News in the Pews

SERVICES SUNDAY 4th DECEMBER
ADVENT 2

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

6 p.m. Christmas Tree Festival Carols at Burton Overy

Leader The Vicar


SERVICES SUNDAY 11th DECEMBER
ADVENT 3

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

4 p.m. Christingle Service at Great Glen

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, 5th December
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church Hall
7.30 p.m. Glen PCC and Methodist Stewards meeting at Methodist Church

Wednesday, 7th December
9 a.m. Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Vicarage

Thursday, 8th December
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church

Friday, 9th December
10.45 a.m. Christingle-making at St Cuthbert’s School
12.30 p.m. Mayhem Munchies at Glen Methodist Church Hall
7.30 p.m. Leicester Rotary Club Carol Service at St Cuthbert’s Church – ALL WELCOME

Sunday, 11th December
7.30 p.m. Ignition at Burton Overy Village Hall


NOTICES

Christmas Card Board at St Cuthbert’s Church – Why not put up a single Christmas card to all church friends and donate the money you save on cards (and postage) to the Children’s Society? Jennie Wearne is organising this on the notice board above the wooden chest in the porch.

Our Christingle Service is next Sunday, 11th December at 4 p.m. Do bring your children and grandchildren and encourage your friends and neighbours to come too. St Cuthbert’s Primary School choir will be singing for us and it’s a magical service, especially when the lights go out and the children’s faces are lit up by their christingle candles! Please bring unwrapped new (or good as new) toys for Women’s Aid. The collection will be given to the Children’s Society.

Sunday Breakfast at St Cuthbert’s Church - Come and enjoy eating breakfast with friends after the 8.30 a.m. service next Sunday, 11th December.

Cards for Good Causes – Charity Christmas Card Shops are open in Leicester Cathedral and in St. Dionysius Church, Market Harborough until Wednesday, 14th December.

Church Cleaning at St Cuthbert’s Church – Thank you to all those people who have taken a turn at keeping our church clean and tidy during this year. There is now a new list for people to volunteer to clean the Church during 2012. The dates are in a fortnightly format. It would be very nice to see some new names. This year, there were only six people involved including two men but 38 weeks of the year were covered by just two people.

Mince Pies – As has become our tradition, we shall be having mulled wine and mince pies after the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at St Cuthbert’s Church on Sunday evening, the 18th December. If you are kindly able to provide any mince pies, please would you let Amy Cook or Moira Bartlett know as soon as possible and also indicate how many you will be providing so that we can avoid having a huge surplus.

Great Glen Village Hall Film Shows – The next film show which is “It’s a Wonderful Life” is on Saturday, 17th December, at 2.30 p.m. Tickets cost £4. and are on sale approximately three weeks before the show date at the Post Office. All profits go to the Village Hall funds.

Women’s Aid – Women’s Aid were very grateful for the gifts of produce from our Harvest Festival. I hope you read the letter of thanks that was on the notice board. We also like to send them some little extras for Christmas as well as our continual support for the Leicester Welcome group. They would like non-perishable goods such as packet and tinned food, biscuits, jam, tinned fruit, tinned meat, etc and toiletries. Please add a little something to the box which is always in church for donations. The last date for delivery before Christmas will be Sunday, 18th December. (Hopefully I do empty the box every Sunday so that donations get to where they are intended). Thank you. Amy

A Christmas Pantomime called Lad in a Manger is being performed in St Wilfrid’s Church, Kibworth at 7.30 p.m. on Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th December – your vicar is an ass. Do come and enjoy the show. Children will enjoy it and it’s not very long. Tickets from Mary. Suggested donation £4 each or whatever you can pay.

Follow That Star – The renowned Kingfisher Chorale will be celebrating Christmas again with a programme of music and readings in St Wilfrid’s Church, Kibworth on Saturday, 10th December, at 7.30 p.m. Tickets £8. from Kibworth PO, John Cox 279 6140 or Roger Whiteway 279 2543.

Christmas Tree Festivals Sat 10th & Sun 11th Dec: All Saints' Church, Wigston Magna 10am-3.30pm. St. Peters Church, Tilton on the Hill 10.30am – 6.30pm

New Launde Abbey Programme ready. New retreats and events including a Taize Weekend, Gardening Holiday and a Healing retreat for the victims of crime. Also Quiet Days and holidays. The programme can be downloaded from the website www.laundeabbey.org.uk or obtained from the General Office at Launde on 01572 717 254 or by emailing suzanne@launde.org.uk

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. 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.

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.

Humour is a gift –
Q. What kind of man was Boaz before he married Ruth?
A. Ruthless

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 our preparations for Christmas, for schools and young families, that December is more joy and less stress.
• For wisdom concerning our relationship with Iran.
• For our leading economists as they try to decide how best to tackle our country’s and the world’s financial problems.

Proverb of the Week: “Don’t bother rebuking mockers; they will only hate you. But the wise, when rebuked, will love you all the more.” (Proverbs 9 v 8)