We can claim the tax back from your donation if it's given in the Gift THE CHURCHES OF

Aid envelope. Please complete with your address, date and box HEALEY, MASHAM, NORTH STAINLEY, WELL WITH SNAPE
ticked. Help us to receive this vital extra income. & WEST TANFIELD
Thank you.
Eleventh Sunday 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
LOOP SYSTEMS have been installed at Masham, Healey, North Stainley, after Trinity 10.45 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
Well and West Tanfield for the benefit of those who are hard of hearing. 27th August 10.45 a.m. West Tanfield Holy Communion
Please switch the button on your hearing aid to the 'T' position. 3.00 p.m. Masham Cant Help Singing
6.30 p.m. Healey Evensong
6.30 p.m. Snape Evensong
WEBSITE for the Masham Group of Parishes -
www.mashamparishes.org Tuesday 29th 10.30 a.m. Masham Sister Rita play rehearsal
Wednesday 30th 10.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
WELCOME if you are a newcomer to this church or parish. If you would like more 10.30 a.m. Masham Sister Rita play rehearsal
information about the life of the church please complete this slip and give it to one of the
sidesmen as you leave. Saturday 2nd 9.30 a.m. Masham Church cleaning party
2.30 p.m. Masham Sister Rita play
NAME singing rehearsal

ADDRESS Twelfth Sunday 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion

after Trinity 9.15 a.m. Healey Holy Communion
TEL. NO. . 3rd September 10.45 a.m. Masham Family Service and Baptism
10.45 a.m. North Stainley Holy Communion
SAVE THE DATE Masham Harvest Supper. Saturday 23 rd September. 7.00 p.m. in the 10.45 a.m. Well Holy Communion
Town Hall. Harvest Thanksgiving will be on the Sunday of Sheep Fair weekend (Oct. 1st). 10.45 a.m. West Tanfield Holy Communion

NEEDED - ANOTHER SACRISTAN FOR MASHAM This is someone to join the team Thirteenth Sunday 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
of people who prepare the altar for Holy Communion on a Sunday. If you would be willing after Trinity 9.30 a.m. West Tanfield Family Service
to help please speak to the Vicar or one of the churchwardens. 10th September 10.45 a.m. Masham Pet Service
10.45 a.m. Snape Holy Communion
6.30 p.m. Healey Evensong
PIE AND PINT St Marys Church and The Bay Horse in Masham. Enjoy pie, peas, chips or
mash on Monday 11th September at 12 noon for 12.30 pm. Cost 7.50 payable at the bar. THE ALTAR FLOWERS at Masham have been given this week in memory of Margaret
Other menu choices and drinks are available. Please let Jim Hunter know if you are Boshier.
attending on 01765 689828 or l.hunter57@outlook.com
YEARS MIND We remember the anniversary of the death of Tom Olson.
CANT HELP SINGING A SOPRANOS TAKE ON LOVE IN THE MUSICALS
Sunday 27th August 3.00 p.m. St. Marys, Masham. REFLECTION Saying Yes to Jesus leads straight into a practical role. Peter, the rock,
Well known songs concerning various aspects of the pleasures and maybe trials of love signifies the church in its day-to-day life its ultimate victory on behalf of God is sure.
taken from popular shows. Song writers include Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart, Kurt Weill Paul tells us that we should be a distinctive presence- in the world but not of it. Perhaps we
and George Gershwin. should reassess our sense of importance before God. We pray that confession of Christ
Soprano: Diane Peacock. Piano: Anthony Rudd leads us to an active part in his purpose.
No entry fee retiring collection.

