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.

PLEASE PRAY this week for all of us, and our experiences of being a child, being a mother or providing a mothering role for those around us. Be thankful that we are all children of a loving God who walks with us.

READ THE GOOD NEWS
John 3 14-21
Maybe on Mothering Sunday when we think about being a child, or parenting children, we get a more vivid reminder of what it meant for God to send his most precious child Jesus to die for us and save us from our sins.

PRAYER AND WORSHIP IN THE COMING WEEK

Monday 12th March
9.30am Morning Prayer, Christ Church

Tuesday 13th March
9.30am Morning Prayer, St Mary’s

Wednesday 14th March
9.00am BCP Holy Communion, St Bart’s
10.00am Meltham Churches Together Prayers for the Community, St Bart’s

Thursday 15th March
3.00pm Evening Prayer, St Bart’s

NEXT SUNDAY 18th March
9.30am Holy Communion, St Bart’s
9.30am Morning Worship/Meditation, St James’
11.15am Holy Communion, St Mary’s
11.15am Holy Communion, Christ Church

OTHER DATES TO NOTE
Wednesday 14th March
10am to 3pm St James’, OASIS – quiet time.
Come for as much or little as you wish (drinks provided but please bring your lunch)
7.30pm St Bart’s DCC

Thursday 15th March
7.30pm 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 16th March
10-12 St James’, Community Card Group
10.30-12 St Bart’s, Coffee and Chat
7pm St James’, Supper and Speaker Evening
– supper served at 7pm (veg option available).
All welcome. Speaker is Christine Rolls.
Sunday 18th March – St Bart’s AGM at 11am

PLEASE PRAY for ministry of the late Billy Graham and all those people across the world who have proclaimed the good news that following Jesus is the best thing anyone could
ever do.

READ THE GOOD NEWS – Mark 8 31-end – “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me”

PRAYER AND WORSHIP IN THE COMING WEEK

Monday 26th February
9.30am Morning Prayer, Christ Church

Tuesday 27th February
9.30am Morning Prayer, St Mary’s
1.30pm Greenacres – Holy Communion

Wednesday 28th February
9.00am BCP Holy Communion, St Bart’s
10.00am Meltham Churches Together Prayers for the Community, St Bart’s

Thursday 1st March
3.00pm Evening Prayer, St Bart’s

Friday 2nd March
2.00pm Women’s World Day of Prayer, St Bart’s

NEXT SUNDAY 4th March
9.30am Holy Communion, St Bart’s
9.30am Holy Communion, St James’
11.15am Morning Worship, St Mary’s
11.15am Holy Communion, Christ Church

OTHER DATES TO NOTE
Friday 2nd March
10-12 St James’, Community Card Group
10.30-12 St Bart’s, Coffee and Chat
And advance notice of Mustard Seed AGM, 7th March at 7.30pm at the Methodist Church.

Read the March #Meltham Parish Magazine here!  It’s a packed issue with all the latest news and info about what’s going on across the Parish and beyond.  Please forward on or share with friends and family.

March Magazine 2018

Your Church Hall needs YOU!

MELTHAM PARISH CHURCH HALL – ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
at 7.30pm on Wednesday 21st February
in the Church Hall, Greens End Road.

Though the hall belongs to St. Bartholomew’s Church, it is completely self financing & non-denominational.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND OUR AGM.

WE NEED MORE MEMBERS & MORE IDEAS TO KEEP THE HALL RUNNING.

Many thanks from the Church Hall Committee

PLEASE PRAY for the hundreds of thousands of people who are using Lent not to give things up but to give generously to others in new ways every day. May their deeds show Jesus to those who do not yet know Him. www.40acts.org.uk

READ THE GOOD NEWS – Mark 1 9-15
Tempted for forty days and nights but finds the strength to overcome evil.

PRAYER AND WORSHIP IN THE COMING WEEK

Monday 19th February
9.30am Morning Prayer, Christ Church

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

Wednesday 21st February
9.00am BCP Holy Communion, St Bart’s
10.00am Meltham Churches Together Prayers for the Community, St Bart’s
7:30pm Church Hall AGM, at the Church Hall

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

NEXT SUNDAY 25th February, 2nd Sunday of Lent
9.30am Morning Worship, St Bart’s
9.30am Holy Communion, St James’
11.15am Morning Worship, St Mary’s
11.15am Holy Communion, Christ Church

OTHER DATES TO NOTE
Monday 19th
The BIG SORT of Christmas cards at Berry Brow Methodist Church, HD4 7LP. 10-4 – lunch provided – join for an hour or two if you can’t manage all day and bring a friend. Christine has more information if you need it.

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

Saturday 24th – 7pm Bulgarian Night in Wilshaw Sunday School. £6 for a three-course meal, plus music, fun and friendship. Tickets from Kim, Judy or Liz.

And advance notice of
• Women’s World Day of Prayer, 2nd March at 2pm at St Bart’s.
• Mustard Seed AGM, 7th March at 7.30pm at the Methodist Church