We can claim the tax back from your donation if its given in the THE CHURCHES OF HEALEY, MASHAM,

Gift Aid envelope. Please complete with your address, date and NORTH STAINLEY, WELL WITH SNAPE & WEST TANFIELD
box ticked. Help us to receive this vital extra income. Thank
you. Third Sunday 9.15 a.m. Healey Holy Communion
of Lent 10.45 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
LOOP SYSTEMS have been installed at Masham, Healey, North Stainley, 19th March 10.45 a.m. North Stainley Holy Communion
Well and West Tanfield for the benefit of those who are hard of hearing. 10.45 a.m. Well Holy Communion
Please switch the button on your hearing aid to the T position. 4.00 p.m. West Tanfield Evensong
6.00 p.m. Lent Meditation at Cogden House, Masham

Monday 20th 12.00 for 12.30 p.m. Pie and Pint at the Bay Horse, Masham
WELCOME if you are a newcomer to this church or parish. If you would like more
information about the life of the church please complete this slip and give it to one of the Tuesday 21st 12.30 p.m. Lent Lunch at The Bull, West Tanfield
1.45 p.m. Pilgrim Course at the Vicarage Do you renounce evil?
sidesmen as you leave.
5.00 p.m. Masham churchwardens meet at The Vicarage
NAME
Wednesday 22nd 10.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
ADDRESS
Thursday 23rd 6.00 p.m. Masham Youth Group in the Town Hall
TEL. NO. . 7.00 p.m. Food for Thought at the Sports Pavilion - Kathy Couchman

I would like a visit from someone connected with the church [ ] Friday 24th 3.30 p.m. Messy Church at North Stainley

I would like more information about: Saturday 25th 10.00 a.m. Working party at the Vicarage to make flowers for
Mothering Sunday
Confirmation groups [ ]
Mothering 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
Bible study/prayer groups [ ] Sunday 10.45 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
26th March 10.45 a.m. West Tanfield Holy Communion
Choir [ ] 6.30 p.m. Healey Evensong
6.30 p.m. Snape Evensong
Music group [ ] 6.00 p.m. Lent Meditation at Cogden House, Masham

Bell ringing [ ] Fifth Sunday 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion

of Lent 9.15 a.m. Healey Holy Communion
Junior Church/young peoples groups [ ] 2nd April 10.45 a.m. Masham Family Service
10.45 a.m. North Stainley Holy Communion
I would like to subscribe to the church magazine [ ] 10.45 a.m. Well Holy Communion
10.45 a.m. West Tanfield Holy Communion
I would like to join the church electoral roll [ ]
REFLECTION After telling her everything she has ever done, Jesus tells a complete
stranger that he is the Messiah, and his disciples arrive only afterwards. They also miss him
describing himself as living water, and urge him to eat, a contrast to his spiritual feeding of
the Samaritan woman who distributes his teaching, thereby gaining him a warm welcome
among her people who believe.
 LENT MEDITATIONS 2017
Cogden House, 34 Market Place Masham, Sunday evenings at 6.00pm
This year the Lent Meditations will be based on the anthology of poems collected by Mark
Oakley, Chancellor of St Pauls Cathedral, called The Splash of Words: believing in
poetry. The book is a beautiful and wise meditation on 29 poems which make the connection
between poetry and belief, with a commentary on each one, drawing out the often hidden
meaning behind the words. Each session will take one poem, which will be the focus of our
meditation; everyone is invited to bring other poems by the same poet to share with the group.
The format will be as in previous years, with music, candlelight and silence.
Sunday 19th March: U A Fanthorpe: Getting It Across
Sunday 26th March: Mary Oliver: The Journey
Everyone is welcome
MESSY CHURCH FOR MOTHERING SUNDAY
Mothering Sunday comes to North Stainley on a Friday this year!
On Friday 24th March at 3.30pm, straight after school, we have craft
activities for Mothers' Day in North Stainley Village Hall. About an
hour of activities are followed at 4.30pm by a short Mothering Friday
Service in place of a Mothering Sunday service in the parish). All welcome. A donation of
1 per child to cover costs would be appreciated. Please book by Monday 20th by ringing
the school on 01765 635276
LENT LUNCHES IN WEST TANFEILD
In aid of St. Nicholas Church funds and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
Tuesdays March 21st & 28th & April 4th all at The Bull.
12.30 p.m.
Soup and Sandwiches for donations of whatever people feel they would like to give. It would
be helpful if people could book their places at the communal tables in advance. Please
telephone 01677 470678.
BIBLE READING NOTES An order will shortly be placed for notes to start in May please
contact Kate Cleeves (01765 689255) to order or for further details. Price 4.40 for four
months of readings. One way of helping us to see God as a weekday friend and not just a
Sunday acquaintance.
HELP NEEDED PLEASE To make bunches of flowers for Mothering Sunday.
There will be a working party at The Vicarage on Saturday 25 th March at 10.00
a.m.
WEBSITE The Masham Group of Parishes now has a website go to
www.mashamparishes.org to have a look. This is currently a work in progress to help us
make it better please email suggestions or photographs of church events to Nick Morgan at
revnjmorgan@gmail.com or telephone 01765 635039.
PIE AND PINT Monday 20th March, Bay Horse, Masham. 12.00 for 12.30 p.m. 7.50 for
the pie of the day, peas and chips & a pint. Please let Jim or Lesley Hunter know id tyou are
coming. Telephone 01765 689828 or email l.hunter57@outlook.com
MASHAM YOUTH GROUP for children in Years 5 to 8, every Thursday from 6.00 to 7.15
p.m. in Masham Town Hall. For further details contact Reverend Nick Morgan at
revnjmorgan@gmail.com or look at the website www.oldpeculiermoi.wordpress.com
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The Sports Pavilion, Masham @ 7.00 p.m.
Supper, followed by a talk.
Tickets from Kate (Tel. 01765 689255 or email revdavidcleeves@gmail.com)
at 3.50 each.
Thursday 23rd March - Kathy Couchman: Being there - working as a Hospice Chaplain.
Kathy Couchman is Chaplain at Saint Michaels Hospice in Harrogate. Kathy is married to
Jonathan and they love living in the Dales. Kathy says, It may be a long drive to work at
the hospice, but Saint Michaels is such a special place to be that its worth every mile!
Kathy is a Priest in the Church of England and, since being ordained in 2006, she has worked
in parish ministry and prison chaplaincy.
Thursday 30th March Robert McKenzie Johnston: The Seven Questions. Robert was in
the Army for 20 years before becoming a teacher. He retired two years ago as Headmaster
of Queen Mary's School in Topcliffe.
He will be exploring the many possible answers to the seven questions about life which have
puzzled men and women through the ages and will attempt to give a personal and provisional
answer to some of them, informed by his own Christian journey so far.
"What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for?
And what am I? What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?"
There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that not a logical answer and
not at all a reply to them. The answer was: "You'll die and all will end. You'll die and know
all, or cease asking." Pierre Bezukhov in Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Thursday 6th April Clare Nelson: Love Changes Everything. For 20 years Clare
worked as a solicitor in the aggressive world of commercial intellectual property law,
before giving it all up to speak out on behalf of some of the worlds poorest children for
Christian child development charity Compassion.
This complete change of direction came following her decision to sponsor a child through
Compassion when she found out how easy it is to change the world - one child at a time,
and that doing so enables us to live out what we say we believe - loving God and loving
our neighbour. It just makes sense - love really does change everything. She now spends
most of her time on the road meeting with church leaders and her Sundays speaking at
churches churches across the north of England.
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