sheffield

parish communion

st paul
wordsworth avenue

ninth sunday after trinity

21 august 2011

priests forced out of their homes Clerics and their families are being evicted from rectories in Zimbabwe, after a High Court decision giving custodianship of church property to Nolbert Kunonga, the excommunicated former Bishop of Harare and ally of President Robert Mugabe. The distress and chaos predicted by the Bishop of Harare, the Rt Rev Chad Gandiya, became a reality on Monday when Kunongas supporters some accompanied by police delivered stamped copies of the court judgment to all clerics still in parish rectories. They told our priests to move out, Bishop Gandiya said on Monday. We do not know who he is going to put in these houses. The two-part judgment was promised a year ago. The diocese had appealed after attempts were made to stop Bishop Gandiyas consecration in July 2009, and Kunonga was given custodianship of the properties by Justice Ben Hlatshwayo. He has turned all the church buildings into business and other centres, and some are also being used for living space. Police used violence and tear gas to prevent worshippers from sharing the buildings with Kunongas congregations. Now they worship in tents, outdoors, or in the rented buildings of other Churches. ... The litigation has already cost the Church of the Province of Central Africa $US100,000. Bishop Gandiya has described Kunongas claim to ownership of the properties as daylight robbery, now with support of the law, and asks: How can he be custodian of properties of an organisation he has already left? Kunonga, who declared in 2007 that he was setting up his own province, and who still faces 38 charges, including incitement to murder, told The New York

Times in a recent interview that his Church intended to

take control of 3000 Anglican churches, schools, hospitals, and other properties in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, and Malawi. Mr Kunonga casts himself as a nationalist leader who is Africanising a church associated with British colonialism, the paper said. ...

Church Times 19 August

please pray for anglicans in zimbabwe Last week in a corrupt judgement by a corrupt chief justice the court in Zimbabwe gave ownership of Anglican property to Kunonga and his crowd. This gives Kunonga the right, with the aid of police, to evict all CPCA Anglicans from property. He has already started: the rector of St James Mabvuku has been evicted with his family; Kunonga has tried to take over Bishop Gaul College; he is trying to sack the warden of Shearly Cripps Children's Home and intends to turn the Home into a boarding school, presumably evicting the 70 orphans; he has been trying for months to gain control of Daramombe mission, actually in the Masvingo diocese. This will give him more fire power. All clergy living in diocesan vicarages are now under threat. These include Fr Wilfred Kanyemba at Christchurch Borrowdale, Fr Justin Matyatya at Hatfield, Fr Blessing at Melfort and the priest at St John's Chikwaka. Please pray that Kunonga be stopped in his wicked course, and please ask others to pray as well. Nicolas CR

Fr Nicolas will be preaching at St Pauls on 9 October

this mornings service President and preacher Ian Smith This is Matthew last day with us. Matthews

collect Almighty God, whose only Son has opened for us a new and living way into your presence: give us pure hearts and steadfast wills to worship you in spirit and in truth; 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. Amen first reading Exodus 1:8 - 2:10

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live. Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him. The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him, This must be one of the Hebrews children, she said. Then his sister said to Pharaohs daughter, Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you? Pharaohs daughter said to her, Yes. So the girl went and called the childs mother. Pharaohs daughter said to her, Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages. So the woman took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaohs daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, because, she said, I drew him out of the water. This is the word of the Lord Thanks be to God

But God, our God, has rescued us from their brutality: the fowlers snare is broken now, the captive birds fly free. The Maker of the galaxies, the Lord of earth and heaven, has promised all the help we need all praise to God be given!
Psalm 124
MARTIN E LECKEBUSCH b 1962
Kevin Mayhew Ltd CCL Licence No 244236

opening hymn

Welcome to another day! night is blinded: Welcome, let creation say; darkness ended. Comes the sunshine after dew, time for labour; time to love my God anew and my neighbour Welcome to the day of prayer with Gods people; welcome is the joy we share at his table. Bread and wine from heaven fall: come, receive it that the Christ may reign in all who believe it. Welcome is the peace thats given, sure for ever; welcome is the hope of heaven when lifes over. As we work and as we pray, trust Gods story: come then, as the dawning day heralds glory!
MICHAEL SAWARD b 1932
Michael Saward / Jubilate Hymns CCL Licence No 244236

A reading from the book Exodus

A new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land. Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labour. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labour. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them. The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live. But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live. So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live? The midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them. So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

St Stephen WILLIAM JONES 1726 - 1800

second reading Romans 12:1-8

A reading from the letter of Paul to the Romans

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgement, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness. This is the word of the Lord Thanks be to God

for psalm

Gwalchmai

JOSEPH DAVID JONES 1827 - 1870 in Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau 1868

Unless the Lord had stood by us let all Gods people say would not the angry storms we faced have swept our lives away? Had not the Lord defended us from such a fierce attack, who could have met those dreadful foes and held the onslaught back?

