KEY RING CO-ORDINATOR: Michael Pattison has offered to be Key Ring production co-ordinator for the summer months, when he is in the UK but we still desperately need someone to cover the winter. THE SHAFTESBURY TEAM

SHAFTESBURY FAIRTRADE GROUP invite you to a sit down Breakfast at the John Peel on Thursday 3rd March 9am – 1pm supporting their ‘Sit down to breakfast, Stand up for farmers breakfast’ campaign during their fair-trade fortnight. (Yes, you have to St Peter’s Church, Shaftesbury pay for breakfast) more details at www.shaftesburyfairtrade.org.uk. Notice Sheet

CHRISTIAN AID LENT LUNCHES St Peter’s is hosting on Friday 4th March 12.00 - Worshipping Christ with others, Taking Christ to others, 1.30 in the Town Hall. The following help is needed: Serving Christ in others, Bringing others to Christ - Monetary contributions for the purchase of provisions or donation from those

who would like to support but are unable to attend

- Items for the bring and buy stall - Homemade soup in 1 gallon (4.5 litres)or ½gallon (2.25 litres) quantities

- Help on the day between 10.30 – 2.00 moving furniture etc. Today Sunday 28th February – The Third Sunday of Lent Please sign the list on the notice board to indicate any help that you are able to offer or 9.30am Holy Communion speak to Gill Hunt (853707) Readings: Isaiah 55.1-9 1 Corinthians 10.1-13 Luke 13.1-9

Readers: John and Jenny Parker Intercessor: Sam Skey KEYRING DEADLINE The deadline for the April edition is Friday 4th March 5.00pm contributions to [email protected] th Next Sunday 6 March – The Fourth Sunday of Lent WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER is Friday 4th March and will be celebrated by Mothering Sunday a united service at St Peter’s Church at 11:00 a.m. [coffee from 10:30]. There will also 9.30 am Family Service be an evening meeting at Friends Meeting House at 7:30 p.m. This year’s theme will th be “Receive Children Receive Me” and reflect the work of Christian Women in Cuba. Sunday 13 March – The Fifth Sunday of Lent 8.00am Holy Communion BCP The next meeting of “THE FILLING STATION” takes place at Shaftesbury Town Hall 9.30am Parish Communion on Monday 29th Feb – 7:15 p.m. coffee & cake for 7:30 start. Extract from Salisbury

Diocese “Grapevine” - “The Filling Station Network aims to help feed those who are looking for additional opportunities to worship in lively and informal ways alongside their support a more traditional local church on Sunday.” For more information If you are new to St Peter's or visiting today, please make yourself known to one of www.facebook.com/fillingstationshaftesbury our team so that we might get to know you better

COFFEE 4 COFFEE MORNING. The church was attractively set up for last Saturday's The Diary Please see our calendar on our website www.stmin.org.uk/stpeters coffee morning, which was well attended and raised nearly £370 towards the cost of Mon - Fri 8.30am Morning Prayer the coffee machines and supplies. Further donations since have brought us Wednesday 10.30am Holy Communion tantalisingly close to the overall target. Needless to say, any further donations would be gratefully received! MARCH Fri 4th 10.30am Womens World Day of Prayer CHRISTMAS MEMORY TREE. The hearts have now been distributed and donations Coffee & Service received, providing £77 to church funds. I would like to thank everyone who, once Sun 6th 9.30am Family Service again, supported this venture remembering those who have been very special in our Sun 13th 8.00am Holy Communion BCP lives. Marigold. 9.30am Parish Communion

UPDATE ON AN IMPRESSIVE TOTAL The latest total for the cash collected from the Children’s Society House boxes is an amazing £1255.78! - almost all in small change. Team Office is open Monday – Friday 9.00am - 12.00pm There are about nine boxes yet to be exchanged. If yours is one of them, please Tel: 853060 email [email protected] www.stmin.org.uk contact Karen Dickson, Ros Wetherilt, John Parker or Chris Jones (850791). Please email items for the notice sheet to the office by 9:00am Friday Collect I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. 4 Or those eighteen who Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse entered not into glory before he was crucified: mercifully grant that we, walking in the offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus will all perish just as they did.’ 6 Then he told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree planted in Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. 7 So he said to the one God, now and for ever. gardener, “See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still 8 I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?” He replied, “Sir, let it alone First Reading Isaiah 55.1-9 for one more year, until I dig round it and put manure on it. 9 If it bears fruit next year, Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.”’ 2 and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Post Communion 3 Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline Merciful Lord, grant your people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting flesh and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow you, the only God; through 4 covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a Jesus Christ our Lord. 5 leader and commander for the peoples. See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, the FOR YOUR PRAYERS Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; 7 let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their For the sick: John Churcher thoughts; let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, For those who have died: Tom Squire, Barbara Heritage, Margaret Barron. for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways For peace in Syria, Iran and Iraq for peace and for other countries throughout the world where higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. there is conflict.

Our link with the Lui Diocese, in South Sudan. Second Reading 1 Corinthians 10.1-13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under For those suffering as a result of the flooding around the United Kingdom. 2 the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. NOTICES CONTINUED: 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in Karen Gorham our new bishop of Sherborne, is to be inducted on Sunday 6th March 6 the wilderness. Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not at 5.0pm in Sherborne Abbey. This will be an Evensong based service at which 7 desire evil as they did. Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, everyone is welcome. The Abbey seats 750-800 people and I've been assured there 8 ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.’ We must not indulge in will be seating for us if we would like to attend. If anyone from the parish or Team sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. would like to come along and welcome Karen to our benefice perhaps we join up for 9 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by transport or if enough consider a mini-bus. We would need to leave Shaftesbury at serpents. 10 And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the 3.30pm or earlier if you wanted to have a tea break in Sherborne beforehand. Those destroyer. 11 These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were interested please telephone Philippa 01747 812365 or e.mail [email protected] written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 So if you think 13 DORSET’S FIRST DEMENTIA FRIENDLY CONFERENCE takes place at you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. No testing has overtaken you that is Athelhampton House near Dorchester on 18th March, 10am – 4pm, is free and not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your includes lunch. It is an opportunity for people to find out how they can get involved in strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to finding simple ways to support people with dementia living in their communities. There endure it. will be an item on dementia friendly churches along with many other talks and

Gospel Reading Luke 13.1-9 workshops. Katy in the Team Office has a copy of the booking form or you can email At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose [email protected] for more information. blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 He asked them, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? 3 No,