Bowland Benefice
Pews News 1 October 2023
17 th Sunday after Trinity

Collect
Gracious God,
you call us to fullness of life:
deliver us from unbelief
and banish our anxieties
with the liberating love of
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
This week in the Benefice
Sunday
1 October

10.30am Harvest Festival in
Upton Snodsbury
11.00am Holy Communion in
Peopleton
6.00pm Evensong in White
Ladies Aston

Sunday
8 October
Trinity 18

10.30am Holy Communion in
Upton Snodsbury
10.30am Harvest Festival
Service in White
Ladies Aston
4.00pm All-Age Family
Service in
Broughton Hackett
St Leonard’s, Broughton Hackett
Following last Saturday’s meeting in the church, Revd
Claire reports very positively as follows:
The meeting about the future of St Leonard’s was very
well attended last week and comments were positive. 
 Thanks to all who have offered help already - more

offers will be appreciated.

Please contact a member of your PCC for further

information.

Offers can also be made through me at
[email protected]
and I will pass them on.

Next Sunday, 8 October at 4.00pm there will be a
special All-Age Family Service in St Leonard’s.
Everyone will be very welcome.
Please do come along with family and friends to enjoy
the companionship of the community and to show
your support for those working to preserve this lovely

church for the coming years.
Nancy Murray-Peters

A lot of us remember Nancy for the friend and mentor
she has been to our Benefice over a very long time –
her Sunday services, her carol services at Churchill,
weddings, baptisms and funerals. Her fun and interest
and love of everyone she met and the support she has
given to so many. Nancy is now in the care of St
Richard’s Hospice in Worcester and we ask for your
thoughts and prayers for her at this time.

October

With the coming of 1 October, I am sure we all feel
that autumn and the season of mists and mellow
fruitfulness have arrived – a time maybe to think
about the joys of the summer just gone and look
forward to the days shortening with the nights
drawing in; the changing of the clocks; the work to be
done to put the garden to bed for the winter.
Conkers, last flush of summer roses, the beautiful
Michaelmas Daisies, the hips and haws and
blackberries…… A time to marvel at nature in all her

abundance and beauty.

This meditation is from The Quiet Garden Movement.
Each garden of quiet is a place of journeys;
adventures of faith, hope and love,
tentative paths of unknowing and knowing,
of uncertainty and assurance.
Here, in a momentary stilling of the anxious mind,
we can ask for God’s releasing love
in the patterning of our past
and the anticipation of our future –
Both drawing close in the gift of the now.

We bless you,
God of Seed and Harvest
and we bless each other
that the beauty of this world
and the love that created it
might be expressed though our lives
and be a blessing to others
now and always. Amen.

It is the time of harvest celebrations in our Benefice
Over the next few weeks as follows:
This Sunday in Upton Snodsbury
Harvest Festival celebration in St Kenelm’s at 10.30am
followed by an auction of harvest produce – proceeds
to Farmers’ Overseas Action Group.
FOAG has been supporting rural families in Uganda to
live a sustainable life since 1981.
This will be followed by soup and sandwiches in Upton

Snodbury’s Village Hall.

Next Sunday 8 October in White Ladies Aston
Harvest Festival Family Service at 10.30am. All the
produce offered at the service will be given to Maggs
Day Centre in Worcester. Maggs supports the
homeless and vulnerable across the city.
Refreshments will be served after the service.
Sunday 22 October in Peopleton
Harvest Festival Service will be held at 11.00am
followed by lunch in the Village Hall. (12.30 for
1.00pm) Cost will be £10 (under 10s £4) and tickets
can be obtained from Kim (840911), Carole (840879),
Caroline (840630) and Diana (840611). Please take

your own drinks and glass.