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THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF EPIPHANY 1 February 2004

Eucharistic Prayer B may be used at Holy Communion Services today

We welcome all who worship here today. If you are a newcomer please speak to one of the welcomers or to one of the clergy. We invite you to complete a card which you will find in your pew, or on the table near the door of the church, and hand it to one of the welcomers. Communicant members of all Churches are welcome to receive Holy Communion. If you are not receiving Communion please come to the altar rail for a blessing and carry a book so the minister knows.

Collect: God of heaven, you send the Gospel to the ends of the earth and your messengers to every nation: send your Holy Spirit to transform us by the good news of everlasting life in Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN

Readings: Jeremiah 1:4-10 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Luke 4:21-30

Post Communion: Generous Lord, in word and Eucharist we have proclaimed the mystery of your love: help us so to live out our days that we may be signs of your wonders in the world; through Jesus Christ our Saviour. AMEN

We pray this week

for Christopher our Bishop and for Christopher and Richard his suffragans

for the Centre for the elderly at Gossoms End, for the Hospice of St Francis and for the Iain Rennie Hospice at home, for those who need care and for those who provide care in many ways

for all who are preparing for Confirmation

for the lonely, the anxious, the bereaved; and amongst the sick for Judith Hill, Michael Taylor, Jim Lawrenson, Brenda Quarmby, Pat Large, Pamela Christmas, Christine Tucker, Mavis Haile, Rod Cottrell, Alice Chambers, Rhoda Janes

for those who have died recently: Clifford Crowson

We give thanks for our communion with all the Saints, especially the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Peter our patron.

At All Saints’ the weekly prayers are for everyone who lives in Charles St (from North Rd to Cross Oak Rd)

PLEASE TAKE THIS PEW LEAFLET AWAY WITH YOU as a reminder of dates, subjects for prayer etc. Fr Mark’s sermons at St Peter’s are normally available from the church table. Do take copies for anyone not here today.

Music at St Peter’s Anthem: Felton Rapley Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels
Voluntary: JS Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565

Notes & Notices

SOLEMN EUCHARIST FOR THE FEAST OF CANDLEMAS
Parish Service at St Peter’s 8.00pm TOMORROW Monday 2 February

NEXT SERVICE OF WHOLENESS AND HEALING is 8.00pm next Monday 9 February in the Lady Chapel at St Peter's. All are welcome to join us for this simple service, which enables us to draw closer to God. Sample service sheets are available in both churches. More details from Jenny 870981 or Tracy 863559

SOLEMN EUCHARIST WITH IMPOSITION OF ASHES
Parish Service at St Peter’s 8.00pm Wednesday 25 February

WEDNESDAY TALKS IN LENT - 3-31 March at St Peter’s - 8.00pm in the Lady Chapel
Led by a variety of people with experience in different traditions and methods of prayer, each evening will involve a talk and then a period of prayer together (in the tradition of the prayer for the evening). Please see p.9 of the February Review for the full description.

LENT HOUSE GROUPS will probably start in the week beginning March 1st. Please sign up for the days and times when you are free on the sheet at All Saints' or ring Ruth Treves Brown (863268) for information.

CHILDREN & COMMUNION before Confirmation A 10 week preparation, for baptised
children [7-11 years] to be admitted to Communion at Pentecost, will take place on
Thursdays with Fr Martin and Jenny Wells, 5-6pm at All Saints’ from 4 March. Please pick
up letter & Application from church table. Fr Mark 864194, Fr Martin 866161, Jenny 870981

TRAIDCRAFT STALL at St Peter’s & at All Saints’ – today Sunday 1 February. Please come and buy fairly traded goods after morning services. Orders can be taken from the Traidcraft catalogue. Angela Morris 866992, Chris Dipper 873006

REVIEW FEBRUARY COPYDATE is next Friday 6 February but earlier receipt of copy would be appreciated. Copy to David Woodward (862723) 3 Murray Road HP4 1JD. email: woodies@chyverton3.freeserve.co.uk & review@c-of-e.freeserve.co.uk

ELECTORAL ROLL ANNUAL REVISION
If you are not already included and wish to be, are over 16, are baptised and a regular worshipper at St Peter’s or All Saints’, you are eligible. The 2003 Roll can be checked in church. Where possible anyone on the Roll should also be in Stewardship. Stewardship forms and Electoral Roll forms are available on the church tables.

