St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 23rd July 2023
We seek to be a church that lives by faith, is known by love and
is a voice of hope to the community we serve.
Website https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/11671
Sunday 23rd July
8.30 am Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship on Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Carole & Sandra. Reader: Elizabeth
4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms
Monday 24th July
11.15 am Funeral of Norman Pendlebury in Church
Tuesday 25th July
2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church
Wednesday 26th July
6.30 pm Churches Together at Fleetwood Methodist Church
Thursday 27th July
10.00 am Community Coffee Morning in the Jubilee Room
11.30 am Funeral of Barry Kenyon at Poulton New Cemetery
Friday 28th July
10.30 am Funeral of Brian Harrison in Church
Sunday 30th July
9.30 am Worship on Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Judith & Dorothy W Reader: Margaret
12.30 pm Baptisms of Tommy Clark and Rosie France Welcome and Set up: Berny McCarthy
4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms
6.30 pm Community Prayers at Fleetwood Baptist Church
*******************************
Afternoon Tea: Grateful thanks to David & Joanne and Claire & Julie for organising and delivering such a super afternoon of delicious fayre, friendship and fun. It was certainly a day to be indoors and not in the Vicarage garden! Who knew we had such talented singers and entertainers in our midst? Well done and thanks you to everyone who took part in any way and who helped to make it such an enjoyable occasion.
The Pantry, Fleetwood Old Hospital: The rise in the cost of living has affected us all in different ways but the increase in the cost of food in particular has put food banks and their users under unprecedented pressure. Food banks were already stretched during the coronavirus pandemic and although the number of food parcels given out has fallen since the pandemic, they remain above pre-pandemic levels. Many churches have responded by setting up their own pantries. In Fleetwood we are blessed with a fine food bank which continues to the challenge of serving the community. In that sense there is no requirement for us to set up anything new. Nancy Burr’s daughter Elaine volunteers at the Pantry in Fleetwood and has highlighted that there is now a real shortage of donations being received. Could we as a church respond by helping to make regular donations of, for example, tins of soup, rice pudding, tuna, coffee, tea, sugar, jam, toilet rolls etc? If you are able to help, there is a box for the food donations at the back of church which Elaine has kindly agreed to collect fortnightly and deliver to the Pantry on our behalf.
Loving God, we pray for people in our community and beyond who are facing unemployment,
ill-health, isolation or money worries at this time. We especially pray for those who are
unable to afford enough to eat. May we who have been blessed so richly respond by providing supportive relationships,
practical provision and real hope. God of compassion, hear our prayer.
Please also remember in your prayers: Peter Dell, Rev Jane Everitt, Rev Martin Keighley, Elizabeth King, Chris Kelsall, Michaela Jones, Mark Price, Callum Boyle and John Hawley. And the families of Barry Kenyon, Brian Harrison, Norman Pendlebury, Larry Larsen, Margaret Hodgson and Barbara Large whose funerals are due to take place.