Sunday 8th February 2015 THE SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE LENT Welcome! If you are visiting, please make yourself known to one of the clergy or the welcome team, who will be happy to help you. Large print sheets are available from our Welcome Team W E L C O M E Services Today Readings: Proverbs 8: 1, 22-31; John 1: 1-14 Lady St Mary 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30am Communion 11.15am Family Worship (Parish Hall) Sandford St Martin’s Community Worship Centre 9.30am Holy Communion St John’s, East Holme 9.00am Holy Communion (BCP) For details of church services, themes of worship and events in the parish, please see this month’s diary sheet available at the back of church, call the Parish Office or visit our website. (Readings for Sunday 15th February: 2 Kings 2: 1-12; Mark 9: 2-9) Today’s Collect Almighty God, you have created the heavens and the earth and made us in your own image: teach us to discern your hand in all your works and your likeness in all your children; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit reigns supreme over all things, now and for ever . Amen Wareham Parish Contact Details The Reverend Canon Simon Everett Team Rector (289236) The Reverend Jackie Maw Team Vicar/Community Missioner (556796) The Reverend Michael Young Curate (554207) The Reverend Suzie Allen Curate (550142) Mrs Hilary Bond Schools’ and Children’s Worker (551219) Mrs Pat Cherrett Churchwarden (552087) Mrs Jean Dixon Lay Pastor Co-ordinator (556005) Please contact if you Mr Peter Fry Home Communion (01202 623814) would like a visit The Parish Office, Church Green, Wareham, BH20 4ND Open Daily: Mon - Fri 9.30am until 12.30 pm Tel: (01929) 550905 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.warehamchurches.org.uk Reminders this week Mon 9th Feb 1.30pm Hospital Service Tue 10th Feb 9.45am Morning Prayer at Arne Wed 11th Feb 7.45am Communion at LSM 11.00am Communion Service at SMOW 7.00pm Prayers for the Parish in LSM 7.30pm *Purbeck Open Lecture in the Parish Hall. ‘Normality, Art and Ecstasy’ Thu 12th Feb 8.00am Celtic Morning Prayer at Sandford St Martin’s Community Worship Centre Fri 13th Feb 12.30pm Parish Hall Lunch Club (details from 556761) Sat 14th Feb 8.30am Men’s Breakfast at Sandford St Martin’s Community Worship Centre - Come with your questions for Bishop Paul from South Sudan, register with John 551675 10am Parish Hall Coffee Morning Services - Sunday February 15th 2015 The Sunday Before Lent Lady St Mary 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30am Communion 11.15am Family Worship Sandford St Martin’s Community Worship Centre 9.30am Valentine’s Breakfast Church St Nicholas, Arne 10.30am Holy Communion (BCP) *Purbeck Open Lecture - Wednesday 11th February at 7.30pm. ‘Normality, Art and Ecstasy - Quietude in an increasingly changing world’. The lecture is to be held in the Parish Hall. The Licensing Service for the Reverend Andy Bowerman in his new Appointment as Associate Priest in Hardington Vale will take place on Saturday 14th February at 2pm at Prayer Focus - The Lord Jesus spent much time St Laurence, Rode. All are welcome. Beatrice Smith wishes to convey her heartin prayer. He taught his disciples to pray too, felt thanks for all the prayers, friendship and and calls us to follow him. loving care that has kept her going over the We thank God for enabling Bishop Paul Modi past months - thanks be to God. from our link Diocese of Terekeka in South Joyce Boulding would like to say a big thank Sudan, to come to the UK. We pray for him as you to all the people who helped her he arrives in the Parish tomorrow for a week. celebrate her 90th birthday. We pray that we would be mutually Please note that the Pancake Races, encouraged as we build our partnership in the originally planned and advertised in the Gospel together. Diary of Events for Tuesday 17th February at Please pray for troubled parts of the world, for Hauses Field in Northmoor, will no longer be the hungry, those without work, those who are taking place. Please note that ‘Open House’ at Sandford lonely, those suffering hardship or without a will be held on Thursday 26th February and home and those with addictions not the 19th, as advertised in the Diary of Those of our congregation asking for Prayer: Events for February. Peter Breakingbury, Doris Heys, Helen Reed, Snowdrop Day on Saturday 28th February Richard Scott, John and Janet Fisher, Heather 2 - 5.00pm at Hilfield Friary, Dorchester, Preston, Brian Wilkins, Olive Lane, June Tay- admission £2. lor, June Benham Those who have died in recent days and those who mourn for their loved ones Catherine Grynyer, Maria Curtis (k/as Marysia) Lithuanian Artist, Birute Nomeda Stankuniene is travelling all the way from Vilnius in Lithuania with a collection of her paintings for an exhibition, in Sherborne Abbey from 21st February to 28th March, opening hours Monday - Sunday, 8am - 4pm FOC