Messy Church: This Thursday! This session’s theme is Hidden Treasure. Messy Church is for all ages and Serving not just for St Osmund’s. If you would like to come along and experience , Wilmorton, Messy Church for yourself you are most welcome. Lent, Holy Week Easter Allenton and Details will be published shortly about how you can take part in the next big season of the Church’s year. Plans include s Pilgrim course focussing upon the Lord’s Prayer, a Table Talk session focussing upon the Mystery of Easter and Holy Week Messy Church. St Osmund's and St Edmund's Transforming Faith The new Transforming Faith course is happening now across the diocese and we are about to begin one. The course we will be running is: Doing Theology. www.osmundedmund-.org.uk These sessions provide a general introduction to theological study. The course invites you to engage with a variety of methods for reflecting Sunday 29th January theologically and explore how texts, doctrines, history and practices of the Church can support and enhance your personal life, witness and ministry. Epiphany 4 The course consists of 9, two hour sessions and will run on Sundays at the This morning at 11.00am we welcome Ava Evelyn Grace Smith in Holy Vicarage from 4.00-6.00pm beginning: Sunday 12th February. If you are Baptism at St Edmund's interested in taking part please let Trudie, Cath or Tony know. Derby City Deanery Taize Pilgrimage This evening at 6.00pm in a special Eucharist for Candlemas at St Edmund's, Sat 27th - Thurs 31st May 2017 we welcome Bishop Jan to our benefice as confirming Bishop, together with If you are interested in discovering more about an organised trip to the Taize all our candidates for Baptism and Confirmation. Community in France from Derby then come along to an Information Evening on Monday 20th February at 8.00pm at St Edmund’s. Happening Today The next round of Discipleship Team meetings are coming up! St Osmund’s: Wed 8th February at 7.15pm: the focus will be on planning for: St Osmund’s Festival 2017 15-16th July - a weekend of Fete, Fun and St Edmund's St Osmund's Festival! 10.00 am Holy Eucharist 10.00 am Holy Eucharist St Edmund’s: Mon 13th February at 7.30pm: the focus will be on planning for: Flower Festival and Community Consultation Event 10-11th July Chalice Assistants We need everyone’s help to make these big new events in the lives of our Joyce, Laura, Sandra Kath churches successful community events so please come along to help plan. Hymns Wathall's “Derby Dandelions” Open to all, Derby Dandelions, their Bereavement Support Group meets on A&M*, NH&WS H O&N the last Tuesday of every month. Whether you are recently bereaved or 336* 106 further along the journey all are welcome Come alone or with a friend. Come along to be with others, to just to sit quietly or have a friendly chat. We’re here 220 701 to listen, guide and support each other. It’s free to join the group. We do not 265 589 offer any clinical counselling, we simply focus on guidance and practical support with regular guest speakers from organisations that can offer 7 369 specialist advice and present practical demonstrations. The afternoon group 343* 306 meets in The Cathedral Café , Irongate, Derby from 2pm until 4pm. The evening group meets in The Hotel, Kedleston Road, Derby from 6.00pm Candlemas Eucharist with Baptism and Confirmation 7pm-9pm at St Edmund's Diary for this week Friday And prayer intentions Refugees St Edmund’s St Osmund’s Monday Our church catering teams 9.00am Morning Prayer Saturday 3.00pm Godly Play at 6.00pm Girl’s Brigade Asylum seekers Shelton Lock Care Home

10.00-12.00 Coffee Morning at St Edmund’s Tuesday 10.00am - 11.00am Godly Play Religious orders Sunday – 4th Before Lent 9.00am Morning Prayer The Rainbow Hospice 2.50pm Assembly at Shelton Junior 7.00pm Eucharist 10.00am All Age Eucharist 10.00am Holy Eucharist School

Further notices Wednesday Confirmation Service This Evening The Padley Group Please don’t forget to bring a contribution to the refreshments following the 8.30-3.00 Shelton Lock Pre School 10.30am Eucharist service. Thank you! Taster Day 9.15am Eucharist in the Lady Shelton Lock Pre School Chapel followed by coffee at the Shelton Lock Pre School is moving St Edmund’s from Monday 20th February Vicarage and will be using the WER and Godly Play Room. These areas of the church 10.00-12.00 Talking Point will not be available during those times. Social Services and Mental Health Those of you doing cleaning and flowers will be able to access your Hub at the Vicarage equipment and use the Godly Play room from 1.30pm Monday to Friday 2.00pm Godly Play during term time, weekends and school holidays. Of course you can still clean at Allenton Primary School at any time to suit you. 7.30pm Flower Festival Committee Next Wednesday we are all invited to an open session from 12.00-3.00pm to at the Vicarage see how the Pre School will work and to meet the staff. We hope to take some group photos! Post Eucharist coffee and Talking Point on Wednesdays are now at the Thursday Vicarage. Our PCCs honorary treasurer and secretary Dignity Action Day: This Wednesday! 9.00am Morning Prayer 3.00- 5.45pm Messy Church Dignity Action Day is an annual opportunity for health and social care workers, 10.30am Assembly at (including time and members of the public to uphold people's rights to dignity and provide a Shelton Infants School for prayer and preparation) truly memorable day for people who use care services. You are all invited to St Edmund’s Vicarage between 10.00 and 12.00 to hear and learn more about 1.00pm ACT Food bank Distribution the dignity Charta. Please do come along! Collect and Readings for Epiphany 4 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by Collect human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God of heaven, God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is you send the Gospel to the ends of the earth weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised and your messengers to every nation: in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no send your Holy Spirit to transform us one might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ by the good news of everlasting life Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and in Jesus Christ our Lord. sanctification and redemption, in order that, as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.’

1 Kings 17.8-16 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ‘Go now to Zarephath, which John 2.1-11 belongs to Sidon, and live there; for I have commanded a widow there to feed On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of you.’ So he set out and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the town, a widow was there gathering sticks; he called to her and said, ‘Bring me wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.’ As she was going to bring it, he have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you called to her and said, ‘Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.’ But she said, and to me? My hour has not yet come.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do ‘As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a whatever he tells you.’ Now standing there were six stone water-jars for the jar, and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks, so that I may Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.’ them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. He said to Elijah said to her, ‘Do not be afraid; go and do as you have said; but first make them, ‘Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.’ So they took it. me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterwards make something for When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know yourself and your son. For thus says the Lord the God of Israel: The jar of where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the meal will not be emptied and the jug of oil will not fail until the day that the steward called the bridegroom and said to him, ‘Everyone serves the good Lord sends rain on the earth.’ She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But well as he and her household ate for many days. The jar of meal was not you have kept the good wine until now.’ Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in emptied, neither did the jug of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord that he Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. spoke by Elijah. Readings for next Sunday – 4 Before Lent 1 Corinthians 1.18-31 Isaiah 58.1-9a[b-12] For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, 1 Corinthians 2.1-12[13-16] but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, Matthew 5.13-20 ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.’ Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.