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St Dunstan’s Church, Monks Risborough
& St. Peter’s Chapel, Owlswick
Registered Charity Number: 1153869.
Part of the Risborough Team Ministry
Vicar: The Revd. James Tomkins
01844 275944 (day off Tuesday)
jamestomkins@btinternet.com
The Rectory, Mill Lane, Monks Risborough, HP27 9JE
Churchwardens:
Charlie Fairall 07584 264573
crmfairall@yahoo.co.uk
Johanna Powell 01844 343996 johanna@powellathome.com
Welcome!
We hope you will enjoy worshipping here with us.
Please see our welcome leaflet on the table for all of our services and activities. Coffee, squash and biscuits are served in the church hall after the service.
Sunday 5th June
Second Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Genesis 12 v 1-4, Luke 14 v 16-24
10.00am All Age Family Communion
and Baptism of Molly Dolan
Hymns: 45, 825, 590, 332
Communion: 47, 386, 285, 648
Reading: Luke 8 v 22-25
6.00pm Evensong
Readings: Genesis 8 v 15- Ch9 v 17, Mark 4 v 1-20
Hymns: 382, Psalm 44 v1-, 379, 347
Prayer of the week
God of truth, help us to keep your law and to walk in ways of wisdom, that we may find true life in Jesus Christ your Son. Amen.
Your prayers are asked for:
- All migrants who continue to risk, or who have lost their life crossing the Mediterranean Sea
- Molly Dolan as she starts her Christian journey through Baptism
- For the makers of furniture, for good hard wearing solid household furniture which become in time old friends
- Those living away from home, weekly commuters.
- The Butts (PR) Perry Lane & Bledlow Ridge Road (B)
- Those who are in need in our parish:
- And also further afield for:
- Alastair, Katy, Georgina Cole, Robert, Dave Skinner
- The recently departed:
- Those whose anniversary of death falls at this time:
- Tony Lane, Ena Ashcroft, Gordon Marr, Joan Downes, Bob Boyce
Please remember the charities
that the parish supports:
The Bucks Historic Churches Trust provides grants to help maintain churches in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. www.bucks-historic-churches.org.
The Bucks Historic Churches Trust provides grants to help maintain churches in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. www.bucks-historic-churches.org.
Notices
Thank you very much for all the replies regarding financial giving to St. Dunstan’s/St. Peter’s. Since my announcement a few weeks ago there has been a flurry of one-off donations and the standing orders now amount to just under £8,000 per annum. This is a significant sum of a money and I wish to say ‘thank you’ to all those who have responded so far. The original aspiration was to increase the giving by standing order by £22,000 per annum so the PCC will now to review the church’s financial situation at its meeting on June 6th to try to ensure that the church does not continue to run at a deficit for the foreseeable future. If you have not yet given this matter your consideration, it is not too late to do so. James
Fellowship Meeting:
All are welcome on Thursday June 9th at 8 pm to a guided tour of St. Dunstan. For further information regarding the fellowship group please speak to Rosemary (344417).
Volunteers required
Volunteers are required to help with the children's activities during the Queen's birthday celebrations in Princes Risborough on Saturday 11th June. People are required for an hour or half an hour to set things up or clear away afterwards or to help with activities. A rota could then be set up comprising: 1 -2pm set up; 2-4pm children's activities; 4-4.30pm clear up. If you are able to help or know of people who might, please could you contact Helen Lidington lidington@btinternet.com. We also need help with manning the road closure (High St, Duke St,) for the children's activities for the Queen’s 90th birthday. This will probably be in shifts of 1 hour between 1400 & 1700. Please contact Margaret Pitman 01844 346008 or margaretpitman@btinternet.com if you can help.
Wycombe Orpheus Choir Concert, Saturday June 11th
Details of this concert at the Princes Risborough Baptist Church can be found in the porch.
‘Birthday Teas’ and Thanksgiving service, June 12th
‘Birthday Teas’ will be served from 4.00 pm. This will include a chance to browse through pictures etc. of village life during the past 90 years provided by the Princes Risborough Heritage Society. At 6.00 pm there will special service to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday with some well -known rousing hymns and spectacular choral anthems featuring a combined choir from St. Dunstan’s (Monks Risborough) and St. Mary’s Church (Eaton Bray). Please invite your family and friends along to this special occasion.
