Information about the Sunday services
Today
8.00am Holy Eucharist
10.00am Parish Eucharist
Opening Hymn
Anthem
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Thou visitest the earth
Greene
Preacher
Philip Ball
Offertory Hymn
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Communion Hymn
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Post Communion Hymn
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Welcome to Abington Church
Sunday 14th June 2015
Second Sunday after Trinity
3.00pm Concert in church: Summer Strings
No Evening Worship
Next Week
Sunday 21st June 2015
Third Sunday after Trinity
8.00am Holy Eucharist
10.00am All-age Eucharist
6.00pm Choral Evensong
Visit our website at:
www.abingtonchurch.org.uk
ALLERGY ADVICE:
Please be aware that communion wafers
contain Gluten, and the Sacramental Wine
contains Sulphur Dioxides & Sulphites (all wines do)
Please send notices for future bulletins to
[email protected] or to my
home address, 87 Cedar Way, Wellingborough,
Northants. NN8 4SH by WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Thank you.
Collect
Lord, you have taught us that all our
doings without love are nothing worth:
send your Holy Spirit and pour into our
hearts that most excellent gift of love,
the true bond of peace and of all virtues,
without which whoever lives is counted
dead before you. Grant this for your only
Son Jesus Christ's sake, who is alive and
reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
Post Communion Prayer
Loving Father, we thank you for feeding
us at the supper of your Son: sustain us
with your Spirit, that we may serve you
here on earth until our joy is complete in
heaven, and we share in the eternal
banquet with Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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If you are visiting us today for the first time, you
are most welcome and we hope you enjoy the
worship. The tower room at the back of the
church is available during the services for young
children and parents, if required. Primary school
children are invited to join in the Sunday school
activities, which takes place in church during the
10.00am service. Younger children are also
welcome to join Sunday school, as long as they are
accompanied by a parent. For information, there is
a toilet at the back of the church.
Hearing Aid Users can tune in to the services on
the ‘T’ position.
Do ask a member of the congregation if you need
any help during the service.
If you would like make a donation to the running
of the church, you are invited to put your offering
in a pink envelope, which you will find on the
pews. Your donation can be gift aided if you print
your name, full address including postcode, and
sign the envelope and then we are able to reclaim
the tax. Thank you.
Today
Please pray today for Austin Jackman who’s
Thanksgiving will take place during the
10.00am service and for Lily Powell who is
being baptised at 12.00noon.
WEEKLY INTERCESSIONS
In your prayers this week, please pray for all
Christians and for the Churches of the Anglican
Communion, and especially for Okigwe in
Owerri, Nigeria, and The Rt Revd Edward
Osuegbu.
In our local community, please pray for the
residents of Danefield Road and for the
Governors, Staff, Parents and Pupils of
Bridgewater Primary School
Please also pray for the Northampton Street
Pastors and the work they do in our town
centre every weekend.
Please pray for those who are sick, naming
especially Yvonne Linnell, Vera Landon,
Heather Peacock, Morgan Gunn and Vikki
Merrey.
Please also pray for the faithful departed,
naming especially Winifred Shurville, and for
Albert Munns, Ivy Joan Fowler, Ivy Diana
Mason and Margaret Campling whose Year’s
Mind occurs at this time.
This Week
Monday 15th June
8.30am Morning Prayer
10.30am School visit of The Arbours Primary
Academy, Year 6
8.00pm PCC Standing Committee Meeting at
The Rectory
Tuesday 16th June
8.30am Morning Prayer
St Richard
of Chichester
Wednesday 17th June
8.30am Morning Prayer
8.00pm Buildings Committee Meeting in church
Thursday 18th June
10.00am Holy Eucharist
11.45am Funeral of Winifred May Shurville (92)
Friday 19th June
10.00am Mothers’ Union coffee morning in
church
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Intercessions for the sick
If you have any people you wish to be prayed
for please let Donald and Victoria know. They
will be prayed for in the intercessions on
Sunday for a month.
The long-term ill, chronically sick and
housebound will appear in the bulletin for our
private prayers and during some weekday
services:
Baby Phoebe Read, David Allitt, Ruth Markie,
Linda Edwards, Derek Edwards, Nikki Pearcey,
Ian Brown and Tricia Essery.
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Gospel Reading
Mark 4: 26 – 34
Jesus also said, ‘The kingdom of God is
as if someone would scatter seed on the
ground, and would sleep and rise night
and day, and the seed would sprout and
grow, he does not know how. The earth
produces of itself, first the stalk, then
the head, then the full grain in the head.
But when the grain is ripe, at once he
goes in with his sickle, because the
harvest has come.’
