Sunday 23 February - Second Sunday before Lent9:30am - Holy Communion - Bishampton11:00am - Holy Communion - Cropthorne Funeral25 February at 10:00am - Wyre Piddle - funeral of Selsia Churchill The Five Villages Prom 20257:30pm Friday 28 FebruarySt. John the Baptist Church, FladburyTickets £12 (U18 £8) from Fladbury Pie Shop, The Chequers, Mark Blackwell or https://fivevillagesprom2025.eventbrite.co.uk.Music includes Eric Whittaker, John Rutter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Glen Miller, Tudor Madrigals and Last Night of the Proms favourites.Prom RaffleDuring the evening there will be a RAFFLE in aid of the Five Alive Parish.Carol Swanson of Charlton is kindly organising it and would welcome donations of prizes.If you are able to help, please contact Carol on 01386 860866. Church Electoral Roll – Five Alive ParishEvery six years a new Church Electoral Roll of church members is prepared.Forms are available in each of the five churches. Please fill one in and return it to your local warden.Alternatively, please down load one from THIS LINK complete it electronically, add an electronic signature and email it to the Electoral Roll Officer at fmwcc01@gmail.comApplications must be received by 10 March please. World Day of PrayerTo be held on 7 March at 2:00pm at The Baptist Church, Broad Street, Pershore.The service this year has been put together by the women of the Cook Islands and is based on a theme from Psalm 139 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. A Quiet Day at Holland HouseStopping Places -The Stations of the Cross by Mary FlitcroftTo be held on Saturday 8 March from 10:00am to 4:00pmAs the season of Lent begins, join Mary Flitcroft for a Quiet Day at Holland House contemplating Jesus’s Journey to the Cross.We will be praying with the Stations of the Cross: ‘Stopping Places’, which is a series of 14 art works created in clay by Mary.Mary Flitcroft is the Bishop’s Advisor for Spirituality in the Diocese of Worcester, as well as a spiritual director and a retreat leader. She works as an artist-using with both clay and paint in abstract contemplative works.Cost £50 to include lunch, refrehments and cake.For further details and to register your place, contact:https://hollandhouse.org/product/8th-march-day-event-stopping-places-the-stations-of-the-cross-by-mary-flitcroft/Our churches –now and futureWe all recognise the changing culture for the Church and our local churches. We cannot know what Church will look like in the future, nor the availability of people’s gifts, nor the work of the Holy Spirit which is full of surprises; we can though, I think, envisage that some things will be different, and it is this, that I’d like us to spend some dedicated time together to think about, on Saturday 5 April at Holland House. Coffee will be available on arrival at 10:00am, the discussion will start at 10:20 with a break for coffee and cake at 11:30 and will conclude by 12:30pm.My intention is for this to be a step to help us look at what we see happening, to ask ourselves “so what is this telling us?” and to pray on this; and then, to come back after a month or two, to ask the next question, “so what do we do next?Sarah Sunday 2 March - Sunday next before Lent11:00am - Holy Communion - FladburyWednesday 5 March - Ash Wednesday7:00pm Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes - Fladbury