All Saints’ A3 PHOTOCOPIER needs a good home. 5 years old and regularly maintained. Enquiries to Christina Billington 385566 and NEEDED an office chair for use with the 2^nd computer desk in the Parish Office. Offers very welcome to Jean at the office 878227

URGENTLY NEEDED: Volunteers to fill vacancies in St Peter’s cleaning teams which have arisen through moves from the parish. Time needed: about ½ hour every 6 weeks on a Thurs – Fri – or Sat. Please contact the Parish Office 878227 or Marjorie Bowden 871283

REMINDER All Parish Reports should by now have been received in the Parish Office.

Details of the £35,528 Outward Giving from the Parish in 2003
are now on display in both our churches

Notes & Notices

The members of St Peter's and of All Saints' generously support our various ministries which cost over £3,900 a week. Most of them give a regular proportion of the income God has given them, either through a monthly bank standing order or by weekly envelopes. If you are a visitor and would like to give something to God’s work here, please use one of the white envelopes provided. If you pay UK income tax and fill in your name and address on the envelope, we can reclaim an extra 28p from the taxman for every £1 you generously donate

The Cowper Society presents The Bridgewater Band 7.30pm Saturday 28 February at St Peter’s
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien, Mozart Concerto for flute & harp, Franck Symphony in D minor

DIARY Sun 29 Feb: Taizé style Evening Worship, 6.00pm at St Peter’s
Sun 14 Mar: Parish Service 9.30am and Annual Parochial Church Meeting 11.00am at St Peter’s
Sun 28 Mar: Stainer Crucifixion - St Peter’s Choir, 6.00pm at St Peter’s
Sun 4 Apr: Palm Sunday – Blessing of Palms 9.15am at All Saints’; Procession to 9.30am at St Peter’s
Sun 4 Apr: Chiltern Chamber & Madrid Bach Choirs - Bach St Matthew Passion 6.00pm at St Peter’s
Sun 18 Apr: Wendlebury Wind Recital – retiring collection for the piano fund, 7.30pm at St Peter’s
Sat 24 Apr: Handel Messiah Berkhamsted Choral Society, 7.30pm at St Peter’s
Sun 25 Apr: Thanksgiving service for departed family & friends, 6.00pm at St Peter’s
Sat 15 May: The Cowper Society presents The Bridgewater Band, 7.30pm at St Peter’s

at ST PETER’S	Today Sunday 1 February		next week Sunday 8 February
SIDESMEN	8.00am Frank Allum 9.30am Kathie & Stephen Lally Judy Clegg, Nicolas Bragge 6.00pm Christopher Morris		8.00am Gerry Morrish 9.30am Elinor & Michael Mumford John Addy, Polly Rafter 6.00pm Michael Robinson
CHALICE	9.30am Richard Ruffell, Frank N., Tony B.		.30am John Addy, Rachael A., Graham T.,
CRÈCHE ROTA	9.30am Nicola Beadle, Carl Harbinson		9.30am Elizabeth Geldart, Cathy Salmon
	Sunday 1 February	8pm Monday 2 February		Sunday 8 February
INTERCESSOR	9.30am Geoff Dell	Marjorie Bowden		9.30am Penny Abbott
SERVERS	8.00am Chris Clegg 9.30am Rachel Hill MC Ron Fisher Cr Jenna Nicholls Sam Limbert	Libby Grundy MC David Crawley Th Chris Hunt Cr Rachel Hill Mark Coleman		8.00am David Northcott 9.30am Alan Conway (MC) Ted Lewis (Crucifer) Chris Bragge Charlotte Nelson
READINGS	8.00am Janet Eller 9.30am Susan & Francis Beuttler	Christopher Clegg Frank Abrahams		8.00am Stephen Halliday 9.30am David Pearce John Harris
CHURCH CLEANING 2-7 Feb Marion Crawley, Ted Lewis, Elizabeth Jackson, Liz Bellamy
at ALL SAINTS’	Today 9.15am Sunday 1 February		next week 9.15am Sunday 8 February
SIDESMEN	Peter Bryant, Judith Stringer		Mick Smallwood, Katherine Smallwood
INTERCESSOR	Andrew Beaumont		David Woodward
CHALICE	Peter McMunn, Richard Hackworth		Tracy Robinson, John Malcolm
SERVERS	Charlotte Beaumont, Alice B & Ella B		Lucie Monk, Hannah W & Lucy O’Neill
READINGS	Tim Hennessey, Carol Newcombe		Gordon Hufford, Joanna Bryant