MASHAM CHURCH CLEANING PARTY Next Saturday September 2nd

at 9.30 a.m. Help would be very welcome. Please bring cleaning materials.
BIBLE READING NOTES One way of helping us to see God as a weekday friend and not peace; and as we journey home to God, the pathway of our life becomes more meaningful
just a Sunday acquaintance. NEW EDITION STARTS IN SEPTEMBER. and joyful, and the world a better place.
Pilgrim is a course designed to help you discover this Christian way of life. It unpacks the
New Daylight provides four months of daily Bible readings and comment, with a regular
basic message and teaching of the Christian faith, and also shows you how to pray and how
team of contributors drawn from a range of church backgrounds. It covers a varied selec-
to live like Jesus. It does this in a way that is reflective and conversational. No one will
tion of Old and New Testament, biblical themes, characters and seasonal readings. Each day
force the pace. But this course could change the perspective of your life; it might also
offers a short Bible passage (text included), thought-provoking comment and a prayer or
change its direction.
point for reflection, and aims to give a fresh, devotional approach to Bible reading.It is ideal
You wont be able to find out everything about the Christian faith in any one course. But
for anyone wanting an accessible yet stimulating aid to spending time with God each day,
through the Pilgrim course material you will be able to reflect on some of the great texts
deepening their faith and their knowledge of scripture. Published three times a year at
that have been particularly significant to people since the earliest days of the Church.
4.40 a copy.
One of the greatest treasures of the Christian faith is the prayer we know as the Lords
Guidelines is a unique Bible reading resource that offers four months of in-depth study,
Prayer. It has been said that the whole of the Christian gospel the whole of the good
drawing on insights of current scholarship. Its intention is to enable all its readers to inter-
news is in the Lords Prayer if we truly understand it.
pret and apply biblical text with confidence in today's world, while helping to equip church
This autumn there will be two courses running looking at the Lords Prayer one daytime
leaders as they meet the challenges of mission and disciple-building. Instead of the usual
and one evening.
dated daily readings, Guidelines provides weekly units, broken into six sections, plus an in-
Wednesdays 20th & 27th September, 11th, 18th & 25th October & 1st November. 1.45 p.m. at
troduction giving context for the passage, and a final section of points for thought and pray-
The Vicarage, Rodney Terrace, Masham. Further details from David Cleeves on 01765
er. On any day you can read as many or as few sections as you wish. You will need to use a
689255.
Bible alongside Guidelines. Published three times a year at 4.40 per copy.
Thursday evenings at 7.30 p.m. starting on 14 th September at 6 Westholme Road, Masham.
Bible Reflections for older people Written by older people for older people, these
This will be the first meeting subsequent venues may change. Further details from Jim
reflections are designed to bring hope, assurance and sustenance, reminding the reader of
Heaton on 01765 688093.
the presence and love of God. In each issue are 40 Bible reflections and prayer suggestions
to use and revisit as often as is needed. A new edition is published three times a year at a
ROMANS 12: 1-8
cost of 4.99 per copy.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies
Speak to Kate Cleeves (01765 689255) to order a copy. If you already purchase any of
as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be
these notes your copy will be delivered to you. Please let Kate know if you no longer
conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you
require the notes.
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
PET SERVICE CELEBRATING GODS CREATION
highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgement, each according to the
ST. MARYS, MASHAM
measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and not
Sunday 10th September @ 10.45 a.m.
all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and
This is a wonderful service to which people are invited to bring pets,
individually we are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace
cats, dogs, rabbits, a fish in a tank, a horse whatever!
given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teach-
Animals and pets will be blessed at the service whether it's the pets who share your
ing; the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the com-
everyday lives now or those who people have dearly loved and lost, all will be blessed at
passionate, in cheerfulness.
the service.
MATTHEW 16: 13-20
Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, Who do
PILGRIM
people say that the Son of Man is? And they said, Some say John the Baptist, but others
Life is a journey. It begins when youre born. It ends when you die. You dont need to be a
Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. He said to them, But who do you
Christian to know this. But as we get older we do know there is probably more road behind
say that I am? Simon Peter answered, You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.
us than ahead of us.
And Jesus answered him, Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has
So what difference does being a Christian make? Well, the journey of life that ends in death
becomes a holy pilgrimage that ends in life. Christians believe that in Jesus, God 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
walked this earth before us, and that with Jesus as our companion and guide we can travel
you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in
through life differently.
heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Then he sternly ordered
We can live and travel as pilgrims. We set our sights on Gods kingdom of justice and
the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.