St .Lawrence Church & St. Marys Church Newsletter 28th August 2016

Welcome to Church on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity

Sunday 28th August 7:45am Morning Worship Gnosall Worship Team 10:30am Holy Communion Eddie Haycock 6:30pm Evening Worship

Thursday 1st September 9:15am Holy Communion Kathryn 10am -12 noon Choir Practice

Saturday 3rd September 2:00pm Wedding

Sunday 4th September 7:45am Holy Communion Kathryn 10:30am Holy Communion Kathryn 2:00pm Baptism 6:30pm Evening Worship at Moreton Kathryn

Year’s Mind Kenneth Anthony Morris Raymond John Norris Ivor Spencer-Thomas

Leslie Weston Wilkins

Rector Rev Kathryn Hammond 284050 rev.kathrynh@gmail.com

Churchwardens: Bob Winfield - 822507 bobwinfield@btinternet.com Eric Henderson - 823881 eric.henderson2@btinternet.com

Prayer chain

Please remember that we have a prayer co-ordinator who every fortnight sends around names of people to be included in our prayers. If you would like to receive this list then please contact Hayley – h_a_p@hotmail.com We also produce a paper version that can be sent to people as well.

Christian Food Bank

Please do remember that we collect tinned food here at the back of church that is collected every two weeks and taken to the Food Bank at Stafford. Your dona-tions are appreciated. Please bring any tinned food to the box at the back of church – making sure the tins are well within their sell by date. Thank you.

WINNERS OF August DRAW

1st Freda Dickerson £20 2nd Margaret Winfield £15

3rd Gerry Dale £10

Church Newsletter

If you wish to have anything included in the Church Newsletter please let Jim McGregor have it by the Wednesday of the

previous week. Tel 01785 822156 or email jimf.mcgregor@tiscali.co.uk

Moreton

Sunday 4th September 6.30pm Evening Worship at St Mary's to celebrate the

Queen's 90th birthday. Followed by refreshments.

Sunday 11th September 9.00am Holy Communion with John Stirling

Sunday 18th September 9:00am Morning Worship in Community Centre at

with Benefice Worship Team.

www.gnosallparish.org.uk. We have our own church website, check it out. Pass anything you would like included to Michelle, it will be updated on a regular basis.

Email - m.broadhurst13@btinternet.com

Website www.gnosallparish.org.uk. & Facebook www.facebook.com/GnosallParish

Church Services during September

4th Sept 7:45am Holy Communion Kathryn 10:30am Holy Communion Kathryn 6:30pm Evening Worship at Moreton Kathryn

8th Sept 9:15am Morning Worship

11th Sept 7:45am Communion by Extension Gnosall Servers 10:30am Morning Worship Gnosall Worship Team 6:30pm Evening Worship Geoff Smith

15th Sept 9:15am Morning Worship Geoff Smith

18th Sept 7:45am Morning Worship 10:30am Holy Communion 6:30pm Evening Worship

22nd Sept 9:15am Morning Worship

25th Sept 7:45am Holy Communion Kathryn 10:30am Holy Communion Kathryn 6:30pm Evening Worship Geoff Smith

29th Sept 9:15am Morning Worship Geoff Smith

Bishop Michael visiting our Benefice

In the two weeks before his enthronement as Bishop of Lichfield, Bishop Michael is visiting the Diocese and we are holding a special service for him at St Lawrence's Gnosall on Thursday September 22nd at 7pm. I hope you will put the date in your diary and try to come along. Kathryn

ST LAWRENCE 100 + CLUB UPDATE

Time is running out to accept any more subscriptions for the next 12 months of the Club. There has been a very small increase in members but not enough to increase monthly draw prizes. Do you have friends who would like to join? Do you wish to add another number to your existing one? If so, please get in touch as soon as possible. At present prizes will remain the same. 1st - £20, 2nd - £15, 3rd - £10.

To make an increase yourself, introduce a friend or any queries, please contact Rob Prichard (tel. 822335) or Chris Heins (tel. 824010).

Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 28th August 2016 Collect

M erciful God, your Son came to save us and bore our sins on the cross: may we trust in your mercy and know your love, rejoic-ing in the righteousness that is ours through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Hebrews 13: 1-8, 15-16

L et mutual love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without

knowing it. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as

though you yourselves were being tortured. 4 Let marriage be held in honour by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God

will judge fornicators and adulterers. 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said,

“I will never leave you or forsake you.” 6 So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone

do to me?” 7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate

their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 15 Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise

to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name. 16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are

pleasing to God. This is the word of the Lord Thanks be to God

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke (Luke 14: 1, 7-14) Glory to you O Lord

O n one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely. 7 When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honour, he told them a parable. 8 “When you are

invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honour, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; 9 and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give this person your place,’ and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place.10 But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honoured in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. 11 For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” 12 He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbours, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