Long Sutton Parish Magazine

February 2012

Rediscovery

 

In the ancient  monastic service of Compline which we use at St Mary’s to help with our prayers during Lent there are these words.

“ Keep me as the apple of your eye

Hide me under the shadow of your wings”

 

These words speak to us simply of our dependency on God and of our special relationship with him and His relationship with us.

They are powerful words which take us to the heart of God himself.

Although we are not quite in Lent yet, the beginning is Ash Wednesday on the 22nd February it is worth while beginning to think about how we might prepare ourselves for Lent and for meeting the Risen Christ at Easter.  Doing this is both a challenge and an invitation.

 

I invite you to the observance of a Holy Lent.  What do I mean?

Well we at St Marys as in the rest of the church invite you join with us in

Self examination, repentance, prayer, fasting, self denial, acts of charity, by reading and meditating on Gods holy word.

 

At first glance you may think its not for you, but it is the opposite, it is for you and it is for us.  It is an easy thing to do.  It is so easy in our daily lives to forget that we have a special relationship with God and He with us.  Lent is an opportunity to take some time to consider how this is with you, to redress the balance.  To take time to read more, to think about your life more, to consider how you treat those around you more.  How kind are you? How kind are they to you and how do you deal with it? Tell God how you really feel, not how you are supposed to be but how you really are with life and with Him.  God will listen and there is nothing he has not heard before however angry or hurt or in pain you are.

 

If you want to give up something during Lent, give up old memories of old hurts, let them go and forgive.

Re centre your life with Christ, the 6 weeks of Lent will give you time to think about this.  Re discover God in your life, it’s a New Year make a new start with God.

 

Your Parish Priest

Fr Jonathan

 

LENT 2012

Preparation for Lent

 

If you wish to prepare yourselves for Lent in the traditional way beforehand please contact Fr. Jonathan.  If you would like to take the opportunity of using the sacrament of Confession or the Sacrament of Reconciliation please talk to Fr. Jonathan for more information

LENT

 

Ash Wednesday and the 6 weeks of Lent start on 22nd February.  Holy Communion services with imposition of Ash at 9.30 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. 

This year we are privileged to have our evening Ash Wednesday 7.30 p.m. sung Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes service led by our new Diocesan Bishop, Bishop Christopher.

 

As we start our important keeping of Lent do put this date in your diary now.  Bishop Christopher is seeing to enable all members of our church congregation to deepen their understanding of the bible and prayer in the coming year.

 

During Lent we will be following our joint Lent Course with Long Sutton Baptist Church using the York Ecumenical course study material.  The inspiration will come from this years Olympics in the UK and the theme is 'Handing on the Torch' exploring sacred words for a secular world.

 

The Lent course will start the Wednesday following Ash Wednesday.  The dates are as follows and time in the morning 10.30 a.m. and evenings at 7.30 p.m. with the morning session at St. Mary's and the evening session at the Baptist Church.  The themes:-

 

Wednesday 29th February             A Christian society

Wednesday 7th March                    A secular society

Wednesday 14th March            A beleaguered church

Wednesday 21st March                  Competing creeds

Wednesday 28th March            Handing on the Torch

 

Brothers and sisters in Christ; since the early days Christians have observed with great devotion the time of our Lord’s  passion and resurrection.  It became the custom of the Church to prepare for this by a season of penitence and fasting.

 

At first this season of Lent was observed by those who were preparing for Baptism at Easter and by those who were to be restored to the Church’s fellowship from which they had been separated through sin.  In course of time the Church came to recognize that by a careful keeping of these days, all Christians might take to heart the call to repentance and the assurance of forgiveness proclaimed in the gospel, and  so grow in faith and devotion to our Lord.

 

LENT LUNCHES

 

Wednesday 29th February at St. Mary's Church

Wednesday 14th March at  Long Sutton Baptist Church

Wednesday 28th March at St. Mary's Church

SHROVE TUESDAY PARTY

 

21st February 6.30 p.m. in the church hall.  See Enid Pearson or Shirley Santry for a ticket.