He also said, ‘With what can we
compare the kingdom of God, or what
parable will we use for it? It is like a
mustard seed, which, when sown upon
the ground, is the smallest of all the
seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it
grows up and becomes the greatest of
all shrubs, and puts forth large branches,
so that the birds of the air can make
nests in its shade.’
With many such parables he spoke the
word to them, as they were able to hear
it; he did not speak to them except in
parables, but he explained everything in
private to his disciples.
Enquiries Evenings for Weddings and Baptisms
These are held between 7.00pm and 8.00pm in
church. No need to make an appointment – just
come along. These evenings are usually held
twice a month on the second and fourth
Thursday, and the dates of our next evenings
are 25th June and 9th July.
Forthcoming Dates
Mothers’ Union
The next meeting of the M.U. will be in the
Church Rooms on Tuesday 16th June at 2.15pm
when we shall have Jo Willoughby speaking to
us about her life as a midwife working in the
East End of London in the 1950’s. We are
calling her talk “Call the Midwife.” All are very
welcome. Cathy.
Coffee Morning
The fundraising committee is holding a coffee
morning in the Church or Churchyard,
depending on the weather. It will be on Friday
19th June between 10am and midday. If you
come early enough there will be scones, once
they are gone, biscuits. Entry is by donation, so
please do support us as all money given will go
to Church funds. Thank you.
Sunday 21st June
Choral evensong at 6.00pm in church. (please
note this has changed from the original date of
28th June)
Wednesday 24th June
Ministry Team meeting at 7.30pm at The
Rectory.
Saturday 27th June
Messy Church from 11.00am – 1.00pm at the
Parish Rooms. Lunch provided, all welcome.
Sunday 28th June
St Peter and St Paul, Patronal Festival.
A Caribbean Calypso Evening
A Caribbean Evening is being organised by
members of Abington Mothers’ Union. This will
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be held in the Rectory Garden on Tuesday 30th
June – 7.15pm for 7.30pm. There will be
Caribbean music, food and drink, and
entertainment will be provided by our very
own talented Berrill family.
Tickets will be available at £7.50 each. Money
raised from the evening will go to support the
work of Mothers’ Union overseas, which
includes the Diocese of North Eastern
Caribbean and Aruba, to which the Diocese of
Peterborough M.U. is linked in prayer.
Blokes Night Out!
It is time for a ‘men only’ night; eating curry,
drinking beer, and generally talking about bloke
things! The inaugural meeting will be at Imran
Balti Hut, 285 Wellingborough Road, at 7.30pm
on Friday 3rd July. We then hope to do this
about four times a year. All (males) welcome.
Colin Hood.
Abington Summer Fete
Saturday 4th July 2015
The theme for our fete this year is Fairytales
and Nursery Rhymes.
Can you help with the following?
Donations for the fete stalls – tombola, nearly
new, white elephant, raffle prizes, toys, books,
old crockery for crockery smashing stall and
crafts. No electrical goods, knives, clothing or
videos please. The crates for donations will be
in the porch every Sunday between now and
the fete.
Van – does anyone have access to a van to
transport the tables from the Parish rooms to
the Church on Friday 3rd afternoon/evening and
back again after the fete on Saturday 4th? We
do not have a van this year and if we can’t find
a willing volunteer we will have to pay to hire
one. Please let us know if you know anyone
who might be able to help us out.
Many thanks, from the Fundraising Committee.
Reflections and Remembrance Afternoon
2.30pm - 3.30pm on Saturday 11th July.
This is an opportunity for those who have been
bereaved, whether recently or many years
ago, to come and remember their loved ones at
this afternoon of quiet reflection, with
readings, music and prayers in the church. Feel
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First Reading
Ezekiel 17: 22 - end
Thus says the Lord God: I myself will
take a sprig from the lofty top of a
cedar; I will set it out. I will break off a
tender one from the topmost of its
young twigs; I myself will plant it on a
high and lofty mountain. On the
mountain height of Israel I will plant it,
in order that it may produce boughs and
bear fruit, and become a noble cedar.
Under it every kind of bird will live; in
the shade of its branches will nest
winged creatures of every kind.
All the trees of the field shall know that I
am the Lord. I bring low the high tree, I
make high the low tree; I dry up the
green tree and make the dry tree
flourish. I the Lord have spoken; I will
accomplish it.
Second Reading
2 Corinthians 5: 6 - 10
So we are always confident; even
though we know that while we are at
home in the body we are away from the
Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Yes, we do have confidence, and we
would rather be away from the body
and at home with the Lord. So whether
we are at home or away, we make it our
aim to please him. For all of us must
appear before the judgement seat of
Christ, so that each may receive
recompense for what has been done in
the body, whether good or evil.
