You are here6th July 2019
6th July 2019
The Parish Churches of
St Michael & St Wulfad, Stone, with
St Saviour Aston by Stone
The new Bishop of Shrewsbury, Sarah Bullock looks forward to discovering Lichfield Diocese.
When I read the Bible I hear the voices of God’s people and their stories of faith. These are not always straightforward or easy, but God is faithful and his heart is for all people to come to know him. In the New Testament we encounter God in his son, Jesus, and the Good News he brings is a message of love and justice for all people.
As Christians we are called to live out this message of love and justice in our relationships as we share in God’s transformational work among his people and build communities of hope. Together we need to be open to the transforming message of God’s love for us.
As Bishop of Shrewsbury I will be taking every opportunity to connect with people as we journey together as ‘pilgrims on the road’, discovering this message of hope for ourselves, our families, friends and communities, through conversation, relationship, worship, prayer and encounter. I believe that God has gifted me with a loving heart and a passion to walk with others as together we discover our place in God’s story and our home in God’s heart.
The gospel message is also a call to dynamic living - stimulating progress, hopeful in attitude and encouraging of others as we live the Good News. We need to be brave and ambitious, creative and entrepreneurial if we are to be truly outward-facing believers, engaged with the world.
I am really looking forward to our journey together!
Sarah Bullock
Hymns for today
Aston Stone
349 164
Ps 125 285
325 172
197 525/429
532 532
Please pray for the sick in the benefice:
Mary Townsend, Noelle Emery, Dianne Harvey, Elsie Richardson, Roy & Barbara Ball, Vera Tomkinson, Neil & Pat Wynne, Gary Kelsall,
Emily Franks, John Richardson, Annette McMullen, Peter Bowler,
Howard Boswell, Catherine Ritchie, Sarah Taylor, Graham Baker,
Jackie Finnemore, James Astle, Miles Brain, Joan Lazonby, John & Ann Shuttleworth, Evelyn Cotterill, Margaret Wright, Gren Deakin, Margaret Bott
And for the departed:
Bob Philips, Simon Howard, Liz Osborne, Peter Gallagher, John Wood, Errol Hiscock, Mary Wesson, Graham Cooper
Remembering their families and friends at this time
This week:
Tuesday 9th 11.45am – 1pm Drop Inn Café – St Michael’s Hall
Thursday 11th 10.30am Holy Communion – St M&W
HEALING AND MEDITATION SERVICE4pm this Sunday (7th) at St Michael & St Wulfad’s. All welcome for a half hour of quiet prayer and reflection
LIZ OSBORNE’S FUNERALtimes are now confirmed as 11.30am for a private family Committal at the Crematorium, followed by a Thanksgiving and memorial service at Aston St Saviour at 12.30pm on Thursday 25th July. All are welcome at Aston
MARY WESSON’S FUNERALwill be held at St Michael & St Wulfad’s Church on Friday 26th July, 1.30pm
LADIES OUTINGBook your places for Afternoon Tea at Aston marina on Wednesday 18th September at 3.30pm. See Steph (from 21st July) – cost £16