 

MOTHERS' UNION

 

Meets Wednesday 8th February    

at 2.30 p.m. in the Church Hall with Rev Rosemary Godard

All welcome

 

T. & C. GROUP

 

This month T. & C. meets on Thursday 16th February at 2.00 p.m. in the Church Hall.

The tea and chat group welcomes anyone who is recently bereaved or who would like an afternoon of good company with tea, cakes and people who understand.  Paul Walker from AGAPE Care Food Bank will be our speaker.

Lifts can be arranged,  Call Fr. Jonathan on 362033. 

 

 

FRIENDS OF ST. MARYS

 

We have started a 'Friends of St. Mary's' Group  for people who would like to keep in touch with events and development of the church.  Please contact us on 362033 or e-mail stmary.ls@btinternet.com if you would like your name and address added to this list.

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH II

DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS

 

Thank you to all those from our community of Long Sutton who have already met and are planning our own community event for this occasion.  More representatives  from the community are also invited.  Some of the features across the Long Sutton two day event of Sunday 3rd and Monday 4th June are as follows:-

Children’s games and tea party

Musical event with a back to back musical extravaganza in the Market Place including folk, jazz and rock and roll.  Young people's bands will be on Sunday night. 

A tractor procession

Farmers Market

Craft Stalls

Senior citizens tea dance

'Proms in the Park' by the Kings Lynn Town Bank with a firework finale as well as the lighting of the beacon in Winfrey Park.

The local Rotary Club,  Medicare, Police, St. John's Ambulance and Long Sutton Fire Brigade are already supporting the event.

Why not come along to our next meeting at 7.00 p.m. in the Market House on Monday 13th February,

All welcome and for more information

please contact

Fr. Jonathan 01406 362033 or Pauline Dickinson 01406 362467

 

FLOWER FESTIVAL

ST. MARY'S 50TH GLORIOUS YEAR

Saturday 28th April to Monday 7th May

 

We celebrate 50 consecutive years of our Flower Festival this year.

We would like to invite those who were baptised or married in St. Mary's in 1962 to our opening ceremony at 9.45 a.m. on Saturday 28th April.

Please let us know if you yourself are able to be with us or if you know of others who would like to come to the opening ceremony.  If you are not able to come but would like to visit the festival please let us know and you will be very welcome.

Please contact Fr. Jonathan 01406 362033 or

Bonnie Smith 01406 362750 for more information

 

Fish and Chip  Supper at the Races

 

Friday 19th February at 7.30pm

Long Sutton Church Hall

 

Tickets £6 and are available from Market House Reception 366767.

Contact this number also if you want to buy a horse for one of the races.

Proceeds to be split between Long Sutton Market House & St Marys Church.  Bring your own drinks and come along for a  very enjoyable evening.

Agape Care Food Bank

 

A tremendous thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Food Bank over December.

 

Although the Food Bank passed it original target of enough Christmas food for 50 families by mid December they went on to collect items to help the increasing numbers of couples, families and single people in South Holland who need help.  There is a collection point for donated food in the reception of the Market House and at St Mary’s over the coming months.  All the local government and national charity indices are pointing to the reality that the recession will affect this area significantly.  Do keep the situation in your prayers. Paul Walker from this group is speaking at the T&C meeting on Thursday 16th February.

 

MARKET HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP

 

Invite you to their next meeting on

Monday 13th February 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

£2 admission.

 

“Do you have a camera and not sure how it works”

 

For more information

Contact Market House, 9 Market Street, Long Sutton.  Reception 01406 366767.

 

SOCIAL ISSUES ON THE FENS

 

Over the last year the Bishop of Grantham, Bishop Tim has asked me to co-ordinate and facilitate a project to discern and respond to the many social needs across South Lincolnshire.  This has involved working in conjunction with the professional social agencies and voluntary groups to use and explore  resources  across the area in partnership.