Further events to celebrate the Queen's 90th Birthday
Help is required as part of the packed schedule of events during this special year. There is a noticeboard up in the porch for volunteers to help serve teas during the afternoon of Sunday 12th June before our Thanksgiving Service and also on the weekends of Bucks Open Studios. We also need a large number of cakes, specifically Elizabeth (Victoria!) sponges for 12th June and a variety of different cakes for Bucks Open Studios. Please sign up if you can help or contact Cathy on 343226 or cathy.farquhar@btinternet.com for more information
Open House at the Rectory – The Pilgrim Course
This course is open to everyone for a single session or the whole course. On Monday June 13th at 8 pm we shall be looking at the question ‘do you believe in the Holy Spirit. James
The Friendship Group
We meet in the church hall on the third Wednesday of the month at 2.30 pm. The next meeting is Wednesday 15th June. All welcome!
A Prayer for the European Referendum
God of truth, give us grace to debate the issues in this referendum with honesty and openness. Give generosity to those who seek to form opinion and discernment to those who vote, that our nation may prosper and that with all the peoples of Europe we may work for peace and the common good; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Accommodation required for Watoto Children’s Choir
This choir is coming to Risborough for two or three days at the end of June. The choir has travelled internationally since 1994 as advocates for the estimated 50 million children in Africa, orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS, war, poverty and disease. The choir is accompanied by a team of adults who act as ambassadors for the orphaned and vulnerable children of Africa. If you are able to accommodate two or three children and their accompanying adult please speak with the pastor at the Elim Church, Wendy Pawsey on 07411 363 376.
Concert and Birthday Teas, Sunday July 17th, 3.30 pm
The final event in celebration of the Queen’s 90th birthday is a return of the Chandos Ensemble with a ‘birthday tea’ afterwards. The programme of music is: Corelli: Concerto Grosso op.6 no.2 in F; Walter Leigh: Concertino for harpsichord and strings; Gerald Finzi: Eclogue for piano and strings; Mozart: Divertimento in D major for strings. The soloist is: Anna Le Hair. Tickets are adults £8, accompanied children £3 available from Rachel Ungi 01844 761535 or Susanne Carr 01844 346827. Please bring a chair it you’d like to sit outside for your tea afterwards.
St. Albans Cathedral Pilgrimage
Owing to popular demand there will be a second pilgrim tour of St. Albans Abbey on Wednesday September 28th. Leaving by coach from the lay-by off the A4010 in Monks Risborough at 5.30 pm, the evening starts with a sandwich and cake buffet in the Abbot’s kitchen at 7 pm. This is followed by a Pilgrimage Prayer Trail around the Cathedral, Compline by candlelight in the Quire, before concluding with a silent procession to the Shrine of Saint Alban. We will return to the lay-by in Monks Risborough at about 10.15pm. The cost for the St. Albans trip is £17.50. If you would like to book a place please contact Rev James Tomkins jamestomkins@btinternet.com (01844 275944) and send your money with cheques payable to ‘Monks Risborough PCC’ to the Rectory, Mill Lane, Monks Risborough, HP27 9JE. The trip to Ely cathedral on August 10th is now fully booked and I am starting a reserve list.
The Next Few Weeks
| Mon 6th June | 8.00pm PCC meeting (church hall) |
| Thurs 9th June | 9.30am Holy Communion 2.00pm Monks Monkeys 8.00pm Guided Tour of St. Dunstan’s – all welcome |
| Sat June 11th | 11.00am World War One Commemoration (war memorial) |
| Sun 12th June | 10.00am Parish Communion 11.30am Owlswick Family Communion and Baptisms 4.00pm ‘Birthday Teas’ (see notices) 6.00pm Service of Thanksgiving, Queen's 90th Birthday (see notices) |
| Mon June 13th | 8.00pm ‘Open House at The Rectory (see notices) |
| Wed June 15th | 2.30pm Friendship Group 8.00pm Owlswick Speaker Evening with Meriet Duncan talking about bee keeping |
| Thurs June 16th | 9.30am Holy Communion 2.00pm Monks Monkeys (church hall) |
| Fri June 17th | 10.00am Bucks Arts Week setting up |
| Sat June 18th | Bucks Arts Week in St. Dunstan’s until Sunday June 26th (cream teas weekend afternoons) |
| Sun June 19th | 10.00am Parish Communion 6.00pm Evensong |
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