PEW LEAFLET notices, in writing: The Parish Office, The Court House, Berkhamsted HP4 2AX
email j.green@c-of-e.freeserve.co.uk tel.878227 & rota swap names all by 2pm Wednesday please
PARISH OFFICE hours this week: 9.30am-5.30pm Tuesday & Wednesday & 9.30-12noon Friday

This Week’s Diary

	ST PETER’S	ALL SAINTS’
Today Sunday 1 February The Fourth of Epiphany	8.00am EUCHARIST O 9.30am SUNG EUCHARIST O, Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders 6.00pm EVENING PRAYER	9.15am SUNG EUCHARIST O, Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders
Groups Cowper Society 11.00am in the Court House. David Pearce 878809 Sundays Together Lunch 12.30pm in the Court House. For anyone on their own on a Sunday. Joan Morris 863780 Young People’s Fellowship meet 7.15pm at the Court House to go bowling. Jimmy Young 876736
Monday 2 Candlemas	8.00pm Solemn Eucharist for the Feast of Candlemas
Groups Prayers for our Schools 9.00am (coffee) for 9.15am at Jen Jackson, The Beeches, Chesham Road (871426). Details: Marjorie Davies 01494 783034
Tuesday 3	5.15pm Choir Practice until 6.15pm	9.30am EUCHARIST
Groups Chuckles Toddlers 10-11.30am in All Saints’ Hall. This week 10.15am SONGS followed by plenty of activities & refreshments. Jenny Wells 870981/Kate Spall 873470 Tuesday Club 8.15pm in the Court House for Birthday Celebration – Water under the Bridge Lindy Foster Weinreb (Former Mayor of Berkhamsted). Jean Bray 864532 Parochial Church Council 8.15pm at All Saints’
Wednesday 4	7.30am EUCHARIST
Groups Meditation Group/Julian Meeting 2.00pm at 57 Meadow Road. Everyone is very welcome to join us for about half an hour of quiet prayer. Jenny Wells 870981 Junior Confirmation Preparation 5.00-6.15pm at the ~Rectory. Fr Mark Bonney 864194 Pathfinder Games Club 7.00 – 8.30pm in All Saints’ Hall. Jimmy Young 876736 Emmaus Nurture Course 8-9.30pm at Landswood, Shootersway. John Malcolm 874993 Joint Council 8.00pm with Kate & Steve Spall (873470), Mole End, Shrublands Avenue
Thursday 5	11.00am EUCHARIST O 8.00pm Bellringing (access -south door) until 9.15pm
Friday 6	9.15am EUCHARIST 7.00pm Choir Practice until 8.30pm
Groups Little Fishes Toddlers 10.00am SERVICE in St Peter’s followed by plenty of activities & refreshments in the Court House. Nicole Addy-Varndell 864094 Friday Study Group 1.30 – 3.00pm. Informal Bible study. Young children welcome. Kate Semmens 866531
Saturday 7
Sunday 8 February The Third before Lent	8.00am EUCHARIST O 9.30am SUNG EUCHARIST O, Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders 6.00pm Choral EVENSONG & SERMON O	9.15am SUNG EUCHARIST O, Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders
Groups Workshop Let your Light Shine 1.30pm at All Saints’ Young People’s Fellowship 7.00-9.30pm in the Court House. Jimmy Young 876736

O= services where the PA Loop system is in use
Next Sunday’s Readings: Isaiah 6:1-13 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Luke 5:1-11

MORNING PRAYER 7.30am at St Peter’s Mon, Tue, (7am Wed), Thu, Fri & 8.45am at All Saints’ Sat and EVENING PRAYER 5.00pm at St Peter’s Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat & at All Saints’ Fri

A priest is always available for the sacrament of confession by arrangement 864194
Fr Mark takes time off mid-day Friday - mid-day Saturday Fr Martin is on sick leave.