Lent Lunches: The following Lent Lunches have been with Marsh arranged. If you are able to support these, please let your hosts know for catering purposes. Each lunch will be at 12.30 p.m. Please note the different days of the & Rake week. Lea and Lorraine Grocott - Thursday 27th February with Iping

(01428 741393) Website: www.stlukesbenefice.co.uk Di and David Robinson - Thursday 5th March (01730 821408) TODAY’S SERVICES Jan Sayers and Linda Stevens - Wednesday 18th Sunday 16 2nd BEFORE LENT

March (01730 816274) Stedham 9.30am Communion Madeleine Oram - Thursday 26th March (01428 Linch 9.30am Communion 643490) Milland 11am Communion

Jacqui and Richard Woodhams - Thursday 2nd April - (01428 741495) Wednesday Eucharist in the Bettesworth Room Linch

If anyone else is able to hold a Lunch, this could be in 9am. the week beginning 9th March Please let Carol know. Collect th World Day of Prayer: Friday 6 March 2.30pm in Almighty God, Milland Village Hall.This year the service has been put you have created the heavens and the earth together by the women of Zimbabwe.The change of and made us in your own image: venue is because the Friday Lunch Club will be in the teach us to discern your hand in all your works hall that morning so we will have the service after and your likeness in all your children; Lunch Club. All are welcome to join us for what is through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, always an inspiring service. Rev Trish. who with you and the Holy Spirit reigns supreme over all Philateley: Thank you to those who have made contact things, with me about selling stamps. I am learning slowly. I now and for ever. will let you know how this plays out and how much more we will have to help build that hospital in Syria. Today’s Readings Of course if you hear of anyone else with knowledge Genesis 1:1-2.3; about stamps do please let me know. Bill: 01428 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the 741131. earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered Next Week’s Services: the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the SUNDAY 23 NEXT BEFORE LENT face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and Readings: Exodus24:12-end; 2 Peter 1:16-end ; God separated the light from the darkness. God called the Matthew 17:1-9 light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was

Linch 9.30am Communion with Junior Church evening and there was morning, the first day. Stedham 9.30am Communion And God said, ‘Let there be a dome in the midst of the Milland 11am Matins waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.’ So God made the dome and separated the waters that were Wednesday Eucharist in the Bettesworth Room Linch under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. 9am And it was so. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. And God said, ‘Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.’ And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, ‘Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.’ And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day. And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.’ And it was so. God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. And God said, ‘Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.’ So God created the great sea monsters and grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even every living creature that moves, of every kind, with Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the he not much more clothe you—you of little seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.’ And there was faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we evening and there was morning, the fifth day. eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures wear?” For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you animals of the earth of every kind.’ And it was so. God need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the God and his righteousness, and all these things will be cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the given to you as well. ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good. ‘So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for according to our likeness; and let them have dominion today. over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the Post Communion Prayer earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the God our creator, earth.’ by your gift So God created humankind in his image, the tree of life was set at the heart of the earthly in the image of God he created them; paradise, male and female he created them. and the bread of life at the heart of your Church: God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and may we who have been nourished at your table on earth multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have be transformed by the glory of the Saviour’s cross dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of and enjoy the delights of eternity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’ God said, ‘See, I have given you every plant Intercessions yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and World Church: PRAY for The Church of the Province every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for of Central Africa food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of Diocese: PRAY for the work of the Cathedral the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, Benefice: Stedham Memorial Hall and all that support it everything that has the breath of life, I have given every Prayers for those in Long Term Care and green plant for food.’ And it was so. God saw everything Housebound: Martin Beale, Betty Horlock, Margaret that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And Green, Pam Way, David Stobart, Allan Jones, Elaine there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Jackson and Alex Pask. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all Prayers for the Sick: their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the Pam Browne, Trudi Archer, Dawn Houston, Lionel work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day Cartwright, Fiona Johnson, Debbie Dean, Greg Carter, from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the Mark Harding and the Werner family especially Fred, seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested Janet, Richard, Lucy and baby Beau. from all the work that he had done in creation. In Memoriam Betty Burdett, Ellen Hillier, Jim Parrett, Romans 8:18-25; Ronald Hewlett, Bertie Ladd, Ian Jackson, Grace Allen I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not George Worman worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to Thought for the week us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the Only to the extent that we LOVE do we LIVE (Selwyn Hughes) revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of Benefice Notices the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself Grand Sale at Iping, 29th February, 2.00 p.m. We will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain will be selling bric-a-brac, cakes, produce, accessories, the freedom of the glory of the children of God. We toys, small items of furniture. If you are having a spring know that the whole creation has been groaning in labour turn-out this might be your opportunity to find a home pains until now; and not only the creation, but we for your unwanted items. Please contact Peggy on ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan 01730 814281 or Vanessa on 01730 817547 if you inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of would like to arrange collection. Otherwise we look our bodies. For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is forward to seeing you at the Sale. seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? But if This year’s Lent Course will take place in St Mary’s we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with Church .Rev Derek Welsman and Rev Trish patience. will run it together starting on Monday 2nd March at Matthew 6:25-end 7.30.For those who cannot make a Monday Rev Nick ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what Haigh is running the same course in on a you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, Thursday evening.We are using the Emmaus course and what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the we will use it again later in the year when we offer the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; course to those on the fringes of our churches.We felt they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet that doing it a churches together Lent Course will make your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more for great fellowship and also give us a group of people value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a from our churches to help us promote it as outreach in single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry the autumn. It would be good to car share to Easebourne, about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they so lets buddy up.