THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE STALYBRIDGE www.stg.org.uk Sunday 15th March 2020 THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT

Welcome! If you need any help or guidance during the service please speak to one of the churchwardens or sidespeople on duty. Please stay for tea and coffee after the service. Please take this sheet home with you

COLLECT Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen HYMNS AT 10.30AM: 205, 59, 712, 686 First Reading: Exodus 17.1-7 (Bible page 68) Psalm: Psalm 95 (Bible page 579 and back of sheet) Second Reading: Romans 5.1-11 (Bible page 165) Gospel: John 4.5-42 (Bible page 101) HYMNS DURING COMMUNION: 369, 458, 29 POST COMMUNION PRAYER Merciful Lord, grant your people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow you, the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Contact For all enquiries, including baptisms, weddings, funerals and pastoral care, please contact the : The Revd Penny Warner Telephone: 07393 420763 Email: [email protected] For pewsheet entries please email: [email protected] PRAY FOR THE CHURCH THROUGHOUT THE WORLD Pray for persecuted Churches in Central African Republic . Pray for the Archbishop - . Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia: Archbishop J ānis Vanags, Ein ārs Alpe, Bishop Hanss Martins Jensons. Church of England: , Bishop , Bishop , Bishop , Bishop . : Diocese of St David’s, Bishop Joanna Penberthy. PRAY FOR THE DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER Pray for our Diocesan Bishop: Bishop David Walker. Suffragan : Bishop Mark (Middleton): Bishop Mark ( Bolton). Archdeacons: David Sharples: Karen Lund: . Area Dean: Roger Dixon. PRAY FOR THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD Please pray for our Queen and the people and leaders of all Nations. For peace in the world and for all working for peace and an end to terrorism. For all refugees and asylum seekers. PRAY FOR THIS PARISH AND COMMUNITY Please continue to keep in your prayers, Penny, our Vicar. The towns of Stalybridge and Armentières. Please pray for Fast Food Outlets, Post Office workers and Postal workers, also residents of Hamilton Street and Hanover Street. Also pray for Rico Daniel who is to be baptised here today. PRAY FOR THE SICK, THE BEREAVED, THOSE IN TROUBLE Please PRINT the names of anyone that you wish to be prayed for this week to the list in the lounge before the service. Thank You. PRAY FOR THE DEPARTED – Colin Swift, and all who have recently died. ANNIVERSARIES - Thomas Williamson Thomson, Alma Nuttall, Roberto Luigi Pravisani, David Rawsterne, Thomas Green, Ernest Sidebottom, James Shenton, John Duxbury, Regan Joseph Michael Tetlow, Frank Cooke Jackson and Emmeline Elizabeth Heap

‘Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.’ Philippians 4:6

If you or anyone you know would like a visit or to receive Holy Communion at home, please speak to Revd Penny

Our Lent Course, A Lenten Journey of Prayer runs on Monday evenings 7pm-8pm in church for 5 weeks - all are welcome! Please take a leaflet with details of Lent and Holy Week worship

The Annual Parochial Church Meeting is THIS Tuesday at 7.45pm in the Lounge. Nominations for wardens (elected annually), Deanery Synod members (3 yr term) and PCC members (3 yr term) are invited before the meeting. Please take a copy of the Annual Report today and bring it to the meeting. This meeting is for everyone, not just PCC members. Please try to come along, so that you can find out was has happened in the past year and also have a real say in what goes on your Church. Only members who are on the electoral roll are eligible to vote.

PLEASE NOTE THIS ADVICE WILL BE UPDATED AS REQUIRED Following the advice of the Archbishops and the instructions of the , changes have been made in response to the current virus outbreak. At every Eucharist until further notice: Please leave your COLLECTION in the plates near the door - this removes the need to hand around plates which lots of people touch. Please do not share the PEACE physically - we share it by responding and also with you (make eye contact, try waving or British Sign Language!). The CHALICE will not be shared (the will consecrate and consume the wine, maintaining the validity of the Eucharistic celebration) - by receiving in one kind only, we still receive the fullness of Christ’s blessing in Holy Communion.

Sunday 22nd March is Mothering Sunday Parish Eucharist - Worship for All at 10.30am Thanking God for the gift of mothering

A Quiet Morning for Lent: Saturday 28 ththth March 10am10am----12.30pm12.30pm Time set apart for silence, music, words and prayer during Lent, ending with a simple bread and soup lunch at 12noon. Please sign up in the Lounge so we know numbers for lunch. Donation only for lunch For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” Isaiah 30:15

Dates for your Diaries: March 29th - Parish Meal, April 26th - Fun Day in Stamford Park, with church stall, May 16th - Spring Fair, May 31st - Whit Walks, June 27th—Anniversary Weekend Barn Dance

Eucharistic Assistants The chalice has been suspended until further notice. See above for details.

Sidespersons March 15th G. Cotton D. McManus L. Hurst J. Catlow March 22nd L. Moon J. Hansell A. Harris K. Redeyoff PSALM at 10.30am Psalm 95 (Bible page 579)

Leader O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! All Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! Leader For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. All In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. Leader The sea is his, for he made it, and the dry land, which his hands have formed. All O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! Leader For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would listen to his voice! All Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, Leader when your ancestors tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. All For forty years I loathed that generation and said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my ways.’ Leader Therefore in my anger I swore, They shall not enter my rest.

Sunday THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT 15th March 10.30am Parish Eucharist & Junior Church 12.30pm Holy Baptism Monday 7.00pm Lent Course Tuesday 9.00am Maintenance Team Meet (volunteers welcome) 10.30am Holy Communion 1.00pm to 3.00pm Come Together Café 7.45pm Annual Parochial Church Meeting (all welcome) Thursday 9.00am Time 4 Fun (0 to 5yrs) 7.30pm Tameside Community Voices Practice Friday 1.00p.m. to 3.00p.m. Dementia Café 3.00pm Cleaning Crew Meet (volunteers welcome) Saturday 1.00pm Fairtrade Afternoon Tea Sunday FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT - MOTHERING SUNDAY 22nd March 10.30am Worship For All