News in the Pews

 

SUNDAY 14th FEBRUARY           1st SUNDAY OF LENT
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
10.30 am	Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
6.30 pm	Evensong at Burton Overy
SUNDAY 21st FEBRUARY           2nd SUNDAY OF LENT
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
10.30 am	Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
SUNDAY 28th FEBRUARY           3rd SUNDAY OF LENT
8.30 am	Holy 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 15^th February

2.00 pm           Funeral – Alan Selway

Tuesday 16^th February

7.30 pm        Bible Study House Group at the Springs, Burton Overy

Wednesday 17th February

9.00 am           Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s

 

Thursday 18^th February

10–11.30 am     Drop-In at St Cuthbert’s

12 noon            Funeral – Colin Lacey

7.30 pm           Lent Course in the Methodist Hall

Friday 19^th February

7.15 pm           Choir Practice at Great Glen

Saturday 20^th February

9.00 am           New Year Vision meeting at the Barnabas Centre

Monday 22^nd February

9.30 am           Sparklers

Wednesday 24^th February

9.00 am           Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s

9.30 am           Toddler Cafe

7.30 PM          Ladies Night Out at the Pug and Greyhound

Thursday 25^th February

7.30pm            Lent Course in the Methodist Hall

Friday 26^th February

7.15 pm           Choir Practice at Great Glen

 

NOTICES

LAST CHANCE TO JOIN US FOR THE VISION SETTING DAY FOR ST CUTHBERT'S! We are gathering at the Barnabas Centre in Oadby on the 20th February to look towards what the Lord would have for us in the future. Please consider coming so as a congregation we can pray and talk together and go forward in the Lord. It will start and 9:00 am with coffee and 9:30 will begin with Rev Dr Stuart Burns speaking to us and setting out the day.

CHURCH WARDENS! I would like people at St Cuthbert's to consider if they would like to take on the role of church warden. We will need two church wardens as of April, and I am looking for those who will join me as a team to bring the church forward in the future God is calling us to. We have a lot of back up through those on the PCC and many people who have years of experience to help if anything gets tricky. Ideally it would be lovely to have extras as well who would consider being assistant wardens who can than take over once the others step down in three years time. Please pray and consider whether or not God is calling you to this role, to becoming part of the team who can help shape the vision for us as church. If you're interested please come and speak to Kim. 

LENT COURSE: we begin our Lent Course this Thursday at the Methodist church at 7:30 pm. We are looking at the generous heart of God and how he wants us to grow in our generosity. So please join us each Thursday in Lent. 

LADIES NIGHT OUT EVENINGS will be Wednesdays, 24^th February at the Pug and Greyhound and 16^th March at the Yews, 7.30pm. Both pubs are in Great Glen. Please see me in church, or contact me, to reserve your place hensonc@talk21.com  0116 2403368. This is a lovely opportunity to share a meal and have fellowship. Carole Henson.

THANK YOU Bernard and Christine Higgins would like to thank everybody for their prayers, help and support over the last month or so and especially those who have shopped, given lifts and brought us lovely meals ready to eat. Not only have we enjoyed the food but also found it an opportunity to get to know people better. As a token of our appreciation, we have given a gift of money to the UNICEF Syrian refugee appeal. Thank you again and God bless. 

CHURCH BREAKFAST  The date for the March church breakfast after the 8.30am BCP service is the 13^th – always the second Sunday in the month, excepting November. All welcome.

WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER. This year’s service takes place on Friday 4th March at the Methodist  Church at 2.15pm and has been prepared by the Christian women of Cuba.  Everyone is welcome.

AMENDMENT Please excuse the mistaken date in the  recent Church magazine. The next Time of Quiet Prayer  and Meditation  will be on March 2nd from 3.30 to 4.30 at our house -20, Kingfisher Close.  We will then choose another date for  April  Please contact  Christine Higgins  on 259 2624 for more information  or just  come  along

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:-

·         Paul Amos, Margaret Bannister, Judy Fowell, Christine Higgins, Bernard Higgins, Will Johnston, Peter and his wife Pat (the brother and sister in law of Heather Selvey-Willars), Elizabeth Tacey, Martin Tacey, and all who are ill. 

·         the souls of Joan Barwell, Fred Gambold, Colin Lacey, Ian Patterson and Alan Selway

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