The response from the 80 or so Anglican parishes  in the deaneries of the Hollands, Elloe East and Elloe West has been to highlight 9 main areas of need which has included:-

Isolation, the elderly, young families, young people, migrant workers - the **** problems of alcohol and drugs which lead to the help and need of street pastors and health problems.

In addition the national charity shelter, the Lincoln Research Observatory and Government Data bank has highlighted the ongoing social difficulties of unemployment and increasing home repossession and homelessness.  Over  the last 6 months there has been a meeting through the auspices of Lincoln University at Holbeach to bring together and harness the efforts of all the main professional and voluntary agencies who work in this area to focus and use their limited resources to target these needs.  Whilst progress has been slow, it has also been steady as the area has been systematically assessed as to practical ways forward to support and improve the social needs of the region.

In the meantime there are two practical workshops about community leadership and involvement in the area sponsored by the University of Lincolnshire.  These are at the Market House on Tuesday 31st January and 7th February at 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. and the regional strategic group are meeting in Holbeach University campus on the morning of Thursday 1st March.  Please ask Fr. Jonathan for more information if you are interested and please keep the whole project in your prayers.  Thank you.  These are also concerns close to Bishop Christopher's and Bishop Tim’s heart for Lincolnshire.

 

This is the article in the Local Spalding Free Press 19th January 2012.

 

Spotlight on our troubles  

Church focus on social issues in Fens

THE vicar of Long Sutton, Father Jonathan Sibley, is one of two Church of England figures taking a fresh look at easing social troubles in the Fens.
Isolation, poverty, health, the elderly, ‘new arrivals’, families and young people are among nine topics in the spotlight – and church leaders are drawing together the wider community so there is a joined-up, strategic approach to solving problems.
Among those contributing are Lincolnshire County Council, South Holland District Council, Lincolnshire Police, the NHS, South Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service and Spalding’s Agape Care Foodbank.
Father Jonathan and the Rev Canon Andrew Vaughan, senior chaplain with the Lincolnshire Industrial Chaplaincy Service, have already received responses from the 80 Church of England parishes within South Holland and The Deepings and Boston.
They asked parishes to pinpoint problems and, where possible, say what needs to be done.
Last October they widened the project by inviting statutory and voluntary agencies to the University of Lincoln campus at Holbeach – and will hold a repeat meeting there on March 1.
Father Jonathan said: “It’s not a talking shop.
“I think perhaps councillor Nick Worth put his finger on it when he said we are filling a vacuum where the Rural Action Zone used to exist.”
The Rural Action Zone was an initiative driven by South Holland District Council to combat rural deprivation but it collapsed in the first wave of Government cuts in public spending in 2010.
Father Jonathan says the scope of the Church project is wider – as it includes Boston – and is an example of ‘the big society’ at work.
Examples of churches helping the wider community include street pastors working in Boston, Spalding and Pinchbeck and churches opening their doors so other agencies can run things like parenting courses or tea afternoons for the elderly.
Father Jonathan says the work began at the suggestion of The Bishop of Grantham, the Rt Rev Tim Ellis, and is supported by South Holland and The Deepings MP John Hayes.

 

CHURCH SERVICES IN February  

 

Wednesday 1st February

9.30am  Holy Communion

 

Thursday  2nd February Candlemass

9.30am  Holy Communion

 

Sunday 5th February

3rd Sunday before Lent

 

8.00am Holy Communion

10.30am Parish Communion
Sidespeople:  8.00am Walter Rabey      10.30am Betty Boor  Lindsey Kirkham    Reader  Jeanne Sibley   

 Intercessor Briony Phillips 

 

 Readings Isa 40:21 to end   1Cor 9:16-23             

Gospel: Mark 1:29-39       

 

Wednesday 8th February  

 9.30am  Holy Communion

 

