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Notices & Events Food Bank: If you would like to donate food for those people who are in need, please bring your donation of non‐perishable food & put it in the basket at the back of the church. Grace takes the donations to the food bank after the services on the first Sunday of the month. Foodbank NEEDS ‐ Ketchup, Coffee, Smash, Corned-beef Sponge puddings, Squash Dates for your Diary
The Parish of Kenfig Hill
St Theodore St Colman Please take this newsletter home with you. Morning
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Wednesday 17 May @ 2pm—Next mee ng of CRUSE
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Saturday 20th May @ 11am ‐ Parish Fete
Thursday 25th May @ 7pm ‐ ASCENSION DAY Sung Eucharist St Theodore’s. Saturday 27th May @ 2pm ‐ Marriage of Harold Phillips and Ann Mc Coll Community Week Raffle ckets from Eileen for sale. All profits from those we sell will come to the Parish. If you know of some‐one who needs a visit from the church please speak to Sue Kibby or Enid Rymer at the end of the service, or leave a message on their phones. We will arrange for one of the visiting team to call on them. Sunday Services Next Week 21st May 2017
Easter 6 St Theodore’s……………10.00am Sung Eucharist St Theodore’s………………….18.00pm Compline Theo’s (Wednesday)………..10.00am Holy Eucharist Parish website h p://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/l302/
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The Church in Wales welcomes anyone who been baptised in the name of the Trinity to receive communion (Children will require parental consent). We are always pleased to welcome newcomers or visitors. You are also warmly invited to join us for coffee or tea following the morning service.
God’s Many Dwelling Places At the beginning of today’s Gospel, Jesus says that there are many “rooms”, many dwelling places in his Father’s house. We can understand this, of course, as “heaven” but God’s dwelling is also the Church, every Christian community is a dwelling place of God. And indeed each and every disciple, who believes in Christ, is a part of God’s Temple. There is now no longer for us a material Temple. Furthermore, as Paul told the Romans, “ever since the creation of the world [God’s] invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and godhead, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made“. This is to say, that not only in Christian communities, but indeed in people everywhere and in the whole of our created environment, God’s presence is shouting out to us. “The world is charged with the grandeur of God,” wrote the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Every little flower, every singing bird can say to us, “Who sees me sees the Father”.
This week’s daily Gospel readings Monday ‐ John 14. 21‐26 Edmwnd Prys (1624), John Davies (1644) Priests Tuesday ‐ John 14. 27‐31a Wednesday ‐ John 15. 1‐8
PLEASE PRAY FOR… Sick: Doris Lugg. Llywela Jenkins, Lauren Williams, Adrian Cook, Erin Downs, Carol Furness, Caryl Hodges, Mary Morgan, Gwyn David, Luigi Sammaden, Kate Weaver Gibbs, Carol Hitels, Jeff Carpenter, Jean Rumble Kay, Staton, Keon Moffaty, Dorothy Lewis.
Thursday ‐ John 15. 9‐11
Recently Departed: Bishop David Thomas
Friday ‐ John 15. 12‐17 Dunstan (988) Bishop Saturday ‐ John 15. 18‐21 Chad (672) Bishop
Anniversaries: David Bryant, Mary Burnell, Olivia Hill, Ruth Sinclair.
Mothers’ Union Thank you to all who supported the trip Tewkesbury which raised much needed funds for the Church hea ng fund & MU Chari es. 2.30 Tuesday 16th May MU fes val at Margam Abbey. please let Eileen/ Louise know if you are coming and are able to offer someone a li . We may park in Margam Park, and walk through to the Abbey. 2.00pm Thursday 1st June. our speaker will be Tyanne Leonard. Please would all members support these mee ngs ***************************************** 100 Club April winners Wendy Lewis. No. 88. £25.
Keith Hopkin. No. 49. £10.
********************************* MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS TRAINING Wednesday 14th June 2017 2pm – 4pm at St Theodore’s Church, Kenfig Hill The training will be provided by MIND Cymru, in partnership with the Diocese. This free training is open to St Theodore’s congrega on, PCC members, Theo’s shop volunteers, anyone involved in Church ac vi es. If you require further informa on, please see Sue Kibby There is a maximum of 20 places available, please sign the form at the back of the Church or let Sue Kibby know as soon as possible if you would like to a end. *********************************************** N.B. FIRE ESCAPES: In the event of a fire, please leave carefully by the main door or, if obstructed, then through the fire escape located to the rear of the vestry on the right hand side. Then please gather on the pavement on the opposite side of the road.
Daily prayer intentions
Sun 14th ‐ Newton No age Porthcawl New Jersey (ECUSA) Mon 15th ‐ Port Talbot, St Theodore Niagara (Canada) Tue 16th ‐ Pyle & Kenfig New York (ECUSA) Wed 17th ‐ Clergy with Permission to Officiate Newala (Tanzania) Thu 18th ‐ Rectorial Benefice of Aberavon Newark (ECUSA) Fri 19th ‐ Deanery of Neath Newcastle Sat 20th ‐ Cadoxton‐Juxta ‐ Neath & Tonna Newcastle (Australia) Intinction: For those who do not want to drink from the chalice then, receiving the host alone is perfectly acceptable
Parish Priest: Fr. Jonathan Durley CA 01656 670148 Parish Deacon: Revd Deacon Claire Stowell Parish Reader: Grace Wylde 743840, or 07966 083196, Theo’s Parish Shop: 01656 670327 Parish Wardens: Margaret Phillips 665547/ 07748 678827 David‐Lloyd Jones 741354 / 07747 151205 Sacristan: Christine Portsmouth 742987 Treasurer: Ken Rymer PCC Secretaries: Margaret Griffiths & Heulwen Strathearn
