The Parish of Great Berkhamsted, St Peter’s Church

Registered Charity No. 1130108

Harvest Thanksgiving

3^rd October 2010

Welcome to St Peter’s

We aim to give glory to God through Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit

If you are new to the parish or this service please introduce yourself to a “welcomer” or to one of the Clergy or sidesmen.

Communicant members of all Churches are invited to receive Holy Communion. If you are not receiving Communion, please come to the Altar rail for a blessing but carry a book so the minister knows.

The Sunday School and Pathfinders are in church today, but there is a Crèche in the Court House from 9:30am. Children are welcome to stay in the service. There are activity bags available for children to take with them to the pews.

Tea and coffee are served in the Court House after the 9:30am service.

All are welcome.

9:30am service details Hymns, Psalm, Collect, Readings,
Post Communion Prayer will be found in the Service booklet.
Anthem: For the Fruits of His Creation A S Davis

6:00pm service details Evening Prayer - said

For all pastoral matters please contact
Fr Michael Bowie Rector tel. 01442 864194 email Rector@greatberkhamsted.org.uk

Fr John Pritchard Assistant Curate tel. 01442 870016 email johnapritchard@hotmail.co.uk

Prayer Diary

A daily reminder to pray for the Church, Country, Parish & community in Berkhamsted.

Sunday 3^rd Harvest Festival Sick & Bereaved RIP / Memorial	+Rowan, Archbishop of Canterbury +Alan, Bp of St Albans, PRAY for the Church in Wales, The Most Revd Dr. Barry Cennydd Morgan Archbishop of Wales & Bishop of Llandaff Chris Billington, Judith Hill, Marjorie Bowden, Ron Peggs, Keith Dawson, Keith, John Marum, Edna Campkin, Jamie Matthews, Sylvia Grottick, Isaiah Macuada Ann Woodward, Emily Harris
Monday 4^th St Francis of Assisi Matthew 11: 25-30 Sick & Bereaved	Igbomina - (Province of Ibadan, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Michael Akinyemi The Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted Franciscans, Deacons and Preachers Judith Hill, John Marum
Tuesday 5^th Luke 10: 38-end Sick & Bereaved	Ihiala - (Province of Niger, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Ralph Okafor All Saints Church, Caroline Weaver (Methodist Minister) The Samaritans Chris Billington,
Wednesday 6^th Luke 11: 1-4 Sick & Bereaved	Ijebu - (Province of Lagos, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Joseph Omoyajowo Ashlyns Residential Home, Dunsland House Berkhamsted Arts Festival Ron Peggs, Jamie Matthews
Thursday 7^th Luke 1: 26-38 Sick & Bereaved	Ijesha North - (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Titus Fajemirokun Retired Clergy in the Parish Those who receive communion at home in the Parish Keith,
Friday 8^th Luke 11: 15-26 Sick & Bereaved	Ijumu - (Province of Abuja, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Ezekiel Ikupolati The Reverend Jane Markby, Chaplain to Berkhamsted School Ashridge Management College – The Reverend Luke Geoghegan - Chaplain Keith Dawson, Marjorie Bowden
Saturday 9^th Luke 11: 27-28 Sick & Bereaved	Ikara - (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Yusuf Janfalan Those considering vocations Those who are depressed and suffering from mental illness Edna Campkin
Trinity 19	2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c 2 Timothy 2:8-15 Luke 17:11-19

ST PETER’S	Today Sunday 3^rd October - Harvest	Next week Sunday 10^th October
SIDESMEN	8:00am Elizabeth Prosser 9:30am Carole & Geoff Dell Frank Norman, Sheila Miller 6:00pm Philippa Seldon	8:00am Patrick Lepper* 9:30am Beverley & Paul Jullien Rob Halls, Simon Lawson 6:00pm Choral Barbara Conway
INTERCESSOR	9:30am Young people	9:30am John Cook
CHALICE	9:30am Michael Anderson, Carolina Bowie	9:30am Rachael Anderson, Tony Byrne
SERVERS	8:00am David Northcott 9:30am James Ruffell MC, Jordan Dell Cr, Claire Below, Katya Khazaneh	8:00am Alan Conway 9:30am Rachel Hill MC, Alex Evans Cr Jane Bartholomew, Frank Am.
READINGS	8:00am Anthea Lepper 9:30am Young people	8:00am Geoff Dell 9:30am Elizabeth Jackson, Alan Dunn
CRÈCHE	9:30am Jenny J, Rachel D, Rachael E	9:30am Luisa & Matthew S, Lucy A
SUNDAY SCH	9:30am none – in church	9:30am Clare
CHURCH CLEANING 4-9Oct Marion Crawley, Ted Lewis, Elizabeth Jackson, Liz Bellamy, Sue Ruggles