Sunday 12th February 

 2nd Sunday before Lent

 

8.00am Holy Communion

10.30am  Parish Communion
Sidespeople:  8.00am Kath Butler10.30am Pat Bell, Elizabeth Green  Reader  Shona Sibley        Intercessor Jeanne Sibley  

Readings  Prov :1,22-31  Col 1:15-20    

Gospel John 1:1-14    

 

Wednesday 15th February    

 9.30am  Holy Communion

 

Sunday 19th February

Sunday before Lent 

 

8.00am Holy Communion

10.30am  Parish Communion
Sidespeople:  8.00am Daphne Woods     

10.30am Carol & Peter Little

Reader Peter Little   Intercessor   Fiona Milne    Readings 2 Kings 2:1-12  2 Cor 4:3-6 

Gospel Marke 9:2-9 

 

Ash Wednesday 22nd February 

 

9.30am  Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes

 

7.30pm Holy Communion with  Bishop Christopher and Imposition of Ashes

Sidespeople:   Pat Bell, Elizabeth Green

Reader Dick Neaverson    Intercessor   Michaela Dean    Readings Joel 2:1-2, 12-17    2 Cor 5:20b-6:10  

Gospel John 8:1-11

 

Sunday  26th  February

Lent 1

     

8.00am Holy Communion

10.30am  Parish Communion
Sidespeople:  8.00am Martin Dickinson       

10.30am Dick Neaverson   David Baker   Reader Enid Pearson      Intercessor  Elizabeth Richardson         Readings  Gen 9:8-17 

1Peter 3:18 to end       Gospel Mark 1:9-15     

 

Wednesday 29th February      

9.30am  Holy Communion

 

FROM THE REGISTERS

 

Baptisms

8th January        Maisie Foulsham Perkins

22nd January     Ethan Kempton

 

Funerals

3rd January        Ian Cashmore

24th January      Keith Melton

 

Service of Memorial

21st January      Philip Cottrell

 

Interment of Ashes in the churchyard

 

28th December            Ethel Dawson

LONG SUTTON MIGRANT WORKERS

Free English conversation and life skills classes Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Friends Room at the Market House in the afternoon or evening for times and more information please contact tutor Kay Morley on 01406 363738.

FREE INTERNET ACCESS AT LONG SUTTON MARKET HOUSE

Mondays, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday mornings 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.  There is a computer buddy available if you need some guidance. Ring 01406 366767.

Text Box: LONG SUTTON MARKET HOUSE               
A MULTI USE CENTRE RUN BY VOLUNTEERS  FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.   COME TO THE MARKET HOUSE FOR
SOUTH HOLLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL - Customer Services
Bus passes information housing and benefits forms available. Recycling sacks available.
CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU  - Monday morning Drop in –Thursday  mornings appointments only
LINCOLNSHIRE CREDIT UNION Fridays 10.00am to 12 noon.
AGAPE Food Bank  donation point for food and Vouchers can be redeemed.
Mums and Toddlers dance classes.
WHAT’S ON IN YOUR LOCAL AREA, LOCAL BUS INFORMATION
FREE INTERNET ACCESS WEDNESDAY 9.30AM – 12.30PM
Market House Movies – see reception for details, Tai Chi, 
Incardations Card making group every Wednesday – all welcome
CORN EXCHANGE  / COMMUNITY ROOM FOR HIRE FOR PARTIES, WEDDING RECEPTIONS, LECTURES AND EVENTS.
CONTACT OUR FRIENDLY RECEPTIONISTS ON 
01406 366767 email longsuttonmarkethouse@btopenworld.com

 

LONG SUTTON CREDIT UNION

 

Lincolnshire Credit Union is open at Long Sutton Market House on Fridays at 10.00 a.m.  The opening times are  every Friday 10.00 am to 12.00 noon.  Think of us as a Community Bank that is run by professional volunteers working under the strict regulations of the Financial Services Authority.  When it comes to borrowing money, we make everything simple!

