2/10/22
Your weekly update from the Benwell & Scotswood Team
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Dates for your diary
Sun 2nd Oct
Hub service moves to Ven bede
Sat 15th Oct
Creative mission planning day
Services this week
Sun 2nd Oct
9.45am - St Margaret's Holy Communion
11am - Ven Bede, Hub Service (Parish eucharist)
Thurs 6th Oct
11am - St John's, Holy Communion
News
Hub Service moves to Ven Bede this Sunday
During Winter (October 2022 to April 2023) we will be moving our main Sunday service to the Venerable Bede at 11am.
So for the next few months join us there every Sunday.
Venerable Bede, West Road, NE4 8AP
Creative mission day - Sat 15 Oct at St James
You are invited to join us for a morning of creative thinking and mission planning!
We want this to be an imaginative and fun session when everyone in the church community gets to have their say.
This time we will focus especially on how we improve our welcome/hospitality and grow in faith in two particular areas: 1. children and youth, and 2. ethnic and cultural diversity.
Draft plan for the day:
9.30am - Bacon sandwiches/tea/coffee
10am - Prayer and worship
10.20am - creative discussion and planning sessions
12pm - break
12.45pm - Closing worship
Revd Chris in Botswana
Chris will be away for the next couple of weeks in Botswana, in southern Africa!
Botswana is Newcastle's link diocese and Chris will be visiting with Bishop Mark and the link committee to celebrate the Diocese of Botswana's 50th anniversary. Please pray for the country and people of Botswana, we are sure you will hear all about it when Chris is back!
To find out more about the Diocesan link see here>
Worship Texts
Slideshow
The Collect
O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers
of your people who call upon you;
and grant that they may both perceive and know
what things they ought to do,
and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them;
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.
Reading
2 Timothy 1.1–14 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, for the sake of the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, 2 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. 4Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. 5I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you. 6For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; 7for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline. 8 Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God, 9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 10but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 11For this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,12and for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that day what I have entrusted to him.13Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 14Guard the good treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us.
Gospel
Luke 17.5–10 5 The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith!’ 6The Lord replied, ‘If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea”, and it would obey you. 7 ‘Who among you would say to your slave who has just come in from ploughing or tending sheep in the field, “Come here at once and take your place at the table”? 8Would you not rather say to him, “Prepare supper for me, put on your apron and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat and drink”? 9Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded? 10So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, “We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!” ’
Sermon
Revd Dominic
Intercessions
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.
Prayers for others:
Christine, David, Philip, Neil and Steven
Elizabeth Taylor
Honar
Edith Hutchinson
Moe and Mary
Alison Campbell
John Taylor
Irene Foskett
John Nicholson
Alan Robson
Michelle Wilson
Joan Finley
George Snowden
Claire Mozaffari
Herbert Agbeko
Rest in Peace:
John
Mahsa Amini
Other
An end to the oppression of the people of Iran.
Post Communion prayer
Almighty God,
you have taught us through your Son
that love is the fulfilling of the law:
grant that we may love you with our whole heart
and our neighbours as ourselves;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.