News in the Pews

WEEK COMMENCING 16th MAY 2010


SERVICES 16th MAY 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



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


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

Tuesday, 18th May
7.30 p.m. Bible Study House Group meets at The Springs, Carlton Lane, Burton Overy

Wednesday, 19th May
9 a.m. Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Church
7 p.m. Wedding Rehearsal

Thursday, 20th May
10.30 a.m. Drop-In at St Cuthbert’s Church
1 p.m. Funeral of Michael Butterworth
3.30 p.m. All Sorts @ School (at St Cuthbert’s Primary School)
7.30 p.m. Glen PCC at St Cuthbert’s Vicarage

Friday. 21st May
2.30 p.m. Wedding of Paul Summerson and Tracy Teagle
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church

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

NOTICES
A full Choral Evensong will be held TONIGHT 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!

CHANGE OF SERVICE – Next 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 this change has been made since the publication of the Church Magazine so we would be grateful if you could pass this news onto anyone who may not see this notice.

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 MAY, 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.

Car Boot Sale – Forget school playgrounds, large anonymous car parks and early starts – 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, part of the Abbey’s regular fund-raising activities during the year, will take place as part of the Annual Flower Festival and Open Days over the late May 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 will also be a Preview Evening on Friday, 28th May, including a concert in the Medieval Chapel, with sparkling wine and canapés, tickets for which are available from the General Office at Launde at £12.50 each. For more information or to book a car boot pitch or a stall at the Craft Fair, please contact Suzanne on 01572 717 254. Unfortunately, no business traders are permitted in the car boot sale but business stalls will be available throughout the weekend in the Abbey grounds, payable in advance. All traders will be required to provide their own weather protection. Car Boot pitches cost £5. in advance and £7. on the day.

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: “A king who is fair to the poor will have a long reign.” (Proverbs 29 v14)