Websites

Our own St Peter’s site http://stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk

We are a Fairtrade Parish http://www.fairtrade.org.uk

This Week’s Church Diary

O= services where the PA Loop system is in use

SUNDAY 3^rd October Harvest Thanksgiving	8:00am EUCHARIST O Pr: Fr John Pritchard 9:30am FAMILY EUCHARIST O Pr: Fr John Russell Crèche, but Sunday School & Pathfinders in church 6:00pm EVENING PRAYER - said
Monday 4^th St Francis of Assisi	7:30am Morning Prayer 10:30am Victoria Sch Assembly (1 hour)	5:30pm Evening Prayer 6:00pm EUCHARIST
Tuesday 5^th	7:30am Morning Prayer 9:30am EUCHARIST, All Saints’, Shrublands Road.	5:00pm Evening Prayer 5:15pm Choir Practice (6:15pm)
Wednesday 6^th	7:30am Morning Prayer 8:00am EUCHARIST	5:00pm Evening Prayer
Thursday 7^th	7:30am Morning Prayer 11:00am Requiem Eucharist and Funeral Sylvia Grottick (Replaces 11:00am Eucharist)	5:00pm Evening Prayer 7:55pm Bellringing (9:15pm) south door
Friday 8^th	7:30am Morning Prayer 9:15am EUCHARIST 1:00pm Recital Bridgewater Ensemble	5:00pm Evening Prayer 7:00pm Choir Practice (8:30pm)
Saturday 9^th	9:30am Morning Prayer 10:00am EUCHARIST 3:00pm Organ/piano: Jon Lee (5:00pm)	5:00pm Evening Prayer
SUNDAY 10^th October The Nineteenth after Trinity	8:00am EUCHARIST O Pr: Fr Michael Bowie 9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST O Pr: Fr Michael Bowie Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders 6:00pm CHORAL EVENSONGO Pr Richard Hackworth

Other Church Activities Today Sunday Sunday@5 5:00pm Sunnyside Church

Sunday	Harvest Lunch in the Court House 12:30 for 1:00pm (ticket holders)
Monday	Prayers for our Schools 9:00am –10:00am The Breukelman Room, Sunnyside Church. Please let us know of any prayer requests. Contact Eva Wallace-Hadrill: 879216 Fourth Berkhamsted Brownies 6:00-7:15pm Court House. Nicola Fulcher 878172
Tuesday	Chuckles Toddlers 10-11:30am All Saints’ with 10:15am Service: Harvest. Jenny Wells 870981 Tuesday Club 7:45pm Court House “Harvest Home” with Mrs J Marriage. Barbara McKenna 871159
Wednesday	Pathfinder Games Club (yrs 5-8) 7–8:30pm Court House. The Revd Penny Nash 865217
Friday	Little Fishes Toddlers 9:30-11:30am Court House. with Service 10:00am St Peter’s. Tracy Robinson 863559

Future Dates at St Peter’s unless otherwise stated

Mn 4 Oct 11.00am	Worship and Liturgy Group meeting
Sn 10 Oct 6:00pm	Choral Evensong
Tu 12 Oct 8:00pm	Parochial Church Council The Court House
St 16 Oct 11:00am 7:00pm	Berkhamsted Arts Festival: Cowper Society presents Come and Sing Berkhamsted Choral Soc Visiting Bellringers (9:00pm)
Sn 17 Oct 7:30pm	Berkhamsted Arts Festival: Cowper Society presents Bridgewater Sinfonia concert, Leon Bosch
Sn 24 Oct 7:30pm	Berkhamsted Arts Festival: Cowper Society Poetry Reading Wartime Poets
St 30 Oct 7:30pm	The Cowper Society presents: The Gaudeamus Singers
Sn 31 Oct 3:00pm	Fr John Russell to be licensed as Team Vicar by +Paul Bayes, Bp of Hertford at Little Gaddesden
Tu 2 Nov 8:00pm	Service: Requiem for All Souls
Fr 5 Nov 10:00am	Little Fishes Service
Sn 14 Nov 3:00pm	Royal British Legion Service of Remembrance
St 20 Nov 7:30pm	The Cowper Society presents: Bridgewater Sinfonia concert
Sn 21 Nov 6:00pm	St Cecilia Choral Evensong

Notices

§ Harvest Festival Appeal: today’s plate collection will be given to the Bishop of St Albans Harvest Appeal Fruits of Justice for farmers and families in the Teso region of Uganda
[cheques payable to PCC of Great Berkhamsted please]. See leaflets.
Any more traditional gifts see flyers will be given to local charities: DENS Action against Homelessness and The Hospice of St Francis

§ Petertide Fair 2010 Final Result: The Final total for this year’s Petertide Fair is £14,003.26. Many thanks to all for a Petertide record total: we have given £7,000 to each charity.

