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.
Easter Day 6.00 a.m. Masham Service of Light
LOOP SYSTEMS have been installed at Masham, Healey, North Stainley, 16th April 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
Well and West Tanfield for the benefit of those who are hard of hearing. 9.15 a.m. Healey Holy Communion
Please switch the button on your hearing aid to the 'T' position. 10.45 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
10.45 a.m. North Stainley Holy Communion
10.45 a.m. Well Holy Communion
WELCOME if you are a newcomer to this church or parish. If you would like more 10.45 a.m. West Tanfield Holy Communon
information about the life of the church please complete this slip and give it to one of the
sidesmen as you leave. Tuesday 18th 5.30 p.m. North Stainley Annual Parochial Church Meeting
in the church
NAME
Wednesday 19th 10.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
ADDRESS
Thursday 20th 7.00 p.m. Masham Four and Twenty meet at Theakstons
TEL. NO. . 7.30 p.m. Healey Annual Parochial Church Meeting in
in the church.
I would like a visit from someone connected with the church [ ]
Saturday 22nd 10.00 a.m. Masham Annual Report Live
I would like more information about: 2.00 p.m. Masham Wedding of Matthew Bainbridge and
Frances Wilkinson
Confirmation groups [ ]
Second Sunday 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
Bible study/prayer groups [ ] of Easter 10.45 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
23rd April 10.45 a.m. West Tanfield Holy Communion
Choir [ ] 6.30 p.m. Healey Evensong
6.30 p.m. Snape Evensong
Music group [ ]
Third Sunday 10.45 a.m. West Tanfield United Service of Holy Communion
Singing for Fun of Easter
30th April
Pop-in Coffee
YEARS MIND We remember the anniversary of the deaths of Jane Warren and Andrew
Bell ringing [ ] Nicklas.

Junior Church/young peoples groups [ ]
I would like to subscribe to the church magazine [ ]
I would like to join the church electoral roll [ ]
REFLECTION Today we celebrate the special day around which the Churchs year is
built, and on which the basis of our faith stands. Now is the day of rejoicing, this day
the day that the Lord has made has come again. Yet every Sunday is a celebration of
Easter Day, the Lords Day, the first day of the week. But today, we have walked the way
of the cross and seen Christ laid in Joseph of Arimatheas unused tomb. And now he is
risen indeed. Alleluia!
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.
. far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my
ANNUAL MEETINGS
North Stainley: Tuesday 18th April 5.30 p.m. in the church
Healey: Thursday 20th April 7.30 p.m. in the church
Masham: Sunday 23rd April following the morning service in the church
ST. MARYS IS ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC A Coffee Morning on
Saturday 22nd April in St. Marys Church, Masham from 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. At
10.30 a.m. there will be a performance of songs and other music performed in the church
during 2016. In aid of famine relief in East Africa.
If you would like to know more ring Lesley on 01765 689828 or email
l.hunter57@outlook.com
Donations of cakes would be very welcome on the morning of the event.
CONCERT WITH AYSGARTH SCHOOL CHOIR
ST. PAULS, HEALEY
Friday 5th May at 7:30pm.
To mark the restoration of the church organ
A Concert at St Paul's Church Healey by the Choir of Aysgarth School and its Director of
Music, Matthew Atherton, playing the church's newly restored organ. The concert will be
followed by refreshments. Tickets 10 each (including refreshments) available from the
Masham Community Office 01765 680200.
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.
VOLUNTEERS TO SERVE COFFEE. Help is needed to serve coffee after morning
service at Masham. If you would like to be included on the rota, please contact Cath
Boshier on 01765 688957
GORDON AND JENNIFER LODGE are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary by
renewing their marriage vows on Sunday 7th May at 10.45 a.m. at St Marys Church,
Masham. After the service there will a bring and share lunch in the church with a free bar.
RSVP to 07792 195907 or email: jenlodge@live.co.uk.
JEREMIAH 31: 1-6
At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they
shall be my people. Thus says the Lord:The people who survived the sword found
grace in the wilderness;when Israel sought for rest, the Lord appeared to him from
faithfulness to you. Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
O virgin Israel! Again you shall take your tambourines, and go forth in the dance of
the merrymakers. Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the
planters shall plant, and shall enjoy the fruit. For there shall be a day when sentinels
will call in the hill country of Ephraim:Come, let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our
God.
ACTS 10: 34-43
Then Peter began to speak to them: I truly understand that God shows no partiality,
but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ
he is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after
the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were
oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that he did both
in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God
raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, not to all the people but to us
who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose
from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the
one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about
him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.
MATTHEW 28:1-10
After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an
angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on
it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. For fear of him
the guards shook and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, Do not
be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for
he has been raised, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and
tell his disciples, He has been raised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of
you to Galilee; there you will see him. This is my message for you. So they left the
tomb quickly with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met
them and said, Greetings! And they came to him, took hold of his feet, and
worshipped him. Then Jesus said to them, Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers
to go to Galilee; there they will see me.