30 until 1.30pm. We need volunteers for the 13th and 27th March to provide soup of any kind and/or bread. Please put your name on the list on the board at the back of church as appropriate. Any queries please contact Princess.

This year Women’s World Day of Prayer will take place in St Marys’ Church at 2pm Friday 6th March. We will be serving tea and cakes after the service.We need people to serve tea and to provide cake. Please let Janet Edwards know if you can help. Thank you.

In order to provide a friendly Welcome for our visitors to the Church and to sell goods in the Shop we desperately need more Stewards.

Can you spare just a few hours a month to help the Church in this way? Stewarding can be very rewarding and you meet interesting people.

All current stewards and anyone interested in possibly becoming a steward are invited to a Coffee Morning tomorrow at 10.30am. This will be an important meeting where we shall review 2014 and shall be considering some changes to the way we organise the rota in order to cover the day more effectively. Do come if you possibly can.

Diana Challis

The next OMF Prayer Group meeting will be tomorrow from 2.30pm until 4.00pm. The speaker will be Debs and Steve Taylor from Faith Academy Manila – both teaching missionaries. All welcome.

The next Prayer Circle Leaders meeting will be on Tuesday 3rdMarch at 9.30am.

The Traidcraft stall will be open next Sunday 8th March after the 9.30am service

The 2nd Sunday Cash Collection next week will be for WaterAid. The jar will be out in church during Sunday services collecting for WaterAid during Lent.

Those who remember Joan Sherwood may like to know that she has recently died and that her ashes will be interred in due course with those of Revd Michael Sherwood here in Tetbury.

Church Flowers - If you would like to give a donation towards the cost of the church flowers for Easter, there will be a box at the back of the Church. Thank you.

Next Sunday 8th March Alan and Judith Bailey celebrate their 40th Wedding Anniversary and ask you to please join them for Cake and Drinks following the 9:30 am Service at St Marys’ Tetbury.

ValerieTrumperwould like to thank everyone so much for their love, prayers and support following Bill’s death. There will be a private family cremation for Bill this week.

Church Spring Clean The Church Spring Clean will take place on Saturday 28th March from 10am to 3pm. Please feel free to drop in, for as long as you can manage, and help within that period.

Everyone is welcome no matter what your capabilities.

Please join us for a bit of fun in preparing our church for Easter.

Most cleaning materials will be available but feel free to bring your own. We are usually short of vacuum cleaners so please bring one if you can.

Please add your names to the sheet at the back of the church.

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

e-mail:

Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 1pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday & 9.00am – 12 noon 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:

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Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail:

Sunday 1st March 2015

Second Sunday of Lent

Old TestamentReading Genesis 17.1-7,15-16

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, ‘I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.’ Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, ‘As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

God said to Abraham, ‘As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.’

New Testament Reading Romans 4.13-25

The promise that Abraham would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.

For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, as it is written, ‘I have made you the father of many nations’). Abraham believed in the presence of the God who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. Hoping against hope, he believed that he would become ‘the father of many nations,’ according to what was said, ‘So numerous shall your descendants be.’ He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. Therefore his faith ‘was reckoned to him as righteousness.’ Now the words, ‘it was reckoned to him,’ were written not for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in God who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

Gospel Mark 8.31-38

Jesus began to teach his disciples that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.’

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’