Please In the hall after the service

Welcome to St Matthew’s
Vicar: Fr David Shepherd - 01923 241420
vicar2@stmatthewsoxhey.org.uk
Eastbury Road, Oxhey, Watford WD19 4ST
CCLI 151343
www.stmatthewsoxhey.org.uk
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VICAR
Rev Fr David M Shepherd
19th June 2016
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Trinity IV
CHURCHWARDENS
Debbie Lim , Adrian Gray
Hon Secretary
Raymond Boskey
Children’s Matters & Safeguarding
Electoral Roll Officer
Facilities Manager, Health & Safety
Deanery Synod Representatives
Social Committee Liaison
Hon Treasurer
Chris Gear
Debbie Lim
Pip Leese
Raymond Boskey
Roger Tabor & Hamish Leese
Margaret Tabor
Other PCC Members:
Maxine Raphael, Sandra Byrne, Penny Kaye, April Tapscott
Casual vacancy: Lynn Shepherd
Music
Organist (ex officio)
Roger Tabor
Non-PCC Positions:
Communications Co-ordinator:
St Matthew’s Youth Choir
Daphne Boskey
Julie Bale
HALL:
Business Manager
Facilities Manager
Invoicing and collections
April Tapscott
Raymond Boskey
Daphne Boskey
NB: For information and availability on hiring the hall please speak to
April and not Daphne. Hall phone number is 070 100 37315 or
email hallbookings@stmatthewsoxhey.org.uk.
Items for the weekly notice sheet should be sent or given to Daphne Boskey:
E: newsletter@stmatthewsoxhey.org.uk
Tel: 01923 635625
Normal deadline is 4.00pm on Wednesday evening
Inclusion of items received after this time cannot be guaranteed.
Our Services Today
9.30am
Sung Eucharist (Fr Tony Meek)
Reader:
John Gerry
Intercessor: Marilyn Gerry
Hymns (HON):
Gathering
Gradual
Offertory
Post Communion
13
437
106
372
All hail the power of Jesus’ name
Rock of Ages, cleft for me
Dear Lord and Father of mankind
O Jesus, I have promised
Our Readings:
Isaiah 65:1-9 The Prophet Isaiah expresses the Lord’s frustration
with wayward Israel as well as the promise of future blessings
rather than destruction.
Luke 8:26-39 In the story of the Gerasene swine Luke records
Jesus’ healing of a greatly disturbed man who is told to return
home & share the good news.
Please
In the hall after the service
10.30am
Confirmation Class
11.15am
Bushey Baptist Worship
Quotation from a 9 year old boy:
“He is smaller than the smallest thing and bigger than the biggest thing. He loves
everything too. I think God is the most wonderful thing in the world. He is
comforting to think of when something goes wrong. I like God.”
This week please pray for:
Watford Deanery:
Abbotts Langley: St Lawrence & Church of the Ascension.
Food Bank - Watford
In our community:
Brookdene Avenue and Bucks Avenue
In our church:
Helpers for our Toddler Group
New altar servers
Our Mission Action Planning
Vocations to ministry lay & ordained.
Beginning Marriage:
Hamish & Kristina Leese
Birthday:
Andrew Bale
In Particular Need:
Bill Reed, Sid Carpenter
Departed:
Joan Cousins RIP
The Lady Chapel may be used as a focus for prayer.
There are candles to light and a board for requests.
Please contact Daphne if you would like to add someone to the prayer list.
(01923 635625 or newsletter@stm\atthewsoxhey.org.uk)
If you would prefer to have someone pray for you privately please put the details on a
slip of paper on the board in the Lady Chapel (slips and pencil provided)
or speak to Irene Whiteman or Daphne in confidence.
“Through her prayers my friend touched God with one hand, and through the depths
of her care touched me with the other.”
from Joyce Huggett, author
FORTHCOMING SERVICES AND EVENTS
th
Monday 20 June
9.30am Toddlers in the Hall.
Thursday 23rd June
10.00am Holy Eucharist
26th June : Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Trinity IV
9.30am
11.15am
All Age Eucharist
Readers:
SMAYT
Intercessor: Daphne Boskey
Bushey Baptist Church : Baptismal Service
All members of St Matthew’s are invited to join Bushey Baptists for
this service.
FRAUD ALERT
Police are warning residents about a scam involving vulnerable elderly
people. The scam involves the victim receiving a call at home from a
fraudster claiming to be the HMRC tax office. They tell the victim they
owe an outstanding debt of hundreds, or even thousands, of pounds,
threatening that they will be arrested unless they settle the debt immediately. They
then instruct the victim to purchase iTunes vouchers at a local retailer to settle the
debt. Fraudsters are moving onto iTunes gift cards to collect money because they can
be easily redeemed and sold on. The scammers don’t need the card to redeem the
value, they just get victims to read out the code on the back over the phone.
The victims genuinely believe what they have been told by the suspect and think that
they will be arrested if they don’t settle their debt.
If you know of someone who may have been a victim of this type of crime
please get them to call our Police Non Emergency number 101
and report the Crime, or ring us on their behalf.
For further information about fraud and scams, please see our website:
www.herts.police.uk/advice/crime_prevention/crime_prevention/
protect_your_money.aspx
HELP US TO PROTECT OUR VULNERABLE AND SENIOR RESIDENTS
We would like to thank everyone for
everything they did to make last
Sunday so very special for us, and
also for the amazing John Lewis
voucher, which we will decide how to
spend once we are settled in and have
had a chance to see what is missing
(apart of course from all of you!).
We expect still to have a couple of
Sundays at St Matthew’s, and once
we finally know our moving date* we
will have some more cake on our last
Sunday!
Bob & Sally
Blowing out the candle
* Just to let you all know, we have a hiccup with our chain, and will be
arouind probably till end of July, but taking a very back seat.