Dear Friends,
This Sunday 21st April 2024 there will be a 10am Eucharist service at St Michael & All Angels, Great Tew with Revd William Burke.
The readings are: Acts 4:5-12 & John 10:11-18
Duties
Sacristan Carol Burke;
Reader Lucy Kowol;
Intercessions Robert Fraser;
Sidesperson Rachael Mitchinson;
Offertory Lucy Kowol;
Chalice Christian James
THE NEW GREAT TEW CIRCLE – SPRING TALK AND DINNER
Saturday, April 27, 6 o’clock, St Michael and All Angels Great Tew
SIR JOHN HOLMES, GCVO, KBE, CMG – How can we adapt foreign policy to today’s realities?
Talk followed by drinks £15, talk and dinner £25. Students (over 16) free. For tickets contact [email protected] by 22 April.
APCM DATES please note changes
Sun 28th April 11.15am Little Tew after church
Sat 11th May 10.30am Great Tew APCM in church
Sun12th May 11.15am Heythrop APCM after church
JOINT PCC MEETING
Sat 1st June 1030am at The Vicarage
Water Project at Little Tew Church
Little Tew Church have set up a just giving page to help raise money towards their water project – to provide mains water, a working WC and baby changing facilities to the church. If you wish to make a donation, please see the link below – Thank you.
Great Tew Pew Cushions
We are hoping to buy Pew Runners for all the Pews in the body of the church. Each runner costs £ 133.75 so a donation of £ 107.00 plus 25% Gift Aid will buy a single runner or half a pew and £ 214.00 would be enough for a whole run.
We would be very grateful for any donations.
Please pay into the Friends of St Michael and All Angels Great Tew
Nat West
Banbury (A) Branch
Sort Code: 52 21 31
Account No: 16602293
Please put Pew Runners as a reference.
Thank you very much.
Plants needed for St Michael’s Great Tew
As part of our move to become more sustainable in our flower arranging, we would like to plant the following shrubs in the churchyard at St Michael’s:
If you would like to make a donation of any of these plants or would like to make a financial donation towards their cost please contact Rosie Rowe on [email protected]
ROLES IN CHURCH
If anybody wishes to read or intercede or take on other roles at any of our churches during our services please let the vicar know
PCC SECRETARY
We are looking for PCC secretary volunteers at Heythrop and Little Tew Churches. Their primary task is preparing for the PCCs and taking the minutes and liaising with the vicar and Kate, our very efficient Administrator.
Foodbank Appeal
We are aware that the local food bank supplies are running low so if you can manage to, please bring a donation along to church each week – there will be a box at the back of the church.
Items in urgent need are:
TINNED TOMATOES
RICE PUDDING
LONGLIFE MILK
LONGLIFE JUICE
TINNED VEGETABLES
EASTER FOUR Good Shepherd Sunday – White
HYMNS (NEH), COLLECTS & READINGS
NEH 351 Come ye faithful
NEH 457 The king of Love my Shepherd is
NEH 263 All creatures of our God and King
NEH 294 Just as I am
NEH 478 Ye Watchers and ye Holy Ones
Collect
Risen Christ,
faithful shepherd of thy Father’s sheep:
teach us to hear thy voice
and to follow thy command,
that all thy people may be gathered into one flock,
to the glory of God the Father.
Post Communion
Merciful Father,
you gave your Son Jesus Christ to be the good shepherd,
and in his love for us to lay down his life and rise again:
keep us always under his protection,
and give us grace to follow in his steps;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Epistle Acts 4:5-12
And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
6And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
7And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
9If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
10Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
11This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Gospel John 10:11-18
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Future Services
28th April 10am Holy Communion Little Tew
CLOTHING APPEAL
An appeal please for children’s winter clothing to go to Ukraine refugees.
Outerwear particularly but all warm
Clothing would be very thankfully received.
If you can donate , please leave at the back of Little Tew church and let Brenda know that you have left it. [email protected]Many Thanks
Chutneys & Jams
Does anyone have a surplus of homemade jams, chutneys, etc. that they would be willing to donate to the St Michael & All Angels, Great Tew. We would like to sell them for church funds.
Wish List
Members of the congregation are asked to propose to the PCC via the wardens or Vicar any enhancements that they would like to see in church. These proposals will be taken to the PCC for approval and once agreed they will be added to a “wish list”.
The Daily Office
The Angelus and Mattins – Morning Prayer (usually from the Book of Common Prayer) is said every day from Monday-Saturday at 9am in Great Tew Church
The Angelus and Evensong – Evening Prayer is said every day at 6pm
For your Prayers:
Michael Barnes
Tom White
Ryan Walker
Annie Turner
Victoria Gibbens
Maggie Tustian
Tim Mayne
Kathryn Ledson
Vicar’s Contact Details
Revd William Burke
Mobile telephone number 07770 630202
Email [email protected]
The Vicarage, New Road, Great Tew OX7 4AG
Best wishes
Kate