 

We are able to offer loans of between £100 and £3,000 with a typical monthly rate of 2% on a reducing balance.

 

All loans are approved on a capacity to repay basis, so poor previous credit may not be a problem.  No fees.  No fuss.

If you want to open an account and regularly save come and talk to us.

 

 Come in and meet us in the Long Sutton Market House on Fridays.  01406 366767 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon.

 

LUKE 02.15-21        1ST JANUARY 2012

Fr. Alan Fiddyment

 

For many people, the story of Jesus' birth is practically all that they know of Christianity.

 

This has much to do with the commercialization of Christmas by those in the retail trade who look to the Christmas Season to consolidate their profits.

So there is great familiarity with Christ's birth in the crib scene, the stable, the shepherds, the angels and the wise men.  Knowledge, but no understanding; familiarity, yet a story that has no effect upon their lives until the following year; when their Christmas Shopping begins again.

 

In reflecting on this, I am reminded of the words of a Christian Scholar and Writer.  He wrote 'when Christ first came among us we pushed him into an outhouse and we have done our best to keep him there ever since'.  Perhaps we can add to those words 'too many people keep him in that outhouse until it suits them to bring him out'.

 

But we as Christians know that there is much more to the Christmas story than profit and loss, or keeping Christ hidden until it is appropriate to put him on show.


We also know the whole story leading up to Christ's birth, and in the week before Christmas, Christmas Day itself, and now today, we have been reflecting and continue to reflect, upon the differing elements of that story.  The Annunciation Mary's obedient acceptance despite all its implications, the reason for her and Joseph to be in Bethlehem; and the lack of accommodation which meant giving birth in a stable amongst the animals.  The visit of the shepherds and the angels and then, as we have heard in our Gospel reading today, the spreading of the good news by the shepherds.

 

But what are we to make of the shepherds and their place in the Christmas Story?   Why were they there?  Would it not have been better if the birth had been kept quiet?  - particularly as we know, from Matthew's story of the wise men and the slaughter of the innocent children; that King Herod was rather paranoid about what he viewed as usurpers to his throne.

 

What we must do, it we wish to understand better Christ's birth and all the circumstances surrounding it, is to raise our eyes beyond what Luke tells us and seek the wider picture.  That is not to say that Luke does not tell us all that we need to know but we need to get inside his words.  His treatment of the event is a masterpiece of economy.  Despite its importance, he considers a mere paragraph of seven verses is enough to deal with the nativity itself and than a further twelve verses to complete the story.

But within those later verses Luke is telling us that Christ's birth was not just an event but a revelation.  The event may well have been the greatest event that ever took place and, as we believe, a turning point in history, but it would have had no meaning for us unless there was a revelation of that meaning.

And that is where the Angel and the shepherds come in.  The Angel is the Messenger of God and the shepherds are fulfilling a role allotted to them.

The choice of the shepherds to be the first to see and worship the Christ child would seem, on the surface, to be inappropriate.

They were so very necessary for the social, economic and religious life of the Jews; providing animals for consumption and also for Temple sacrifices.  Yet despised by the orthodox Jews, because their way of life, the demands made upon them by their flocks, meant that they were unable to keep the details of the Jewish Law; the meticulous hand washing, all the rules and regulations.  Not only that but they needed to spend days and nights in t he fields and must, sooner or later, have carried on themselves all the smells and odours connected with their animals.  Filthy clothes, filthy and stinking bodies - they were indeed people to be avoided at all costs - the lowest level of society.

But if we can indeed raise our eyes above the simple recorded facts of Christ's birth we can see that the role both of the stable birth and of the message to the shepherds is entirely appropriate.

 

Christ, the Son of God, - in John's words 'became the word made flesh and dwelt among us'.

