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Welcome to our online service and notices
Covid restrictions have now been removed by our government but please be aware of other peoples’ preferences and concerns in our buildings and respect their choices.
We continue to make hand sanitiser and masks available for those who want them.
We have reserved a section of seating for our church members who are content to dispense with social distance and masks but across the rest of the building please leave personal space. We assume The Peace will still not be shared with any physical contact and Holy Communion is currently only shared in one kind (bread) as we do not consider the Common Cup wise at present.
Our services from All Saints, Kemble are now being filmed. The link is on our website: https://thesundayservice.gallery.video/thamesheadcofe where you will see a full page image of our logo. When the camera goes live this will become the camera view in All Saints Church. The service sheet and zoom link for coffee will be unchanged from our website.
Zoom Children’s Church is at 9:30am via a private link please message rector@thamesheadchurches.org.uk for how to join or see our website.
Little Fishes on Monday 21st March in Kemble village hall 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
Home Groups- Everyone Welcome.
For Wed evenings 7:30pm: contact Martin and Jill Kingston
Thurs 7:30pm on Zoom – just join via our website link or speak to Liz Collins.
Zoom coffee mornings weekdays 10:30 am (link on Virtual Church Hall tab)
Zoom Night Prayer (compline) 9:00 pm Mon, Wed and Fri - via website.
Zoom Prayer Meeting Tuesday 8:30 – 9:00am
Open the Book in Kemble School on Thursday morning.
Choir practice in Church on Thursday evening at 8.00 pm.
Ukraine Appeal. If you would like to make a monetary donation then please contact the DEC (disaster emergency committee) humanitarian appeal which includes the likes of Christian Aid, Oxfam, and Save the Children on their website i.e. https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal
Jill Kingston has also organised a more focused approach so please contact her at kingsjill50@gmail.com if interested.
Next week in Kemble it will be a morning Source service for Mothering Sunday at 10.00 am led by the Source Team. Wild and Messy Church is this afternoon at 2.30pm at Somerford Keynes churchyard/church.
Morning Prayer
Leader: O Lord open our lips
All: and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
Leader: The earth belongs to God,
All: the earth and all its people.
Leader: How good it is, how wonderful,
All: To live together in unity.
Leader: Love and faith come together,
All: Justice and peace join hands.
Leader: If Christ’s disciples keep silent,
All: These stones would shout aloud.
Leader: O Lord open our lips
All: and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
Hymn 275 Guide me Oh thou great redeemer
Confession
Leader: Holy God, maker of all
All: Have mercy on us.
Jesus Christ, servant of the poor
All: Have mercy on us.
Holy Spirit, Breath of life.
All: Have mercy on us.
Let us in silence confess our faults and admit our frailty.
Silence
All: Before God, with the people of God,
We confess to our brokenness:
To the ways we wound our lives,
The lives of others,
And the life of the world.
Leader: May God forgive us all, Christ renew us all,
And the Spirit of God enable us to grow in love.
All: Amen.
The Collect ( a gathering prayer for the day)
Readings: sit for the readings
Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. 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.’ We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 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. So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. 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.
This is the word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. 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? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.’
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. 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?” He replied, “Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig round it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.” ’
This is the word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
Sermon
The Creed We stand
Let us declare our faith in God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
All: We believe in God the Father,
from whom every family
in heaven and on earth is named.
We believe in God the Son,
who lives in our hearts through faith,
and fills us with his love.
We believe in God the Holy Spirit,
who strengthens us
with power from on high.
We believe in one God;
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Prayers (end with Lord’s Prayer)
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,
Give us today our daily bread,
Forgive us our sins,
As we forgive those who sin against us,
Save us in the time of trial
And deliver us from evil,
For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and forever.
Hymn 413 Just as I am
The Affirmation The following responsory MAY be used
Leader: With the whole church
All: We affirm that we are made in God’s image,
Befriended by Christ, empowered by the Spirit.
Leader: With people everywhere,
All: We affirm God’s goodness at the heart of humanity,
planted more deeply than all that is wrong.
All: We celebrate the miracle and wonder of life
Give me light in my heart, keep me shining
Give me light in my heart, keep me shining
All: We will rejoice and be glad in it.
Leader: We will not offer to God
All: Offerings that cost us nothing.
This or another Blessing or the Grace:
Christ the Good Shepherd,
Who laid down his life for the sheep,
Draw you and all who hear his voice,
To be one flock within one fold;
And the blessing of God Almighty
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
Be with us and remain with us always, Amen.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
All: Filled with the Spirit’s power,
We go in the light and peace of Christ.
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