Dear Reader,
Coming up:
Our Community Bible Study begins a new Series - the Letter to the Philippians. Your Autumn Bible study sorted! Join on Wednesdays 12pm BYO packed Lunch for 12.30-1.30pm
5 October: Harvest Festival we’ll be having a joint Family and Adults Service at 10.30am followed by Baked Potato Harvest Lunch £7 sign up in church or book online: stmarysmarston.org/events Yum!
For items to bring in support of the NEED Project see list below.
Tea bags
Coffee
Drinking Chocolate
Sugar
Pasta
Long Grain Rice
Cereals
Pasta Sauces or Bakes
Soups – packet or tinned
Tinned Veg – e.g. Tomatoes, sweetcorn, peas, carrots
Potatoes
Biscuits
Tinned Fruit
Custard
Tinned spaghetti, raviolis
Tinned fish – e.g. Tuna, Salmon
Squash
Fruit Juice
Preserves – e.g. Jam, Honey
Chocolate Spread
Tomato Ketchup
Long Life Milk – cartons
Tinned Meat – e.g. Ham, corned beef, beef & onions
Chicken in Sauce
Curries
Chilli
Rice Pudding – tinned
Baked Beans
Toiletries such as toothpaste and soap
Luke 16:1–13 NIV
Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’
“The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg—I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’
“So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
“ ‘Nine hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied.
“The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred and fifty.’
“Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’
“ ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied.
“He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’
“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
