St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 27th August 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 27th August 8.30 am Holy Communion in Church 9.30 am Worship on Zoom 10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Carole & Sandra. Reader: Margaret 4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms Tuesday 29th August 2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church 6.45 pm PCC Meets in Jubilee Room Thursday 31st August 10.00 am Community Coffee Morning in the Jubilee Room Sunday 3rd September 8.30 am Holy Communion in Church 9.30 am Worship on Zoom 10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Judith & Dorothy W Reader: Elizabeth 1.00 pm Safari Lunch 4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms ******************************* Safari Lunch – Thank you to everyone who has signed up for lunch next Sunday. Tickets are available today, with times and locations from Ruth. Feast of the Nations – St Nic’s is hosting this event on behalf of Churches Together in Fleetwood. Foods from around the globe will be available to taste. Please sign up at the back of church if you’re intending to pop in from 12 noon on Saturday 9th September. Put on love: Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone, forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. COLOSSIANS 3:12–14 Certainly, this is how we are to strive to live, but it can be a real struggle, can’t it? What are the moments in your day when these instructions seem easy? Thank God for them! What are the moments in your day – or week – when these instructions quite honestly feel like some kind of cruel joke? There are probably more than you would care to admit. Maybe they get a little bit easier (maybe!) when we understand why we’re called to this. And the answer is pretty simple: because we are ‘God’s chosen people’. We are ‘holy and beloved’. Do you notice how love bookends these verses? ‘As God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved…’ & ‘…over all these virtues, put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.’ When we know that we are loved, it is easier for us to love others. After all, we love because He first loved us. From that position of belovedness, and our knowledge of it, we can at least strive to act accordingly. Holy God, thank you for loving me. Clothe me with compassion toward others. Make it radiate from my actions and deeds. You are the example for love. Help me to be a similar example for other people. Give me a selfless spirit that seeks first to serve others. Amen. Please also remember in your prayers: Peter Dell, Rev Jane Everitt, Jo Crosswell, Rev Martin Keighley, Elizabeth King, Chris Kelsall, Michaela Jones, Mark Price, Rebekah, Colin Cook, Elizabeth Leason and John Hawley. And the family of Charles Beavers whose funeral is due to take place.
St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 20th August 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 20th August 8.30 am Holy Communion in Church 9.30 am Worship on Zoom 10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Susan & Christine. Reader: Sandra 12.30 pm Baptism of Lailah Geddes Welcome and set up: Dorothy Warren 4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms Tuesday 22nd August 2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church Thursday 24th August 10.00 am Community Coffee Morning in the Jubilee Room 3.30 pm Funeral of Arthur Shaw at Carleton Friday 25th August 2.45 pm Funeral of Richard Hudson at Carleton Sunday 27th August 8.30 am Holy Communion in Church 9.30 am Worship on Zoom 10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Carole & Sandra. Reader: Margaret 4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms ******************************* Safari Lunch: Please sign up at the back of church by Friday 25th August if you are intending on joining us for this magnificent five course Sunday lunch, on 3rd September. Each course is being served in a different venue, which are all within walking distance of each other. Transport will be available for those who would prefer not to walk. The cost is £15.00 per person. Hope: Standing talking to the mourners at a recent funeral someone said, “I hope your church isn’t struck by lightning tomorrow, since it was full of unbelievers today.” I heard myself replying, “Jesus spent most of his ministry surrounded by unbelievers and look how that’s turned out!” I sometimes say at a funeral, “If you don’t believe then you surely must hope that death is not the end?” There are lots of things we hope for in this life, but they are nothing in comparison to the hope we have in Jesus. We hope with certainty in his death and resurrection and rejoice as we see snippets of the coming of the kingdom of God in our lives and the lives of those around us. This resurrection hope gives us strength to be ‘patient in affliction and faithful in prayer.’ There’s a lot to be faithful in prayer for in the world we live in – we bump into need around every corner. We live in a world where the news is full of despair, scandal, and disaster. But we are called to be people of hope and that hope is such a gift to the world. Living as people of joyful hope pushes against the culture, as we pray, seek change, and work for the flourishing of all people. Sometimes it’s the little things: speaking hope in a conversation when others are caught in a cycle of bitterness. Investing in someone whom other people have written off. Celebrating the good news of a new baby or a house move, speaking the hope of Jesus into new beginnings. Wherever there’s a chance this week to live out joyful hope – go on, take it! You never know what God might do in that moment. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. ROMANS 12: 12 Please also remember in your prayers: Peter Dell, Rev Jane Everitt, Jo Crosswell, Rev Martin Keighley, Elizabeth King, Chris Kelsall, Michaela Jones, Mark Price, Rebekah, Colin Cook, Elizabeth Leason and John Hawley. And the families of Richard Hudson, Arthur Shaw and Paul Douglas, whose funerals are due to take place.
