St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 30th June 2024
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
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship on Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church
12.30 pm Baptism of Jude Hay
4.00 pm Family & Co in Broadway Rooms
6.30 pm Community prayers at Trinity Baptist Church
Monday 1st July
2.00 pm Community crafts and games in the Jubilee Room
Tuesday 2nd July
11.00 am Singing for pleasure in the Jubilee Room
2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church
Wednesday 3rd July
11.00 am Funeral of Ian Robinson at Carleton
Thursday 4th July
10.00 am Community Coffee Morning in the Jubilee Room
Friday 5th July
9.00 am Little Gang in the Broadway Rooms
12.00 pm Funeral of Margaret Rigby at Fleetwood Cemetery
1.00 pm Funeral of Kathleen Unwin in Church
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship on Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church
4.00 pm Family & Co in Broadway Rooms
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Sunday 14th July:
The Capricorn Singers
Who are friends of ours and who hold an annual concert at St Nic’s
are celebrating their
40th anniversary with a special concert in the
Spanish Hall in Winter Gardens. It’s starts at 7 pm
and tickets cost £10 pp.
If you would like to go you may book your ticket(s) by phoning the ticket line on 0844 770 0593
General Election 4th July: This last week much of the national news has been focused on the ‘betting scandal.’ Those who had inside knowledge have allegedly been caught placing bets on a July polling day.
A 2021 survey asked what characteristics in leaders mattered most to the UK public. Overwhelmingly, respondents said they wanted politicians with integrity, and leaders who operate within the rules.
The word ‘integrity’ literally means ‘intact’, or a state of wholeness. Integrity means behaving the same, irrespective of who is watching and even when no-one is!
The Gospels point to Jesus as the perfect model of integrity, whose actions always match his words, who does not prefer the powerful to the powerless. God asks us to resist power-grasping instincts and instead ‘do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit’. We’re to look to ‘the interests of others’ to reflect Jesus, who was ‘in very nature God’ and yet ‘he made himself nothing...’ (Philippians 2:3–8). In Jesus we have the ultimate model, and, through his Spirit, the power to be transformed.
As the election approaches this Thursday, we can value and demand integrity in the public servants we give our careful vote. We can pray for those standing for public office and working in government.
And, in our own everyday contexts, let’s consider how we too might choose to resist selfish ambition to serve others with integrity.
Please remember in your prayers: Jeff Chambers, Katie, Louise Clark, Mark Price, Dean, Debbie, Michael Carthy, Rev Jane Everett, Paul Sumner, Sandra Pratt, Tom, Michael, John McLellan, June Larkin and David Richardson. Please also remember the families and friends of Ian Robinson, Kathleen Unwin and Margaret Rigby, whose funerals are due to take place.