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13th Sunday after Trinity (18 September) 2011
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Monday
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Baptism Preparation (in Farsi) at the Vicarage
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3.45pm
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Tuesday
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Gardening in the Churchyard
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9.30am
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St Mark study group (in Farsi) at the Vicarage
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6.15pm
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Wednesday
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Holy Communion in the Memorial Chapel
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10.30am
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Thursday
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Oldham reaching Muslims in the Vestry
with Stuart Binns of Word of Life Australia
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7.30pm
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Next Sunday
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Holy Communion (1662) in the Memorial Chapel
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8am
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Service for Wholeness and Healing
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10.30am
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Laying on of hands, with or without anointing and prayer for healing of spirit, emotions and body are available in the South Transept (to the right of the pulpit) immediately after 10.30am Sunday Worship, on request to any of the following: Andrew or Biddy Dawson, Kathy or Graham Lees, Alf Wild or Barbara Duxbury. If possible ask someone other than Graham or Andrew, as they are the least likely to be available. The person you approach will ask another member of the Healing Team to join you both in the South Transept for ministry. The arrangements have been changed because there are now two fewer members of the team.
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OUR HARVEST THANKSGIVING IS ON 2nd OCTOBER
Please invite family, friends, neighbours and colleagues – most feel easier at Harvest than at many acts of worship.
Please help homeless people living in Greater Manchester by giving requested foods to the Booth Centre. The requested foods are:
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tinned corned beef and ham
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tinned meat, potatoes and veg for stews
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cook-in sauces for pasta
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biscuits and cakes
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tinned fruit, custard and rice pudding
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coffee, cup-a-soups and sugar
(A copy of the Booth Centre Annual report is available for borrowing at the back.)
Please help people living elsewhere in the world through Tearfund. Read an example of their development work in Uganda in the September parish magazine. Buy a soup and bread lunch after worship on 2 October, and make a donation of extra cash.
Please contribute to the Harvest Thanksgiving by giving towards the flowers – there is a dish at the back.
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Some asylum-seekers receive £35 per week from the Home Office. If they have been refused refugee status after appeal on their first claim, they receive nothing except £6.50 worth of food per week from Oldham Unity and a one-day bus ticket per week. If they have new evidence for a fresh claim, eventually they may receive food etc. worth £35 per week from the Home Office.
Word of Life Australia Prayer Letter for September – copies available at the back.
Beth Jennings Prayer Letter from Bangladesh – copies available at the back on green paper.
Act and Pray for Climate Justice: options – 1.30pm discussion at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street (behind Central Library); 5pm Cathedral Service, followed by procession to Conservative Party Conference venues and candlelit vigil. Activities will finish by 7.30pm. All on Saturday 1 October. Info sheets at the back on orange paper. Lifts available from Andrew.
THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER REQUESTS
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The Interfaith Forum – meeting MP for Oldham East on Monday
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Tudor CSG – give thanks for £800 grant from Integrated Youth Services and pray for its youth activities
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Deanery Pastoral Committee – meeting on Tuesday
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St Thomas’ Fabric & Finance Committee – meeting on Wednesday
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Give thanks for all we receive, and pray about our financial giving
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People connected with our church engaged in outreach at home and abroad: especially the Jennings family in Bangladesh
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Refugees and people seeking asylum: Pray for David, Sobia, young Sara and Daniel William; Hawani; Azam, Maryam; Alireza; Azra; Nader; Nilou; Mahtab; Ali; Shabnam; Hooman; Masood; Afsana; Amir, Marzia and baby Danny; Haleh; Mohammed; those taking part in Baptism Preparation and/or home group on St Mark; Oldham Unity business meeting on Monday.
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Those who are unwell: give thanks for progress in Joan Finlayson. Continue to pray for her, and for Ivy Reynolds, young Harry Pleasant, Jenny Bartlett, Comal Sankaran, Norman and Alma Flint, Andy and Ruth Sharrock, Beatrice Howard, young Aaron Funnell, Raymond Scott, Alan Broome, Enid Gregson, Dinah McLeod, Ron Spivey, Mavis Booth, Helen Savage, the victims of famine in East Africa, and others whom we know.
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The bereaved: in particular the families and friends of Sylvia Vickers, Gordon Emery, Lydia Koulura and those who have died of starvation in East Africa.
All material for the church bulletin should be given to Andrew no later than Wednesday lunchtime.
Please take this bulletin with you when you leave.
Please do not leave it in your service book or in the pew.
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