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Monday 21 September 2015

Pew Sheet - 27th September 2015

Prayer
Gracious God, you call us to fullness of life: deliver us from unbelief and banish our anxieties with the liberating love of Jesus Christ our Lord.   Amen

Collect for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
Almighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself, and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.   Amen.
We are grateful to Derek Witchell for taking the Holy Communion service in Long Crendon, and to Ian Ogilvie for taking Evensong in Nether Winchendon today.   Derek has kindly sent us the following:   “I am a retired priest living in Thame with my wife and two children (yes, they're still at home!) and a Border Terrier.   I've lived in the area off and on for many years.   I'm a former pupil of Lord Williams School and had an architectural practice in Thame for 25 years before training for ordination.   I served my curacy at Bloxham and was priest in charge at Wing, Wingrave, Aston Abbotts, Cublington, Cheddington and Mentmore before retiring from parish ministry.   My wife and I now have a ministry to parents whose children are LGBT+, and I serve on Diocesan Synod, Bishops Council and the DAC.   One of the great joys of 'retirement' is to be free to lead worship for many different congregations in the area and I'm looking forward to joining you to worship together.”

And Ian has kindly written:  “The Rev. Ian Ogilvie was educated at Cambridge.   He is married with two adult sons.   He began his career at Holy Trinity, Clapham Common where he ran a Youth Club for Rockers(!), before working for three years as curate to the late Bishop Hugh Montefiore, who was at that time Vicar of the University Church, Cambridge.   The major part of his ministry was in education as Chaplain of two schools and later a Headmaster.   The latter part of his working life was working for three charities as Director of Fundraising.   While never a full time vicar, Ian has been linked with many parishes and he and his wife are members of St. Peter and St. Paul Church, Tring, although he is seldom there as he does locum work most of the time.   He looks forward to meeting the people at Nether Winchendon for the first time this evening.”







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