Bowland Benefice
Pews News 6 October 2024
Trinity 19 - Collect
O God, forasmuch as without you
we are not able to please you;
mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit
may in all things direct and rule our hearts;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
This Week in the Benefice
Saturday
5 October

10.00am

Churchyard
tidy up in
Upton
Snodsbury

Sunday
6 October

10.30am

Family Harvest
Festival in
Upton
Snodsbury
followed by
soup &
sandwich lunch
in Village Hall

11.00am

Harvest
Festival with
Holy
Communion in
Peopleton
followed by
lunch in the
Village Hall

6.00pm

Songs of Praise
in White Ladies
Aston

Tuesday
8 October

7.00pm

White Ladies
Aston’s PCC
meets in The
Parish Room

Friday
11 October

7.00pm

Macmillan
Cancer Support
Quiz Night in
The Parish
Room WLA

Sunday
13 October
Trinity 20

10.30am Holy
Communion in
Upton
Snodsbury
10.30am Family Harvest
Festival in
White Ladies
Aston
4.00pm Family Harvest
Festival in
Broughton
Hackett

Next week – 13 October – Harvest Celebrations
10.30am at White Ladies Aston followed by
refreshments in church.
Tins and packets of food will be very much
appreciated to decorate the church.
These can be left in church on Friday or Saturday (11 th
and 12 th ) or brought to the service. All the gifts of
food will be donated to Maggs Day Centre in
Worcester to help feed the vulnerable in the city.
and a Harvest Festival Family Service will be held at
4.00pm in St Leonard’s Church.
Come! with friends and family: Sing! Harvest Hymns:
Bring! Food gifts for local charities.
From 4.45pm refreshments will be served in St
Leonard’s. Everyone will be made very welcome at
the service but if you can’t be there please do come
along to church at 4.45pm to meet up with friends
and neighbours for coffee and tea, with scones and

apple pie!

On the cover of our Bowline monthly magazine, along
with drawings of our 4 active churches, there are also
pictures of the churches at Spetchley and Churchill.
You may wonder how they are managed and
maintained……..so here are a few words of
explanation from Margaret Haywood, Secretary of
White Ladies Aston’s PCC…….
The Churches Conservation Trust is the national
charity protecting churches at risk. It cares for the
churches vested in it by the Church Commissioners of
the Church of England, repairing damage and working
with local communities to bring them alive again. 
There are two such churches in the parish of White
Ladies Aston, which is quite unusual – St. Michael's,
Churchill. and All Saints, Spetchley.
Although the CCT looks after the buildings, the parish
is responsible for the upkeep of the churchyard. Tracy
Genever is our new local Community Engagement
Officer and we look forward to working with her.
If you would like to help us care for these churches,
please contact Tracy on  [email protected]  or

call on 07831 873515

Look out for the annual Carol Service to be held at
3.00pm on 8 December in St Michael’s, Churchill.

Not to be missed

White Ladies Aston Film Night at 7.30pm. The
acclaimed film Mr Turner - £5 to include an ice cream
or - if you came to the talk on 27 September – at the

special rate of £2 only!
- Upton Snodsbury Race Night
At 7.00pm on Saturday 19 October in the Village Hall
come along and try your luck on the horses. £10 for a
ploughman’s supper and pud. Minimum bet £1.
Dear Lord, in the light of everything that is going
wrong in our wonderful world – help us to do what we
can to show love and support to everyone we meet

every day. Amen.