Sunday 11th June 2017

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This week beginning 12th June 2017 Tues 13th June

9am 7 pm 7.45 10 am 12.30 pm 7.45 pm 7 pm

Wed 14th June

Thurs 15th June

Church prayers, St Stephen’s Older Youth Night (school yrs 9-13), Encounter evening: Prayer Little Bears Wednesday Club lunch Parenting for faith Younger Youth Night (school yrs 6-8)

Youth nights are at St Stephen’s and all other activities are at St Thomas’

Dates for your diary Sun 2tnd July

Sunday 11th June 2017 Sun 11th May 10.15 am 11.45 am 4 pm

Holy Communion Welcome lunch Transform, St Stephen’s

Morning Readings: 2 Cor 13: 11-14, Matthew 28: 16-20

12 – 2.30 pm St Thomas’ Day BBQ & Garden Party

Contacts Vicar: Associate Vicar: Youth Minister: Children & Families Minister: Caretaker: Parish Administrators: Parish Office: Safeguarding Officer Bookings Coordinator

Revd Martin Gordon Revd James Yeates Sam Baker [email protected] Susie Yeates susie.yeates@stwss,org.uk Shaun Knox Sarah Bee and Penny Church [email protected] 020 8675 5086 Sarah Bee [email protected] Kate Morrison [email protected]

Office hours are 9am to 1pm Monday to Thursday. We implement ‘A Safe Church Procedure’ to ensure child protection and safeguarding procedures are followed to keep everyone safe.

We hope you enjoyed the service. If you are new, we would love to meet you at the welcome desk at the end of the service. We invite you to fill in a yellow welcome card. Our services are projected on to a screen. Please ask one of the welcomers if you would like service booklets, larger words or hymn books. During communion please indicate if you would prefer a wafer. Non-alcoholic wine is available at the front on the right hand side We offer prayer after the morning service, in the sofa area at the front. Children and young people are in the service until the notices when go to their different Sunday school groups, returning towards the end. Tea and coffee are served from 10am and also after the morning service.

Please stay for refreshments and the monthly fairtrade stall afterwards at the back of the church.

Peru Team News (trip dates 19 July - 16 August)

Notices

Thank you to all who encouraged the team by coming to the Peru evening on Friday. If you would like to donate towards the project, please go to: https://my.give.net/Peru2017

‘Transform’, tonight, 4pm, St Stephen’s Come and join us for our new Clapham Park monthly gathering at St Stephen’s, Weir Road. The gathering is for all local Christians and churches who would like to see change across the Clapham Park estates. Come to worship, be encouraged and pray for transformation in our lives and blessing in our local community. Come at 4pm for coffee to finish at 5pm with cake. Prayer evening, Tuesday 13 June, 7.45 - 9.15pm Our first encounter evening will focus on prayer and is for anyone who wants to pray for others or to be prayed for themselves. All welcome. Our second evening is on worship, next Tuesday 20 June. Gladys from the Anglican Church in Kenya, Sunday 18 June On Sunday 18th June we welcome Gladys from our Tearfund partner organisation in Kenya. She will be speaking at out 10.15am service. Church Weekend at Home 2018 Please put 2 - 4 February 2018 in your dairies for the next church weekend at home. We’ve invited Powerpack back again to lead the children’s work. More details when we know them. Parenting for Faith, Wednesday 14 and 21 June On Wednesday 14 and 21 June we are hosting two parenting for faith evenings at St Thomas cafe from 7.45 - 9.15pm. We will explore how we grow in faith in our families and give you some ideas and tips with how to begin. Particularly suitable for parents with children aged 0-11. Its going to be great fun. Contact Susie for more information.

The team is raising money for the practical projects we will be involved in. The primary building project is to start the construction of the dining area on the first floor of the building we began in 2008. We also want to take out sports and craft equipment for the new youth area we will be helping to set up. Our other main area of work will be working with the church, taking services, running holiday bible clubs and other outreach activities. We very much value your prayers for the whole project. St Thomas’ Day Garden Party and BBQ – 2nd July We are looking for volunteers to help with the Garden Party on 2nd July. If you would like to flip a burger, bake a cake for the cake stall or help set up and take down on the day, then please let Kate know at the end of the service or email [email protected]. Please also take some flyers today from the welcome table to spread the word amongst your friends and neighbours.

Prayer Requests For our leaders and the country after the general election and particularly that all will work together for the common good. Thanks for Graham Steer’s successful operation. That Na’a Sowah’s visa application would be successful and that she would find a permanent home for her, Joshua and Judah. For Annabel and Phil Fisher as their wedding is blessed here on the 17th June. For Sam and his team and the youth nights which restart this week.