Newsletter for August 29th 2021
This Sunday @ St Michael’s
10:30am
Join us at 10:30am on Sunday morning in St Michael’s for Morning Worship. Jessica Turner is leading and we will be hearing via video of the mission plans of Jon and Kerry Rass. Kerry may be better known to us as Kerry Dearing, and served here as a youth worker about 14 years ago.
This Sunday @ St Andrew’s
10am
Join us at 10am on Sunday morning in St Andrew’s for Morning Worship. David Wenham is leading and we will be hearing via video of the mission plans of Jon and Kerry Rass. Kerry may be better known to us as Kerry Dearing, and served here as a youth worker about 14 years ago.
Online worship during August
The live-streaming of our Sunday Service is taking a break in August to give our Tech team a well deserved and much needed rest.
If you want to join a service online you can dip into our archive
or, alternatively, join the online service from the Church of England
or one from our own Diocese of Oxford.
There is also a new Worship for Seniors available, an online Taizé Service, and the latest in David Lockett’s Faith and Art series, details of all these are below.
Our weekly live-streaming of worship will resume in September.
Collect
Collect for Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
Almighty God,
who called your Church to bear witness
that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself:
help us to proclaim the good news of your love,
that all who hear it may be drawn to you;
through him who was lifted up on the cross,
and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
Readings for Sunday
Psalm 1:1-3
1 Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
John 15:4-8
4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Parish Office News
Once school term restarts, Amanda has kindly offered to support me in the Parish Office as she did last year when Sarah was on extended leave, until we are able to recruit a new administrator.
We are away again this week, so, if you need to contact someone:
the Parish Office answerphone will be checked regularly or please get directly in touch with Chris Evans or Malcolm Taylor.
Worship for Seniors
The August edition of our online series of Worship for Seniors is available at https://cumnor.org/worship-for-seniors-august-2021/. William Cutting’s theme this month is “Hands”.
Worship for Seniors is a monthly series of devotional videos for seniors and those in care homes. Each episode lasts about 15 minutes.
Taizé Service
The online Taizé service for August is still available. With readings, prayers and meditative sung worship, it’s the perfect way to find some peace and space in the stresses and strains of life.
https://cumnor.org/taize-service-august-2021/
Faith and Art
David Lockett has released the last in the current season of his Faith and Art series, exploring “Simeon In The Temple With The Christ Child” by Rembrandt. Watch it here: https://cumnor.org/faith-and-art-august-21/
Forthcoming Worship Services
St Andrew’s @ 10am
29/8 Morning Worship (Mission Speaker – Kerry Rass formerly Kerry Dearing & family)
5/9 Morning Worship (Galatians 5:16-25)
St Michael’s @ 10.30am
29/8 Morning Worship (Mission Speaker – Kerry Rass formerly Kerry Dearing & family)
5/9 Holy Communion (Galatians 5: 16-25)
From next week St Michael’s will be open for private prayer on Monday and Friday, 9am-5pm.
Please Pray For…
- Sarah as she leaves us at the end of August.
- People to step forward to serve as Churchwardens and Treasurer.
- Those affected by COVID locally.
- Our CMS mission partner Bia.
- The St Andrew’s Rebuilding Project.
- All those who remain anxious for their jobs or their future.
- Those who are homeless or struggling with food poverty.
- People to find a living faith in Jesus.
- Everyone who leads worship, preaches or teaches in our parish.
Contacts
St Michael’s Parish Office
1, Abingdon Road,
Cumnor
OX29QN
01865 861541
office@cumnor.org
Jonathan Widdess
Vicar
The Vicarage,
1, Abingdon Road
Cumnor
OX29QN
01865 861541
vicar@cumnor.org
Away till 3rd September. Please contact Parish Office or Chris Evans directly.
Kate Elliott
Safeguarding Officer
07782 350491