Notices for Sunday 17th August: 9th Sunday after Trinity
This Sunday: 17th August: Trinity 9
- 9:30am Holy Communion (in Church)
- 11:15am Café Church (Parish Centre)
Readings this Sunday:
Jeremiah 23.23-29 Hebrews 11.29-12.2 Luke 12.49-56
Prayer for the week:
Gracious Father, revive your Church in our day, and make her holy, strong and faithful, for your glory’s sake in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Please pray for:
Those who have asked for our prayers: Cathy Cordery, Shirley Corti, Nick and Alison Gibbon, Anna Headland, Roman and Jade, Janet and Pauline Smith.
Notices:
Eco Tip: Switching to an ethical green tariff for your electricity is a small and powerful action that we can all take to reduce carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Please join us for a local litter-pick on Monday 18th August. Meet in the Parish Centre at 930am. All equipment will be provided.
Read All About It: The deadline for the September edition of "Read All About It" is Wednesday 20th August. If you are not on the mailing list for this newsletter and would like to be, please complete a yellow card (available in Parish Centre).
Nicene Creed course this autumn. To mark the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene creed, a series of six sessions on Monday evenings and Tuesday afternoons. The first session runs twice, on Monday Sept 15th (7:00pm) and Tuesday 16th (2:30pm) in the Parish Centre. Subsequent sessions follow every 2 weeks.
CIRDIC (Christians in Reading Drop-in Centre) are in need of clothes donations: Men's t-shirts, polo shirts, socks and underpants (ideally new). If you have any of these items to donate, please bring to the Parish Centre (Wendy Howell will get them to CIRDIC.
Open Gardens 2025: Next events are August 24th and September 7th, 2-4pm. Full details are on pink flyers, available in the Parish Centre.
Regular giving to St Barnabas. We are entirely self-funded, if you consider St Barnabas is your home church, please support our mission and ministry. Give regularly through the Parish Giving Scheme or see our ‘Giving’ page. Ask Richard Cunningham (our treasurer) or Revd Kevin for further details.