29/9/24
Your weekly update from the Benwell & Scotswood Team.
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Services this week
Sunday 11am - Harvest Thanksgiving at St Margaret's
(Team service - no other services this Sunday)
Tuesday
4.30pm Bible study at St James
Thursday
10.30am Venerable Bede - Holy Communion
Dates for your diary
Mon 14th October
7pm - PCC meeting with Bishop Mark
News
Watch our Generous Giving video
Don't forget this Sunday - Harvest Festival team service
Sunday 29th September
11am
St Margaret's Scotswood
NE15 6AR
If you can, please bring non-perishable food items to donate to local charities and a dish to share for lunch.
On the last Sunday of this month we will have a team service at St Margaret's in Scotswood for this year's harvest festival! We will give thanks for God's creation, offer what we can for those in need, and share in fellowship together with a meal after.
Please note: as this is a team service, it will be the only service that day.
Harvest donations
It will also be possible to donate by cash or card to the Foodbank and Cornerstone on the day.
You can see a list of urgently needed items for the Foodbank here: https://newcastlewestend.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/
Currently the Foodbank needs donations of the following items:
Tinned Fruit
Instant Mash/Tinned Potatoes
Baby Milk and Formula
Nappies (Sizes 4 and Larger)
Toiletries (Sanitary Towels)
Tea/Coffee
Soup - Tinned and Packed
Custard
Rice Pudding
Cereal
Tinned Meat
Curry Sauce
Rice
Benwell and Scotswood Giving Generously
Beginning Sunday 8th September
Throughout September we will be carrying out a generous giving campaign.
The aim of this is to:
Say thank you for all that you do!
Help you understand how we use our funds to support the community and celebrate all that is going on in our churches.
Make it simpler to offer your time, money and talents to all of our churches through the Parish Giving Scheme (which you will hear more about!)
Keep our work sustainable and enable our churches to keep growing.
We are excited about making it easier to give financially, but remember, this is just a small piece of the puzzle! Your presence and participation in our churches are truly treasured, regardless of your ability to give. You are always welcome and appreciated!
Watch this space!
Embrace - Gaza appeal
The people of Gaza are living through an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Israel’s response has led to indiscriminate civilian suffering, with residents forced to move from place to place in search of safety. Food and medical supplies have all but run out; water, electricity, and fuel have been cut off.
The people of Gaza were already on their knees with 80% of residents reliant on humanitarian aid to survive. Please, can you make a donation into help in their hour of need?
You can donate online, by clicking below, or by calling 01494 897950. Your gift will support Embrace’s Christian partners in the immediate aftermath of this humanitarian crisis and to help to heal the wounds it’s caused across Israel – Palestine.
Sunday Worship
Harvest
Green
Readings
A reading from the First letter of Timothy.
6There is great gain in godliness combined with contentment; 7for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it; 8but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. 9But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
(1 Timothy 6.6–10)
This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God
Alleluia, alleluia!
Lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are ripe for harvesting. Gather the fruit for eternal life.Alleluia!
Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Glory to you, O Lord.
25“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? 28And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34“So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today.
(Matthew 6.25-33)
This is the Gospel of the Lord
Praise to you, O Christ!
Intercessions
Prayers for others:
Emily Watson and family
Lawrence Okonkwo
John Nicholson
Malcolm Smith
Paulette Thompson
John Peterson
Maria Hawthorn
Herbert Agbeko
Ellis & Pauline Nelson
Michelle Wilson
Peter Wilson
Alan & Maureen Taylor
Irene Foskett
Pat Law
Moe and Mary
Hilary Dixon
Lynn Mosby
Irene Scaife
Baby Alice Rose, Jodie and family
Christina Wilson
Diane Humphrey
Rest in peace
The Revd Captain Katie Watson
If you would like to add someone to the prayer list please email church@benwellscotswood.com
The name will stay on the list for 1 month unless requested to be long-term.
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