Bowland Benefice
Pews News
15 September 2024
Trinity 16 - Collect
Lord of creation,
whose glory is around and within us:
open our eyes to your wonders,
that we may serve you with reverence
and know your peace at our lives’ end,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
This Week in the Benefice

Sunday 15
September

10.30am Benefice Holy
Communion in
Upton
Snodsbury
3.00pm Pet Service at
Jim Crow
Corner,
Peopleton

Thursday 19
September

9.30am

3.00pm

Funeral service
at The Vale
Crematorium
Followed by
Service of
Thanksgiving
for the life of
Diana Gill in
Peopleton
May she rest in
peace

Saturday 21
September

6.00pm

Quiz and fish
and chip
supper in The
Village Hall,
Upton
Snodsbury

Sunday 22
September

9.30am Holy
Communion in
White Ladies
Aston
10.30am Songs of Praise
in Upton
Snodsbury
11.00am Holy
Communion in
Peopleton
An opportunity to celebrate and say thank you
for the companionship and joy we receive from
our pets - this Sunday afternoon, in the barn at
Jim Crow Corner, Peopleton followed by coffee,
tea and cake and a time to mingle and chat.
Even if you don’t have a pet at the moment, you
will be made very welcome and there will be a
selection of ‘cuddly’ pets on hand to borrow!

Don’t forget, this Saturday 21 September a fish and
chip supper with quiz will be held in Upton Snodsbury
Village Hall beginning at 6.00pm.
Quiz teams can be up to a maximum of 6 people.
Tickets cost £12.00 each from Helen on 01905 381490

or Janet on 01905 381379.

As we enjoy some of the beautiful autumn days and
colours that the month of September brings, Janet
Russell found this beautiful poem:
The first faint hint on what is yet to be, 
a pinkish tint upon the cherry tree.
The old Virginia creepers turning red, 
around the timbers of the garden shed.
Lovely in its dying, yet how beautiful,
September’s golden leaves. 

The autumn miracle as sure as clocks and calendars, 

the year when growing old, 
cloaks the woods in glory, 
bronze, crimson, amber, gold.
The fires of nature’s making,
the flames no man can stay,
the mighty conflagration that runs from day to day
Like torches, blaze the branches in wood
and garden bower,
September fades, but not,
before it lives its finest hour.
And thoughts turn to harvest time.
My husband, born and brought up in London, was
always bemused by the real meaning of ‘seed time
and harvest’. Now nearly in his ninth decade….(I can’t
believe it – where did all those years go?) he has
learned to appreciate what in the past, a good harvest
meant in a rural community – the difference between
surviving the winter or not. And indeed why harvest
time is still a reason for celebration and giving to

others.

Broughton Hackett’s Harvest Festival Family Service
is on 13 October at 4.00pm with coffee, tea and cake
being served from 4.45pm in St Leonard’s. Everyone
will be made very welcome to both the service and
get together or if they prefer, just to come along and
meet up with friends and neighbours for a chat. More

information to follow soon!

Peopleton’s Harvest Festival with Holy Communion
will take on 6 October at 11.00am followed by lunch
in the Village Hall (12.30pm for 1.00pm). More

information very soon!

Upton Snodsbury’s Harvest Festival Family Service is
also on 6 October followed by a soup and sandwich
lunch in the Village Hall. Collection for F.O.A.G. More

information to come!

White Ladies Aston’s Family Service with Harvest
Festival is on 13 October. More information soon!