News in The Pews

SUNDAY 26th APRIL		4th SUNDAY OF EASTER
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
10.30 am	Holy Communion (CW) at Burton Overy
6.30 pm	Evensong at Great Glen       Leader: Roger Flowers
SUNDAY 3rd MAY			5th SUNDAY OF EASTER
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Carlton Curlieu
10.30 am	All age Service at Great Glen
SUNDAY 10th MAY			6th SUNDAY OF EASTER
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
10.30 am	Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
6.30 p.m.	Evensong at Burton Overy

 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 27^th April

9.30 am   Sparklers at the Methodist Church

Wednesday 29^th April

9.00 am   Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Church

Thursday 30^th April

7.30pm    St Andrew’s AGM in Burton Overy Village Hall

Friday 1^st May

7.15 pm    Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s

Monday 4^th May

BANK HOLIDAY – No Sparklers

Tuesday 5^th May

7.30 pm   Bible Study House Group at The Springs, Carlton Lane, Burton Overy

Wednesday 6^th May

9.00 am   Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Church

Thursday 7^th May

10 – 11.30 Drop-in for Coffee at St Cuthbert’s Church

Friday 8^th May

7.15         Choir Practice at Great Glen

Sunday 10^th May

Sunday Breakfast following 8.30 am Service

 

NOTICES

ST CUTHBERT'S AGM At the meeting on Sunday 12^th April, David Webster and David Graves were elected as Churchwardens.  Christine Higgins was elected to the PCC for the first time and Amy Cook, Jane Parkinson, Lyn Flowers, Phyllis Hallam and Anne Folwell were re-elected.  Ex-officio members of the PCC are David Webster and David Graves (Churchwardens), Roger Flowers and Angela Allen (Readers), Martin Tacey and Moira Bartlett (Deanery Synod representatives) and Carole Henson (Pastoral Assistant).  At the short PCC after the AGM Martin Tacey and Jane Parkinson were re-elected as Secretary and Treasurer respectively.  Amy Cook was re-elected as Deputy Churchwarden, Roger Hickling was re-elected as Electoral Roll Secretary and Phyllis Hallam was re-elected as Flower Secretary.  Also, Amy Cook was elected as Gift Aid Secretary for the first time.

 ST ANDREW’S AGM Thursday 30^th April at 7.30 pm in the Burton Overy Village Hall.  At this meeting we shall elect two Churchwardens.  Anyone in Burton Overy is entitled to vote for the Churchwardens.  After this election, those on the electoral roll may vote for the Church Council.

 

BIBLE STUDY HOUSE GROUP meets once a month at The Springs Burton Overy.  These are informal evenings and anyone is welcome.

CHURCH LIBRARY There is now a small library of religious based books on the table at the back of the Church.  Please feel free to borrow any of them but remember to return.  We hope to continue to expand this library in future.

SUNDAY 10^TH MAY   After the service, donations for refreshments will be for Christian Aid.

BIBLE READING NOTES are a way of connecting passages from scripture with our everyday life and issues we all encounter.  Now is the time of year when we send off our annual church order.  If you haven’t used them before, it could be worth a year’s trial for the bargain price of £12.90.  Do contact Christine Higgins as soon as possible for more information or to add to our group subscription.  Tel: 2592624 or e-mail: chrisples@btinternet.com

GREETINGS CARDS  Please do have a look at the cards in church which are for sale.  Mother’s Union cards are priced at cost and that money goes towards funding Mother’s Union projects around the world. Some cards cover multiple needs.  Some cards are blank inside and some have a Christian message.  There are other cards in a separate box which are either handmade or from redundant stock for which we would appreciate a voluntary donation for church funds.

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.

KEEPING PEOPLE IN TOUCH – Please do take copies of this news-sheet to anyone you know who might be interested, especially to those who can’t get to church at the moment.

Please pray for:-

·         Margaret Wood, Peter Wood, Arthur Whitfield, Heather Alexander, Margaret Bannister, Christine Higgins, Kimberley Tyler, Alan Selway, Elizabeth Tacey, Colin Lacey, and all who are ill.

·         the people in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, and Gaza, and all other places of conflict in the world, that peace may return.

·         the hostages held by IS militants, and by Boko Haram

·         all those suffering from the Ebola virus and the aid workers who are treating them.

·         the EU migrants from North Africa who have drowned in the Mediterranean sea.

GREAT THOUGHTS

The things that destroy us are injustice, insolence, and foolish thoughts; and the things which save us are justice, self-command, and true thought, which things dwell in the loving powers of the gods.                                                                   Plato