News in the Pews

SUNDAY 8th FEBRUARY		2nd SUNDAY BEFORE LENT
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
10.30 a.m.	Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
6.30 p.m.	Evensong at Burton Overy
SUNDAY 15th FEBRUARY		SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE LENT
8.30 a.m.	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen       Celebrant:       Rev’d Dr Bernard Higgins
10.30 a.m.	Holy Communion Service United Service at Methodist Church       Celebrant:       Rev’d Gordon Webb
WEDNESDAY 18th FEBRUARY		ASH WEDNESDAY
7.30 p.m.	Holy Communion Service (CW) with Methodists at St Cuthbert’s
SUNDAY 22nd FEBRUARY		1st SUNDAY OF LENT
8.30 am	Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
10.30 am	Holy Communion (CW) at Burton Overy
6.30 pm	Evensong at Great Glen

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 9^th February

9.30 a.m.  Sparklers at Methodist Church

Wednesday 11^th February

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

7.30 p.m.  Deanery Synod at Kibworth Church Hall

Thursday 12^th February

7.30 p.m. Burton Overy District Church Council at Illston Grange

Friday 13^th February

7.15 pm  Choir Practice at Great Glen

Wednesday 18^th  February

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

7.30 p.m. Lent Course at St Cuthbert’s Church

Thursday 19^th February

10.30 a.m. Friendship Club meet at Cantu, Beadswell Lane, Burton Overy

Friday 20^th February

7.15 pm        Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church

Tuesday 24^th February

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

N.B.  No Sparklers on Monday 16^th February (Half term)

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.

 NOTICES

ST CUTHBERT'S AGM Sunday 12^th April,6:30 pm at the church: This year we will open with a short act of worship followed by a time of fellowship and refreshment of wine and nibbles.  It is a time for all of us to gather, to chat and to look back at the year that has gone.  I would love to have as many of you with us as possible so that I can share a vision and hope for the year ahead of us.  Hope to see you there!

LENT COURSE will begin with our Ash Wednesday service on the 18th of February at St Cuthbert's. The theme this year is 'God has no Favourites.' The following 5 Wednesdays will be held at the Methodist Church at 7:30 and on the 5th week we will be having Revd Michael Rusk as our guest speaker.  There should be some good lively and helpful discussions as we delve into the ways in which we engage with those from other faiths.

VICAR'S LETTER please make sure you pick up a letter from Kim.  It has areas to think about being involved in and how you can be a more active part of our church family as we move ahead into new vision and hope as a benefice.

CHURCH BREAKFAST takes place after the 8.30am service on the second Sunday in the month at St Cuthbert’s.  We have coffee and croissants during an informal fellowship time, where we chat and share news and have a laugh!  All are welcome.  The next breakfast will be on 8^th March.

CORRECTION TO CHURCH MAGAZINE the Church will be open for Drop in on Thursday 5^th March from 10.0 a.m. – 11.30a.m.

VERGERS   We would like to update our list of Vergers for Weddings and Funerals (a fee is payable).  Additional volunteers would be very welcome.  The duties include: opening and closing the Church, setting up the Church, putting out and collecting the parking bollards and assisting the congregation as necessary.  We particularly need help for Saturday Weddings.  Please contact David Webster (2593717) for further details.

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. 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.

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.

 

Please pray for:-

·         Margaret Wood, Peter Wood, Arthur Whitfield, Heather Alexander, Margaret Bannister, Christine Higgins, Kimberley Tyler, Alan Selway, Marion Frost and all who are ill.

·         the people in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, and Gaza, and all other places of conflict in the world, that peace may return.

·         the hostages held by IS militants.

·         those held hostage by Boko Haram in Nigeria and Cameroon

·         all those suffering from the Ebola virus and the aid workers who are treating them.

·         for the work of the General Synod who meet in London next week - February 10th -12th.