7th Sunday after Trinity
18th July 2010
God of unnatural wisdom,
you gave us Jesus our Rabbi
to question the roles we play,
the submissions we enforce:
may your living truth
free us from the lie of exclusion
and make us all
learners and doers of your word;
through Jesus Christ, teacher and liberator.
Amen.
Sunday Worship
First Sunday: 8am Holy Communion
10.30 am Family Service
Other Sundays: 10.30am Parish Eucharist
Important Dates
July
18th Today....The Big Lunch
21st 21.15 Eucharist Glebe Court
23rd Karoke Night @ Holy Trinity Centre
26th PCC 8pm in church
August
18th Eucharist at Glebe Court 2.15pm
September
5th Deanery BBQ Start the Month 6.30pm
26th First New Teaching Sunday
Revd Trevor Donnelly
The Vicarage 40 Dartmouth Row SE10 8AW
0208 694 1074 trevordonnelly@mac.com
Sermons and more: http://web.me.com/trevordonnelly/Blog
Holy Trinity, Deptford SE13 7QZ
Holy Trinity Centre Mission Hall Corner of Bennett Grove & Orchard Hill
www.ascension-blackheath.org.uk
Sheelagh Daly – Reader 8293 0509
Margaret Offerman – Reader 8852 7063
Churchwardens Ted Offerman 8852 7063 and
Debs Prosser debsprosser@gmail.com
Simon Riley --Items for the church calendar to
e-mail simril63@yahoo.com, or phone 0208 469 2106.
Wendy Harwood Newsletter and Hall Bookings 0208 691 8081 or harwoodfive@btopenworld.com Georgina Bolt Parish Safeguarding Oficer-8857 1654
Teaching Sundays - A new Format for September
This is an experiment with a slightly changed format for a Sunday Morning service once a month. Usually on the 4th Sunday of the month: The liturgy will be a little shorter and the sermon will be a little longer to allow the time to look at a subject in a bit more depth than we can usually manage on a Sunday morning (there may be handouts or PowerPoint presentations) The first of these will be on 26th September, when I will be exploring the approaches to interfaith relations, can all religions be true?
Begging Bowl for July The Kambia Appeal
Kambia is a small coastal town in Sierra Leone north of Freetown. This project which we last supported in 2006 under the name of Kambia Hospital Trust has had to increase its work outside the Hospital. It now provides a District service with Peripheral Health Units hence the name change.
In June 2007 Medecins Sans Frontieres pulled out of Kambia after 12 years because it normally provides health care for areas struck by disasters or in the aftermath of war and Kambia now meets neither of these criteria. This has left a huge gap in public health services in the entire district.
Kambia Appeal is working to fill the gap by working towards providing more medical staff from the UK in an ongoing programme of medium-term visits to Kambia and to strengthening the link between the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust and also by increasing access to health care through transport. They are training Community Health Officers with an emphasis on Tropical Medicine and Diseases some of whom are going on to University training to fit them for the job when they return.
Please give generously.
Paraguayan Gifts
Kate Brown still has a few items for sale from the Paraguayan craft display. Please contact her on 07778392095 if you are interested. She will be ordering more nearer Christmas!
Holy Days for the week ahead
18 Elizabeth Ferard, first Deaconess of the Church of England , Founder of the Community of St Andrew, 1883
19 Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, and his sister Macrina, Deaconess, Teachers of the Faith, c.394 and c.379
20 Margaret of Antioch, Martyr, 4th century
20 Bartolomé de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566
22 Mary Magdalene
23 Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373
Prayer List
Please pray for Margaret Atkin, John and Betty Illingworth, Andrew Hutchinson, Michael & Brenda Saunders and David Hazlehurst and Daphne Sheldon (Joan Bath’s) sister. And Joyce –recovering from her fall.
Simon Riley --Items for the church calendar to
e-mail simril63@yahoo.com, or phone 0208 469 2106.
Wendy Harwood Newsletter and Hall Bookings 0208 691 8081 or harwoodfive@btopenworld.com Georgina Bolt Parish Safeguarding Oficer-8857 1654
Collect
Generous God,
you give us gifts and make them grow:
though our faith is small as mustard seed,
make it grow to your glory
and the flourishing of your kingdom;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Readings
A hill shepherd comes down to Jerusalem to announce God’s judgement on the injustice practised there.
Verses from Amos chapter 8
Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land, saying, “When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain; and the Sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will practice deceit with false balances, buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and selling the sweepings of the wheat.” : Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
The time is surely coming, says the Lord God, when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.
Jesus teaches the true priority in living.
St. Luke’s Gospel chapter 10
Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”
Post Communion
Lord God, whose Son is the true vine and the source of life,
ever giving himself that the world may live:
may we so receive within ourselves
the power of his death and passion
that, in his saving cup,
we may share his glory and be made perfect in his love;
for he is alive and reigns, now and for ever.