news in the pews

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 Service at Burton Overy       Leader:  The Revd Dr Bernard Higgins
SUNDAY 12th OCTOBER			TRINITY 17
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen       Celebrant: The Revd Canon Dr Stephen Foster
10.30 am	Harvest Festival Family Service with Methodists at Great Glen       Leader: The Revd Canon Dr Stephen Foster
6.30 pm	Harvest Evensong       Leaders: Angela/Roger
SUNDAY 19th OCTOBER			TRINITY 18
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Burton Overy       Celebrant: The Revd Canon Philip Norwood
10.30 am	Holy Communion at Great Glen Joint with Methodists       Celebrant: The Very Revd Derek Hole

 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 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.

Wednesday 8^th October

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

Friday 10^th October

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

Monday 13^th October

9.30 a.m.           Sparklers at the Methodist Church

Wednesday 15^th  October

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

Friday 17^th October

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

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!

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.

The late Rev Ian Phelps. Many will remember Ian who was priest in charge of seven Churches including Burton Overy in the 1990's.  Before that he served all his working life in this Diocese, including Youth Chaplain and Vicar of several parishes.  A memorial service will be held in St Andrew's on Saturday 25th October at 1.30 pm to which all are cordially invited.

Change of Service Sunday 19th October - the 8.30 service has been changed from the Church Magazine list of services and is now at Burton Overy.

Annual service celebrating lay ministry, including the admission, licensing and rededication of Readers and the service of commissioning and reaffirmation of ministry for Evangelists, Pastoral Assistants, Pioneers and Children and Youth Workers. Saturday 11th October 2014, 11am-12.30pm- Leicester Cathedral.  Booking not necessary

Events at Leicester Grammar School. 

Wednesday 15th October, 7.30pm, Andy Irvine & Donal Lunny's Mozaik -Recital Room.  For more details or to book see www.leicestergrammar.org.uk/lgs/noted

 

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.

Lifts to Services – If you need a lift to any of our services, please contact Richard Bloor (2592440) at Burton Overy and he will arrange one for you.

Greetings Cards  Please do have a look at the cards in church which are for sale.  There are several new ones.  Mother’s Union cards are priced at cost and that money goes towards funding Mother’s Union projects around the world. Some cards cover multiple needs.  “Thinking of you” could be in the loss of a loved one, or on an anniversary or because they are unwell.  Some cards are blank inside and some have a Christian message.  There are other cards in a separate box which are either handmade or from redundant stock for which we would appreciate a voluntary donation for church funds.

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, Heather Alexander, 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.

·         For the family and friends of teenager Alice Gross.

Thought for the day:  Why worry?  If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.     Walt Disney