St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 13th August 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 13th August 8.30 am Communion by Extension in Church 9.30 am Worship on Zoom 10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Elizabeth & Margaret. Reader: Karen 4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms Tuesday 15th August 2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church Thursday 17th August 10.00 am Community Coffee Morning in the Jubilee Room Friday 18th August 12.00 pm Funeral of Paul Douglas in Church Sunday 20th August 8.30 am Holy Communion in Church 9.30 am Worship on Zoom 10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Susan & Christine. Reader: Sandra 12.30 pm Baptism of Lailah Geddes Welcome and set up: Dorothy Warren 4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms ******************************* Feast of the Nations: Just a reminder to sign up for this on Saturday 9th September. Tasting starts at 12 noon and you can come and go as you please. It’s a Churches Together in Fleetwood event, with lots of different dishes and cultures being represented. Return of the Safari Lunch: On Sunday 3rd September you are invited to attend a magnificent five course Sunday lunch with a difference! The difference being that each course will be served in a different venue. The venues being the homes of the host providing the dish. All the venues are within walking distance of each other, although transport will be available for those who would prefer not to walk. The cost will be £15.00 per person. More details will follow next week but, in the meantime save the date! The Blessèd Virgin Mary: This Tuesday, 15th August, at our 2pm service we will celebrate this feast day along with many other Christians all over the world. Known as the Assumption of Mary and very much a Catholic Feast Day, it marks the end of Mary’s earthly life and the lifting of her body and soul into the glory of heaven. The earliest traditions say that Mary's life ended in Jerusalem. There is a tomb in the Church of the Sepulchre of Saint Mary in the Kidron Valley at the foot of the Mount of Olives, believed by Eastern Christians to be the burial place of Mary, the mother of Jesus. That said, there is a belief that her body was resurrected on the third day, at which time she was taken up to heaven. Her tomb according to this teaching was found empty on the third day……sound familiar? Almighty God, who looked upon the lowliness of the Blessèd Virgin Mary and chose her to be the mother of your only Son: grant that we who are redeemed by his blood may share with her in the glory of your eternal kingdom; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen. Please also remember in your prayers: Peter Dell, Rev Jane Everitt, Jo Crosswell, Rev Martin Keighley, Elizabeth King, Chris Kelsall, Michaela Jones, Mark Price and John Hawley. And the families of Richard Hudson, Arthur Shaw and Paul Douglas, whose funerals are due to take place.
St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 6th August 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 6th August 8.30 am Holy Communion in Church 9.30 am Worship on Zoom 10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Karen & June. Reader: Joy 12.30 pm Baptism of Charlie Lark Set-up and welcome Dorothy Angel 4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms Tuesday 8th August 11.00 am Funeral of Karen Potter in Church 2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church Thursday 10th August 10.00 am Community Coffee Morning in the Jubilee Room Saturday 12th August 10.00 am Church Cleaning Sunday 13th August 8.30 am Communion by Extension in Church 9.30 am Worship on Zoom 10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Elizabeth & Margaret. Reader: Karen 4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms ******************************* Brian House Coffee Morning: Wow! Thank you to everyone who was able to support the coffee morning on Thursday. Particular thanks for those who couldn’t attend but sent a donation. We raised £178.00 for a very worthy cause. The Pantry, Fleetwood Old Hospital: Our first delivery has been made to the Pantry and was received with grateful thanks. If those of us are able buy one extra tin or bag of pasta when we do our own shopping, we will be able to continue to make regular donations to those in our community who are genuinely struggling to survive. Feast of the Nations: Just a reminder to sign up for this on 9th September. Tasting starts at 12 noon and you can come and go as you please. It’s a Churches Together in Fleetwood event, with lots of different nationalities and cultures being represented. 100 Club Winners: In July the lucky numbers drawn were for, Mavis Evans, Derek Warrington, Margaret Forshaw, Beryl Clarkson, Laura Martin, Lindsey Newton, Margaret Kershaw, Jeannette Norman, Berny McCarthy, Elizabeth King, Daniel Ashworth, Jillian Muir, Charles Evans, Dorothy Cox, Suzanne King, Gordon Roberts and Joy Broughton. If you’re not in the 100 club and would like to be, please see Ruth. It’s a bit of fun but at the same time it helps to top up our income. St Nicholas Church & McVitie’s Biscuits: Can you believe that McVitie’s are filming a new advert for their famous Digestive biscuit and they want St Nic’s to be part of it. This coming Thursday the film crew and actors will descend upon us and shoot what will probably end up being a ten second shot of a baptism family exiting the church. We are thrilled to be chosen! So, keep your eyes peeled. We will receive a payment of £750 in return. Sadly, they don’t require any of us to be extras!! Church Cleaning: This coming Saturday we’re going to undertake a deep clean of the church. We’re so grateful to the church sitters who do a bit of dusting and sweeping during the week which has meant our monthly cleans have been fewer. So, if your able, come along with a duster and some polish and give us a hand. It’s good to do it together. Please also remember in your prayers: Peter Dell, Rev Jane Everitt, Jo Crosswell, Rev Martin Keighley, Elizabeth King, Chris Kelsall, Michaela Jones, Mark Price, and John Hawley. And the families of Karen Potter, Richard Hudson and Paul Douglas whose funerals are due to take place.
