4/6/23
Your weekly update from the Benwell & Scotswood Team
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Services this week
Sun 4 June
9.30am - St John's Holy Communion
9.45am - St Margaret's Holy Communion
11am - Hub service at St James (Parish Eucharist)
Thurs 25 May
10.30am - Corpus Christi, Holy Communion, Ven Bede
Sun 11 June
9.30am - St John's Holy Communion
11am - Hub service at St James (Parish Eucharist)
4pm - St Margaret's Evening worship
News
New churchwardens and PCC elected
Thank you and congratulations to everyone who stood for positions at our annual meeting last Sunday! Also a huge thank you to those who have previously served, particularly Claire Lewis, Christina Wilson, and our late friend and treasurer Edith Hutchinson.
Our parish representatives are:
St James:
Wardens - Chris Foskett & Mike Keller
Reps - Tim Ohanaka & Francesca Stockdale
St John's:
Wardens - Shirley Irving and Joe Foster
Reps - Chris Libby & Joyce Cuthbertson
St Margaret's:
Wardens - Grace Thomson & Brenda McCutcheon
Reps - James Lewis
Venerable Bede:
Wardens - Kathy Germaine & Kath McIntyre
Reps - James Garratt
Deanery Reps:
Carol Davison, Claire Lewis & Mike Keller
Secretary:
Kath McIntyre
Treasurer:
James Garratt
Assistant - Sanam Khoshkharam
Ex Officio:
Chair - The Revd David Kirkwood, Team Rector
Clergy - The Revd Chris Minchin & The Revd Dominic Coad
Reader - Kathy Germaine
Download the Annual report for 2022 here:
Funeral of Malcolm Gibson
9.45am Wed 7 June
Some of you may remember Malcolm Gibson who was previously an active member of the congregation at the Bond Methodist church and then at St James. He was a resident at Allan Court care home.
If you would like to attend his funeral it will be at 9.45am this Wednesday at the West Road crematorium.
Items for the notices.
If you would like to announce something in the newsletter or the church service, please send the item in advance to Kath McIntyre at the church email address church@benwellscotswood.com
Please include details and no more than 2-3 short sentences about the item. If you have a preferred image please also include it in the email.
Worship texts
The Collect
Almighty and everlasting God,
you have given us your servants grace,
by the confession of a true faith,
to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity
and in the power of the divine majesty to worship the Unity:
keep us steadfast in this faith,
that we may evermore be defended from all adversities;
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.
Reading
2 Corinthians 13.11–13 11 Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. 12Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you. 13 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
Gospel
Matthew 28.16–20 16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. 18And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’
Sermon
Revd Dominic
Intercessions
If you would like to add someone to the prayer list please email church@benwellscotswood.com
The name will stay on the list for 1 month unless requested to be long-term.
Prayers for others:
Maria Hawthorn
Madeleine and her daughters
Michelle Madison
Lorraine Atkinson
Lyndsey Richardson
Elizabeth Taylor
Alison Campbell
John Taylor
Irene Foskett
John Nicholson
Alan Robson
Michelle Wilson
George Snowden
Claire Mozaffari
Herbert Agbeko
Rest in Peace
Joan Finley
Malcolm Gibson
Post Communion prayer
Almighty and eternal God,
you have revealed yourself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
and live and reign in the perfect unity of love:
hold us firm in this faith,
that we may know you in all your ways
and evermore rejoice in your eternal glory,
who are three Persons yet one God,
now and for ever.
Amen.