Visit the church web site at www.ststephensw12.org. You can read all the latest news about the parish. You can also read the sermons which are posted each week

All the food collected today will be taken to the Upper Room. This is a charity working with the homeless in the area.

Ron Smith is poorly in (Charing Cross) Hospital,

Baptisms and Confirmation are due to take place at St Paul’s Cathedral on November 3rd: Corrie Kamara will be baptised with her daughter Amber and also confirmed. Remi Wong will be baptised and confirmed. , Damali Allison, Shellian Manswell and Taisha Richmond are all due to be confirmed. Good news with lots of people putting themselves forward

There is a St Stephens Committee planned for Monday October 15th – pray for those charged with oversight of the church.

There is a Christmas party planned for December 8th – maximum numbers of 35. If you are interested see Barry or Liz Clarke.

Anne Claridge’s licensing as a priest will take place in Isleworth at 7.30pm on November 1st. She would welcome anyone from the congregation who would like to come to this service.

Processional Hymn     275        We plough the fields        
   
Collect of the Day
Eternal God, you crown the year with your goodness and you give us the fruits of the earth in their season: grant that we may use them to your glory, for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

First Reading                 Jeremiah 29.1,4-7                          (p. 1009)
1These are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 4Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. 7But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

Gradual Hymn               262        Oh Lord my God       

GOSPEL                         John 4 34-38                                    (p.1232)
34Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. 35Do you not say, “Four months more, then comes the harvest”? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37For here the saying holds true, “One sows and another reaps.” 38I sent you to reap that for which you did not labour. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour.’

Amazing love, oh what sacrifice
The Son of God, given for me
My debt He paid, and my death He died
That I might live, that I might live

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

Offertory Hymn             270        Come you thankful people

Communion Hymn      174        Breath on me breath of God

Post Communion Prayer
Lord of the harvest, with joy we have offered thanksgiving for your love in creation and have shared in the bread and wine of the kingdom: by your grace plant within us a reverence for all that you give us and make us generous and wise stewards             of the good things we enjoy; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Recessional Hymn      267        Thou whose almighty word

Coffee in Church after the service

Jude’s Prayer
Dear God,
I love you. 
Thank you for all the things you have given us.
You are the best.
We love you.
You love us.
We all love each other -
and that is what we are s'posed to do.
Amen.

Some material included in this service is copyright: ©  1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Pub. Hodder & Stoughton. Collect (Harvest Thanksgiving) ©  1989 Church of the Province of Southern Africa: An Anglican Prayer Book. John 6.25-35 ©  1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA. Some material included in this service is copyright: ©  The Archbishops' Council 2000

NOTICES

THIS WEEK:

NEXT SUNDAY:         21 October 2007        Twentieth Sunday after Trinity

10 am SUNG EUCHARIST
Celebrant and Preacher – The Reverend Dr Bob Mayo
2 Timothy 3.14-4.5 (p 1018), Luke 18:1-8 (p 1019)

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

Dates for your Diary
Confirmations at St Paul’s, 11am, 3 November
Time of Your Life-A Celebration of Ageing Well.  Hammersmith Town Hall on 19th October from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm – a combination of information and activities for those aged over 50.
International Day for Eradication of Poverty, 17 October; United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland www.un.org
One World Week, 21-28 October www.oneworldweek.org
Interfaith Week of Prayer for World Peace, 21-28 October www.nfpb.gn.apc.org
United Nations Day, 24 October www.un.org
Landmine Action Week, 29 October – 11 November www.landmineaction.org
Prisons Week and Prisons Sunday, 18-24 November www.prisonsweek.org
World Aids Day Service, 25 November; 6.30pm at Southwark Cathedral

For other Diocese and Kensington Area events please visit www.ststephensw12.org

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 Father Bob. The only time that Bob will be unavailable is between Friday pm and Sunday am.