2015 Year of discipleship
Sunday 12th July 2015
Trinity 6
A PRAYER FOR ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE
Lord, by your Holy Spirit,
we ask you to empower and energise
each and every Christian in their calling to serve you.
Strengthen and protect them; bless and enable them so they might be “salt” and “light”
to the communities they serve. Amen
Today
8.00am Holy Communion
10.00am Parish Communion
11.45am Embrace
6.00pm Evensong
Diary – Week Commencing – Sunday 12th July
Monday 13th July
8.30am Holy Communion – Church
10.00am Bible Study Group – 11 St John Road
Tuesday 14th July
8.30am Morning Prayer – Church
6.00pm Clergy Surgery – Parish Office
Wednesday 15th July
8.30am Morning Prayer – Parish Office
10.00am Holy Communion – St Joseph’s
7.30pm The Listening Post in church
Thursday 16th July
8.30am Morning Prayer – Church
12.30pm Ladies who Lunch – Castle & Ball, Marlborough
7.30pm Choir Practice – Church
Filling Station – Hazel & Paul
Friday 17th July
8.45am Morning Prayer – Prospect Hospice
7.00pm Bellringers Practice – Church
7.00pm 115 Club – Church Hall
Saturday 18th July
9.30am Healing on the Streets – Ellendune Centre
3.00pm Church Barbeque – Sorrells Farm
Forthcoming Events
Supp & Chat
Mondays 6th and 20th July at 8pm at The Brown Jack.
Ladies who Lunch
Thursday 16th July at The Castle and Ball, Marlborough at 12.30.pm . Please let me know by Wednesday 15th, Gwen
Church Barbeque
Saturday 18th July at Sorrells Farm
Holiday Club
10th -14th August – Church hall
Sunday 19th July 2015
Trinity 7
8.00am Holy Communion
Preacher: Canon Michael Johnson
Sidesmen: Jean Reens and Christine Wrixon
10.00am The Gathering
Led by: Tracy Mason
Sidesmen: Sally Parker and Lynda Payne
11.30am Baptism Service for Ethan Hoyland
6.00pm Evening Eucharist
Preacher: Canon Michael Johnson
Intercessor: Teresa Townsend
Reading: Ephesians 2: 11-end
Reader: Janet Henderson
Server: David Bathe and Gillian Pitter
Sidesmen: Jean Ford and Malcolm Morrison
Birthdays
Happy Birthday to David Rollett, Carol-Anne Evans, Jane Phillips and Andy Halliday who celebrate their birthdays during the coming week.
2015 Year of discipleship
New Parish Office Opening Hours
From this Monday the Parish Office will be open from 10am-12 noon. If you have any matter that needs the attention of our Parish Administrator, please call only between 10am and 12 noon. Thank you
Gift for Nicola
If you would like to contribute to a gift for Nicola in celebration of her ordination to the priesthood, please give your contribution to one of the churchwardens, leave it at the parish office or send it on line to the church bank account (ref: Nicola)- details on the back page. Thank you.
Church at 4 starts 26th July
It’s only a fortnight before our new informal 4pm service in the Parish Hall each Sunday begins. We would like to encourage everyone to think about how they might support this venture as we seek new opportunities to inspire and encourage present and future generations of disciples. There are many opportunities to get involved, and there will be a sign-up sheet at the back of the church after services today on which you can indicate your interest.
Church Barbeque
Our barbeque this year will be on Saturday, 18th July from 3.00 p.m. and Keith and Mary Lambert are once again letting us hold it at Sorrells Farm. If you would like to come, there is a sign-up sheet on the church chest, together with directions to the farm. If you are able to provide a salad or sweet, that would be helpful but not essential. The cost is £3 each to cover sausages, burgers etc. Please bring something to sit on.
Polar Explorers As we continue to plan for Holiday Club there are a few things we need your help with. Please collect and bring to church cardboard centres from kitchen rolls, empty yogurt pots and empty small glass jars with lids ( the sort that hotels provide containing marmalade or jam ) we also value your continuing prayers for the leaders and the children who will come. Next planning meeting will be at 8pm on Monday 20th July at 59 Tismeads Cres.
