Sunday School meets in St Stephen's School
Sunday Youth meets in the Glebe Maisonette
Small Children are welcome to play in St Thomas's Chapel, near the porch
Baptised Communicants of other Churches are encouraged to receive communion
Children and other non-communicants are invited to come to the altar for a blessing
The Ministry of Healing is offered in the Chapel, after Communion is given

The St Stephens Committee meets on Monday. Tobi Adebiyi, Paula Aitcheson-Walker, Marjorie Bedassee, Juliet Byford, Nathan Charlton, Barry Clarke, Vince Cooper, Denise Scott–Brown, Cosmo Lush, Edie Lush, Fiona Minors, Elwyn Taylor, Tim Turnbull and Caroline Allen are responsible for the oversight of the church. We will be thinking about the Church Hall.  What we will be looking at is as follows:
Church Hall: We are going to sell the site of the old church hall to the school so that they can pursue their plans to set up a nursery. The Diocese has agreed to sell us the maisonette (next to the vicarage on the church side). We will then hope to build a single storey church meeting room to link the maisonette with the church.
Christmas services: planned to be as follows - Christmas Eve - 10 am Sung Eucharist & 3 pm  Children's Crib Service & 11.30 pm Midnight Mass Christmas Day - 10 am  Sung Eucharist
Vision for 2007: What we might want to be doing over the next year together.
Please pray for us all.       

Rev Dr Bob Mayo
(Vicar of St Stephen and St Thomas)

Processional Hymn     277        All for Jesus

Collect of the Day
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: help us so to hear them, to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them that, through patience, and the comfort of your holy word, we may embrace and for ever hold fast                    the hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

First Reading                 Job 42.1-6,10-17                                (p.711)
1Then Job answered the LORD: 2‘I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 3“Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?” Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4“Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.” 5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; 6therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.’  10And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring. 12The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. 13He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers. 16After this Job lived for one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children’s children, four generations. 17And Job died, old and full of days.

Gradual Hymn               562        Put thou thy trust in God

GOSPEL                         Mark 10.46b-52                                  (p.715)
46As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar,  was sitting by the roadside.  47When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth,  he began to shout out and say,  ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’  48Many sternly ordered him to be quiet,  but he cried out even more loudly,  ‘Son of David, have mercy on me!’  49Jesus stood still and said,  ‘Call him here.’  And they called the blind man, saying to him,  ‘Take heart;  get up, he is calling you.’  50So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus.  51Then Jesus said to him,  ‘What do you want me to do for you?’  The blind man said to him,  ‘My teacher, let me see again.’  52Jesus said to him,  ‘Go; your faith has made you well.’  Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way.

INTERCESSIONS

Please pray for
- The sick and suffering: especially Felix Okike, Lucilda Bernard, Joan Andrew, Elizabeth Dorsett, Clive Heywood, Ron & Ivy Smith, Susie Leach, Norbert Edwards, Brother Paul Anthony, Sylvia Steed, John Asbridge, Caroline Nevill, Ruth and Tracey Davies.

Offertory Hymn             375        Amazing grace

Communion Hymn      442        God is Love

Post Communion Prayer
God of all grace,
your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry
with the bread of his life
and the word of his kingdom:
renew your people with your heavenly grace,
and in all our weakness
sustain us by your true and living bread;
who is alive and reigns, now and for ever.

Recessional Hymn      474        Immortal, invisible

Coffee in Church after the service

Please do stay for a coffee after church and introduce yourself to someone you might not know.

Post Communion (Last after Trinity) ©  1985 Anglican Church of Canada: The Book of Alternative Services. Some material included in this service is copyright: ©  1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA. Some material included in this service is copyright: ©  The Archbishops' Council 2000. Collect (Last after Trinity) ©  The Crown/Cambridge University Press: The Book of Common Prayer (1662)

NOTICES

THIS WEEK:

NEXT SUNDAY         Fourth Sunday before Advent
10 am SUNG EUCHARIST
Celebrant and Preacher – The Reverend Dr Bob Mayo
Deuteronomy 6.1-9  (p 727), Mark 12.28-34 (p 729)

4 pm SERVICE
Youth Service all welcome

Volunteers needed:
Volunteers experienced and/or trained in dance, singing, drama wanted to assist and participate with the Bush City Youth Academy on Tuesday evenings 6-8 pm.
Volunteer musicians needed (drummers, keyboard players, guitar and bass players) to help with youth activities.
If you can volunteer please contact: Elaine Yoda 020 8746 1823 / 07917 166775

Sunday 26th November – Newcomers’ Tea – 4pm at the vicarage.  For anyone who has recently joined the church.  A chance for us to get to know one another.

Home Communion – Available to any unable to come on a Sunday.  Talk to Father Bob (8743 3166) if you or anyone else might be interested.

Any enquiries about pastoral concerns, baptisms, weddings or funerals please get in touch with either Bob Mayo, the vicar, or Sarah Archer, the Associate-Vicar at St Michaels. The only time that Bob will be unavailable is between Friday pm and Sunday am.

Visit the church web site at www.ststephensw12.org