Wednesday, 31 December 2014

news in the pews




SUNDAY 4th JANUARY
2nd Sunday of Christmas 
8.30 am
10.30
Holy Communion (BCP) at Burton Overy
Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
 

TUESDAY 6th JANUARY
 
10.30 am
Epiphany Service at Great Glen
 
 
SUNDAY 11th JANUARY
BAPTISM OF CHRIST
8.30 am
Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
10.30 am
6.30 pm
Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
Evensong at Burton Overy
 
 

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

Tuesday 6th January 
7.30 p.m.  Bible Study House Group at The Springs, Carlton Lane, Burton Overy.
10.30 a.m. Epiphany Service at Great Glen

Wednesday 7th January
9.00 am Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Church

Friday 9th January
7.15 pm  Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church
DROP-IN AT ST CUTHBERT'S CHURCH 
There will be no Thursday drop-in during December and January.

MORNING PRAYER
Mondays and Tuesdays – 8.40 a.m. at St Peter’s;
Wednesdays and Thursdays – 8.30 am at *St Cuthbert’s;
Fridays and Saturdays – 8.40 am at St Paul’s.

*There will still be a prayer meeting at St Cuthbert’s on Wednesdays at 9.00 am.  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

ST CUTHBERT’S CHURCH.will be open on Saturday 20th December from 2.0 – 4.0 pm.  Come and relax have a cup of tea or coffee and a seasonal treat while the children engage in crafts or enjoy playing.

TEAM ALPHA COURSE- Do you have questions about life and what Christianity means? Would you like to refresh the basics of your faith? Then the Alpha Course is just the right place to do both. The taster evening is on the 7th of January from 7pm to 9pm at St Paul's in Oadby. You can come and see if it is for you, there is no obligation. If you have any question please call Kim on 0116 2592238 or see her after a service.

EPIPHANY SERVICE 6th JANUARY Although we no longer have a branch of Mother’s Union in our benefice, there are still several people who belong to this organisation and we are hosting this service to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany.  We shall be inviting members from across the deanery to join us at this service and would love to see others of our congregations here to welcome them.

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 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.

CARPARKING ON CHURCH ROAD  For safety reasons, please do not park too close to the old A6.  As a guide, cars should not be parked beyond the last street lamp at the top of Church Road on the Church side.

Please pray:-

·         For Peter Folwell, Margaret Wood, Peter Wood, Arthur Whitfield, Myra Humphrey, Rachel Stevens (the daughter of Bishop Tim and Wendi),  Heather Alexander, Chris Taylor, Margaret Bannister, Christine Higgins, and all who are ill.
 
·         For the people in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, and Gaza, and all other places of conflict in the world, that peace may return.
 
·         For the hostages held by IS militants.
 
·         For all those suffering from the Ebola virus and the aid workers who are treating them.

 

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