PLEASE PRAY for those who feel disenfranchised, forgotten or unloved – remembering especially the Windrush generation – our brothers and sisters who have worked and paid taxes and brought up families in the UK for 70 years, yet still not ‘official’ enough to have all we have.

READ THE GOOD NEWS – Luke 24, 36-48
The good shepherd lays his life down for sheep. God really cares about every one.

PRAYER AND WORSHIP IN THE COMING WEEK

Monday 23rd April
9.30am Morning Prayer, Christ Church

Tuesday 24th April
9.30am Morning Prayer, St Mary’s

Wednesday 25th April
9.00am BCP Holy Communion, St Bart’s
10.00am Meltham Churches Together Prayers for the Community, St Bart’s

NEXT SUNDAY 29th April –
9.30am Parish Communion, St James’ – Not intended to be a week off at St Bart’s, St Mary’s or Christ Church but a time for us to all worship together! If you need a lift to St James’, or can offer a lift to someone – please do ask/offer.

Other dates for your diary
Tuesday 24th April
1.30pm Greenacres Holy Communion
2.00pm St Bart’s Women’s Fellowship

Thursday 26th April
7.30pm St James’ – PARISH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – ALL WELCOME

Friday 27th April
10am to 12 St James’, Community Card Group
10.30am -12 St Bart’s Coffee and Chat
2.00 St Bart’s Churches Together (rearranged) World Day of Prayer service (Men and Women welcome)

Exciting news!  We’re delighted to inform you all that a New Vicar for #Meltham Parish was announced today!

The Bishop of Leeds, The Rt Rev’d Nicholas Baines is pleased to announce that the Rev’d John Dracup, currently serving as Assistant Curate at St. John the Baptist, Coley has been appointed as Vicar of the Parish of Meltham Christ the King in the Huddersfield Episcopal Area subject to the usual checks and formalities.  The data of the Licensing Service will be announced soon.

Please pray for Rev’d John and his family as they prepare to join us in Meltham and thank you for all your prayers during the interregnum – they have certainly been answered!

John trained for ordination at Cranmer Hall in Durham and has served his curacy at Coley. Before going to Durham John was a member of All Saints Church in Normanton for most of his life and served as a Church warden and a member of the PCC. When he left school he started working on a local farm and spent most of his working life in farming except a few years in his mid-twenties which were spent driving bulldozers and other ‘big boys toys’. He is married to Fiona and they have two children, Isaac and Rebekah. He enjoys family camping holidays in their trailer tent, walking and real ales.

Read the April #Meltham Parish Magazine online here – sorry it’s late!

April Magazine 2018

PLEASE PRAY that at this Eastertide we can all find a way to share with those around us the wonder of the empty tomb and our belief that our sins are forgiven, in Jesus’ name.
“Go, in my name, and because you believe – others will know that I live” (Carol Owens, Freely Freely)

READ THE GOOD NEWS
John, 20, 19-31
“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

PRAYER AND WORSHIP IN THE COMING WEEK
Monday 2nd April
9.30am Morning Prayer, Christ Church

Tuesday 3rd April
9.30am Morning Prayer, St Mary’s

Wednesday 4th April
9.30am BCP Holy Communion, St Bart’s
10.00am Meltham Churches Together Prayers for the Community, St Bart’s

Thursday 5th April
3.00pm Evening Prayer, St Bart’s

NEXT SUNDAY 8th April –
9.30am Holy Communion, St Bart’s
5pm – FIVE ALIVE – St James’
11.15am Holy Communion, St Mary’s
11.15am Holy Communion, Christ Church

He is Risen – Alleluia

Other dates for diary
Friday 6th April
10-12 St James, Community Card Group
10.30-12 St Barts, Coffee and Chat

Advance notice – Fashion Show at Durkar Roods, 7 for 7.30pm on 11th April – to raise money for Wilshaw Village Hall.

Come join us in #Meltham on Easter Sunday to celebrate the Risen Christ.

