Prayer focus for the week beginning 25th June 2023: • Tetbury Praying the Town: Church Street & Market Place • The Parish of Long Newnton • The Departed and those who mourn their loss especially Yvonne Amor, Pat Boulton (Funeral at Cheltenham Crematorium on Wednesday 4th July at 1pm), Eliza Dear (Funeral in St John The Baptist, Shipton Moyne on Friday 14th July at 4pm), and David Lowsley Williams (Memorial service in Tetbury on Thursday 27th July at 2pm). We give thanks for their lives and pray for God’s comfort for their family and friends. • Year’s Mind: David Evans…
Sunday June 18th June Second Sunday after Trinity Worship was led by Revd Liz Angell Please click here to watch the recording of the service Please click here for the readings and hymns for 18 June Please click here for the order of service for the 10am
Praying together Would you like to pray with others? Every Tuesday: 8.15 – 8.45am you are invited to join us for prayers. Using a shortened form of morning prayer and the weekly prayer focus, do join us as we pray together for the things that are on our hearts and minds this week. All prayers spoken or written in the chat boxes will be treated in confidence. Click on the link to join the zoom prayers Dial in on a land line (local rate call): 0208 080 6591 Meeting ID: 859 0979 6485 Passcode: 453971 One tap mobile +442080806591,,87065629885#,,,,*358791# United…
St Marys’ was part of the organisation of a workshop called ‘Arrange for the Future’. The Eco Church groups from Holy Trinity Minchinhampton and St Mary’s Tetbury hosted a nature-friendly flower arranging demonstration called ‘Arrange for the future’. Jennie South and Rosemary Bailey, two Eco Church representatives, organised the event to encourage their local churches to use seasonal, local and nature-friendly arrangements for church. Beth Bruce-Gardner, Deanery Eco Ambassador (sustainable flowers), gave a demonstration to 24 participants from two deaneries. The event was incredibly popular with a long waiting list of people hoping to learn more and try out the…
St Marys’ Church is holding a ‘Hymns and Pimms’ service on 23rd July at 5pm in St Marys’, to enjoy our favourite hymns. We are inviting the congregation to choose their favourite hymns for the service – and also tell us why they chose it. Would you like to take part? If so, please choose a hymn and tell us what it means to you. We will be reading this out in the service before singing your choice. This can be a great way of sharing significant moments and how hymns have sustained us at difficult times or uplifted and…
Thank you so much for all each one of you did to make the day very special. • The counting – good news for bees – not so good for butterflies and some of our mosses seem not to be there any more. The quadrant count challenge was helpful – well done – it told us what predominates at this time of year – speedwell, meadow grass, hawkweed, plantain , primrose remains and useful dandelions. • The talk – wasn’t it just amazing to learn the wonders of the life cycle of a mason bee. Jo was so good. •…
