A Prayer for our shared mission and ministry
Draw your Church together, O God, into one great company of disciples,
together following our Lord Jesus Christ into every walk of life,
together serving him in His mission to the world,
and together witnessing to His love on every continent and island. Amen
(A New Zealand Prayer Book, 1989)

During the summer holidays our Sunday Parish Eucharist will be a shorter all age service, and our theme is the Parables Jesus Told. Here are the parables. Why not read them in advance each week, with your children, and discuss them, to enable you to engage more deeply with the preacher's message?
Sunday July 25th 1. Parable of the Vineyard Workers Matthew 20: 1-16           
Sunday August 1st 2. Parable of the Talents Matthew 25: 14-30                             
Sunday August 8th 3. Parable of the Mustard Seed and Yeast Matthew 13: 31-33
Sunday August 15th 4. Parable of the Shrewd Manager Luke 16: 1-13                
Sunday August 22nd 5. Parable of the Sower Matthew 13: 1-9                                   
Sunday August 29th 6. Parables of the Lost Sheep and Lost Coin Luke 15: 3-10 
Sunday September 5th 7. Parable of the Great Banquet Luke 14: 16-24   
We thank our visiting clergy and lay preachers for their input to our summer services. Our Lighthouse teams take a break until Sunday September 12th.     

New Wine week
From Saturday for a week, a group of more than 20 St Joseph's members of all ages are camping with 10,000 other Christians at Shepton Mallet in Somerset, and enjoying the annual visit to New Wine London and South East week. There is awesome worship and inspiring Christian teaching, relevant seminars, fantastic children's and youth work, late night entertainment and cafés etc, and lots of time to relax. Please pray for us all, that we go deeper with God in the power of his Holy Spirit and are renewed and refreshed to serve Jesus better.
Have a look at http://www.new-wine.org/  for more information.

St Josephs Dovetail Project Fundraising Summary (2 Aug 2009 to 19 June 2010)
Total raised to date ££3,760.34. This has been our first year in our objective to raise £10,000 over a 3 year period as our contribution towards our building refurbishment project. The project will cost £2.8m in total, but we will have a new fabulous church building in which to worship and serve the community. A big thank you to all who have contributed to our fundraising drive. The 100 Club is also a part of the fundraising and everyone is urged to participate. It is hoped that the next round of fundraising activities will commence in the Autumn, so watch this space. If you have any ideas please speak to Randolph Reid, Susan Duah or Audrey Fleischer.
Once again, many thanks to everyone for their contribution. The Fundraising Team.

SING Summer Activities - WE NEED YOU!!
This year for the first time we are providing something every week during August.
Our main 'Soul' Week is the week beginning 9th August. We have a week of dance, sports, crafts and other activities such as birds of prey, circus skills and drum workshops. We have a Film Week beginning 2nd August, Girls Only Week of fashion, self defence and modelling beginning 16th August and Lads Only Week from the 23rd with big boy's toys & rugby. We are looking forward to these activities and hope that you will want to be part of them. There are sign up sheets available in the centre with details of all the different ways that you can volunteer. Please place your completed sign up sheet in the box by the pigeonholes as soon as possible. Chris

To all our church family
Ran and I would like to thank you all for attending our wedding day last Saturday. It was so wonderful to see so many of you come to support us, more so it was wonderful to know that you continued to pray for us for the day to go smoothly. My apologies for a long delay in my arrival, as the bride it was not intentional. Believe me the situation was beyond my control, so much that when I got to church I was hyperventilating and my nerves were all over the place. I started to feel better when the music started. Many thanks to Hilary and the music group and of course to Chris Hill, my goodness, you played that instrument so amazingly; the music was uplifting and so many people have been telling me about how good the music was. People have also been talking of how good a church people we are and how bright St Joseph’s is inside. (well minus the heat on the day!) 
Many of you have been asking if I am moving to the States right away, not at the moment. But definitely in the very near future I will go and join my husband. Ran and I would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts, you made our day so special and we hope you enjoyed the day as well! May God Bless you all.
All our Love, Randal and Lucy-Karen Lawrence

St Joseph the Worker Cleaning Rota
Saturday 24th July Team 3 Iris Perry, Christine Alugo-Sowemimo Fri-5pm
Saturday 31st July Team 4 Barbara Maund, Grace Hall, Christine Namagende Brass Ethlin and June

Love Justice
Take our lives Lord, take our moments and our days
We offer them to you, we offer them in ceaseless praise
Take our hands Lord, take our feet and let them be
A sacrifice to you, a sacrifice for those in need

Pre-Chorus:
Take our love Lord, take our silver and our gold
And we pray to see your kingdom in this world

Chorus:
We will love justice, show mercy, walk humbly with our God

We will love justice, show mercy, walk humbly with our God
We will love justice, show mercy, walk humbly with our God
We will love justice, show mercy, walk humbly with our God

Bridge:
Justice, mercy, humbly with our God
Justice, mercy, humbly with our God

Everlasting God
Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord, we will wait upon the Lord (x 2)

Our God, You reign forever
Our hope, our strong deliverer ...
You are the everlasting God, the everlasting God
You do not faint, You won't grow weary

You're the defender of the weak, You comfort those in need
You lift us up on wings like eagles

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