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

the Gift Aid envelope. Please complete with your address, date HEALEY, MASHAM, NORTH STAINLEY, WELL WITH SNAPE
and box ticked. Help us to receive this vital extra income. & WEST TANFIELD
Thank you. Second Sunday 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
of Lent 9.30 a.m. West Tanfield Family Service
LOOP SYSTEMS have been installed at Masham, Healey, North Stainley, 12th March 10.45 a.m. Masham Confirmation and Holy Communion
Well and West Tanfield for the benefit of those who are hard of hearing. 10.45 a.m. Snape Holy Communion
Please switch the button on your hearing aid to the T position. 4.00 p.m. Healey Evensong
6.00 p.m. Lent Meditation at Cogden House, Masham
LENT LUNCH NORTH STAINLEY
Wednesday March 15th 12.00 p.m. at North Stainley Village Hall Monday 13th 10.00 a.m. Prayer group at Stanhope, Market Place, Masham
3 for lunch & a collection to support St. Marys Church. 3.30 p.m. Confirmation Group meet in Masham School
Please book via North Stainley School on 01765 635276
Tuesday 14th 12.30 p.m. Lent Lunch at The Bull, West Tanfield
LENT LUNCHES IN WEST TANFEILD 1.15 p.m. Masham Singing for Fun
In aid of St. Nicholas Church funds and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. 2.30 p.m. Masham Pram Praise
Tuesdays March 14th 21st & 28th & April 4th all at The Bull. 7.00 p.m. Masham Cursillo Meeting
12.30 p.m. 7.30 p.m. Masham Church Finance committee meet at The Vicarage
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. Wednesday 15th 10.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
Please telephone 01677 470678. 12.00 p.m. Lent Lunch at North Stainley

BIBLE READING NOTES An order will shortly be placed for notes to start in May Thursday 16th 6.00 p.m. Masham Youth Group in the Town Hall
please contact Kate Cleeves (01765 689255) to order or for further details. Price 4.40 for 7.00 p.m. Food for Thought in the Sports Pavilion-Susie Hart
four months of readings. One way of helping us to see God as a weekday friend and not
just a Sunday acquaintance. Third Sunday 9.15 a.m. Healey Holy Communion
of Lent 10.45 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
HELP NEEDED PLEASE To make bunches of flowers for Mothering 19th March 10.45 a.m. North Stainley Holy Communion
Sunday. There will be a working party at The Vicarage on Saturday 25 th 10.45 a.m. Well Holy Communion
March at 10.00 a.m. 4.00 p.m. West Tanfield Evensong
6.00 p.m. Lent Meditation at Cogden House, Masham

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.
MENS 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
WE WELCOME all who have gathered at St. Marys Masham
this morning for the Confirmation Service. We pray for all who
are to be confirmed and Bishop James Bell who will conduct the
service. We wish the Bishop well as he prepares for his
retirement and thank him for his ministry among us.
REFLECTION The context of For God so loved the world is often overlooked. It is the
climax of a response to a question about how to be born again. Like many who profess a
faith, Nicodemus understands the physical behaviour of religion, but has little insight into
the inner spiritual dimension of Gods presence and call. Salvation is about connecting
heaven and earth.
 PRAM PRAISE Masham A service for young children and their
parents/carers. Tuesday 14th March 2.30 p.m. A very short and informal
service, followed by toys to play with and a chance for adults to chat over
coffee/tea. Everything will finish in time for parents to collect older
children from school.
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 12th March: R S Thomas: The Moon in Lleyn
Sunday 19th March: U A Fanthorpe: Getting It Across
Sunday 26th March: Mary Oliver: The Journey
Everyone is welcome
SINGING 4 FUN Tuesday 14th March, 1.15 p.m. in Masham Church. Do you like singing
in the bath? Would you like to meet some new people? Would you enjoy singing in a
group of friendly people? No need to be able to read music. No need to sing like
Pavarotti! Anybody who would like to have a go will be welcome.
CURSILLO is a movement of the Church providing a method by which Christians are
empowered to grow through prayer, study and action and enabled to share Gods love with
everyone. Cursillo is for those members of congregations who are already committed in
their Christian lives. The basic method is an equal emphasis upon prayer (piety), study and
action. Cursillo is for YOU if:
You are already a committed believer but you sometimes think: 'there must be more to
Christian life than this'
You read the Scriptures and you pray (sometimes) but you long for energising grace
You are part of a church community but you wish it were more alive with the joy of Christ
You long to serve Christ in speech and action in the world but you need the confidence to
find the way
There is a Cursillo meeting in St. Marys Church, Masham on Tuesday 14 th March at 7.30
p.m. If you would like to find out more please come along.
MESSY CHURCH FOR MOTHERING SUNDAY Friday 23rd
March. 3.30 p.m. in North Stainley Village Hall. Crafts and
activities with a Mothering Sunday theme, + food and a short act of
worship. For further details please contact Reverend Nick Morgan
(01765 635039 or revnjmorgan@gmail.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 16th March Susie Hart: 10 years in Tanzania and beyond. Susie Hart is a
textile artist and social entrepreneur, and was a CMS mission partner in Tanzania for 10
years. She received the international Woman of the Year award in 2010 and also an
M.B.E., for her pioneering work with disabled people in the developing world. Since
returning to the UK she has set up a charity called Craft Aid International to relieve poverty
in people with disabilities in the developing world through social enterprise, as well as
running therapeutic workshops in the UK. Come and hear how God can use even the most
unlikely people, if we will just place ourselves in his hands.
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 in
churches across the north of England.