4 th Sunday after Trinity

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1 Rev d Julie Humphries can be contacted on or her at juliehumphries27@yahoo.co.uk 9 th July th Sunday after Trinity This Week s Hymn Numbers 565, 262, 331, 47, 12, 305 The Week Ahead Wednesday 9am School Service in Church Wednesday 7pm Youth Group in Dickens Heath NEW-Thursday 10am 12 noon Adult Craft Club meeting in the Undercroft Friday 9am 12 noon Call in for a Cuppa with admin, cleaning and maintenance. Bring your friends Sunday 8am Morning Prayer Sunday 10am Informal Communion 1

2 LAST DAY Important Notice concerning the Pastoral Scheme to Separate the Salter Street and Shirley Parish. Please note that there are notices about the Scheme on all of our notice boards and hard copies of the Draft Scheme are in the back of church and in the Undercroft for you to read. Please do not remove these from church. Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 Diocese of Birmingham Benefice of Salter Street and Shirley, St Patrick and St James Proposed Pastoral Scheme Anyone may make representations for or against all or any part or parts of the draft Scheme in writing or by , setting out the reasons for their views, to reach the Church Commissioners at the following address no later than Monday 10 th July Ms Katie Lowe Church Commissioners Church House Great Smith Street London SW1P 3AZ D Course The Diocesan course for Developing Disciples is starting again this September. There are booklets detailing this course in both the porch and the Undercroft. If you think that God may be calling you to become a Reader or perhaps to accredited Pastoral ministry then completion of the 3D course is a requirement. For further information please speak to Rev d Julie. Extra Adult Craft Club Starting this Thursday Now there is an extra chance to enjoy the craft club as a second group will be starting on Thursday 13 th July from 10am until 12 noon in the Undercroft. 2

3 Narthex and Foodbank Thanks for the wonderful recent response. The latest appeals are for a shopping trolley, nightdress size 10, dustpan and brush, men s trainers all sizes, ladies jeans sizes 8 and 10, boxer shorts for boy aged 4, small packets of washing powder, double duvet (not feathers), any bedding at all, small bedside chest of drawers. Food Bank; once again the need is for dried milk. And toilet rolls too please, for the hygiene Box not a glamorous request but an essential for dignity! Thanks for your continued support, Elizabeth Paice Lianne Nichols Lianne is one of our recent confirmation candidates and she is collecting mother baby items for Birmingham and Solihull Women s Aid. If you are able to let her have any of the following items: Women's clothes especially maternity Toiletries sanitary products Baby children's clothes Toys Baby food milk Nappies Bath stuff Baby items Anything mum and baby might need as they often turn up with just clothes on their backs. Please give Lianne a call on Help Required on the 9 th September selling candyfloss and popcorn We will be selling candyfloss and popcorn on the green in Dickens Heath on Saturday 9 th September. We will be setting up from 11am and the sale starts at 1pm until 5pm. There are sign-up sheets at the back of church and in the Undercroft if you can sign up for a 1½ hour time slot that would be a great help we need about 4 or 5 people on at a time. Ideally, we could do with 3 people on the candyfloss and 1 on the popcorn and 1 taking the money and handing out literature. For further information speak to either Mick Humphries or Rev d Julie. 3

4 Junior Church Picnic & Games Sunday 23 rd July 10-11am Junior Church will meet at the entrance to school off the main car park at 10am. Contributions, of nibbles or drinks, for sharing would be appreciated. Contact Margaret Young for further details or Future Dates for your Diaries Sat 9 th September Dickens Heath on the Green we will be selling candyfloss and popcorn. Sat 23 rd September Shirley Band in concert 2.30pm in church. Sun 1 st October - Harvest Festival Collect at 8am Service O God, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: increase and multiply upon us thy mercy; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal: Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ s sake our Lord. Collect at 10am Service Gracious Father, by the obedience of Jesus you brought salvation to our wayward world: draw us into harmony with your will, that we may find all things restored in him, Our Saviour, Jesus Christ. 4

5 Zechariah 9:9-12 Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 He [a] will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the warhorse from Jerusalem; and the battle-bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. 11 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. 12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double. Romans 7:15-25a 15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. 17 But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, 23 but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin. 5

6 Matthew 11:16-19 & 25-end 16 But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to one another, 17 We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn. 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon ; 19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners! Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds. [a] 25 At that time Jesus said, I thank [a] you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; 26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. [b] 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 28 Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Post Communion Prayer Eternal God, comfort of the afflicted and healer of the broken, You have fed us at the table of life and hope; Teach us the ways of gentleness and peace, That all the world may acknowledge The kingdom of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Please pray for those in need. Please speak to Rev d Julie regarding requests to be included in our prayer book. Please would the whole church remember Tim Harrison and his parents Bob and Sheila in your personal prayers. 6

7 Please pray for the departed Years Mind If you would like to have a loved one remembered in the prayers please contact Rev d Julie. Next Week s Readings Isaiah 55:10-13 Romans 8:1-11 Matthew 13:1-9 &