ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, HUGHENDEN 12 October 2014 : Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity - Harvest Festival Gift Day WELCOME TO OUR SERVICES TODAY. If you are a visitor and usually take communion in your own church, we hope you will share the sacrament with us. If you are not a communicant, please still come to the altar, but carry a book, and you will receive a blessing. Do join us for Fairtrade refreshments in Church House after the 8:00 am and 9:00 am services and at the back of church after the 10:45 am service. A Crèche is available in the North Room during the 10:45 am service. All children attending the 10.45 am service are welcome to meet in school year groups during term time as follows: Bubbles - Pre-school & Reception: North Room JC Club - Years 1 - 5: Church House Bell Tower - Years 6 - 9: Bell Tower Please take this sheet home with you as a reminder of events in the coming week which you might want to join in with, or pray over. COLLECTS FOR TODAY'S SERVICES Collect: Almighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself, and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; 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. Post Communion Collect: Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Church Notices: please send to [email protected] Today's readings with their pew bible page numbers are: Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 25: 1-9 (page 708) This reading underlies Jesus' parable about the banquet of the kingdom. The prophet sees that although Jerusalem will be laid waste, within the divine plan of salvation the land will be restored, suffering and death will come to an end, and God and humanity will feast together in joy. New Testament Reading: Philippians 4: 1-9 (page 1180) Our weekly readings from this warm and affectionate letter come to an end with some personal messages, and a resounding call to constancy in prayer, to mutual love, and to an intense dedication to all the best things in life within God's peace. Gospel Reading: Matthew 22: 1-14 (page 990) In Jerusalem, Jesus' parable is a lesson for those who oppose him, and for all who do not accept his invitation to join him in feasting in his kingdom. 8:00 am Holy Communion (Said) (Common Worship) 9:00 am Matins (Sung) (BCP) Psalm 23 (Oxford Psalter page 57) 10:45 am Family Communion If at the Family service you would like to receive prayer for healing, general well being, comfort and strength by our trained Prayer Team, please make your way up early to the communion rail and then go into the North Chapel (doorway by the organ) where you will be warmly and confidentially welcomed. 6:00 pm Evensong (Sung) (BCP) (No sermon) Psalm 139 (Oxford Psalter page 261) Proverbs 3: 1-18 (page 637) Hymn 260 1 John 3: 1-15 (page 1226) Hymns 261 & 253 Intercessions: In our prayers this week we remember Joan Gibson, Stella Blake, Joan Sweet, Annie Coles, Avis Clinch, Ann Way, Rudi Gelsey, Jim and Anne Long - Jim has been diagnosed with cancer - and all who care for and about them. Floodlighting: Marion Richardson, in Axminster, is remembering her mother Eva, whose birthday fell on 5 October, and also wishes to be remembered to her friends in this parish. Church House Teas: This and next week’s teas are organised by Lin Smit (462094). If you are able to offer any help in the usual areas, be it ever so small, please ring as appropriate. Last week’s teas took £203.70. WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK Morning Prayer is said on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 am and on Tuesday and Thursday at 7:45 am. Do join us. MONDAY 13 October 10:15 am Ladies' Daytime Fellowship & Bible Study. A warm welcome to all. Further details - Judith Camplisson (565108) or Ann Long (564009) TUESDAY 14 October 1:45 pm Art Fellowship Group: Church House WEDNESDAY 15 October 11:15 am Interment of Ashes of James Poutney 7:30 pm Alpha Course: Church House THURSDAY 16 October 9:30 am Hughenden Toddlers: North Room 10:30 am Tiny Tots’ Service: Church 10:30 am Friendship Morning: Church House FRIDAY 17 October SATURDAY 18 October Luke the Evangelist 9:00 am Holy Communion: Church Next Sunday: 19 October : Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 8:00 am Holy Communion (Said) (Common Worship) 9:00 am Holy Communion (Sung) (Common Worship) 10:45 am Informal Family Service 12:30 pm Holy Baptisms 3:48 pm Piggott’s Choir Concert 6:00 pm Evensong (Sung) (BCP) DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 12 October – Gift Day Sunday Today is our Gift Day. This year, special donations are requested for 1. the continued funding of a youth worker or 2.Church House maintenance. You may also 3. give simply to our general fund. You may also give to any combination of the three. Please place your donation in a yellow envelope from the pews, and state your choice of destination on the envelope. Please also fill in the envelope if you wish, and are eligible, to gift aid your donation. Place the envelope with donation in the collection plate or in the vestry or through the front door of Church Cottage. Cheques should be payable to Hughenden PCC. And thank you for your generosity. 12 October – Harvest Festival will support ‘One Can Trust’. Requested items: jellies & Angel Delight, tinned meat, tinned potatoes, tinned veg, nappies (sizes 3, 4 & 5), wipes, shampoo & soap. Please NO baked beans; NO dried pasta; NO soup - thank you! 19 October – Piggotts Concert at 3:48 pm in Church. A choir from Piggotts Farm will perform a capella music, from early to modern classical. Conducted by Michael Veazey; no tickets required; collection for the Church at the conclusion. GENERAL Mission Aviation Fellowship Would you like to further support the work of MAF, one of our supported charities, by praying regularly with other MAF supporters? A prayer group meets in High Wycombe every 2 months to pray for the work of MAF, and the group would welcome new people. The next meetings will be in November and January. For further details please speak to David Tester (01494 563354) or call Graham Bunsell, of Totteridge Baptist church, (01494 535347) Wycombe Homeless Connection is looking for 50 hardy volunteers to take part in their Big Sleepout 2014 on Saturday 15th November at Eden Shopping Centre. No entry charge, but it is hoped that participants will raise at least £100 in sponsorship. This will help fund our work rebuilding shattered lives here in High Wycombe. Over 18s only. You'll need to bring your own sleeping bag and pillow, but cardboard boxes will be provided! A cold, uncomfortable night will be made better by takeout pizza, hot drinks, entertainment and a sense of camaraderie. Both our local MP and the Mayor are taking part so why don't you?! You will really appreciate the hot shower when you get home... Outlook The editors for the November issue are Bob and Jane Tucker. Items for inclusion should reach the editors by the 15 October. Email at [email protected] or hand-written articles can be delivered or posted to Helen Byrne at 67 Friars Gardens, Hughenden Valley.