6:35am (ish)     Sunrise Service at the Cock Crowing Stone followed by breakfast at the Church Hall

9:30am              Easter Day Sung Eucharist @ St Bartholomew’s – Meltham

9:30am              Easter Day Holy Communion @ St James’ – Meltham Mills

11:15am            Easter Day Holy Communion @ Christ Church – Helme

11:15am            Easter Day Holy Communion @ St Mary’s Wilshaw

ALL WELCOME

Hallelujah! Christ is Risen.

HE IS RISEN INDEED – HALLELUJAH!

PLEASE PRAY for Christians everywhere as we journey together through Holy Week so that we can all experience, in some small way, what Jesus carried for us. ‘Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all’.

READ THE GOOD NEWS Mark 15, 1-39
“Surely this man was the Son of God!”
PRAYER AND WORSHIP IN THE COMING WEEK

Monday 26th March
7.00am Meditation – St James’
9.30am Morning Prayer, Christ Church

Tuesday 27th March
7.00am Meditation – St James’
9.30am Morning Prayer, St Mary’s

Wednesday 28th March
7.00am Meditation – St James’
9.30am BCP Holy Communion, St Bart’s
10.00am Meltham Churches Together Prayers for the Community, St Bart’s
8.00pm Final rehearsal for Stainer’s Crucifixion, St Bart’s

Thursday 29th March – Maundy Thursday
7.00am Meditation – St James’
3.00pm Evening Prayer, St Bart’s
7.00pm Holy Communion, reception of oils and the washing of feet – St James’

Friday 30th March – Good Friday
7.00am Meditation – St James’
10.45am Meltham Churches Together service and walk of witness followed by a simple lunch – Methodist Church, Mill Moor Road.
7.00pm Stainer’s Crucifixion – St Bart’s.

(No St Bart’s coffee or Community Cards this week)

NEXT SUNDAY 1st April – Easter Sunday

6.45am ‘Cock crowing stone’ – West Nab Acclamation of the Dawn followed by breakfast in the Church Hall
9.30am Holy Communion, St Bart’s
9.30am Holy Communion, St James’
11.15am Holy Communion, St Mary’s
11.15am Holy Communion, Christ Church

British Summer Time starts tomorrow.
The clocks spring forward 1 hour tonight!

Don’t forget to change yours – otherwise you’ll be late for church in the morning 😉

The Bishop of Huddersfield will be joining us at St Bartholomew’s and St Mary’s for our Palm Sunday services.

PLEASE PRAY this week for our strength and commitment to deny our selves for the remainder of Lent and to experience some small part of ‘taking up the cross’ with Jesus.

READ THE GOOD NEWS
Luke 9 28-36 – “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.”

PRAYER AND WORSHIP IN THE COMING WEEK

Monday 19th March
9.30am Morning Prayer, Christ Church

Tuesday 20th March
9.30am Morning Prayer, St Mary’s

Wednesday 21st March
10.00am Meltham Churches Together Prayers for the Community, St Bart’s
11.00am BCP Holy Communion, St Bart’s followed by lunch – with transport for those who cannot make it under them own steam.

Thursday 22nd March
3.00pm Evening Prayer, St Bart’s

NEXT SUNDAY 25th March – Palm Sunday
Bishop Jonathan will preach at St Bart’s and St Mary’s
9.30am Holy Communion, St Bart’s
9.30am Holy Communion, St James’
11.15am Holy Communion, St Mary’s
11.15am Holy Communion, Christ Church

OTHER DATES TO NOTE
Thursday 22nd March
8.00pm St Bart’s – rehearsal for Good Friday performance of Stainer’s Crucifixion. All welcome to come and sing, even if you’ve never done this piece before.

Friday 23rd March
10-12 St James’, Community Card Group
10.30-12 St Bart’s, Coffee and Chat

Holy Week activities – more detail next week but remember 7am meditations every day at St James’ and Good Friday Service at 10.45am followed by Walk of Witness and soup, bread and cheese lunch at the Methodist Church.

Also on Good Friday: Stainer’s Crucifixion @ St Bart’s – 7pm.