gradual hymn

Christ, from whom all blessings flow, by whose grace your people grow; Christ whose nature now we share, work in us, your body here. Send your Spirit from above and unite us in your love; still for more to you we call with your fulness fill us all. Move and motivate and guide, varying gifts for each provide; placed according to your will, let us all our work fulfil. Gladly may we all agree, bound in one community; kindly for each other care all our joys and sorrows share. Love has all our strife destroyed, rendered all divisions void; sects and names and parties fall: you, O Christ, are all in all.
CHARLES WESLEY 1707 - 1788

And Jesus answered him, Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Then he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah. This is the Gospel of the Lord Praise to you, O Christ

to give the oppressed their right the church of Christ shall fight; and though the years seem long he is our strength and song, and he is our salvation. Christs body triumphs in his name; one Father, sovereign giver, one Spirit, with his love aflame, one Lord, the same for ever: to you, O God our prize, the church of Christ shall rise beyond all measured height, to that eternal light where Christ shall reign all-holy.
CHRISTOPHER IDLE b 1938
Jubilate Hymns CCL Licence No 244236

at the giving of communion

Hands that have been handling, holy things and high, still, Lord, in thy service bless and fortify. Ears which heard the message of the words of life, keep thou closed and guarded from the noise of strife. Eyes whose contemplation looked upon thy love, let them gaze expectant on the world above. "Holy, holy, holy," thee our lips confessed: on those lips for ever let no falsehood rest. Feet which trod the pavement round about God's board, let them walk in glory where God's light is poured. Bodies that have tasted of the living Bread, be they re-created in their living Head. Be we all one Body, all our members one, measured by the stature of God's full-grown Son.
ADAM FOX 1883-1977 based on Liturgy of Malabar
Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd CCL Licence No 244236

offertory hymn

Christs church shall glory in his power and grow to his perfection; he is our rock, our mighty tower, our life, our resurrection: so by his skilful hand the church of Christ shall stand; the master-builders plan he works, as he began, and soon will crown with splendour.

Ein feste Burg Melody compiled or composed by MARTIN LUTHER 1529 harmony chiefly by J S BACH 1685 - 1750

contact points
Were experimenting with barcodes that can be used by smart phones to access email addresses and web sites. Feedback to JDR, please. The Rev Ian Smith 0114 2468494 ian.smith@sheffield.anglican.org The Rev Keith Crookes keith.crookes@mypostoffice.co.uk

Christs people serve his wayward world to whom he seems a stranger; Culbach adapted from a chorale in J Schleffers he knows its welcome from of old, he shares our joy, our danger: Heilige Seelenlust Breslau 1657 so strong, and yet so weak, the church of Christ shall speak; gospel his cross our greatest need, Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ his word the vital seed according to Matthew that brings a fruitful harvest.
in this version Jubilate Hymns CCL Licence No 244236

Hymns and Sacred Poems 1740

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Glory to you. O Lord

Matthew 16:13-20 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, Who do people say that the Son of Man is? And they said, Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. He said to them, But who do you say that I am? Simon Peter answered, You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.

Christs living lamp shall brightly burn, and to our earthly city forgotten beauty shall return, and purity and pity:

Glenfinlas K G FINLAY 1882 - 1974

post communion prayer Lord God, the source of truth and love, keep us faithful to the apostles teaching and fellowship, united in prayer and the breaking of bread, and one in joy and simplicity of heart, in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

We will never doubt thee, though thou veil thy light. life is dark without thee; death with thee is bright. Light of Light! shine o'er us on our pilgrim way; go thou still before us to the endless day.
Bishop W WALSHAM HOW 1823 - 1897 Ruth SAMUEL SMITH 1821 - 1917

words and music Chorale preludes on Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott
before the service G F KAUFFMANN 1679 - 1735 before the offertory hymn MAX REGER 1873 - 1916 after the service J G WALTER 1684 - 1748 JOHANN PACHELBEL 1653 - 1706

used clothes If you have clothes of any condition please bring them to church or the hall. They can be used for a jumble sale or bagged up and sold as rags. st pauls library A new book has been added; Father Joe by Tony Hendra. This bestseller was read on Rdio 4. It is an inspiring story of hope and faith and friendship and a Benedictine Monk from the Isle of Wight. making sense of the stones A series of lectures with Paul McLaughlin at Chapeltown Methodist Church, Thursday mornings from 8th September 10-noon. Details in church limited places, 20 for the whole course which includes refreshments and site visits. Book via 0845 6529634 Organised by Heritage Inspired choir challenge tuesdays A community choir has started in Southey Green, meeting Tuesday 6.00 - 8.00 at the Church on the Corner. All ages and abilities welcome. Songs from popular musicals: Grease, Fame, Mama Mia, etc quiet time at the cross at yew lane (creswick) Saturday 3 September lunchtime 10.00 - 3.00 listening skills The Parson Cross Initiative will be hosting a listening skills course in preparation for the listening service that will be part of the Chaucer District Chaplaincy. Session dates Mondays 12 and 19 September 3 and 10 October There is no cost to do the course. If you want to know more or book a place contact Nick Waterfield email
07432 092683 freshexnick@live.co.uk

final hymn

Summer suns are glowing over land and sea; happy light is flowing, bountiful and free. Every thing rejoices in the mellow rays; all earth's thousand voices swell the psalm of praise. God's free mercy streameth over all the world and his banner gleameth everywhere unfurled. Broad and deep and glorious as the heaven above, shines in might victorious his eternal Love. Lord, upon our blindness thy pure radiance pour; for thy loving-kindness make us love thee more; and, when clouds are drifting dark across the sky, then, the veil uplifting Father, be thou nigh.

