| St. Mary's Newsletter 26th July | |
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| Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust This year's sponsored ride and stride will be held on Saturday 12th September between 10am and 6pm. Volunteers for participating in the event and people willing to "man" the church are required. If interested please see Ray Chaney. This year GHCT has a web address see Last year St Mary's raised £200 for GHCT. GHCT raised over £39,000 last year. | Dates for your Diary Sunday 2nd August 2.30-5.30pm Cream Teas
Friday 7th August 10.00-4.00pm
Tuesday 18th August 10.30-11.30am
During the Week Wednesday 7.30pm Bell Ringing Practice |
| BERKELEY TOWN COUNCIL SWINE FLU IN BERKELEY If you live alone, or if your family is quarantined, and you do not have friends or relatives who can deliver essential foodstuffs and pharmacy items to you, and you live within Berkeley town, this scheme is available : Ring the following and give them your order – basic items only please - they will pack them up and a volunteer will bring them to your house. We would ask you not to answer the door until they have gone. The shops will give the bills to Debbie Burrow at the Town Hall who will pay them. When you are better she will issue you with an invoice for the total you owe. We would ask you to pay this amount as quickly as possible. The Berkeley Pharmacy 810316 If anyone wishes to be added to the list of volunteers please either ring 810564, e-mail | |
| Holidays | |
| Berkeley Show Bank Holiday Monday 31st August St Mary's has once again a stall at the show, so we are asking you to donate something for it. | |
| John 6 (The Message) Bread and Fish for All 1After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee (some call it Tiberias). 2A huge crowd followed him, attracted by the miracles they had seen him do among the sick. 3When he got to the other side, he climbed a hill and sat down, surrounded by his disciples. 4It was nearly time for the Feast of Passover, kept annually by the Jews. 5When Jesus looked out and saw that a large crowd had arrived, he said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread to feed these people?" 6He said this to stretch Philip's faith. He already knew what he was going to do. 7Philip answered, "Two hundred silver pieces wouldn't be enough to buy bread for each person to get a piece." 8One of the disciples—it was Andrew, brother to Simon Peter—said, 9"There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But that's a drop in the bucket for a crowd like this." 10Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was a nice carpet of green grass in this place. They sat down, about five thousand of them. 11Then Jesus took the bread and, having given thanks, gave it to those who were seated. He did the same with the fish. All ate as much as they wanted. 12When the people had eaten their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather the leftovers so nothing is wasted." 13They went to work and filled twelve large baskets with leftovers from the five barley loaves. 14The people realized that God was at work among them in what Jesus had just done. They said, "This is the Prophet for sure, God's Prophet right here in Galilee!" 15Jesus saw that in their enthusiasm, they were about to grab him and make him king, so he slipped off and went back up the mountain to be by himself. 16In the evening his disciples went down to the sea, 17got in the boat, and headed back across the water to Capernaum. It had grown quite dark and Jesus had not yet returned. 18A huge wind blew up, churning the sea. 19They were maybe three or four miles out when they saw Jesus walking on the sea, quite near the boat. They were scared senseless, 20but he reassured them, "It's me. It's all right. Don't be afraid." 21So they took him on board. In no time they reached land—the exact spot they were headed to. | Readings for this Sunday 9.30am Morning Prayer
6.00pm Evensong |
| Vicar- Rev'd Richard Avery Phone 01453 810294 E-mail averys@rjavery.co.uk Not available on Mondays except in emergency Curate- Rev'd Christine Birkett Phone 01453 511080 E-mail christine.birkett@virgin.net Not available on Mondays except in emergency To have items included in next week's Pew Sheet contact Peter Yardley Phone 01454 319749 or email pewsheet@stmarys-berkeley.co.uk More stuff on the website: www.stmarys-berkeley.co.uk To stop receiving future newsletters - click here If you send items to Peter Yardley for the printed Pew Sheet, they should make it into this newsletter. | |