Bellringers – Thank You
Thank you to all those who helped with and participated in the recent bell ringers taster event.
HELP NEEDED – 115 CLUB needs fresh new leaders to help take the club forward on the first and third Fridays of each month till Christmas. Please speak to Helena Thomas or Teresa Townsend if you can help.
Church Lifts
If you either would like a Church Lift or could offer a lift to Church on a regular basis, please would you contact Janet in the Parish Office (812050).
Parish Weekend on Discipleship
16th -18th October at Wokefield Park Hotel near Reading. Bishop Mike will be leading us for the weekend. Booking forms are available
Please book your place now!
Magna Flora at Salisbury Cathedral
A visit is being arranged by Friends of Wroughton Parish Church to Salisbury Cathedral on Friday 18th September to visit their Magna Flora flower festival. Details and booking forms are available on the chest at the back of church.
Wroughton PreSchool – Summer Fete
Come and celebrate 40 years of Wroughton Preschool on Sunday 19th July, 11am at the Church Hall, Priors Hill.
There will be face painting, games, music, tombola, book stall, ice cream, teas and many more.
Race for Life 5k
Last Sunday morning my daughter, daughter in law and I took part in the Cancer Research Race for Life at Newbury. We were all pleased with our results and thanks to the generous sponsorship of so many of you I have raised £582 so far which is amazing. It’s not too late to add to this total either by crossing my palm with gold (or notes!) or by going to Justgiving.com/janethenderson. Many, many thanks. Janet Henderson
The Ride and Stride is scheduled for
Saturday 12th September 2015.
This year’s Wiltshire Historic Churches Cycle Ride and Stride, organised by the Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust, takes place on Saturday 12th September. The event seeks participants to raise sponsorship by visiting as many Wiltshire Churches as they are able in the day, either by bicycle or on foot (or horseback, if you wish), commencing at 10.00 am and concluding at 6.00 pm. The participating Churches take you across the county’s urban and rural scenery. Whether you just want to visit handful of churches or fill the whole day, it doesn’t matter – if you are interested in taking part in this sponsored event, raising money for the maintenance and fabric of Wiltshire’s many and varied historic church buildings, please contact local event organiser, Mike Mason (tel 632574) for further details and a sponsor form. There is also a dedicated facility for this event in ‘Just Giving’, so sponsorship can be managed on line.
CHURCH IN THE WIDER WORLD
Mission to Seafarers
Over the next two months your prayers are asked for this charity. We have heard much about the many fleeing their home countries by boat to escape conflict and persecution. Yet in the background of these crises there are hundreds of merchant seafarers whose moral and legal duty is to intervene in human tragedies at sea and attempt rescues, in the absence of coastguard and naval intervention. Seafarers put lives first. However, this too comes at great risk to their personal safety and indeed to their mental wellbeing. The Mission to Seafarers is working with seafarers who have been so traumatised by major incidents of shipping disasters involving great loss of human lives, that they need its help and support with post-traumatic stress counselling. The perilous predicament of seafarers should be emphasised because without them many more lives will be lost. The world expects so much of seafarers in these rescue operations but don’t give them a thought in terms of the danger that this places them in.
Please pray:
- for the safety of seafarers and migrants in dangerous situations on the open sea
- for the Mission to Seafarers offering help and counselling to seafarers badly affected by their experiences
- that the International Christian Maritime Association’s lobbying of governments to recognise the role of seafarers in this human tragedy will be successful.
This week please pray for:-
- The Mission to Seafarers
- The residents of Moat Walk and Moore Close
- For Ethan Hoyland and family as he is baptised in Church next Sunday
- Our bible study groups
- We commend to God’s care and keeping those who have died recently especially Tracy Kidman-Pepper, Constance Davis, Nigel Crooks, Doreen Barclay, Joan Smith and Iris Sainsbury. We pray for all who mourn the loss of loved ones.
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