News in the Pews

WEEK COMMENCING 23rd MAY 2010

SERVICES 23rd MAY PENTECOST


8.30 a.m. Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
Celebrant The Vicar

10.30 a.m. All-Age Service and Baptism at Burton Overy
Leader The Vicar


SERVICES SUNDAY 30th MAY TRINITY SUNDAY


8.30 a.m. Holy Communion (BCP) at Burton Overy
Celebrant The Vicar

10.30 a.m. Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
Celebrant The Vicar

At Communion Services
If you are a communicant member of a Christian Church, you are welcome to come up to receive the bread and wine. Otherwise you are welcome to either remain in your seat or come up to receive a blessing. Keeping your hands down by your side will signify to the Vicar that you wish to receive a blessing. If you have difficulty coming up to the Communion Rail and would like the Vicar to come to you, then please inform a sidesman.

DIARY
Monday, 24th May
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at St Cuthbert’s Church

Tuesday, 25th May
2-4 pm. Visiting bellringers at St. Cuthbert’s Church
8.00 pm. All Sorts team meeting at 51 St. Cuthbert’s Avenue

Wednesday, 26th May
9 a.m. Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Vicarage

Thursday, 27th May
10.30 a.m. Drop-In at St Cuthbert’s Church
7.30 p.m. Wedding rehearsal at St. Cuthbert’s Church

Friday. 28th May
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church

Saturday 29th May
3.00 p.m. Wedding of Paul Hudghton & Emma Woodford atSt. Cuthbert’s

Monday, 31st May
NO Sparklers – Half-term holiday


NOTICES

St. Cuthbert’s Church Fete on Saturday, 5th June – Please keep this date free and bring friends and family along to support us in this major fund-raising event. There will be ploughman’s lunches available and lots of stalls including ones for the children. The fete will take place in the church and churchyard, and in the Vicar’s garden next door.

Donations for the fete: There will be a box in church on each Sunday for donations of prizes for tombola and good bric-a-brac. Offers of prizes for the raffle will also be welcome. Cakes, fresh produce, plants, etc can be brought along on Friday afternoon, 4th June, or on the day. For more information, contact Amy Cook on 259 2610.

Urgently required hard or paperback fiction and biographical books for a stall at the Church Fete. To arrange collection, please contact Alan Selway on 259 2605.
Cakes, biscuits etc are needed for the cake stall at the fete which is being run by Chris Otway (259 2013) and Helen Dartnall (259 0272). Please contact them if you are able to provide items for this stall.

Great Glen Community WildSpace –Gill Hadland who won second place in last year’s Gardeners’ World Gardener of the Year competition is opening her garden for the National Gardens Scheme on TODAY Sunday, 23rd May. She has kindly offered to donate the proceeds from the sale of plants and teas to Great Glen Community WildSpace. She lives at Westview, 1 St Thomas’s Road, Great Glen (on the corner with Oaks Road) and the event is taking place from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

All Sorts @ School – The next service is on Thursday 10th June at St Cuthbert’s School from 3.30 p.m. until 4.30 p.m. All children are welcome (including those at other schools) together with an adult who will take responsibility for them or for a group of them. We start with refreshments for everyone and craft activities for the children – the service itself doesn’t usually start until about 3.50 pm. so don’t worry if you have to come late – you can even join us after the service has started! After the first song the children split into two groups – the younger ones go into the community lounge to explore the bible story through Godly Play and the older ones stay in the hall to do it in an active and competitive way! We join together again for prayers and a final song.

Car Boot Sale – come along to Launde Abbey’s Open Day on Monday, 31st May, for a Car Boot Sale with a difference. Set in the Abbey’s magnificent landscaped gardens, the Car Boot Sale will take place amidst trees and flowers in this lovely rural setting close to the A47 between East Norton in Leicestershire and Oakham in Rutland. The Car Boot Sale will start at 11 a.m. with setting up from 9.30 a.m. so there is no need to get up in the middle of the night to sell your unwanted goods. The event is part of the Annual Flower Festival and Open Days over the Bank Holiday weekend, 29th – 31st May 2010. There will be fun and games for all ages as well as an opportunity to see the floral displays provided by churches from the dioceses of Leicester and Peterborough with lunches and refreshments available all day. There is a Preview Evening on Friday, 28th May, including a concert in the Chapel, with sparkling wine and canapés, tickets are £12.50 each. For information or to book a car boot pitch or a stall at the Craft Fair, please contact Suzanne on 01572 717 254. Car Boot pitches cost £5. in advance and £7. on the day (no business traders) but business stalls will be available throughout the weekend in the Abbey grounds, payable in advance.

Flower Festivals are being held at Lubenham TODAY 23rd May and at Stapleton 4-6th June (2-5.30 Fri & Sun, 10-5 Sat) Both have art displays as well.

How did our communion services take the shape we use now? Tuesday June 1st, 7pm at BBC Leicester. Come along and discover Hippolytus from the third century who has had a big hand in shaping what we now do Sunday by Sunday! 7.00pm Talk followed by 7.40pm-8.10pm Discussion and Questions. Concluding with a light buffet and drinks for those who need some supper. Cost £4 including supper £2 just the talk and discussion (Concs £3 and £1)

Children during the 10.30 a.m. Communion Services are invited to move into the north aisle (whether at Glen or Burton) after the Gloria to engage with the day’s bible story in ways that they will appreciate. They rejoin their parents in the pews at The Peace.

Lifts to Services – If you need a lift to any of our services, please contact Howard Bartlett (259 3747) at Glen or Richard Bloor (259 2440) at Burton Overy and they will arrange one for you.

Laughter is a gift: Questions asked by tourists:
Having been told that Cleeve Abbey in Somerset had once been the home of monks, a group of children eagerly asked a member of site staff: “Where are the monkeys?”

Proverb of the Week: “Telling lies about others is as harmful as hitting them with an axe, wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow.” (Proverbs 25 v18)