News in the Pews

WEEK COMMENCING 9th MAY 2010


SERVICES 9th MAY EASTER 6


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

10.30 a.m. Christian Aid Service at Great Glen
Leader The Vicar
Preacher The Revd Gordon Webb

6.30 p.m. Evensong at Burton Overy
Leader Roger Flowers


THURSDAY, 13TH MAY ASCENSON DAY


7.30 a.m. Ascension Day Tower Service & breakfast at Burton Overy
Leader Roger Flowers


SERVICES EASTER 7


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

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

6.30 p.m. Area Choral Evensong at Houghton on the Hill



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, 17th May
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at St Cuthbert’s Church

Wednesday, 12th May
9 a.m. Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Church

Thursday, 13th May
7.30 a.m. Ascension Day Tower Service and breakfast at Burton Overy
10.30 a.m. Drop-In at St Cuthbert’s Church

Friday. 14th May
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church

Monday, 17th May
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at St Cuthbert’s Church

NOTICES
Change of Services – Next Sunday, 16th May, the 10.30 a.m. service at St Cuthbert’s Church will be a Common Worship Holy Communion Service (NOT an All-Age Service). On Sunday, 23rd May, the 10.30 a.m. service at St Andrew’s, Burton Overy, will be an All-Age Service with Baptism (NOT an All-Age Communion). Please note that these changes have been made since the publication of the Church Magazine so we would be grateful if you could pass this news on to anyone who may not see this notice.

A full Choral Evensong will be held at St Catherine’s Church, Houghton-on-the-Hill at 6.30 p.m. on Sunday, 16th May with a choir of 30+ drawn from a number of our MP churches. If you would like to join the choir for this occasion, please contact Arthur Whitfield (259 2703). We have two of these big choral evensong services in the Mission Partnership each year, one in February and one in May, and they are really lovely services – do come and bring your friends, it’s open to anyone! Refreshments will be served after the service as it’s lovely to chat to friends from your own and other local churches – and the church has a toilet!

Ascension Day – We celebrate this with an early morning service at the top of the church tower in Burton Overy. Why not join us before you go to work – the service is at 7.30 a.m. and if you’ve time you can stop for breakfast at the Bloors’ house, The Springs in Carlton Lane. Climbing the tower is optional – the service is for two groups of people, one at the foot and one at the top of the tower. Ascension Day this year is on Thursday, 13th May. Roger Flowers will be leading the service as Mary will be away on a course (a great pity, she does enjoy it!).

All Sorts @ School – Our young families have requested that this be repeated so we have arranged for the next service to take place at St Cuthbert’s School on Thursday, 20th April, 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).

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 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.

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 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. If you can supply any home-made cakes or scones or be part of a team on the day, please contact Cee Martin on 259 3563. Any plants for the stall can be taken directly to Gill’s house and Gill has flyers or posters to advertise the event.

Lost In Song – Singing for children and families at Leicester Cathedral takes place on Friday, 4th June from 3 p.m. This is an opportunity to create an instant choir that will perform in Leicester Cathedral in the evening. With expert help from Sophie Pascall, Canon Stephen Foster, and Kainé, Leicester’s favourite gospel choir, a big and beautiful sound will be created. Cost is £3. per participant and further information and booking online at http://www/sparkfestival.co.uk/events,94.html

Lubenham Art Group – For the third successive year, Lubenham Art Group will be displaying their paintings and drawings in the Village Church on Sunday, 23rd May, from 2.30 p.m. until 5 p.m. The primary reason for the venue is to benefit the church funds from the sale of teas. Lubenham is less than two miles west of Market Harborough, and there can be very few more idyllic settings for summer Sunday tea than the medieval All Saints Church. There is plenty of room for parking and admission to the exhibition is free but sales of any original paintings or drawings will also benefit church funds.

Summer Serenade takes place on Friday, 21st May, at St John the Baptist, Old Dalby. The Revd Jeff Hopewell accompanied by the Revd Simon Lumby in a programme of English song, including Gilbert & Sullivan and Flanders & Swan. Also the Beaufort Wind Quintet. Tickets are £7.50 including a glass of wine and nibbles. Phone 01664 820064 or email jshopewell@btinternet.com

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:
“Why did they build so many ruined castles and abbeys in England?” - A tourist at Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire.

Proverb of the Week: “What dainty morsels rumours are – but they sink deep into one’s heart.” (Proverbs 18 v8)