The Bishops of Lincoln, Grimsby and Grantham would like to warmly invite you to participate in designing this year’s Bishops’ Christmas card. The theme of this year's card is the traditional Christmas carol ‘The Holly and The Ivy’. The Bishops suspect there are many budding artists, designers and photographers – perhaps even cross-stitchers – amongst you who may be looking for their next project. The submission date for entries is Friday 6 September. Please ensure that your design is an original piece of work and the size is no larger than 151 mm x 151 mm. Submissions should be posted to: The Bishops’ Office, Edward King House, Minster Yard, Lincoln LN2 1PU. Please include your name, parish, postal address and email address so that we can return your designs and contact the winner.
Today we pray in our Benefice for For families and friends to enjoy the Bank Holiday together In our Diocese we are asked to pray for Boston – The Revd Sall Clifton The Diocese of Etche – The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion)Tourism Our scripture readings for today are;Psalms 1,2 and 3Joshua 7:1-15Luke 10:25-37 Should you wish to follow the form of Morning Prayer that we use in Church each Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, you can find it at the following address; https://www.churchofengland.org/.../join-us-service-daily... Wednesday’s there is a service of Holy Communion in All Saints Church. Come and join us. We continue to pray each day. For Events, People and Businesses around the North Lafford Benefice. This includes our sister churches in Anwick, Cranwell, Evedon and Leasingham. We pray for the wider Communities in both our Diocese and abroad. Pray for one and another, proclaiming Jesus in all we do and say today. Amen
Leasingham Church update - During April our builders have dug out one soakaway at the north side of the Church and we are awaiting their return to dig another two soakaways out. We are looking towards the end of May to re-open for services.A bat survey was carried out by the Bat Conservation Trust by a local volunteer from the Lincolnshire Bat Group who thoroughly checked out the Church. He will be returning for an evening visit during the summer months to check where any bats could be gaining entry within the spire wall. He said that bats were now just beginning to come out of hibernation and becoming more active.The Leasingham Village Scarecrow weekend will soon be upon us - running between Friday 24th May to the Monday 27th which the Duke of Wellington Pub will be organising. It is an eventwhich our Church usually participate in and we are hoping to take part this year. The theme will be 'sport' possibly to celebrate the upcoming Paris Olympics. Do please come along and visit the scarecrows.Our last coffee morning saw the Leasingham and District Gardening Group join us to promote their organisation and its new year programme full of informative talks and outings to various gardens. They were also selling donated plants and seeds. Our next coffee morning will be on Saturday May 11th 10.15am to 11.30am in Leasingham Village Hall.Leasingham's Congregation and Clergy would care to thank the Leasingham Village Hall Committee for the kind use of the Hall for the two Easter Services which took place there. Another cause for celebration will be the reopening of St Andrew’s Leasingham on Sunday June the 2nd at 3.30pm with a special service of thanksgiving and refreshments to follow. We are in the planning stage but please look out for more details.James and the giant churchKay Brown (our organist at Leasingham) was delighted when her grandson, James Hesketh aged 7, made a floor plan of St Andrew's Leasingham from LEGO! He said that he was very pleased and proud that it had been liked by Reverend Al.He is going to give Kay a guided tour of his model and particularly the font with removable top. Well done James.
You can find information about services in Lincolnshire that can support your everyday well being or whild you wait for treatment.Check out the links below for more information or download the booklet attached.https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/application/files/2317/0308/2819/Keeping_Well_-_A5_-_V1_210_x_148_mm.pdfthis is the link for the guide from How Are You Lincolnshire | Home (haylincolnshire.co.uk)
