Sunday 5th
January - Epiphany
Collect
for Today
Creator
of the heavens,
who
led the Magi by a star
to
worship the Christ-child:
guide
and sustain us,
that
we may find our journey’s end
in
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
Post
Communion Prayer
Lord
God,
the
bright splendour whom the nations seek:
may
we who with the wise men have been drawn by your light
discern
the glory of your presence in your Son,
the
Word made flesh, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
Services
Today
St
Andrew’s 8.00am Holy
Communion
St
Cuthbert’s 9.15am Epiphany
Family Service
St
Cuthbert’s 10.45am Holy Communion
NOTICES
Bible Study House Group
Next meeting on Tuesday 7th January at 7.30pm
at The Springs, Carlton Lane, Burton Overy.
Ladies
Night Out:-
Mo and Carole hopes you all a happy and peaceful New
Year, and look forward to meeting up again for Ladies Night Out at the Oadby
Grange Farm pub at 7pm on Wednesday 15th January 2020
For more information, or to book your place and ask
for a lift (if needed) contact:
Bible Reading Fellowship
Please could you look at the back of church for the Bible Reading
Fellowship reading notes starting in January.
There are 2 spare copies which anyone is very welcome to take home
to use free of charge. If you decide you would like to buy further copies then
please contact Christine Higgins Tel: 259 2624
Fund
Raiser, Coffee Morning with Isaac, Saturday 25th January 10:30 am at
St Cuthbert’s. As part of his journey, Isaac would like to share
some of the things he has been up to while he has been in the Community. He
will come and share some of his stories and show a few pictures of the work he
has done. Also as part of the time spent there he would like to raise a bit of
money to help the community keep going so there will be a box for donations if
you would like to give.
There will also be a box for prayer requests if
there is anything specific the community can lift in prayer on your behalf.
Hope you can join us!
Please
Pray for:
· Mollie Alexander
· Elizabeth Tacey
· Andrew and Mary Porter
· Christine Higgins
· Dave and Helen
· Chris Hadley
·
Chris
Hollick
·
Joan
Stephens
·
Arlene
Hansen
ALPHA
Course starting in January.
I want to thank all of you who have shown interest
in the Alpha course, unfortunately we don’t have enough people to initiate the
course at this time. However, we just need to postpone it until after Easter.
This will give us time to do a bit more advertising and get the word out so we
can get a larger group of people. I do apologise to those who did sign up, from
experience I find Alpha more impactful when there is a good group of people. So
I hope you can wait just a couple of months and join us again. Please do spread
the word and hopefully we can get a group from the village and the church.
Dear Church Family,
Charlie, Josiah, Isaac and I would like to wish you
all a Very Happy New Year! I know that Christmas may have come with many mixed
emotion both joyful and sad so we hope that your journey thus far finds you
knowing God’s amazing grace and his peace.
I want to add a personal thank you to all of you who
have journeyed with me this year. I have seen some ups and downs and you have
all been there to encourage me, pray for me and walk alongside me and I can’t
thank you enough for your support and I look forward to a fresh new start in
2020.
My hope and vision for 2020 is to see all of us
engaged in mission, to see God work in new ways in our community. Unfortunately
we have to postpone our Alpha group at the moment but it will go ahead just
after Easter. So please do hold space in your diary to join us.
We are also looking into the possibility of building
a ‘missional hub.’ The idea of that is to use it to bless the community. There
could be a hall for us to use for the Sunday school and maybe eventually a play
school. We would also love to have a church office, a prayer room and a coffee
area. If we get the permission for the land it could mean extra parking as
well. The heart behind this adventure would be to open our doors to the
community in a new way. A place to drop in and have a coffee, say a prayer,
rent the hall for different events and so much more. We want to see it as a
place to come and just be, to have a place to chat or sit quietly and pray with
people coming and going.
Also as Sarah has begun her curacy she has a lot of
different ideas that we can see reaching out to different aspects of our
village such as ‘forest school.’ And with Linda also we hope to develop new and
exciting opportunities for our children. If you would like to be a part of any
of these adventures please do talk to myself, Sarah or Linda.
Most of all my heart is to see God move in and
through us that we might see a difference in our lives and the lives of those
around us. As you go into this New Year, I hope you will take time to pray and
see how God might show you and how you can be a part of all he is doing.
May you know God’s peace in this coming Year and may
he bless your coming in and your going out.
With Love and Prayers for you all,
Kim
DIARY
Monday
6th January
9.45am No Sparklers due
to teacher training day
Tuesday
7th January
7.30pm Bible Study House
Group at The Springs
Wednesday
8th January
9.00am Prayers
for the Benefice at St Cuthbert’s
10.00am Sparklers
at St Cuthbert’s
Friday
10th January
7.00pm Choir
Practice St Cuthbert’s Church
Sunday
12th January – Baptism of Christ
St
Cuthbert’s 8.00am Holy
Communion/BCP Breakfast
St
Cuthbert’s 9.15am Morning
Worship Service
With
Baptism – Reuben Tacey
St
Cuthbert’s 10.45am Holy Communion
St
Andrew’s 6.30pm Evensong
Sunday
19th January – Third Sunday of Epiphany
St
Cuthbert’s 8.00am Holy
Communion/BCP
Methodist 10.30am Prayer for Christian Unity
Church
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