Next Week S Worship 22Nd November 2015

Next Week’s worship – 22nd November Please pray for Sophie Page who is being baptised next 2015 Sunday at Long Newnton Church and her parents and Godparents. Christ the King 8.00am: Holy Communion 9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Peter Hyson BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON, Readings: Daniel 7:9-10:14; Revelation 1:4b-8; John 18:33- LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE 37 th Second Sunday before Advent 15 November 2015 This week’s Diary commencing 16th November 2015 Welcome to all visitors and those new to the Church. Please Monday: 7pm for Deanery Synod meet at Royal make yourselves known to us. Coffee will be served at the front 7.30pm Agricultural University after the 9.30am service. Join us if you can. Tuesday: 9.30am Prayer Circle leaders meet There is a loop system for the hard of hearing, and large print 2.30pm Mothers’ Union Meeting Dolphins Hall copies of the service and the hymn book are available from the Wednesda 9.30am Holy Communion at Tetbury Church sidesmen. y: 2.00pm Funeral of Colin Francis at Tetbury Church All are invited to come to the altar at the time of Communion. Friday: 4.30pm Funeral of Martin Taylor at Members of other churches who would receive at their own church Westerleigh Crematorium are welcome to do so here. If receiving communion is not Saturday: 9.30am Cake and Coffee morning in Avening appropriate, please come up to receive a blessing (it helps us if to noon Memorial Hall you bring a service book to indicate if you would prefer to receive 10.30am Prayer for Tetbury at Christ Church a blessing). If you would like Communion brought to you please Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday tell one of the sidesmen.

Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed) Worship Today Monday: Tony, Jay, Charlotte 8.00am: Holy Communion Tuesday: Stuart, Kelly, Grace 9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Ian Aveyard Wednesday: Charlotte-Ann, Charles, Anne Hymns: 409, 2, 395, 385, 368 Thursday: Janet, Peter Anthem: Brother James’ Air – Bain arr. Jacob Friday: Catherine, Gilly Departed: Colin Francis, Martin Taylor Collect Praying for the Town The Damsells Heavenly Father, whose blessed Son was revealed to destroy the works of the devil and to make us the children of God and heirs of Praying for St Mary’s School Year1/2 Class Holly eternal life: with Claire Peacock/Hannah Watts and Susie Smith grant that we, having this hope ,may purify ourselves even as he is pure; Years Mind: Carol Taylor (19/11) that when he shall appear in power and great glory we may be (“Year’s Mind” is to mark the first anniversary of a death – often a made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he is difficult time for family and friends) alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Stouts Hill is a delightful Georgian Manor House in Uley and we have access to the public rooms for the evening. There will be a Wine Bar and Post Communion Prayer 50/50 £1 coin draw. There are a limited number of tickets so please see Gracious Lord, in this holy sacrament you give substance to our one of us at the end of the service if you would like to come. You can hope: pay later! bring us at the last to that fullness of life for which we long; through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen. Mothers’ Union will meet this week on Tuesday 17th November at 2:30 pm in the Dolphins Hall. Please join us to hear our speaker Alison Heskith. Subject of talk; ‘Kith, Kin and Kenya’. Do come visitors Parish Priest: Revd Poppy Hughes, The Vicarage, 6 The are always welcome. Green, Tetbury, GL8 8DN. Tel: 01666 502333 Day off: Monday e-mail: [email protected] Tesco Christian Aid Collection will be on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th December. Rotas are available for you to sign up to Curate: Revd Kim Hartshorne email: at the back of the church. Please help if you can as this forms a [email protected] big part of our Christian Aid giving. Notices Our Parish Priest, Poppy, is on leave from Sunday 15th November and Installation of Magnificat Glass Door celebrating 700th returning to lead our Quiet Day on Saturday 28th November. anniversary of the re-dedication of Tetbury Church Our faculty for this work is now approved and public notices are posted on Parishioners will be very sorry to hear that John Wright suffered a our notice boards. We hope to install the door in early 2016. heart attack last Sunday, but we gather from Liz that he is now home Contributions to this project are very welcome. Please contact our and is making progress. churchwardens for details.

