St Edmund’s PCC meets on Monday 18th July at 7.30pm in the WER. Serving Sunday 17th July is ST OSMUND’S PATRONAL FESTIVAL which we will Pride Park, Wilmorton, celebrate together in a united service at 10.00am. During the service Maggie Britton will be enrolled as a new member of our Mothers Union branch. The Allenton and service will be followed by a BRING AND SHARE LUNCH. Then, at 7pm, we welcome Archdeacon Christopher as our guest on Dessert Island Discs. Shelton Lock On Wednesday 20th July at St Edmund’s at 7.30pm there is an Open St Osmund's and St Edmund's Meeting of the Derby City Deanery where PCC synod reps, treasurers, clergy and any others who may be interested, will be given a presentation on the new formula for arriving at the Parish Share each parish in the diocese will www.osmundedmund-derby.org.uk contribute to the Common Fund. Sunday 3rd July In the light of the deanery meeting St Osmund’s PCC now meets on Thursday 21st July at 7.15pm St Thomas the Apostle The ACT (All Churches Together) series of Summer Sundays at Six this year Happening Today will focus upon the theme of CHILDREN Venues as follows: St Edmund's St Osmund's 24 July - St Michael’s Church 31 July - Boulton St Mary’s Church 10.00 am All Age Eucharist 10.00 am Holy Eucharist 7 August - St Edmund’s Church Chalice Assistants 14 August - Alvaston Baptist Church 21 August - Alvaston Methodist Church Pauline, Tracey, Sandra Gill, Michelle 28 August - Alvaston United Reformed Church Hymns St Osmund's Summer Fete is on Saturday August 7th. We are collecting Bric NH & WS H O&N a Brac, Bottles, Tins, Raffle Prizes, Plants, and, on the day Cakes and 95 108 Sandwiches for refreshments. 417 186 Boulton St Marys Church Oasis Ladies Meeting are having a ladies 27 131 evening on Friday 15th July at Boulton St Marys Church at 7.30pm. A time of worship prayer reflection and a talk on inner beauty. 24 401 368 97 Readings for next Sunday Eucharistic Prayer E Deuteronomy 30.9-14 Colossians 1.1-14 Luke 10.25-37 St Edmund's All Age Eucharist The liturgy, including hymns, is on the screen Large print copies of the service are available and hymn books if wanted. Diary for this week Friday And prayer intentions For vocations to lay and ordained ministry 1.00pm YMCA Celebration St Edmund’s St Osmund’s Monday 8.00pm Concert at St Osmund’s: All You Need is Love Christian unity Saturday Derbyshire Police Force 9.00am Morning Prayer 6.00pm Evening Prayer 2.30pm Holy Communion at Shelton 6.00pm Girls' Brigade Lock Nursing Home Sunday The Fire and Rescue Service 7.30pm Discipleship Team 10.00am Holy Eucharist 10.00am Holy Eucharist 6.00pm Baptism Preparation - St Edmund’s WER 11.30am Baptism of Bonnie Halligan Tuesday The Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Justin 3.00pm Wedding Rehearsal 9.00am Morning Prayer 7.00pm Eucharist Further notices Copies of the agenda for tomorrow’s St Edmund’s Discipleship Team Wednesday Meeting are at the back of church. All welcome. The Bishop Elect of Repton, Bishop Jan 9.15am Eucharist 10.30am Eucharist On Friday 8th July the YMCA are having a Celebration Event of all their work from 1.00-3.00pm. 6.00pm Evening Prayer Stuart and Trudie and in Ireland from the 11-16 July attending the annual 6.30pm Diocesan Synod conference of BIAPT (British and Irish Association of Practical Theologians) Thursday but still very contactable by email. The Dean and Chapter of Derby Cathedral Our July Mothers Union meeting is at St Osmund’s on Tuesday 12th at 9.00am Morning Prayer 2.00pm. Avril has kindly stepped in to take this as Trudie will be away. She is very sorry to miss our speaker: Maggie Britton, who will be talking about “A 2.00pm Funeral of Dorothy Bough at Mother’s Journey of Faith’. All are welcome, whether you are MU members or Markeaton Crematorium not. if anyone needs a lift from St Edmund’s please let Trudie know this week 1.00pm ACT Food bank Distribution and she will try to arrange transport. If anyone can offer transport that would be most helpful. Collect and Readings for today see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but Collect believe.’ Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him, Almighty and eternal God, ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have who, for the firmer foundation of our faith, not seen and yet have come to believe.’ allowed your holy apostle Thomas to doubt the resurrection of your Son till word and sight convinced him: grant to us, who have not seen, that we also may believe and so confess Christ as our Lord and our God. Contact Details Vicar: Rev Trudie Morris Habakkuk 2.1-4 Phone 01332 704226 I will stand at my watch-post, [email protected] and station myself on the rampart; I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, Assoc Priest: Rev Norma Bracewell and what he will answer concerning my complaint. Phone 01332 704195 Then the Lord answered me and said: [email protected] Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, www.osmundedmund -derby .org.uk so that a runner may read it. For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay. Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faith. Ephesians 2.19-22 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling-place for God. John 20.24-29 But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord.’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.’ A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here and .