Welcome Service for the new Bishop of Repton The Welcome Service for the new Bishop of Repton, the Right Revd Jan Serving McFarlane is at Cathedral on Wednesday 7th September 2016. The , , service begins at 7.00pm and the doors will open at 6.00pm. The service will celebrate the new ministry of Bishop Jan in Derby and and mark a Allenton and new stage in the life of the Diocese of Derby. The life of the church and the community of Derby and Derbyshire will be represented as fully as possible and the Bishop of Derby very much looks forward to welcoming you there. Tickets are available from eventbrite after 19th July. St Osmund's and St Edmund's New Derby City Deanery Deanery Launch Event Saturday 24th September at St Mary’s Boulton. The plan is to have a day of outreach into the parish of Boulton followed by a service to launch the www.osmundedmund-derby.org.uk Deanery. There will be activities for families and children, young people, older people and all in between. There will be some people working to help the Sunday 7th August community in practical ways. There will be opportunities to have conversations about faith. We hope there will be beer and hymns at lunchtime. Events will be Trinity 11 happening from 10am. Readings for next Sunday Happening Today Jeremiah 23.23-29 Hebrews 11.29 - 12.2 Luke 12.49-56 St Edmund's St Osmund's 10.00 am Holy Eucharist 10.00 am Holy Eucharist Chalice Assistants Pauline, Tracey Len, Derick Hymns NH&WS H O&N 332 51 232 333 307 240 321 599 113 97 F Eucharistic Prayer E 6.00pm ACT Sundays At Six

St Edmund's: We welcome Revd Jeffrey Clawson from St Anselm Garden Grove Los Angeles as guest preacher for our Age Eucharist today. The Eucharistic Prayer and hymns are on the screen. For those who would like a hymn book they are from NHWS: Diary for this week Sunday And prayer intentions The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge St Edmund’s St Osmund’s 10.00am Eucharist 10.00am Eucharist Monday Engagement with our local community Further notices 9.00am Morning Prayer 6.00pm Evening Prayer The ACT (All Churches Together) series of Summer Sundays at Six this year will focus upon the theme of CHILDREN. Pick up a programme card from 8.00pm Deanery Leadership Team the back of church. Tuesday Venues as follows: Local shop keepers and workers 7 August - St Edmund’s Church 14 August - Baptist Church 9.00am Morning Prayer 7.00pm Eucharist 21 August - Alvaston Methodist Church 9.40am Funeral of Maggie Much at 28 August - Alvaston United Reformed Church Crematorium 1.05pm Mothers Union join the Eucharist at the Cathedral Wednesday The Mothers Union exhibition for the 140th anniversary is in the Cathedral USPG Worldwide this week beginning on Monday. On Tuesday August 9th members are 9.15am Eucharist 10.30am Eucharist attending the 1.05 pm Eucharist in the Cathedral and all are invited. On Friday 6.00pm Evening prayer (August 12th) the City Deanery are responsible for Midday Prayers so it would be good to have members support this. 7.30pm Stewardship Review Planning at the Vicarage Thursday The Stewardship Meeting at the Vicarage is on Wed 10th August (note The Bible Society change of date) at 7.30pm to prepare for the Autumn Stewardship Review. If you are interested in helping our churches improve our giving of Time, Talents 9.00am Morning Prayer 3.30pm Messy Church and Tithe (money) you are most welcome to attend. 10.00am Funeral of Beryl Neish in church followed by burial at The Parish BBQ is at the Vicarage on Sat 13th August at 5.00pm. Please Nottingham Rd Cemetary bring a bottle and a salad or something sweet. There will be a raffle in aid of 1.00pm ACT Food bank Distribution the the MU Big Summer Appeal. Friday Girl’s Brigade will start back on on Mon 12th September at 6.00pm with a Open Doors FAMILY NIGHT. All welcome. MU Midday Prayers at the Cathedral Trudie is looking to start Confirmation classes in the autumn. Anyone who is Saturday interested, or if you know of anybody who may be, please contact Trudie. The Gideons Stop Press 5.00pm Vicarage Barbeque Many thanks to all who attended, and helped, at St Osmund's Fete on Saturday. Over £600 has been raised so far. Collect and Readings for today ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them. Collect O God, on whom our faith rests secure and whose Kingdom we await, Luke 12.32-40 sustain us by word and sacrament ‘Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you and keep us alert for the coming of the So of Man, the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for that we may welcome him without delay. yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Genesis 15.1-6 ‘Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, ‘Do not be for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.’ But Abram door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. Blessed are those slaves said, ‘O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?’ And Abram said, ‘You have given me no belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. If he offspring, and so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.’ But the word of comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, the Lord came to him, ‘This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very blessed are those slaves. own issue shall be your heir.’ He brought him outside and said, ‘Look towards ‘But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be him, ‘So shall your descendants be.’ And he believed the Lord; and the Lord ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.’ reckoned it to him as righteousness.

Hebrews 11.1-3,8-16 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. By faith he received power of procreation, even though he was too old—and Sarah herself was barren—because he considered him faithful who had promised. Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, ‘as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.’ All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth, for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not