St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 12th February 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 12th February 2nd Before Lent

8.30 am Communion by Extension in Church

9.30 am Worship on Zoom

10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Judith & Dorothy W. Reader - Sandra

12.30 pm Baptisms of Jayden and Barney Welcome and Set Up – Dorothy W

4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms

Tuesday 14th February

2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church

Wednesday 15th February

2.00 pm Memorial Service for Betty Hart in Church

Thursday 16th February

10.00 am Community Coffee Morning & Warm Hub in the Jubilee Room

Sunday 19th February Next Before Lent

8.30 am Holy Communion in Church

9.30 am Worship on Zoom

10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Carole & Sandra. Reader - David

4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms

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Turkey & Syria – You will without doubt have been utterly shocked this week as the scenes from Monday’s earthquake have dominated our news bulletins. The earthquake which hit southern Turkey close to the border with northern Syria was initially a magnitude 7.8 followed by a second 7.5 magnitude earthquake 9 hours later, with aftershocks following. Many thousands of men, women and children have died or are injured in the aftermath of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Even before these devastating earthquakes, there were over four million people in need of aid in Northwest Syria. Nearly 3 million people have been displaced by the long conflict in Syria, 80% of whom are women and children. Now extreme weather events and the spiraling costs of food and fuel prices due to ongoing conflicts are making the situation even worse. People are facing a crisis on crisis. Whatever your personal response, please join with us in prayer.

God of time and space, we cry to you for your children - our neighbours - in southern Turkey and northern Syria, following the earthquake that has devastated hundreds of lives.

Only they and you know what it is like to experience such trauma in the middle of the night.

We give thanks for the aid that is already being given and for the promises of help that have been made by many nations.

Comfort, we pray,

those who are trapped in collapsed buildings;

those who have lost loved ones;

those who wait for news and

those digging through rubble to save others.

Grant the gift of hope so that those caught between life and death know that you are with them and that others are ready to support them as they seek a future that overshadows the experiences of today.

We ask this in the Name of Jesus, who endured so much for love of them.

Amen

Please also remember in your prayers – Dorothy Angel, Rev Jane Everitt, Rev Martin Keighley, Elizabeth King, Chris Kelsall, Michaela Jones, Emily Lowe, Janice Porter & Mark Price. And the families of, Betty Hart, Eleanor Riseborough, Les Fletcher & Clara Pilling whose funerals are due to take place.