News in the pews

SERVICES SUNDAY              2nd DECEMBER            ADVENT SUNDAY

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.   Christmas Tree Festival Carols at Burton Overy

 

6.30 p.m.   Candlelit Advent Service of Light at Great Glen

                  Leader        Roger Flowers

 

SERVICES SUNDAY            9th DECEMBER               ADVENT 2

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

                   Celebrant   The Vicar

 

10.30 a.m.  Morning Service followed by lunch at Glen Methodist Church

                  Leader        Revd Stuart Jennings

 

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, 3rd December

9.30 a.m.  Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church Hall

Wednesday, 5th December

9 a.m.       Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Vicarage

3.30 p.m.  Messy Church in the Art Room at St Cuthbert's Primary School

Friday, 7th December

7.15 p.m.  Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church

Monday, 11th December

9.30 a.m.  Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church Hall

 

 

FUTURE EVENTS

Sunday, 16th December - Breakfast in church between 8.30 a.m. and
10.30 a.m. services at St Cuthbert's Church

Wednesday, 19th December at 6.30 p.m. - Carol Service by Candlelight at St Mary the Virgin Church, Carlton Curlieu

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICES

Christmas Tree Festival Carols end the Christmas Tree Festival tonight at 6.30 p.m. in St Andrew's Church featuring The Spectaculars Community Choir.

Advent Service of Light - This lovely candlelit service will be held tonight at St Cuthbert's Church at 6.30 p.m. This is a service of Advent music and readings and will be led by the Choir.  Do come and bring your friends.

Christingle Service - Please can you bring unwrapped toys (new or good-as-new) for Women's Aid who will give them as Christmas presents to children who have to leave home suddenly over the festive season.  Please can you also bring money for the collection which will be sent to The Children's Society who do so much to help disadvantaged children.

Lunch at Methodist Church – next Sunday, 9^th December, we are sharing a lunch with our Methodist friends after the 10.30am United Service at their church.  They are hoping to provide a hot main course and would like us to provide desserts.  As we need some idea of numbers please could you let Mary know if you might be going, and also if you can provide a dessert.

Burton Overy Christmas Lunch 2012 - This is on Sunday, 9th December, at 12.30 p.m.  The cost is £8.50 per adult and £4 for under 12s (under 2s are free).  Bring your own drinks.  For more information and tickets, please contact Jane Chandler on 259 3223.  We are hoping for a visit from Santa again this year!

Food for the Homeless - Please can you bring non-perishable food items to church so people have food to eat over Christmas.

Christmas Concert at St Andrew's - On Tuesday, 18th December, at 7.30 p.m. Mosaic, a choir of eight voices, will be singing beautiful carols from six centuries, Renaissance, Polyphony, Christmas Spirituals, German, Spanish, Italian, English Carols;  classical and modern settings.  All proceeds to Death Watch Beetle Fund.  Tickets (to include a glass of wine and canapés) £8.  Available from Robert Brown (259 3184).

Cards for Good Causes - The multi-charity Christmas card shop is now open at Leicester Cathedral - Mondays to Saturdays from 10 a.m. until
4 p.m.  At least 75p in every pound goes to the charity - unlike charity cards sold in shops where only a few pence goes to the charity.  The shop is open until the 15th December.

Christmas Greetings - There will be a board available in the entrance to St Cuthbert's Church from Thursday, 29th November, so that we can pin a card to the board to send our Christmas greetings to each other.  The money that we save on sending individual cards will be donated to The Children's Society.  We did this last year and it was quite a success.

 

Wallet returned - We have received a kind donation of £20 from the young man whose wallet we returned after Graham Wearne found it outside St Cuthbert's Church

Carol Services - All are welcome to any of the following:-

Wednesday, 12th December at 7.30 p.m. : Carol Service at The Royal Oak, Great Glen

Friday, 14th December at 7.30 p.m. : Leicester Rotary Club Carol Service at St Cuthbert's Church

Sunday, 16th December at 6.30 p.m. : Carol Service at Glen Methodist Church

Wednesday, 19th December at 6.30 p.m. : Carols by Candlelight at Carlton Curlieu Church

Sunday, 23rd December at 6.30 p.m. : Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at St Cuthbert's Church

Christmas Eve at 4 p.m. : Family Carol Service at Burton Overy Church.

 

Lost key - A silver 5 lever key with a blue tab (with gold Viking head embossed on it) has been found.  If you know anyone who has lost such a key, please contact David Graves on 271 4420.

Sound System and Hearing Loop for St Cuthbert's Church - Following several requests for a hearing loop to be installed in St Cuthbert's Church, the PCC has obtained a quote for £3,800 to install a new sound system complete with hearing loop and radio microphone so you can hear the priest leading the service whether they are up at the altar, in the pulpit or anywhere else in church.  The quote is from the highly recommended firm who installed the system at Burton Overy.  The church can use a legacy of £1,000. and Libby Carr's generous donation of £750. (Leicester Grammar School payment for car parking in her field).  The vicar has agreed to make a substantial donation if others will also make donations to enable us to purchase this system.

Humour is a gift – True sentence typed by a medical secretary:  "The patient has no previous history of suicide."

Hearing Loop – St Andrew’s Church at Burton Overy has a hearing loop as part of the loudspeaker system.  If you wear a hearing aid, adjust the switch to the T position and you will hear the service clearly.

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 and they will arrange one for you.

Please pray:-

·         For Richard Shepherd, John Spencer, Myra Humphrey, Joyce Whelband, Judith Buffrey’s grandson Joel, Marion McArragher, and all who are ill.

·         For the bereaved and all who are struggling with the thought of preparing for Christmas.

·         For everyone to enjoy the true meaning of Christmas.

·         For those affected by the recent flooding.

·         For a way to peace in Syria and Gaza.

 

Proverb of the Week:  “The glory of the young is their strength; the grey hair of experience is the splendour of the old.” (Proverbs 20 v 29)