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Dates for Your Diary WHAT’S ON Morning Prayer takes place at St Peter’s on Mondays and Thursdays at 9.00am, All Souls’ on Tuesdays at 9.00am and St Mark’s on Wednesdays at 9.00am Monday 8 July 3.00pm Refresh Café St Mark’s Monday 8 July 7.30pm Mission Prayer Group 7 Sundridge Road Tuesday 9 July 10.00am Tots St Mark’s Tuesday 9 July 2.15pm Women’s Fellowship Bible Discussion with Mick Moorse St Mark’s Wednesday 10 July 10.00am Sparks Church Centre Sunday 7 July 2019 Tuesday 16 July 3.00pm Bereavement Café Church Centre Sunday 14 July– Fourth Sunday after Trinity Third Sunday after Trinity 9.30am All Souls’ Holy Communion (BCP) 10.00am St Peter’s All-Age Worship * MISSION PRAYER – TOMORROW – Monday 8 July – 7.30pm * 11.00am St Mark’s Holy Communion (CW) All are welcome to Brenda Cox’s house, 7 Sundridge Road, to pray for our 6.30pm St Peter’s Holy Communion (BCP) Mission Partners, Steph Cox, Cherith Withington (nee Collins), the Clouds and Sonia Hindes, who will be leaving Crosslinks at the end of August. We will also now be praying for Dean Pusey as he begins his ordination training in September. PARISH STAFF Vicar Jonathan Thomas Telephone: 01483 762707 * WESTFIELD COMMUNITY BBQ - Sunday 14 July - 4.00pm – 6.00pm * The Vicarage, 66 Westfield Road, Woking GU22 9NG St Mark’s will be organising a Community BBQ on Westfield Common, which email: [email protected] Day Off – Friday will include games and crafts. We will be needing volunteers to set up and run stalls and help with the food, but it will also be for the whole church Curate Sam Waako Telephone: 01483 673528 family to enjoy so please make a note in your diary. email: [email protected] Day Off – Thursday If you are able to volunteer please sign up on the sheet in the back of St Mark’s or else contact Jonathan. Ordained Local Minister Mick Moorse Telephone: 01483 767460 Licensed Lay Minister Rachel Johnson Telephone: 01483 740702 * CMS GIFT DAY * email: [email protected] If you missed the Gift Day for CMS last week you can still give to their work Children’s and Robin Jones Telephone: 01483 755852 either by using a white Gift Aid envelope and marking it CMS or else online via our website www.stpeterwoking.org/giving. Families’ Minister email: [email protected] Days off – Thursday and Friday ---------------------------------------------------------------- PARISH OFFICE OPEN Monday - Friday 9.30am – 12 noon Website: www.stpeterwoking.org. Parish Administrator Helen Maguire Telephone: 01483 755852 St Peter’s Church All Souls Church St Mark’s Church email: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------- @St Marks Woking Churchwardens Mark Lemprière Telephone 01483 771094 @St PetersWoking Jacquie Still Telephone 07929 653211 Safeguarding Officer Tracey Pusey [email protected] Notes & News Editor Sue Harvey Telephone 01483 714632 @stpeterwoking [email protected] transition and I look forward to playing my part in the outworking of the vision of * ST PETER’S * HEARING AID CLINIC Transforming Churches, Transforming Lives. I recognise that I have much to learn in this new role but I pray that we can work together to declare the praises 10.00am HOLY COMMUNION (CW) Apologies but there is No of him who called us out of darkness into his marvellous light.” HYMNS 784 880 673 862 Hearing Clinic on Tuesday On making the announcement, Bishop Andrew said: OLD TESTAMENT Deut. 26: 16-19 (p204) morning. “I'm delighted that Martin will be joining us at quite such an important time in GOSPEL John 8: 2-11 (p1073) However, batteries are the life of the diocese. Martin was the stand-out candidate in a very strong field SERMON How then can we live? available from the church office and brings with him a wealth of parish experience and a particular commitment _____________________________ between 9.30am and 12 noon. to discerning and releasing the gifts of the people of God. We wish him, Monica 6.30pm EVENING PRAYER (BCP) and Joshua