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Summer Recitals
at ‘The Church in the Park’
TODAY
Sunday 14th June
Summer Strings
A return visit by students of
Northampton Music & Performing Arts
Trust
Sunday 12th July
Music by the Nene Consort
Come and hear the recorder as you have
never heard it!
Sunday 16th August
Organ recital by Tim Dolan,
Director of Music at Abington Church
Sunday 20th September
Recital by students of Alison Roddy,
Locally based international opera &
concert soprano
Sunday 18th October
“Reed Warblers” Oboe ensemble
All recitals start in the church at 3.00pm.
Admission by donation to church funds.
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free to come and just sit and be still, light a
candle, or walk round the church and interact
with the material at the Prayer Stations. There
will be a short service of remembrance and
thanksgiving for the lives of the departed at
3.00pm and refreshments will be available at
3.15pm. For more information please speak to
Liz Kelly (01604 636947)
Children’s ‘Come and Sing’
Children and young people are invited to come
and sing ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat’ on Sunday 12th July from 2.00pm
to 5.00pm at St Peter’s Church, Weston Favell.
£3 per person (£2 RSCM affiliates) includes
music and light refreshments. To book a place
or find out more, please contact Clare Pearce at
[email protected] or call 01604
450026.
Textiles Collection Update
Thank you to everyone who donated textiles to
the recent collection. We raised £40 this time.
The next collection date is Sunday 12th July (at
Church) and Monday 13th July (at the Parish
rooms before 9am). Please feel free to bring in
textile donations at any time as we now have
space to store in-between collections.
As a reminder, Robinsons Resource are happy
to accept any of the following: any type of
clothing (any condition), paired shoes, bags /
handbags, household linen (including curtains,
bed linen, towels etc). Unfortunately, they do
not accept rags/material offcuts, duvets, rugs
or carpets.
Day Trip to Hunstanton
Do you fancy a day at the seaside?? We still
have places available for our coach trip to
Hunstanton on Wednesday 19th August. The
coach will leave from outside church at 9.00am
and leave Hunstanton at 6.00pm. The cost is
£12 per adult and £5 per child (under 18).
Please also bring a picnic and money for fish
and chips. If you would like to book a place,
please speak to Anne Quinn, Sue Ball
or Victoria Austin. All children
MUST be accompanied by a
responsible adult!
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trees that equals to 2.6 tons of
carbon dioxide.
o Each gallon of gasoline burned
produces almost 20 pounds of
carbon dioxide.
o For every 10,000 miles you drive, it
takes 7 trees to remove the amount
of carbon dioxide produce if your
car gets 40 miles per gallon (mpg); it
will take 10 trees at 30 mpg; 15
trees at 20 mpg; 20 trees at 15 mpg;
and 25 trees at 12 mpg.
General Notices
NEWSFLASH
Footsteps in Faith
The next course will begin in mid September
when we will be studying John’s Epistles.
Further details will be in the August Bulletins.
Wanted for Fete
If you have any bottle gift bags to spare, the
Fundraising Committee would very much
appreciate them for this year’s bottle stall
please. Also, bottles of all sorts, ie. water, wine,
sauce, squash etc. which will go in the bags.
Thank you, Dianne.
Display in the Lady Chapel
Please do look at the display in the Lady
Chapel. Members of M.U. had a different sort
of meeting last time when they learned about
their new link dioceses and produced visual
aids about them. We hope you like what we
did, and that you too will learn a little more
about members of M.U. overseas, and the very
different lives they lead from those that we do.
Dorothy
WHY TREES ARE IMPORTANT –
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Trees help settle out and trap dust,
pollen and smoke from the air. The dust
level in the air can be as much as 75
percent lower on the sheltered side of
the tree compared to the windward
side.
Trees create an ecosystem to provide
habitat and food for birds and other
animals.
Trees absorb carbon dioxide and
potentially harmful gasses, such as
sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, from
the air and release oxygen.
o One large tree can supply a day's
supply of oxygen for four people.
o A healthy tree can store 13 pounds
of carbon each year ----for an acre of
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Trees help reduce surface water runoff
from storms, thus decreasing soil
erosion and the accumulation of
sediments in streams. They increase
ground water recharge and reduce the
number of potentially harmful
chemicals transported to our streams.
An acre of trees absorb enough carbon
dioxide in a year to equal the amount
produced when you drive a car 26,000
miles.
Trees cool the air, land and water with
shade and moisture thus reduce the
heat-island effect of our urban
communities. The temperature in urban
areas is often 9 degrees warmer than in
areas with heavy tree cover.
Trees can help offset the buildup of
carbon dioxide in the air and reduce the
"greenhouse effect."
Trees create microclimates suitable for
growing shade loving plants.
Source- North Carolina University
and the American Forestry Association
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