after the service Refreshments in the Church Hall. in our prayers

neighbours in

sick Grace Hendy is in Sevenfields, Ben Lane, Wisewood. Joyce Hodges remains on Brearley 1 at NGH hall floor We have been awarded a grant from Sheffield Town Trust toward the new hall floor but we still have a shortfall of about 1000. The problem is that the floor is so damp a membrane will need to be fitted below the new floor to stop it rippling and coming away. More funds are being applied for but any donations would be appreciated. karl ley Returns to Afghanistan on 12 September but will not be on patrol as he was last year. Please keep him and others serving there in your prayers. if you could ask god one question Please invite family, neighbours and friends to the Tuesday evening sessions. There are some leaflets you can take. lay chaplains at ngh There is a crying need for chaplains at NGH. They work on Sunday on a rota basis. Jim and Hilary Kennington can tell you something about the work. wheata watch Needs help paying a very large gas bill. If you have clothes of any condition please drop then off at No 46 or leave them at church. They aim to sell them by the bag. If they cant pay the bill they will probably be closing.

Tunwell Avenue High Greave Avenue

church and community

Anglicans in Zimbabwe
among those who are unwell

Beverley Cross Melanie Fitzgerald Grace Hendy Madge Hinchliffe Joyce Hodges Janeke Hoek Faye King Kenneth Leech Joan Mullins Roger Peacock Beaty Poyntz

Vicar of Walkley

Priest

among those who have died

Priest James Atkinson John (Jack) Bradshaw

Doreen Rennison 22 August 2006 Sarah Thorpe 23 August 1981

Booking by 24 August please meet ali dorey 14 september Wednesday 14 September 7.00 bring and share meal at the Vicarage and meet Ali Dorey the Mission Development Coordinator for the North Sheffield Estates

May they rest in peace and rise in glory

the lark ascending 19 september Ralph Vaughan Williamss The Lark Ascending and other favourites for violin and organ by Handel & Kreisler at Hallam Methodist Church. David Greed Leader of the Orchestra of Opera North and at the famous Father Willis organ Dr Simon Lindley who also plays popular organ favourites. Monday 19 September 2011 at 7.30 Admission Free Refreshments afterwards

growing the body of christ 5 october All are welcome to attend Wednesday 5th October 7.30pm at Lady Mable Hall, Ecclesfield School. Bishop Steven wants to share the new diocesan paper on mission and growing our congregations. The PCC have started looking at this but the whole church is encouraged to get involved. auction 22 october If you have money you could attend the auction at Mirfield College Saturday 22 October at 2.00 many lots. More information from David Rennison up and coming

helping to keep Bach and other choral masterworks at the forefront of Sheffield music for over 60 years
harvest thanksgiving Brief details Friday 30 September 7.30 Harvest supper and auction please bring in goods we auction to raise money Sunday 2 October 10.00 Harvest Thanksgiving 6.15 Monday 3 October Uniformed Harvest Service

Retiring Collection in aid of Sheffield Bach Society

wednesday 24 9.30 sunday 28 10.00 wednesday 31 9.30 saturday 3 10.00 to 3.00 sunday 4 10.00 tuesday 6 7.30 wednesday 7 9.30 sunday 11 10.00 tuesday 13 7.30 wednesday 14 9.30 7.00

bartholomew the apostle morning prayer tenth sunday after trinity parish communion
aidan

bishop, missionary 651

morning prayer
gregory the great

bishop, teacher of the faith 604

We shall be supporting the Cathedral Archer Project again this year, and there will be a box at the back of church for the collection of dry goods. Our Harvest Appeal will be for the Tariro [Hope] House in Zimbabwe, which we shall hear about on Sunday 9 October when Fr Nicolas CR is with us. Full details later. mission and song 2 october The Autumn Forum of Churches Together in South Yorkshire is on Sunday 2 October 3.00 - 5.00 at the Victoria Hall. John Bell of the Iona Community speaks on Mission and Song. Sandwich tea follows. There will be a chance to sing at this one highly recommended.

quiet time

creswick

eleventh sunday after trinity parish communion and baptism harley j fox ask god a question

church hall

holy communion twelfth sunday after trinity parish communion ask god a question

church hall

holy communion meet ali dorey

vicarage