St Edmund’s Coffee Mornings The theme of this Saturday’s Coffee Morning is Harvest, so expect carrot Serving cake! November will be a Toffee Coffee Morning and December a Mince Pie , Wilmorton, Coffee Morning Allenton and Pilgrim Discipleship Course and Confirmation Preparation The sessions began this week but you are still welcome at one of the Wednesday sessions if you didn’t manage to make the first one! There is a course book which costs £5. Each evening session follows the book, which St Osmund's and St Edmund's invites participants to reflect and discuss bible passages and questions of faith in a very informal and relaxed way. It is open to people of all ages and wherever they are on their discipleship journey. It is also for those considering www.osmundedmund-.org.uk Confirmation this year. All those who are baptised are full members of the Church but Confirmation is the sacrament where we are invited to confirm the Sunday 25th September promises made by us or on our behalf at Baptism. Confirmation Services are always conducted by a bishop and we are delighted that Bishop Jan will be Trinity 18 conducting our service of Confirmation on 29th January at 6.00pm at St Edmund’s. This will also be a service for Derby City Deanery.

Starting this Monday, 26th September - Bible Study Group As most people have now returned from their summer holidays I thought the time was ripe to begin the Bible study group in which many of you have shown an interest. I propose to hold it at my home (33 Avenue) initially on the second and fourth Monday of each month starting (with refreshments, of course!)at 7.30pm till 9p.m. The first evening will be the 26 th September when we can discuss the logistics and timing of the sessions. Some may prefer day-time meetings which we can also discuss. If you can’t come 26th but would like further information do let me know. All are welcome! ([email protected] or 01332 704195)

Pauline and Sandra Till are looking at starting a fellowship/friendship group at St Edmund’s open to all, Male, Female, church attender or not. We are Today is Harvest Festival asking for your ideas on how to make this successful. You can send your thoughts either by e mail to The Collect, hymn numbers and Eucharistic Prayer can be found in [email protected] the Harvest Celebration Eucharist service sheet. [email protected] Or simply put your thoughts on paper and give to one of the clergy to pass on. This evening we come together at St Edmund's for a United Harvest Readings for next Sunday Songs of Praise and Bring and Share Supper. 1 Chronicles 29.6-19 Ephesians 2.19-22 Next Sunday (2nd October) is Dedication Sunday. On this Sunday John 2.13-22 we are invited to give thanks for the founding of our churches and rededicate ourselves to God's service. Please read inside for more details. Diary for this week Saturday And prayer intentions The Padley Group 10.00am Harvest Coffee Morning St Edmund’s St Osmund’s 10.00am Godly Play for Children Monday Osmaston Men's Social Club Sunday 9.00am Morning Prayer Our PCCs honorary treasurer and secretary 6.00pm Evening Prayer 9.30am Staff meeting 6.00pm Girl’s Brigade DEDICATION SUNDAY Please bring your Pledges and Gift to St Osmund’s or St Edmund’s 2.00pm Godly Play at Shelton Lock if you haven’t already done so. We will dedicate our Time, Talents Care Home and Treasure to God and thank all those who give these with a 10.30am Job Club at Boulton Lane Baptist Church small gift in return! 7.30pm Bible Study at 33 Sinfin Avenue 10.00am Dedication Eucharist 10.00am Dedication Eucharist Tuesday Local community leaders 9.00am Morning Prayer 7.00pm Eucharist Further notices 8.00pm Ministry Team meets at The Vicarage We are delighted to welcome Sebastian Lundberg to our parishes. Seb will be on placement with us till next June as a Parish Assistant as part of the Wednesday Church Ministry Division scheme to foster vocation in young adults to Ordinands and Lay Readers in training ordained ministry. Seb will be with us full time and is funded by the scheme. 9.15am Eucharist 10.30am Eucharist He is married to Marianne and they live near the station. 6.00pm Evening Prayer On Friday 30th September Stuart and Trudie are going to a Godly Play with 2.00pm Pilgrim Discipleship Course at The Vicarage the Elderly Training Day in Sheffield. There will feed back about this at the 7.30pm Pilgrim Discipleship Course at The Vicarage November meeting of our Mother’s Union. Thursday MacMillan Coffee Mornings are happening in both of our churches this Derby Community Hospital Friday, 30th September, kindly hosted by Co-operative Funeralcare. St 9.00am Morning Prayer Edmund's staring at 9am and St Osmund's at 10am.

11.00am Funeral of Beryl Key at St Osmund’s Big Garden Tidy Crematorium On Sat 1st October at 2.00pm please come along to St O with your shears and any other useful equipment or most importantly, just yourselves, to help 1.00pm ACT Food bank Distribution cut back, clear and tidy this year’s abundant growth in the grounds of the Friday church. Our church catering teams St Edmund’s Godly Play for Children Godly Play for children now happens each month at 10.00am on a Saturday Macmillan Coffee Morning Macmillan Coffee Morning morning during the 1st in the month Coffee Morning. beginning at 9.00am beginning at 10.00am Readings for today 2 Corinthians 9.6-15 The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. As it is written, ‘He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever.’ He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us; for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God. Through the testing of this ministry you glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ and by the generosity of your sharing with them and with all others, while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! Luke 12.16-30 Then he told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich towards God.’ He said to his disciples, ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith! And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying. For it is the nations of the world that strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.