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Next Week’s Worship – 31st May 2015

Trinity Sunday

8.00am: Holy Communion

9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Poppy Hughes

Readings: Isaiah 6.1-8; Romans 8.12-17; John 3.1-17

This week’s Diary commencing 25th May 2015

|Monday: |11.00am – 2.00pm |Tours up Tetbury Church bell tower. |

|Wednesday: |9.30am |Holy Communion at Tetbury Church |

|Thursday: |10.00am |Funeral of Ken Mantel at Shipton Moyne Church |

| | |Wedding rehearsal at Shipton Moyne Church |

| |4.00pm |Wedding rehearsal at Tetbury Church |

| |6.00pm |Wedding rehearsal at Long Newnton Church |

| |6.00pm | |

|Friday: |1.00pm |Wedding of Ian Mudd and Charlotte |

| | |Causton at Tetbury Church |

| |1.00pm |Wedding of Michael Stembridge and Anna Mayes at Long Newnton |

| | |Church |

|Saturday: |1.30pm |Wedding of James Stratton and Rosie Hill at Shipton Moyne |

| | |Church |

| |3.00pm |Full peal attempt at Tetbury Church |

Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday

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

Monday: Anne, Alexa, Jenny, Rosie, Michael, Emma

Tuesday: Stuart, Janet, Shirley, Beccy, Millie, Ben King

Wednesday: Hazel, Peter, Valerie, Angie, Sabrina, Molly and Skylar

Thursday: Cyril, Jessica, Heather, David, Lindsay, Gail

Friday: Jenny, Victor and family, Ros, Beccy, Yvonne

Departed: Sarah Bowden, Ken Mantell

Praying for the Town: Grove Gardens, Upton Gardens and Highfield Road

Please pray for Maxwell Sydney Pass who will be baptised at Long Newnton Church today.

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: office@tetburychurch.co.uk

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

web-site: tetburychurch.co.uk

BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON,

LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE

Pentecost 24th May 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: 175, 178, 191, 383, 513

Anthem: Awake my soul – J S Bach

Collect

God, who as at this time taught the hearts of your faithful people by sending to them the light of your Holy Spirit: grant us by the same Spirit

to have a right judgement in all things and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever .Amen

Post Communion Prayer

Faithful God, who fulfilled the promises of Easter by sending us your Holy Spirit and opening to every race and nation the way of life eternal:

open our lips by your Spirit, that every tongue may tell of your glory;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

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

e-mail: poppy_hughes@hotmail.co.uk

Notices

Tetbury Church bell tower will be open tomorrow for Woolsack Day from 11am until 2pm. £5 adults, £1 children over 8. No children under 8 allowed. Children between 8 and 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Coffee will be served from 11am until 1pm.

Avening Open Gardens today in aid of Avening School gardening Club and Holy Cross Church. Come and enjoy the spectacular gardens of Avening and Nags Head. Please see the poster at the back of the church for further details.

Try Praying - You are invited to take a Try Praying booklet and give it to someone you know who you feel might like to........ try praying. It introduces tried and tested approaches to praying to fit into busy lives. We hope and pray that people will find them helpful. Please take one and pass it on.

The next OMF Prayer Group Meeting will be on Monday 1st June, from 2.30pm until 4.00pm. The speaker will be Ian Bowley from Loas. All Welcome

The next Prayer for Tetbury Day will be on Saturday, 6th June at 10.45am at Christ Church The Chipping in Tetbury. Please note this will be instead of Saturday morning prayers in Tetbury Church.

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Shipton Moyne Open Garden on Sunday 7th June with all proceeds going towards Shipton Moyne Church and Village Hall. We will have gardens big and small, teas and cakes, Art in the Birdwood Barn, children's trail, bric a brac, face painting and bouncy castle.

Date for your diary – Sunday 7th June Avening Art and Craft exhibition. Spaces are being offered in the church for you to display and sell your own work. Paining, craft, cards, sewing, jewellery etc. Bring your own table, spaces available at £10 each. Setting up from 10am on Sunday morning.

Date for your diary – Thursday 11th June at 7.30pm two of the British folk’s scene’s accomplished performers Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman most are performing in Avening Church. Please see the poster at the back of the church for further details.

Thank you for all the continued support and donations to the Foodbank. They are particularly short of coffee, sugar, juice and sponge puddings. .

A volunteer is needed to distribute the praying the town leaflets in Gunstool Hill. Please contact the Parish Office to arrange.

Stuart Singers Charity Concert presented by the South Cotswolds Rotary Club Saturday 13th June at 7.30pm at St Mary’s Church in aid of St Mary’s Church, Tetbury Hospital and Rotary Charities. Tickets £10 (incl glass of wine /soft drink) from Tetbury Tourist information office. Come and support your Church and local Hospital and enjoy a wonderful evening of joyous music by this renowned Minchinhampton Choir.

The Annual General Meeting and Summer Party of the Friends of the Choir will be held on Sunday June 14th at 7.15pm, following Choral Evensong, at Stafford House The Chipping, by kind permission of Mr. & Mrs. P. Parkhouse. All Friends invited. Anyone who would like to consider joining the Friends is also most welcome to attend, please see Val Francis or Diana Challis for information.

Christian Aid. Although we have not yet finished counting the proceeds of the house to house collection and I can’t give you a total, I wanted to thank all helpers for all your hard work and ........if any one is up for it, on Saturday 20th June there is a Christian Aid, Race4All around Woodchester Mansion grounds (length 5k). It’s for runners or walkers or stick carriers – the latter in solidarity with the women of Ethiopia featured in this year’s Christian Aid week literature.  Anyone taking part will need to be sponsored. So, we need a few hardy people to participate – Eileen Hodgson has already signed up - and the rest of the congregation to sponsor them. I’m sorry it’s so hard on the heels of Christian Aid Week – but that’s how it goes sometimes. For more information go to and please see me if interested. Alison Hesketh

Christ Church Tetbury are looking for a person to lead the Oasis Cafe group that meets for 2 hours on a Wednesday morning. Oasis Cafe meets term time only in the church area at Christ Church and provides a space for the young children to play while the parents\carers meet as friends. The focus of the group is to provide a safe haven, a caring and supportive Christian environment for, in particular, new and young parents. The group’s purpose is different from the Friday ‘Chippin Chicks’ group which is primarily a

Pre-School Toddlers group.  Anyone interested in the post, for which a remuneration is available, should contact in the first instance, Brian Cook,

Stroud Furniture Bank has been set up, working in conjunction with the Foodbank and Kids' Stuff, to provide the most needy families in the district with quality furniture delivered to their door.

SUNDAY 24th May 2015

Pentecost

First Reading Acts 2.1-21

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.

Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs – in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.’ All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, ‘What does this mean?’ But others sneered and said, ‘They are filled with new wine.’

But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: ‘Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: “In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Second Reading Romans 8.22-27

We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labour pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Gospel John 15.26-27; 16.4b-15

Jesus spoke to his disciples: ‘When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning. I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them. ‘I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, “Where are you going?” But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgement: about sin, because they do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; about judgement, because the ruler of this world has been condemned. I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.’

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