news in the pews

SUNDAY 21st SEPTEMBER		TRINITY 14
8.30 am.	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen       Celebrant: The Revd Peter Hobson
10.30 am	Harvest Festival at Great Glen Methodist Chapel         Leader:  Methodist Minister
SUNDAY 28th  SEPTEMBER			TRINITY 15
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen       Celebrant: The Very Revd Derek Hole
10.30 am	Holy Communion (CW) at Burton Overy       Celebrant: The Very Revd Derek Hole
SUNDAY 5th OCTOBER			TRINITY 16
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen       Celebrant: The Revd Canon Philip Norwood
10.30 am	Harvest Festival at Burton Overy       Celebrant: The Revd Dr Bernard Higgins

 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 22^nd September

9.30 a.m.           Sparklers at the Methodist Church

2.15 p.m.           Flower arrangers’ meeting at Stretton Hall Farm

Wednesday 24^th September

9.30 a.m. Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Church

Thursday 25^th September

7.30 p.m.  St Cuthbert’s PCC Meeting at St Cuthbert’s Church

Friday 26^th September

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

Monday 29^th September

9.30 a.m.           Sparklers at the Methodist Church

Wednesday 1^st October

9.30 a.m.           Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Church

Thursday 2^nd October

10 a.m. Monthly drop in at St. Cuthbert's Church

Friday 3^rd October

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

Monday 6^th October

9.30 a.m.           Sparklers at the Methodist Church

Tuesday 7th October

7.30 p.m. Bible Study House Group at The Springs, Carlton Lane, Burton Overy.

NOTICES

Licensing Service for the Revd Kim Ford: Thursday 30 October at 7.30 p.m. in St Cuthbert’s Church.  If you will be coming to the service, could you please put your name on the list (on the table at the back of the church) by no later than Sunday 12 October.

A “plea” from Stephen Foster: Stephen would be very grateful if anyone could supply some little cakes to be given out on campus during International Week and Freshers week at the University of Leicester. These cakes are needed for weeks commencing Monday 22^nd and 29^th September.  They need to be little cakes so that small flags can be stuck in them advertising the Chaplaincy.  Please speak to Roger or Lyn.

Ride and Stride again enjoyed a beautiful sunny day and thank you to all those who supported this event in any way.  Dave Henson rode in aid of St Cuthbert's and with friends covered 25 miles, visiting 13 churches.  Nick Jones, Jo Taylor, Kelvin Broderick and Simon Gill rode in aid of St Andrew's, covering 44 miles and visiting 22 churches.  We have some very fit people around!  Thank you to all those who sponsored the riders and everyone who manned our churches and welcomed visitors.  Donations still welcome!

50^th Anniversary of the Leicestershire Historic Churches Trust and the 25^th Anniversary of Leicestershire Ride and Stride:  Thanksgiving Choral Evensong at St James the Greater Church on Sunday 28^th September at 6.30 p.m.  Guest Speaker – Bishop Emeritus Thomas McMahon, Vice President of the National Churches Trust.  For more information contact Janet Arthur on 0116 2793995 or email chairman@lhct.org.uk

Events at Leicester Grammar School.  You would be very welcome at any or indeed all of these events:

Tuesday 23rd September, 7.00pm: Concert given by LGS Music Staff - Recital Room - (Free admission)
Wednesday 24th September, 7.30pm: An Evening with Gervase Phinn - St.Nicholas Hall
Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th September: The Big Textiles Show

Thursday 2nd October, 7.30pm: O Duo Concert - Recital Room

For more details or to book see www.leicestergrammar.org.uk/lgs/noted or alternatively, for Music events, please contact Janet Carter on 0116 2591966 (mornings only) or email her at music@leicestergrammar.org.uk.  If you are interested in attending more than one of the Music events, special ticket prices are available on request. For other events, please contact Natalie Hunt on 0116 2591927 or email noted@leicestergrammar.org.uk

Drop-In at St Cuthbert's Church takes place on the first Thursday of each month at 10.0 – 11.30 a.m.

The Benefice Prayer Group will continue to meet on Wednesday mornings to pray for the people and issues in our churches, villages and the wider world.  There is a Prayer Request Box at the back of St Cuthbert’s Church – please do use it and encourage everyone to use it whether they share our faith and our church-going habits or not!

WHY NOT put an extra can or packet in your shopping basket to bring to church services.  St Cuthbert’s supports Leicester Cathedral’s Welcome Group for destitute asylum seekers and St Andrew’s supports a homeless charity.  Suggestions: rice, pasta (mainly spaghetti), oil, sugar, tea, coffee, tinned goods (tomatoes, fruit, meat, fish, baked beans and sweet corn), shampoo, shower-gel, toothpaste, deodorants, shaving cream/gel.

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.

 

Please pray:-

·         For David Neal, Peter Folwell, Phyllis Stanley, Margaret Wood, Peter Wood, Arthur Whitfield, Myra Humphrey, Rachel Stevens (the daughter of Bishop Tim and Wendi), Howard Bartlett and all who are ill.

·         For the people in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, and Gaza, that peace may return.

·         For the hostages held by IS militants.

Thought for the day: Be yourself no matter what other people think.  God made you the way you are for a reason.  Besides, an original is always worth more than a copy!