We can claim the tax back from your donation if it's given in the THE CHURCHES OF

Gift Aid envelope. Please complete with your address, date and HEALEY, MASHAM, NORTH STAINLEY, WELL WITH SNAPE
box ticked. Help us to receive this vital extra income. & WEST TANFIELD
Thank you.
Seventh Sunday 10.45 a.m. Masham United Service of Holy
LOOP SYSTEMS have been installed at Masham, Healey, North Stainley, After Trinity Communion & Baptism
Well and West Tanfield for the benefit of those who are hard of hearing. 30th July
Please switch the button on your hearing aid to the 'T' position.
Tuesday 1st 10.15 a.m. Pop in Coffee visit to
Helmsley
WEBSITE for the Masham Group of Parishes - 2.30 p.m. Masham Thanksgiving Service for
www.mashamparishes.org the life of Maureen Nicklas

WELCOME if you are a newcomer to this church or parish. If you would like more Wednesday 2nd 10.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
information about the life of the church please complete this slip and give it to one of the
sidesmen as you leave. Saturday 5th 9.30 a.m. Well Cleaning Party
9.30 a.m. Masham Cleaning Party
NAME 2.30 p.m. Masham Sister Rita singing rehearsal

ADDRESS The Transfiguration 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion

August 6th 9.15 a.m. Healey Holy Communion
TEL. NO. . 10.45 a.m. Masham Family Service
10.45 a.m. West Tanfield Holy Communion
I would like a visit from someone connected with the church [ ]
I would like more information about: Ninth Sunday 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
Confirmation groups [ ] After Trinity 9.30 a.m. West Tanfield Family Service
Bible study/prayer groups [ ] 13th August 10.45 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
Choir [ ] 10.45 a.m. Snape Holy Communion
Music group [ ] 6.30 p.m. Healey Evensong
Singing for Fun
Pop-in Coffee
Bell ringing [ ]
Junior Church/young peoples groups [ ] WE WELCOME the family and friends of Ethan Kitching and Kaylen
I would like to subscribe to the church magazine [ ] Coetzee who are to be baptised at Masham today.
I would like to join the church electoral roll [ ]

TRIP TO HELMSLEY Pop-In Coffee are organising a trip to Helmsley on Tuesday 1 st
August. All are welcome booking essential. Meet outside the church at 10.15 a.m. Free
transport and morning coffee. Return by 4.30 p.m. Further detail, or to reserve a place,
contact Lesley Hunter (01765 689828).
SAVE THE DATE Masham Harvest Supper. Saturday 23rd September. 7.00 p.m. in the
Town Hall. Harvest Thanksgiving will be on the Sunday of Sheep Fair weekend (Oct. 1st).
REFLECTION Paul offers us the most confident and triumphant cry of Christian faith in
all the New Testament. No hostile force can finally count against the love of God. The
Gospel reading challenges us to consider the cause of God, whose success is so assured
that we should forego anything to grasp it for ourselves. Where does the rule of God come
in your scale of values?
NEEDED - ANOTHER SACRISTAN FOR MASHAM This is someone to join the team
of people who prepare the altar for Holy Communion on a Sunday. If you would be will -
ing to help please speak to the Vicar or one of the churchwardens.
EASY FUNDRAISING FOR ST MARYS CHURCH MASHAM
Did you know that whenever you buy anything on line from weekly shop to your annual
holiday you could be collecting free donations for St Marys Church Masham There are
over 3,000 shops and sites on board ready to make a donation, including Amazon, John
Lewis, Aviva, the trainline and Sainsbury's. It doesn't cost you a penny extra.
It's as easy as 1 2 3
1 Head to https//www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/stmaryschurchmasham/ and join for
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2 Every time you shop on line go to easyfundraising first to find the site you want and start
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3 After you've checked out the retailer will make a donation to your good cause for no ex-
tra cost whatsoever.
There are no catches or hidden charges and St Marys Church, Masham, will be really
grateful for your donations. Thank you for your support.
Having just done this, it really is as easy as 123 give it a try! Nigel Bromhead.
MASHAM FAMILY BARBECUE
Sunday 13th August
Outside the church
After the 10.45 a.m. Service
Tickets 6 adults, 14 for a family, from Jenifer Bullen (01765 689217), Ian Sweeney
(07592875481),
Lesley Hunter (01765 689828), Kate Cleeves (01765 689255)
Ian Sweeney (07592875481), Jennifer Bullen (01765 689217)
or Jean Jones (01765 688671).
Burgers, sausages, salad & pudding.
Treasure hunt for children & families between the service & the barbecue.
If you have special dietary requirements please contact Jean Jones or Lesley Hunter.
A warm welcome to everyone from across the benefice.
LIST AT THE BACK OF MASHAM CHURCH
For those who can help provide salads & puddings
& assist with the washing up at the Barbecue.
Please sign up as soon as possible to help with planning.
ROMANS 8: 26 TO END
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as
we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God,
who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit in-
tercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are
called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined
to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn
within a large family. And those whom he predestined he also called; and those
whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.
What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not
with him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge against Gods
elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died,
yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or perse -
cution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written,
For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be
slaughtered.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things
present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in
all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
MATTHEW 13: 31-33, 44-52
He put before them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard
seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds,
but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the
birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.
He told them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman
took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found
and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on find-
ing one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and
caught fish of every kind; when it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put
the good into baskets but threw out the bad. So it will be at the end of the age. The
angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into
the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Have you understood all this? They answered, Yes. And he said to them,
Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the
master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.