Christ's message was a message of love, a message of God's grace to those who sought it, a message for all people because all are equal in God's sight.  In his life, and in his ministry, Jesus could relate to all; for no matter how humble were those who followed him - his birth and the circumstances surrounding that birth were even more humble.  

How well would his message have been received if he had been born in exalted circumstances, circumstances that bore no relation to the lives of the great mass of people and even more so to the message that he brought from God.

But the involvement of the shepherds reflected how appropriate his birth was in relation to that message.  Christ was born lowly, and was seen and worshipped first by the lowest in society.

The message that he came for all people, in all circumstances, could not have been clearer.

 

Unlike the rich and privileged and those who exercised an authority of their own making - the Pharisees for example; the outcasts of society, the rejected, the helpless, the needy and the sick had nothing to fear and everything to gain from Christ's birth.

That was the real necessity in God's plan and purpose for the shepherds to hear, to come and to worship.

And then to spread the good news.

 

Fr. Alan Fiddyment

 

Holbeach Seniors Link

Speakers for 22nd February 2012 Meeting:

NACRO (Crime Reducing Charity)

Sue MacLaughlin (Fit as a Fiddle)  with gentle keep fit exercises.

Venue is the Victory Hall, Gedney  2 - 4 p.m.

GEDNEY DROVE END & DAWSMERE

 

Churchwarden

Mr Michael Bills        01406 550343

 

CHRIST CHURCH, DAWSMERE ROTA for FEBRUARY 2012

 

Sunday    5th February    9.15am   Said Holy communion   Father Jonathan Sibley

Sunday   12th February   9.15am   Morning Prayer   Mrs Michaela Dean  

Sunday   19th February    10am    Morning Prayer    Mrs Michaela Dean  

Sunday   26th February    10am     Extended Communion

Sunday    4th March       9.15am   Said Holy Communion   Father Jonathan Sibley

      

CHRIST CHURCH

A meeting of the Parochial Church Council took place on 18th January, chaired by Father Jonathan. He told members about the involvement of the Church in local issues and expressed his concerns for social deprivation in this area of Lincolnshire at this time of financial hardship. The Agape Care Food Bank which was very successful over the Christmas period will continue to help needy families. As part of the local effort, a box will be at Christ Church for donations of food, non-perishable in tins and packets would be appreciated. Donations of food are also accepted in the reception of Market House, Long Sutton.

The P.C.C. Annual Meeting will take place at Christ Church on Tuesday,

24th April at 7pm.

MOTHERS’ UNION

Members met at Deans Farmhouse on the Monday before Christmas for a festive celebration evening.  Michaela Dean led a short service with seasonal readings and special prayers for the bereaved. Everyone had brought some food to share and the evening ended with a nice buffet supper. The next meeting is on Monday, 27th February at 7.15pm.   

FRIENDSHIP CLUB   

The club meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday in the month at 2pm at the village hall for a social afternoon of bingo, whist and dominoes. New members are welcome.

THE WELCOME CLUB

There was no meeting in January. The next meeting will take place at the village hall on Thursday, 9th January at 7.30pm. The speaker will be Mr Grantham with a talk abut ‘Evacuees’ and the competition will be for a fancy bookmark.

 

MONTHLY BINGO

This entertaining evening with good prizes takes place at the village hall on the first Wednesday in the month. Doors open at 6.45pm with eyes down at 7.30pm.

ROYAL BRITISH LEGION

The January branch meeting had to be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. The next meeting will take place at the Wildfowler on the Wash on Tuesday, 7th February at 7pm.

 

THE VILLAGE TOTE

Tickets at 50p per go can be obtained from landlord Phil Mountfield at the Wildfowler on the Wash. The draw takes place at the pub on a Tuesday evening with an average payout for the weekly lucky number about £70 to £80. Why not have a go and support this cause which is for the benefit of the community. The Tote has been very successful for many years and is a non-profit making concern which also gives generous donations to the village clubs and associations each December.

 

Our thoughts and prayers are for the sick, the lonely and for the bereaved and the residents and staff in our care homes. 

