After Noel’s inspirational sermon on Sunday morning, check out the Greening Tetbury website: https://www.greeningtetbury.org/ It includes Rosemary Bailey’s Tip of the Month, inviting us to explore the delights of foraging for food, with advice and recipes from the Woodland Trust: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/things-to-do/foraging
Tetbury Church is now registered with Amazon Smile 🙂 Do you shop online? You can support Tetbury Church at the same time! Remember, always start at smile.amazon.co.uk. Select The Parochial Church Council Of The Ecclesiastical Parish Of St. Mary The Virgin And St. Mary Magdalen, Tetbury as your charity and Amazon will donate 0.5% of the net purchase price (excluding VAT, returns and shipping fees) to the eligible charitable organisation of your choice. Thank you!
NEWS FROM ST MARYS’ – SEPTEMBER 2020 Let’s make a fuss of our pets! This summer, we got thinking about how important our pets have been over these past months – keeping us company, keeping us amused … and perhaps keeping us exercised. That last bit definitely doesn’t apply to me! My black cat, Sweetpea, moves as little as possible! And because our pets are so important, we wanted to thank God for them and ask for his blessing on them. So, one 10am Sunday Worship on Zoom became an Animal Service. People sent in their photos and we had…
Our brainteasers continue, with thanks to Michael Bailey. This month, the answers are things found in the kitchen and kitchen cupboards and drawers, e.g. a pastry cutter or a piece of string. They are not items of food or drink. The solutions will be available in October. If you wish to make a donation to your favourite charity, please do so. Good luck! Please click here for Michael’s brain teasers for September 20
For the first time this year, we will join the Christian family across the world in a month of celebrating the good gift of creation, and committing to prayer and action to protect our common home. Known as the Season of Creation, this is an opportunity, as the followers of Christ, to focus on our role as caretakers of God’s creation. So, we mark Creation Season over four Sundays: Sunday 6th September – celebrating God’s wonderful creation. We focus on God as creator, understanding that as the world belongs to God so we are called to be good stewards of…
Tetbury Advertiser JULY & AUGUST 2020 God be with you! That’s the proper way to say goodbye. No really! Goodbye is short for “God be with you”. It is a beautiful saying, isn’t it? So, in our Sunday worship on Zoom over the past months, one of our new customs is to use those original words as we finish our time together. It’s been such a blessing to share this time together, Sunday by Sunday. We start at 10am, with hymns, Bible readings, and a short talk. We also post our prayers on “chat”, so we can share before God…
I am sure you have heard that places of worship can now be opened to the public for individual prayer. After careful thought, the plan is to open St Marys’ from tomorrow (Monday 15th June), with the building being open daily: Monday – Saturday 10.00am to 4.00pm, and on Sunday, 12.00 to 4.00pm. This is all very new. We will keep everything under review and, if we encounter any difficulties, hope people will understand if we need to reduce the frequency or length of opening times. Of course, we are asking people to maintain social distancing of 2m while in…
Although our church building is closed, many of the costs continue. Thank you to everyone who continues to give via the Parish Giving Scheme or other regular standing orders. All our four churches are so grateful for this ongoing support. Of course, we also pass around the collection plate in church on Sundays. As we are not able to do that right now, Tetbury Church Council (PCC) have set up a JustGiving page (click here: https://www.justgiving.com/tetburypcc). Very sadly, St Marys’ Church is facing considerable financial difficulties. We have our ongoing commitment to pay our Parish Share. This is our contribution…
It has been a joy and a privilege to serve as your Assistant Curate for these last three years. I will forever be grateful for the experiences I have had here, and for all you have done to support and nurture me as a new deacon and priest. I never imagined that I would finish my time with you in these circumstances, but I feel so blessed and thankful for all you have done to say goodbye to Frankie, Clarissa and I. We were so touched by how many people joined us on Zoom on Friday evening, and my final service with you this…
Christian Aid Week this year will be like no other on record with no church; house to house; Tesco or street collections, so all in all, there will be a dramatic drop in the amount we send to Christian Aid by our Benefice during May. At the same time the need for resources to help fight this virus in the poorest countries of the world is right now. With our inability to raise money by our usual methods this Christian Aid Week, Alison Hesketh our Christian Aid co-ordinator, has produced this quiz as a very small way to help. There…