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		Editor Peter Slimon
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7th March 2010 - Third Sunday of Lent
What's happening in the Team this week. Mon 8 March Commonwealth Day 6pm Stoke Abbott PCC. 7.30pm Mosterton PCC. Tues 9 March 10.30am House Communion, Glebe Court. 7.30pm Broadwindsor, Burstock & Blackdown PCC. Wed 10 March 10am Eucharist Beaminster. 2.30pm Beaminster, Lent Meditation, 'Ministry in Jerusalem'. Thur 11 March 12.30pm Lent Lunch at Sandy Knapp, Cheddington; proceeds to the Rotary Shelter Box Appeal. 3pm Prayers for Healing, Ruby Cottage, Broadwindsor. 6.30pm Hooke PCC. 7.30pm Beaminster, Lent Meditation, 'Ministry in Jerusalem'. Fri 12 March 12.30 - Soup and Pud Lunch at Salway Ash Village Hall. In aid of Church Building Funds. Raffle in aid of Netherbury Charities. 6.30pm Faith is Fun Friday Club at Toller Village Hall. Sat 13 March 2pm in the Strode Room All welcome to join in making posies for Mothering Sunday. Usually takes about 1hour with refreshments afterwards. LENT MEDITATIONS As well as the Lent groups, there are planned a series of meditations on Christ's Journey to the cross. They will last about 45 minutes, and whilst following a theme each will be separate. They are open to all, and will be held twice a week in St Mary's Beaminster, generally at 2.30 pm on Wednesday afternoons, repeated the following Thursday at 7.30pm. see 'What's happening this week'. Week 4 Betrayal, Week 5 Jesus' last Night. Prayer for the week Lord, help us to recognize what is important in life. Help us to see the simple truths which you have taught us, about how to live, and how to love one another; and show us how to apply them to the complicated world in which we find ourselves. Nick Aiken and Rowan Williams (taken from Family Prayers, published by SPCK) On this day In 321AD the Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire, and in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone beating Antonio Meucci by just 4 hours. Holy Week 29th March - 2nd April 2010 Monday 29 March 6:30pm Address & Compline at Hooke 7.00pm Eucharist at Beaminster Tuesday 30 March 6:30pm Address & Compline at Hooke 7.00pm Eucharist at Beaminster Wednesday 31 March 6:30pm Address & Compline at Hooke 7.00pm Eucharist at Beaminster Maundy Thursday 1 April 7.00pm Eucharist & Stripping of Altars at Beaminster Good Friday 2 April 10:00am Devotional Hour at Broadwindsor Hooke Netherbury 12-3pm Devotional Service at Beaminster Diary dates Friday 12 March, between 6.30-8.30pm ?'s Do you have any unwanted books and CD's? Are your shelves not large enough? Then Beaminster Singers invite you to bring them to their Bring & Buy Sale at The Strode Room. Admission £1. Saturday 13 March (Mothering Sunday weekend), 10.00 - 1.00 in Salisbury Cathedral Mothers' Union Diocesan Festival - celebrating the mission and ministry of Mothers' Union in our Diocese at the start of a new triennial. All welcome.More details from Ann Howard, Diocesan President: 01380 723189, dahoward@waitrose.com Saturday 27 March 3pm a public meeting to launch the Friends of St Mary Netherbury, in the village hall. If you would like to know more or wish to be nominated to the Founding Committee please speak with Jacky Bush (488 303) or Steve Adams (488 994). Saturday 27 March Beaminster Singers present their spring production of Bach's St John Passion in St Mary's, Beaminster. Saturday 3rd April, 11am at St. Francis Farm, Hooke Easter Egg Hunt & Coffee Morning Entry £2 per person which includes: Children - Squash & Easter Eggs, Adults - Coffee & Cake. Also...Bring & Buy stall and Raffle. All proceeds in aid of St. Giles Church Hooke Contact Pauline Wallbridge (862619) or Theresa Colton (862711) for more details. Grants for churches in Dorset - Erskine Muton Trust Fund. Parishes wishing to apply for grants towards maintenance, repairs and/or re-ordering churches in Dorset can obtain application forms and further details from christine.romano@salisbury.anglican.org [Tel: 01722 438650]. The closing date for applications for the next distribution of grants is Friday 9 April. February 2010 Rebuilding and Refounding of Bishop Gwynne Theological College in Juba, Sudan. Bishop Gwynne College was originally founded in 1948 in Mundri, fleeing to Juba in 1987 due to the civil war. Its role is to provide pastors to teach and train others in the Episcopal Church of the Sudan. The Church lent BGC a building originally built for a Mission and local houses were procured for students and staff, but the war and shortages all took their toll, and the College had fallen into a state of disrepair and poor management. A year ago Archbishop Daniel Deng closed BGC, and invited Canon Trevor Stubbs to undertake the re-establishment of the college's teaching, followed by new buildings and an expansion of its mission on a self-financing basis. The original building has now been adapted and upgraded, and 20 students are due to recommence their studies this month. However, Archbishop Daniel needs New BGC to take an additional 25 new residential students each year, which means expansion to a new site is critical. A perfect site has been found next to Juba Model Secondary School and its sister primary schools. To secure it there needs to be substantial fencing erected, before debris from demolished buildings can be removed, existing buildings upgraded, one new building erected to house the chapel and library, and a water borehole and sanitation established as the first stage of development. Careful plans have been made and can be seen in the Sudan section of the diocesan website. It is hoped that the full redevelopment can be complete and NBGC training 75 students by 2012. However the first phase, needed now, will cost £66000. In my 17 years as your Bishop I have never launched an appeal in aid of the ECS or a project in Sudan because of our ongoing support. However, as my time to leave draws near, I have decided to make an appeal to the whole Diocese - both parishes and individuals - to work with me to raise the £66000 needed as quickly as possible, certainly by the end of June. I would welcome donations from parishes and individuals (using the attached Gift Aid Form to maximize your donation), sent to the Diocesan Accountant at Church House, with cheques made out to 'Salisbury DBF - Bishop David's Sudan Appeal'.
Isaiah 55.1-9 The LORD says this: 1 Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. 3 Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. 4 See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. 5 See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; 7 let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 1 Corinthians 10.1-13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness. 6 Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. 7 Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, 'The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.' 8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 9 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. 10 And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. 13 No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it. Luke 13.1-9 There were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 He asked them, 'Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? 3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. 4 Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them - do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.' 6 Then he told this parable: 'A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. 7 So he said to the gardener, "See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?" 8 He replied, "Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. 9 If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down."'
Collect Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; 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. Post Communion Merciful Lord, grant your people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow you, the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Services this evening. 3.30pm Evensong at Toller Porcorum. 6.30pm Evensong at Mosterton & South Perrott