SERVICES SUNDAY 12th JANUARY BAPTISM OF CHRIST
Celebrant The Revd Dr Stephen Foster
10.30 a.m. Holy
Communion(CW) at Great Glen
Celebrant The Revd Dr Stephen Foster
6.30 p.m. Evensong at Burton Overy
Leader Roger Flowers
SERVICES SUNDAY 19th JANUARY EPIPHANY 2
Celebrant The Revd Nicky McGinty
10.30 a.m. Christian
Unity Service at Great Glen Methodist Church
Leader The Revd Gordon Webb
6.30 p.m. MP
Evensong at Great Glen
Leader Roger Flowers
SERVICES SUNDAY 26th JANUARY EPIPHANY 3
Celebrant A Cathedral Priest
10.30 a.m. Holy Communion (CW) at Burton Overy
Celebrant The Revd Peter Taylor
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, 13th January
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church
3.30 p.m. Messy Church at St Cuthbert's School
7.30 p.m. Special PCC Meeting at St Cuthbert's
Church
Wednesday, 15th January
9 a.m. Prayer Group at 2 Stonehill Drive, Great Glen
Friday, 17th January
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert's Church
Monday, 20th January
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church
Tuesday,
21st January
7.30 p.m. The Bible
Study House Group meets at The Springs, Carlton Lane,
Burton Overy
Burton Overy
Wednesday, 22nd January
9 a.m. Prayer Group at 56 Coverside Road, Great Glen
Thursday, 23rd January
7.30 p.m. PCC Meeting at St Cuthbert's Church
Friday, 24th January
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert's Church
Monday, 27th January
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church
FORTHCOMING
EVENTS
The
next Area Choral Evensong takes place at St Cuthbert's Church, Great Glen
on Sunday, 16th February at 6.30 p.m.
There will be a choir of over 30 choristers and the service will be led
by the Rev Canon Philip Norwood.
Concert
at St Cuthbert's on 22nd March 2014 - We have booked Yvonne Bloor, an
accomplished classical guitarist and composer to give a concert.
Yvonne
has given concerts in many parts of the UK and abroad and her CD "Promise"
was released last December. It promises
to be an entertaining concert given by a very high-quality artist. It will also be a fund raising event
for the Parish. Please put this date
into your diaries now. Full details of
the arrangements for the concert will be announced shortly.
NOTICES
Thursday
Drop-In at St Cuthbert's - Just a reminder that the Thursday Drop-In does
not take place during December, January and February. We would then appreciate offers from
volunteers to help man it. If you could
help, please let Amy Cook know.
News
from Burton Overy - St Andrew's had another very successful Christmas Tree
Festival in December. The net profit was
£9,200. The Mosaic Concert raised
£490. The Christmas Eve Carol Service,
the attendance figures for which broke all records, raised £490 which is all
being donated to the Christian Aid Fund to be used for the Philippines Disaster
Relief Work. Thank you to everyone who
helped make the Advent and Christmas Festivals such a wonderful success. In addition, thanks to Sally Muir who has
raised £373 to date from the sale of jigsaw puzzles showing a picture of St
Andrew's Church. There are still some
left over for sale!
A
copy of the Report from the General Synod Meeting in November,
with special reference to the position reached regarding Women Bishops, is in
the blue folder on the table in St Cuthbert's Church for anyone to read.
The
Philippines Bucket Appeal - A further £24.25 has now been forwarded to this
Appeal from money donated in the bucket at the back of St Cuthbert's Church.
The
Bible Study House Group meets at The Springs, Carlton Lane, Burton Overy
on Tuesday, 21st January, at 7.30 p.m.
Do come along - we always have a lively discussion.
Canon
Mary Lawson
- It has been announced that Canon Mary Lawson will be resigning from her post
as the Diocesan Director of Education at the end of January in order to return
to a school headship. There will be a
farewell event to express our thanks to Mary at St Martin's House on Thursday,
30th January at 6.30 p.m. If you would
like to attend, please let Emma Cottis know - emma.cottis@leccofe.org Also if you would like to contribute to a
farewell gift, please send contributions to Emma Cottis, St Martin's House, 7 Peacock Lane, Leicester,
LE1 5PZ (cheques payable to Leicester Diocesan Board of Education.
Coffee
Morning at St Margaret's Church, Leicester takes place on Saturday, 1st February from
10 a.m. until 12 noon. Many stalls
including a raffle. Refreshments
available. Admission free.
Pudding
Nights at Launde Abbey - If the pudding course is always the best part
of the meal for you, why not go along to Launde Abbey and indulge yourself
properly. Enjoy a modest savoury first
course followed by six delicious puddings, until you have to say "I'm
full!". Price £20. per person. 7.30 p.m. for 7.45 p.m. supper. Dates available :- 13th February, 13th March,
3rd April, 22nd May, 19th June, and 24th July.
Please contact suzanne@launde.org.uk to add your name.
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.
Hearing Loop – If you wear a
hearing aid at St Cuthbert's or St Andrew's, adjust the switch to the T
position and you will hear the service clearly.
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
– Misprinted Classifieds: "Dinner
Special - Turkey £5.50; Chicken or Beef £4.50;
Children £2.00."
Please pray:-
·
For Laura and Michael Record on the premature
birth of their son, James.
·
For Phyllis Stanley, Keith Blythe, Arthur
Whitfield (knee op on Tuesday), Peter Wood, John Spencer, Myra Humphrey, Judith
Buffrey’s grandson Joel, Rachel Stevens, and all who are ill.
·
That 2014 may be a year of hope for us all and
that peace may return to all the troubled countries of the Middle East.
·
For all those affected by the terrible floods
which many parts of this country are suffering from at the moment and for all
those affected by the big freeze in parts of the USA.
Proverb
of the Week: “The Lord sees what
happens everywhere; he is watching us
whether we do good or evil.” (Proverbs 15 v3)
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