Cockfield Benefice Fourth Sunday After Trinity Weekly Pew Sheet
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NOTICES Cockfield Benefice The Village Friends "Seaside Summer Lunch & Bingo" Fourth Sunday after Trinity is on July 18th at 12.30 pm, with fish & chips. Booking is essential so please contact Sue Jell 01284 828892, or Weekly Pew Sheet Lynn Cardale on 01284 386327. Sunday 14th July 2019 Open Garden at Gedding House, Gedding on Saturday Welcome to our Church! Please stay after the service for 27th July 2-5pm, in aid of the Gedding Organ Fund. a coffee and a chat. Entry £5 which includes a cup of tea and a delicious Collect: cake! For more details please contact Gilly Morgan on Gracious Father, 01449 737445 or email [email protected] by the obedience of Jesus We welcome back the international students' who you brought salvation to our wayward world: draw us into harmony with your will, perform at Cockfield Church during the summer. This that we may find all things restored in him, year there will be two concerts - one on Wednesday 31 our Saviour Jesus Christ. July 11 am-12 noon, and then a late afternoon concert Amen. by 'Simply Saxaphones', classics to jazz and swing, on Saturday 3rd August 5.30 - 6.30pm. These are free Psalm 76 concerts, with donations going to Cockfield Church, all 1 In Judah God is known; ♦ are welcome! his name is great in Israel. 2 At Salem is his tabernacle, ♦ Holiday Club is 19th - 23rd August this year for and his dwelling place in Zion. children aged 5-11 years old. It is £10 per week (third 3 There broke he the flashing arrows of the bow, ♦ child in family goes free. Please contact Revd Sharon the shield, the sword and the weapons of war. Potter - [email protected] 01884 828599, or 4 In the light of splendour you appeared, ♦ Morag Kelly - [email protected] 01284 glorious from the eternal mountains. 828904 for an application form. 5 The boastful were plundered; they have slept their sleep; ♦ A plea for items for holiday club: none of the warriors can lift their hand. • old bicycle wheels, must have spokes 6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, ♦ • plastic mesh fencing both horse and chariot fell stunned. • small plastic bottles 7 Terrible are you in majesty: ♦ • old socks, ties, belts and gloves who can stand before your face when you are Please give to Sue Jell or leave in Church. Thank you! angry? 8 You caused your judgement to be heard from Don't miss the Cheese and Chocolate Evening on heaven; ♦ Saturday 28th September at Bradfield St George the earth trembled and was still, Village Hall at 7 for 7.30 pm. There will be talks, 9 When God arose to judgement, ♦ supper and a bar, tickets will cost £15 and are now to save all the meek upon earth. available from Lynn Cardale on 01284 386327. 10 You crushed the wrath of the peoples ♦ and bridled the wrathful remnant. Cockfield Primary School is in need of a Classroom 11 Make a vow to the Lord your God and keep it; ♦ Teaching Assistant, Breakfast Club supervisor and let all who are round about him bring gifts Midday supervisor. The roles could be combined. If to him that is worthy to be feared. you know anyone who may be interested in applying 12 He breaks down the spirit of princes ♦ for these roles they can email the headteacher Mrs and strikes terror in the kings of the earth. Trudie Harkin on [email protected] Old Testament Reading: Deuteronomy 28.1-14 Next Week's Services - 21st July 28 If you will only obey the Lord your God, by diligently observing all his commandments that I am commanding Fifth Sunday after Trinity you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all 8.00 am Said Communion - Cockfield the nations of the earth; 2all these blessings shall come 9.30 am Benefice Family Service - Felsham upon you and overtake you, if you obey the Lordyour 3.00 pm Patronal Service - Little Whelnetham God: If you have any notices for the pew sheet, then please email Sue Tarran on 3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be [email protected]. Her normal working morning is Thursday. Visit in the field. www.cockfieldbenefice.com for more information or for other matters contact [email protected], or telephone 01284828599/07825086063. Visit our Facebook site! 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your while others refused to believe. 25So they disagreed with ground, and the fruit of your livestock, both the increase each other; and as they were leaving, Paul made one of your cattle and the issue of your flock. further statement: ‘The Holy Spirit was right in saying to 5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-bowl. your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah, 6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed 26 “Go to this people and say, shall you be when you go out. You will indeed listen, but never understand, 7 The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you and you will indeed look, but never perceive. to be defeated before you; they shall come out against 27 For this people’s heart has grown dull, you one way, and flee before you seven and their ears are hard of hearing, ways. 8The Lord will command the blessing upon you in and they have shut their eyes; your barns, and in all that you undertake; he will bless so that they might not look with their eyes, you in the land that the Lordyour God is giving and listen with their ears, you. 9The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he and understand with their heart and turn— has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of and I would heal them.” the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10All the peoples 28Let it be known to you then that this salvation of God of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.’ 30 He the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. 11The Lord will lived there for two whole years at his own expense and make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your welcomed all who came to him, 31proclaiming the womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ your ground in the land that the Lord swore to your with all boldness and without hindrance. ancestors to give you. 12The Lord will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in Praying through the week: its season and to bless all your undertakings. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 13The Lord will Praying for the world we pray for: make you the head, and not the tail; you shall be only at • A resolution in the Brexit negotiations the top, and not at the bottom—if you obey the • Those who have died and been injured in Greece commandments of the Lord your God, which I am during a violent storm. commanding you today, by diligently observing • Those who have died and been injured in a train them, 14and if you do not turn aside from any of the crash in Pakistan. words that I am commanding you today, either to the • The millions of displaced people throughout the right or to the left, following other gods to serve them. world who are fleeing war and persecution. New Testament Reading: Acts 28.17-31 In our Diocesan Prayer Diary, we pray for 17 Three days later he called together the local leaders of • David Jenkins (Archdeacon of Sudbury); Sally Gaze the Jews. When they had assembled, he said to them, (Archdeacon for Rural Ministry); Rhiannon King ‘Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people (Archdeacon of Ipswich); Ian Morgan (Archdeacon of or the customs of our ancestors, yet I was arrested in Suffolk). Jeanette Gosney (Acting Archdeacon of 18 Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans. When they Suffolk). Diocesan Officers and Advisors. had examined me, the Romans wanted to release me, • Mission to Seafarers, RNLI. Trinity House. Lightwave, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my the diocese-wide community of small missional 19 case. But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to groups & fresh expressions of Church, have been appeal to the emperor—even though I had no charge to planning ways to bless their local communities over 20 bring against my nation. For this reason therefore I have the summer. Pray for these activities and all who are asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the part of them. sake of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this • Pray for the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. The 21 chain.’ They replied, ‘We have received no letters from Most Revd Joel Atiwag Pachao - Prime Bishop of the Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here Philippines. has reported or spoken anything evil about you. 22But we • Kagera: Rev Geoffrey Charles, Mugisagara Parish. Rev would like to hear from you what you think, for with Samson Bisakumbwa, Rural Dean Mabawe Deanery. regard to this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against.’ Praying for our Benefice. This week we pray for: • Those who are unwell: Cedric Barratt, Jim Nunn, Mike 23 After they had fixed a day to meet him, they came to Lovick, Martin Golding, Dot Smith, Michael Tricker him at his lodgings in great numbers.