We will have an Advent Quiet Day on Saturday 28th November Good News - Great Joy for the children who will receive Christmas in the Shipton Moyne Village Hall, followed by 3 Advent House Group gifts through Operation Christmas Child. Thank you all who have meetings in the weeks beginning Monday 30th November, Monday 7th filled shoeboxes, those who gave a wonderful selection of extra items and Monday 14th December. Please sign up on the sheets on the and the money amounting to £235 which will go towards transporting notice board at the back of church and take a leaflet about our plans for them to needy children. This year we have sent fifty shoeboxes. They Advent. will now be on their way. After Christmas hopefully, we shall discover the destination country of our shoeboxes. A huge thank you goes to Prayer for Tetbury, Saturday 21st November 10.30am for a Hjordis Halliwell for her very major part in organising it all. 10.45am start at Christ Church. If you would like to stay for the simple lunch at 12.00 please let Gwyneth know CHRISTMAS MARKET IN TETBURY – Saturday 5th December 10am – 12.30pm Market Hall, Tetbury. Please come along and support at Avening Memorial Hall. 9.30am -12 on Cake and Coffee Morning our Church and bring all your friends and family. Attractions: ST . There will be stalls selling cakes, Saturday November 21st MARY’S PRIMARY SCHOOL CHOIR, ICING BISCUITS (for Christmas gifts, books and many more. Proceeds to Holy Cross children), Church, Avening. TOMBOLAS, CAKES, PICKLES, JAMS, CHRISTMAS GIFTS and so much more. Perhaps you would just like to come along On Saturday 21st November Roger and Margo Smith will be and have a cup of coffee and a mince pie or buy a raffle tickets. Do hosting a “Pate-Pie&Pud” evening at Stouts Hill Uley. We want to help come and join us. We need your donations of the following: raise some funds for the St. Mary’s School Governors Funds. Chocolate/s; Tins (anything in a tin); Pickles; Jams; Raffle Prices; Tombola Prizes; Bottles and really good quality the book. Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall gifts (unwanted gifts); cakes, pastries and biscuits. There awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and will also be a Craft stall. No books or bric-a-brac. Cakes can be everlasting contempt. Those who are wise shall shine like the brought on the day or given to Carol Van-Sloots or Diana Challis All donations can be left in the chest by the font. Thank you. brightness of the sky, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.’ Traidcraft for Christmas. As a leading supplier of fair trade products in the UK, Traidcraft have a wide range of festive items from producers throughout the world including Fair Trade Christmas gifts, Christmas decorations, charity Christmas cards, unique Gifts for Life and New Testament Reading also Christmas wrapping paper made from recycled paper ensuring your fair trade Christmas gifts are wrapped appropriately! The good news is Hebrews 10.11-14(15-18)19-25 these can all be bought or ordered from the Traidcraft stall which will be in church on the 22nd November or at the Christmas Fair on the 5th Every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and December. Look forward to seeing you then. again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, ‘he All items for inclusion in the Parish Administrator: Diana Sharp, sat down at the right hand of God’, and since then has been Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 8.30am at the latest. Tel: 01666 500088; e-mail: [email protected] waiting ‘until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.’ For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 1pm Tuesday, sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, web-site: www.tetburychurch.co.uk says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail: [email protected] them on their minds’, he also adds,‘I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.’ Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

SUNDAY 15th November 2015 Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he Second Sunday before Advent opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), and Old Testament Reading since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us Daniel 12.1-3 approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our In the third year of King Cyrus a word was revealed to Daniel. ‘At hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, washed with pure water. Let us hold fast to the confession of our shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish, such as has never hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful. And let occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that time us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Gospel Mark 13.1-8 As Jesus came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!’ Then Jesus asked him, ‘Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down.’ When he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, ‘Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign that all these things are about to be accomplished?’ Then Jesus began to say to them, ‘Beware that no one leads you astray. Many will come in my name and say, “I am he!” and they will lead many astray. When you hear of wars and rumours of wars, do not be alarmed; this must take place, but the end is still to come. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the beginning of the birth pangs.’