God's richest blessing as they make the transition from London to HYMNS 51 251 746 563 Guildford.” PSALM 65 said from the Bible (p580) FELLOWSHIP LUNCH The Rev’d Martin Breadmore will be licensed as Archdeacon of Dorking at a CANTICLE Deus Misereatur service in Guildford Cathedral in the late Autumn. We will be having a fellowship OLD TESTAMENT Deut. 26: 16-19 (p204) lunch on Sunday 14 July. NEW TESTAMENT John 8: 2-11 (p1073) * BISHOP ANDREW: REFLECTIONS ON SAME SEX RELATIONSHIPS * Menu as follows: SERMON How then can we live? At the Woking Deanery Synod meeting in late February, Bishop Andrew gave us Somerset Pork with Sage and ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- his thoughts on this subject, which as he said, involves discussion, prayer and Onion Scone, Potatoes, and action across three things we have generally not been encouraged to talk about in * ALL SOULS’ * seasonal vegetables. polite society - Sexual Relations, Religion and Politics. Fresh fruit and cream. 9.30am ALL-AGE WORSHIP This is as good a contemporary discourse on this delicate matter as I have heard ____________________________________________________________ Please see us on Sunday, or anywhere, and I recommend the notes of his talk to you, which you may obtain by contact Helen in the Parish * ST MARK’S * email or printed out from Helen Maguire, our Parish Administrator. office by Thursday at the latest. Geoff Pugh Deanery Synod Representative 11.00am ALL-AGE WORSHIP Martin and Helen * THIS WEEK PLEASE PRAY FOR … * MICK’S MUSINGS the family and friends of Jennifer Cutt, aged 73, of Farm Road. Jennifer’s funeral will be held at St Peter’s Church this Tuesday, 9 July, at 11.00am. Doubting may be seen as a weakness. I suppose for this reason I didn’t want to talk about my doubts, which Have arisen, I think, because of my and also those who are unwell - Lynda Kirk, Burak Turna, Mary Angus, Trevor Lloyd, Peter and Eileen Bliss. circumstances. So I was very pleased to read Luke 7, in which we read that John the Baptist doubted. He had expected the Messiah to bring judgement * NEW ARCHDEACON OF DORKING * and He brought forgiveness. Also John was in prison for telling the truth and The Bishop of Guildford, the Rt Rev’d Andrew Watson, has announced that the his life was in danger. These circumstances led to his doubting. His doubts Rev’d Martin Breadmore will take up the position of Archdeacon of Dorking later were brought to Jesus. Jesus did not criticise John because of his doubts. In this year. fact Jesus praised him for what he had done and the person he was. Martin is currently the Director of Ministry for the Kensington Area of the Others doubted too. Job doubted, he couldn’t understand why things had Diocese of London, with responsibility for the training and development of clergy happened the way they had, he wanted answers. In the end Job had to admit and lay people. As the lead person for training clergy after ordination he has been to the fact of his finiteness, and then he was given a vision of the Almighty committed to ensuring that curacies enable training incumbents and curates to flourish in their ministry together. God. Thomas, famous for doubting, who had been with Jesus for several Martin is no stranger to Guildford, having previously served as associate years and had seen many miracles, doubted the resurrection. He too was minister of St Paul’s, Camberley for more than four years. Before moving to given a new vision of God. London Diocese he was Vicar of St Patrick’s, Wallington in the Diocese of So if you are a fellow doubter you are in good company! Often when these Southwark for almost nine years. doubts are admitted a fresh vision of God is given. Commenting on his appointment, Martin said: “I am delighted, daunted and humbled to have been called to serve God as the Every blessing Mick next Archdeacon of Dorking. The Diocese of Guildford is in an exciting time of .
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