News in the Pews

SERVICES SUNDAY 6th NOVEMBER

3 BEFORE ADVENT - GLEN THANKSGIVING 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 Canon David Monteith

The Vicar

SERVICES SUNDAY 13th NOVEMBER

2 BEFORE ADVENT - REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

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

Celebrant The Vicar

10.50 a.m. Remembrance Service at Great Glen

Leader The Vicar

6.30 p.m. Remembrance Service at Burton Overy

Leader The Vicar

Preacher Roger Flowers


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, 7th November
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church Hall

Wednesday, 9th November
9 a.m. Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Vicarage
10.30 a.m. Funeral of Phyllis Bishop (97) at St Cuthbert’s Church

Thursday, 10th November
10.30 a.m. Drop-In at St Cuthbert’s Church

Friday, 11th November
12.30 p.m. Mayhem Munchies at Methodist Church Hall
6.30 p.m. Remembrance Rehearsal at St. Cuthbert’s Church
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church

Sunday, 13th November
7.30 p.m. Ignition at Burton Overy Village Hall

Monday, 14th November
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church Hall


FUTURE EVENTS

Tuesday, 15th November at 7.30 p.m. – Bible Study House Group meets at The Springs, Carlton Lane, Burton Overy

Tuesday.22nd November at 7.30 p.m. – Burton Overy PCC at The Springs, Carlton Lane, Burton Overy

Thursday, 24th November at 7.30 p.m. – Great Glen PCC at St Cuthbert’s Vicarage

Saturday, 26th November 10am-3p.m. – St Cuthbert’s School Craft Fair



NOTICES

A delightful letter of thanks has been received from Head Teacher, Mark Ingham, of Uplands Infant School in Leicester who are so grateful for the Harvest Festival collection at Burton Overy which enables their annual visit to Craig Langton’s farm to take place.

Sunday Breakfast at St Cuthbert’s Church – We will not be able to have our monthly Sunday Breakfast on the second Sunday of November as the church will be full of chairs for the Remembrance Service. The only other Sunday in November where both 8.30 and 10.30 services are at Glen is the 20th November when Mary will be in Somerset for her grandson’s baptism. Would anyone be willing to organise breakfast in church that day?

Items for the Parish Magazine – Please contact Dirne Spearing on 279 3311 or by email at insideoutgg@hotmail.co.uk

God, the Universe and Everything (The Bishop’s Lay Congress 2011) is on Saturday, 26th November, from 9.30 a.m. until 3.45 p.m. at The Samworth Enterprise Academy, Trenant Road, Leicester, LE2 6TF. Are science and Christianity compatible? Spend a day looking at how Christianity and science relate to each other.

PROGRAMME
9.30 – 10.00 Arrival and registration
10.00 – 10.30 Opening Worship and Introductions
10.30 – 11.15 Key Note One: Denis Alexander and Ruth Bancewicz: Science and faith – the big picture.
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee
11.45 – 12.30 Key Note Two: Rodney Holder and Ruth Bancewicz: Is the universe designed?
12.30 – 13.15 Lunch (please bring your own)
13.15 – 14.15 Choose from four workshops :-

(a) Denis Alexander : Creation or Evolution – Do we have to choose?
(b) Rodney Holder: Cosmology and the Big Bang
(c) Hilary Marlow: Caring for God’s World
(d) Ruth Bancewicz: Contemporary issues in Science and

Christianity
14.15 – 15.00 Q & As
15.00 – 15.45 Closing Worship

Places are free. To book yourself a place, please email Claire Stapleton at St Martins House, Claire.Stapleton@LecCofE.org with your full name, postal address, the church you worship at and your workshop choice or call 0116 261 5317.


Cards for Good Causes – The Charity Christmas Card Shop was officially opened in Leicester Cathedral on Monday, 24th October. The shop is open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Mondays to Saturdays and will remain open until Wednesday, 14th December. At least 75p in every £1 from card sales is donated to about 25 national and local charities. The shop also sells a wide range of gifts suitable for all ages and items suitable for stocking fillers, wrapping paper and Advent Calendars. Please go along to support your favourite charity.

Great Glen Charity – There is money to hep people buy vital new equipment such as a washing machine if they’re stuck for funds so if ever you hear a comment like “I don’t know how I’m going to manage without ...”, please get in touch with the Vicar or one of the other trustees.

Mothers’ Union Vacancy for Part-time Office Administrator – 9 hours per week spread over Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for 44 weeks of the year in a very busy office where interaction with members is the norm. Good English, basic numeracy and good knowledge of computing using Microsoft software is required. Application forms and job descriptions can be obtained from the Mothers’ Union Office in St Martins House or by telephone or email.

Lunchtime Organ Recital given by Geoffrey Clarke takes place at
St Margaret’s Church, Leicester on Thursday, 10th November from 1 p.m. until 1.30 p.m. (approx). Admission free. Tea and coffee provided.

Humour is a gift – Through a child’s eyes:
“Dear God, we read Thomas Edison made light. But in Sunday School they said you did it. I bet he stoled your idea. Sincerely, Donna”

Hearing Loop – St Andrew’s Church at Burton Overy now has a hearing loop. If you wear a hearing aid, adjust the switch to the T position.

Please pray:-
• For all who are ill or suffering
• For those who are grieving loved ones.
• For all those having difficulty moving house.
• For justice in the global economic system and wisdom for its leaders.
• For those coping with floods in Thailand and the Pacific island of Tuvalu under threat from rising sea levels.

Proverb of the Week:
“Only the wise can give good advice; fools cannot do so.”(Proverbs 15 v 7)