St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 27th November 2022
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.
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Sunday 27th November Advent Sunday
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship via Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sides persons – Judith & Dorothy W. Reader - Sandra
4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms
6.30 pm Advent Carol Service (Churches Together) Trinity Baptist Church
Tuesday 29th November
2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church
Thursday 1st December10.00 am Community Coffee Morning
Friday 2nd December
9.00 am Little Gang in the Broadway Rooms
Saturday 3rd December
10.00 am Christmas Fair in the Broadway Rooms
8.30 am No Service
9.30 am No Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sides persons Carole & Sandra. Reader - David
4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms
What’s happening? The dates for all the events from now until Christmas Day are available from today in church on a separate sheet and they are also available on the church website. Please do invite your friends and neighbours to come and join us at any of the events. If you are staying for lunch after “Carols in the Courtyard” on 10th, then we need you to sign up at the back of church or phone the Vicarage to book in.
Advent Reflections - Please remember to pick up your copy from the back of church and join with us and the Diocese as we journey through Advent together. There are large print copies and extra copies if you wish to pass one on to a friend or neighbour.
Messy Church – Massive thanks to Janet and her ‘Messy Team’ who yesterday delivered another wonderful morning of fun, crafts, singing and fellowship all with an Advent theme. Lots of forward planning, prayer and pulling together went in to making it happen and we are so very grateful to all who were involved in any way!
Today – We celebrate the beginning of Advent. Many of us know that the Advent season focuses on expectation and that it serves as an anticipation of Christ’s birth in the season leading up to Christmas. This is part of the story, but there’s more to Advent. We also tie Advent, not just to the coming of Christ in the manger in Bethlehem, but to his second coming in the clouds as the judge of the world. Advent is then an opportunity for self-reflection, a casting off from all that distracts us and distances us from God’s plans, for us as individuals and for his Church. May you be richly blessed in the period of preparation.
God of Salvation, Wake us up Lord! The night is nearly over. Let us continue our Advent
journey. Move us from our lives of greed and selfishness, from our globalised world of
inequality and exploitation, to your kingdom of righteousness and mercy to a transformed
world, where peace is built on understanding not weapons, the poor are empowered to live
their lives to the full, businesses are built on need not greed and your Creation is nurtured
not abused. Wake us up Lord! Let us live as people of the light. Amen.
100 Club – Winners last week were David Meekins, Mandy Ryan and Barbara Quirk.
Please remember in your prayers – Rev Jane Everitt, Tony Hardman, Rev Martin Keighley, Gillian & Elizabeth King, Chris Kelsall, Michaela Jones, Kathryn Pendleton, Timothy, Cath Chambers & Annie Bates. Please also remember the families of Cliff Turner, Bill Blundell, Barry Porter, Tony Fowell and Michael Raynor, whose funerals are due to take place.