13 Jan 2008 - Pew News

Reading:- Luke 11: 1-13

8.00 am Holy Communion Stamford Bridge

9.00 am Holy Communion Low Catton

10.45 am Holy Communion with Sunday School Stamford Bridge

Mon 14th St John’s Singers rehearsal 7.45 pm Stamford Bridge

Wed 16th Pram Service 10.00 am Stamford Bridge

Fri 18th Free Spirits 4.00 pm Junior School

Readings:- 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Matthew 4: 12-23

8.00 am Holy Communion Stamford Bridge

10.30 am Family Praise Low Catton

10.45 am Holy Communion Stamford Bridge

Wed 23rd Pram Service 10.00 am Stamford Bridge

Thurs 24th Mothers’ Union AGM 2.00 pm Kings Garth

Fri 25th Free Spirits 4.00 pm Junior School

Youth Group 5.45 pm Stamford Bridge

Looking forward to Lent 2008, York Courses, featuring contributions from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, are shortly to distribute their Lent course booklet on The Lord's Prayer. Based in York. York Courses produce courses specially designed for groups of Christians from different traditions to study together. The courses are used all over the world, helping people to share their experiences and understanding of the  Christian faith. Details at:- www.yorkcourses.co.uk

Helping a mum facing tough circumstances is a Mothering Sunday gift that anyone will treasure. This year the Mothers’ Union are encouraging people to donate a gift to those more in need than ourselves. Last year they raised £13000 nation wide and this year they hope to do much more. Each gift enables Mothers’ Union work to improve the lives of mothers and carers, and through them families and communities. When you buy a gift from the catalogue, you are buying a virtual gift. If you choose, for example, a goat, we can guarantee that your donation will provide whatever agricultural assistance may be needed to ensure a sustainable food source. This flexibility ensures that your gift can be used in the most effective way possible by tailoring the funding to supply items that will improvements to a family in need, including the expertise of the Mothers’ Union Development Worker in the area.

Some of the gifts suggested are: £6 will buy a tree which will bring long term benefits to many communities. £150 will help provide a mum in Zainabu with the skills to research and run an effective business that helps her feed her family, prove an education for her children and meets a need in the local community. £35 will provide an emergency relief kit which enables local Mothers’ Union volunteers to bring a lifeline of crucial supplies such as grain, pots and pans, sleeping mats and blankets, water purification tablets and mosquito nets – whatever is needed urgently – to families in adversity at the average price of a floral delivery for Mothering Sunday. £10 will provide toys and equipment in family visiting centres in prisons, child contact centres and parent and toddler groups including groups for parents with disabled children. Forms available from Irene Keeling. The closing date for this Mother’s Day project is 15th February. For further information, please see the notice board at the back of St John’s Church.

Will members please note in their new 2008 diaries the date of our AGM which will be on 24th January in the King’s Garth Community Room at 2.00 pm. The 2008 member’s diary card will be available on that day. New members, as always, are welcome.

Next year’s Big Brew is to be held during Fair Trade fortnight, instead of in July as in the past two years. We will therefore be asked to hold a Big Brew event between 25th February and 9th March 2008. Big Brew gives Christians across North and East Yorkshire a way of changing public opinion, and of demonstrating that Christians are not only concerned about global poverty but mean to do something about it. A Big Brew event can be any event where Fair Trade goods are promoted e.g. tea parties, family fun mornings, football games, concerts...… For churches already registered as a Fairtrade church (such as St John’s), a Big Brew event can help fulfill our commitment to promote Fairtrade during Fairtrade fortnight. The Synods of the Anglican Diocese of York and the Methodist York and Hull District resolved in April 2005 to aim to become registered for Fairtrade. To reach this status half of each denomination’s churches must be registered with the Fairtrade Foundation. The number of Fair Trade churches in North and East Yorkshire rose from 18 in January 2006 to 200 in July 2007, which is a great start.

This term the Youth Group, Oasis and G2 and making pottery Mosaics. We will need a substantial amount of coloured pottery that can be broken into smaller pieces. If you have any suitable pottery, it doesn't matter what condition it is in, please leave it in the box at the back of the Church.

ADVANCE NOTICE - LENT COURSE 2008

The Good Book Club

All you ever wanted to know about the bibleand then some.

This year’s Lent course will be held in St John the Baptist Church, Stamford Bridge with each session starting at 7.30 pm. The dates for you diaries are: -

7th - 21st - 28th February, 6th - 13th March .

For more information please contact the Rectory.

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We are very sad to report the death of one of our stalwart attenders at the 8.00 am service. Alan Leeves was a lovely man who always had a smile and a story for you whenever you met him. He didn't talk about his age, but he was 91 and until recently had attended both our church and at Bossall, where he had been churchwarden for over 40 years. Alan's funeral was held at Bossall yesterday (12th). Please pray especially for his wife Margaret at this very sad time.

FUND RAISING

Andrea Palin

Our Fund Raising towards the toilet continues and we are now turning our attention once again to trying to obtain funding from outside sources. I am leading a small group working towards this. On Tuesday 19th February in Hull there is a days training which covers everything we need to know to set about this search, how to choose which Funders to target and how to complete the forms to our best advantage. I have asked for two places on this course. I plan to go but we would get much more out of it if two of us went, two heads are always better than one. The timing is perfect for us as we set off on this path and there is unlikely to be another course that fits so well. If you could spare this day to come too please get in touch with me. Thanks.

~On Red Sea crossing:

Enforcement Officials Killed While Pursuing Unruly Mob

~On David vs. Goliath:

Psychologist Questions Significance of Rock Used as Weapon

~On the prophet Elijah on Mount Carmel:

400 Killed In Unprovoked Attack

~On the birth of Christ:

Animal Rights Advocates Enraged by Insensitive Couple

~On feeding the 5,000:

Disciples Mystified Over Behaviour

~On healing the 10 lepers:

Authorities Investigating Use of Nont raditional Medical Procedure

~On healing of the two demon-possessed men in Gadarenes:

Local Farmer Faces Bankruptcy After Loss of Hogs

~On raising Lazarus from the dead:

Will Now Being Contested by Lawyers of Heirs

~ Farmer Bill Dies in House

~ Nation's Head Seeks Arms

~ Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted

~ Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case

~ Survivor of Siamese Twins Joins Parents

~ Eye Drops off Shelf

~ Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim

~ Two Ships Collide, One Dies

~ Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over

~ Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge

~ Typhoon Rips through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

~ New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group

~ Children Make Nutritious Snacks

~ Hospital is sued by Seven Foot Doctors

~ Include your Children when Baking Biscuits

~Growing old is inevitable. Growing UP is optional.

~There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.

~Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.

~Do the maths, count your blessings.

~Faith is the ability to not panic.

~Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging.

~If you worry, you didn't pray. If you pray, don't worry.

~The mind grows by what it feeds on.

~Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.

~Rule your mind or it will rule you.

TOP TIP

Kath Miller

Attending church over Christmas with a cold, I suddenly realised, on taking communion, that it might be best not to take the communion cup. I was chatting to my mum about this afterwards and her tip was; dip the bread in the wine, then you fully part-take of communion and lower the risk of passing on your bugs!!