LUTTON

Lutton Churchwardens:  Bernice Williams Tel: 364125;

 Pat Saxton Tel: 364084

Services

Sunday 5 February: 11.00 am Holy Communion: Revd Alan Fiddyment

Sunday 12 February: 11.00 am Morning Prayer: Michaela Dean

Sunday 19 February: 9.30 am Said Communion:

Fr Jonathan Sibley

Sunday 26 February: 11.00 am Extended Communion: Parish Ministry Team

Sunday 4 March:  11.00 am Holy Communion:

 Revd Alan Fiddyment

 

Mothers' Union

At our January meeting, we had Afternoon Prayers, Cuppa and Chat, and played a version of Snakes and Ladders, highlighting the difference between rich and poor, in particular relating to 3rd World Countries.
On 14th February, our meeting starts at 2.30pm in the Village Hall, when Cathie will lead us in Bible Study, using this year's Mothers' Union Theme-"Your Gift? Discover and Celebrate".

Friends and Neighbours

In January, the group met for our AGM, Cheese, Wine and Beetle Drive.
On Tuesday , 14th February at 7.30pm, Squadron Leader C. Lawrence will talk about RAF Holbeach, the Bombing Range and Conservation. This is an Open Evening and all are welcome. As the theme will interest many people, please come and support the evening.


Lutton Village Hall 100 Plus Club
The winner of the December Prize of £50.00 was Gordon Smith.

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Celebrations.
Fundraising to provide a suitable celebration and memento for the children of Lutton is continuing with regular events each month, so please keep a look out for posters and come along – we need your support!  Anyone interested in helping with the fundraising or planning the celebrations can get in touch on 01406 351508 or by emailing lutton@live.co.uk

Bible Study & Prayer

We meet on Tuesday 21 February, 7.30 pm at 16 Puddingpoke Lane – all welcome.

Little Nics Mothers and Toddlers Group continues to meet in the Village Hall every Wednesday at 10.30 am for 1 hour, except for school holidays.

 

February prayer diary

 

Wed 1st     Those who have recently been bereaved.

Thu 2nd     Candle Mass - the light of Christ in the                       world

Fri 3rd        Our work with children and young people

Sat 4th       Lincoln Saint - Gilbert of Sempringham

Sun 5th      Thanksgiving for the Royal Family

Mon 6th      For Queen Elizabeth in her 60th year of                     Accession

Tue 7th      For those involved in community leadership

Wed 8th     The work of the social services

Thu 9th       For Bishop Tim

Fri 10th      Members of our Armed Forces on duty in                 Afghanistan

Sat 11th     The work of the Leprosy Mission

Sun 12th    The work of our local Health Centre

Mon 13th    For preparations for the Queen's Jubilee                  celebrations

Tue 14th    Thanksgiving for the love of Christ

Wed 15th   For the deaneries of Elloe East and West

Thu 16th    The church and people of Uganda

Fri 17th      The Market House race night

Sat 18th     The work of the British Legion

Sun 19th    Those exploring Baptism

Mon 20th    Social concerns in Long Sutton and Sutton               Bridge

Tue 21st    Shrove Tuesday.  Parish party

Wed 22nd Ash Wednesday.  Our keeping of Lent.                               Bishop Christopher

Thu 23rd    For churches faithfully enduring                                  persecution.  St.  Polycarp

Fri 24th      George  Herbert - for Christian writers

Sat 25th     Those who are sick

Sun 26th    Those preparing for this year's Flower                       Festival

Mon 27th    Those recently unemployed

Tue 28th    For John Hayes our MP and the                                 Government

Wed 29th   For those  facing homelessness

Thu 1st         March       St. David.  The professionals                   who work in South Lincs for social need

Fri 2nd       St. Chad - the people of Lichfield diocese

Sat 3rd       For those exploring their vocations

Sun 4th      The outreach of the Market House