§ The Hospice of St Francis Autumn Newsletter is now available in church. See what we have been doing, future activities, and opportunities for you to support us by volunteering or taking part in fundraising events. Please take a copy, and another for a friend

§ Fairtrade at St Peter's Sunday 10th October in the Court House after 9.30 service. Buy or order Fairtrade food, crafts and Christian Aid Christmas cards. All Fairtrade enquiries to Angela 866992.

§ Gospel of St Mark. Dramatic and visual presentation of the whole Gospel of St Mark. 3^rd November 7.30pm Sunnyside church. Tickets available from Fr Michael

§ C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters Tuesday 26^th October at 7.45 at The Elgiva, Chesham. Box Office 01494 582900 Tickets £10 (Concessions £9)

§ RECYCLING Happy to give it away but not suitable for charity shop? The Berkhamsted and Tring Freegle Group – a non-profit organization, is a movement of people interested in keeping good stuff out of landfills. Website: groups.yahoo.com/group/BerkoTringResue for other towns and more information. www.ilovefreegle.org

§ Advance notice. The Parish Pilgrimage to the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham next year will take place from Thursday 24th March until Sunday 2^7th

§ Hospice Christmas Fayre will be held at Berkhamsted Civic Centre on Saturday 6th November 2010, from 9am to 1pm.   Come and shop early for your Christmas gifts.

§ Support The Leprosy Mission: Save used stamps for the box at the back of St Peter’s.  and/or obtain a box from Judy Ewart 864860.  Boxes opened annually in October. Thank you

§ St Peter’s Crèche invites you to bring your baby/toddler to the Court House from 9:20am Sundays in term time, where you can both enjoy a variety of toys, books & play equipment. Or, having been welcomed by the two crèche helpers, parents can go and enjoy the service

§ The Parish Baby Sitting Circle is now well established but needs more participants. The circle is based on a system of giving and receiving vouchers. If you would like to be included please contact Philippa Seldon 871534 or email Philippa@seldon.eu

PEW LEAFLET notices copy-ready & rota swaps by 2pm Wednesday please:
The Parish Office, The Court House, Berkhamsted HP4 2AX
email ChurchOffice@greatberkhamsted.org.uk tel 01442 878227
PARISH OFFICE hours: Monday – Friday from 10am-2pm

SUNDAY Harvest Thanksgiving 3^rd October 2010

FOR USE AT 8:00AM ONLY

Collect

Eternal God, you crown the year with your goodness and you give us the fruits of the earth in their season: grant that we may use them to your glory, for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being; 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 Deuteronomy 26:1-11

A reading from the book of A reading from the book of Deuteronomy.

When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.

You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, ‘Today I declare to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us’.

When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the Lord your God, you shall make this response before the Lord your God:

‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous. When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labour on us, we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors; the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O Lord, have given me.’

You shall set it down before the Lord your God and bow down before the Lord your God. Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house.

This is the word of the Lord

(Reply Thanks be to God)

Second Reading Philippians 4:4-9

A reading from the letter of Paul to the Philippians.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

This is the word of the Lord

(Reply Thanks be to God)

3^rd October 2010

Gospel John 6:25-35

The Lord be with you

(Reply And also with you)

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.

(Reply Glory to you, O Lord)

When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you come here?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.’ Then they said to him, ‘What must we do to perform the works of God?’ Jesus answered them, ‘This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.’ So they said to him, ‘What sign are you going to give us then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, “He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”’ Then Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.’ They said to him, ‘Sir, give us this bread always.’

Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.’

This is the Gospel of the Lord

(Reply Praise to you, O Christ)

Post Communion Prayer

Lord of the harvest, with joy we have offered thanksgiving for your love in creation and have shared in the bread and the wine of the kingdom: by your grace plant within us a reverence for all that you give us and make us generous and wise stewards of the good things we enjoy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN