FUTURE EVENTS
23 Feb
1 March 2.00pm
6 March 10.30am
7 March 10.00am
14 March 2.30pm
15 March 10.00am
3.00pm
20 March 7.00pm
21 March 9.30am
23 –27 March
29 March 9.50am
1 April
10.00am
5 April 10.00am
18 April 9.30am
19 April 10.00am

= in Church
Lent Groups start,
various venues & times
Walking Together,
Hampnett & River Leach
Women’s World Day of
Prayer Service
Wedding Prep Day
Book Swap, Parish Hall
Mothering Sunday
service
Choir at the Cathedral
Watoto Choir, CK Baptist
Church
Churchyard Clear Up
Experience Easter 
Palm Sunday Procession,
outside Co-op, followed
by 10am service
Walking Together, the
Leach Valley
Easter Sunday service
Churchyard Clear Up
Parish Communion &
APCM, a chance to hear
our plans for 2015
CONTACTS
Clergy
Revd Canon Michael Garland
01242 253402
[email protected]
Revd Suzanne Leighton
01242 224745
[email protected]
Verger
Margaret Eccles
01242 521771
St Mary’s Charlton Kings
www.stmarysck.org.uk
Sunday 15th February
Sunday Next Before Lent
Welcome to our services today. We hope that you will find warmth and
friendship in this place and God’s blessing and peace as we worship.
At our Communion services, all are invited to come forward to receive bread
and wine. If you would prefer to receive a blessing, simply keep your head
bowed when you come to the front. If you require a gluten free wafer,
please let a Welcomer know.
Junior Church, for all ages, usually takes place in term time during the 10am
service. There are also toys for small children at the back of church.
Church Wardens
Dilys Jones 01242 242732
Derrick Walker 01242 525742
Tea & coffee are served after the 10am service (usually in the Parish Centre
across the road, but sometimes in the church). Please do come along.
If you are unsure about anything, ask one of our Welcomers.
Director of Music
Neil Fortin
01242 513475
[email protected]
8.00am
Holy Communion
Celebrant: Canon Michael Garland
Preacher: Canon Michael Garland
Parish Resource Centre
Beth Simpson
01242 224883
[email protected]
FOR JUNIORS - several activities for children take place during the week.
Rainbows, Brownies & Guides - various days. Contact Mary, T: 07443 627075
Little Fishes, a short service for pre-schoolers, is at 10.15am every Thursday
in church, followed by playtime in the parish hall. Contact Fiona, T: 07825
955686. Open House, informal family worship with tea in the vestry, is held
on the first Sunday of the month at 4.00pm. Contact Michael, T: 253402.
Items for notices need to be in the Parish Resource Centre by Wednesday.
The weekly notices can be downloaded at www.stmarysck.org.uk.
Please take this sheet home with you and use for prayer and calendar
reminders throughout the week—or maybe give to a neighbour.
10.00am
Parish Communion &
Junior Church
Celebrant: Revd Pauline Smith
Preacher: Revd Rosanne Roberts
Hymns:
2, SP 106, 502, 491, 513
Anthem: Jesu, joy of man’s
desiring – Bach
Readings: 2 Kings 2: 1-12
2 Corinthians 4: 3-6
Mark 9: 2-9
Readers: Brenda Linney
Antony Gilder
Gospel:
Canon Michael Garland
6.30pm
Officiant:
Preacher:
Hymns:
Anthem:
Choral Evensong
Canon Michael Garland
Dr Gordon Wenham
16, Ps 99, 248, 22
Lord, I trust thee – Handel
PRAYERS Please pray for those
who are sick including Raymond
Blackwell, Colin Johnson, Suzanne
Leighton, Betty Vernall & Frank
Wood.
Pray for the friends and family of
those who have recently died, including Gwen Paine, Richard Hargreaves, Evelyn McNally, Tony
Mobley, Emily Chance & Derek
Morris.
We also remember Mary Paget,
Rosemary Godwin, John Eltham,
Richard Mason & Elizabeth Stern
whose year’s mind is at this time.
Our current charity is The Rock.
Prayers are also listed overleaf in
the This Week section.
THIS WEEK AT ST. MARY’S CHARLTON KINGS
Monday 16th Daily Prayer: For Open House @ St. Mary’s
9.00am
Morning Prayer
Church
2.30pm
Bible Study Group
Members’ Home
5.30pm
Evening Prayer
Church
Tuesday 17th
Daily Prayer: For CK Infant & Junior Schools; our MP
9.00am
Morning Prayer
Church
2.15pm
Funeral of Tony Mobley
Church
5.30pm
Evening Prayer
Church
7.30pm
Bell Ringers’ Practice
Bell Tower
Wednesday 18th Daily Prayer: Glenfall & Balcarras schools; Parish Council
8.00am
Ash Wednesday Holy Communion
Church
8.50am
Open the Book
CK Infants School
9.00am
Morning Prayer
Church
1.20pm
Open the Book
CK Junior School
5.30pm
Evening Prayer
Church
7.30pm
Ash Wednesday Holy Communion
Church
Thursday 19th Daily Prayer: For St. Edward’s Schools & local nurseries; for
CK Youth Club and the Air Training Corps
9.00am
Morning Prayer
Church
10.15am
Little Fishes
Church/Parish Hall
11.00am
Holy Communion
Church
12noon
Funeral of Evelyn McNally
Church
12noon
Open the Book
Glenfall School
5.30pm
Evening Prayer
Church
Friday 20th
Daily Prayer: For Rainbows. Brownies & Guides; for
Cheltenham Borough Council
7.30am
Holy Communion
Church
5.30pm
Evening Prayer
Church
7.00pm
Choir Practice
Church
Sunday 22nd
Daily Prayer: For our link dioceses Dornakal & Karnataka
Central; for Cheltenham Street Pastors
8.00am
Holy Communion
Church
10.00am
Parish Communion (no Junior Church) Church
6.30pm
Choral Evensong
Church
NOTICES, EVENTS & NEWS
Lent groups—a study of The Psalms
As in previous years, a series of
ecumenical weekly study groups for
Lent will be taking place. Through a 5
week period we will seek to understand what the psalms meant in Bible
times and what they mean for us today. There are 6 groups, all starting in
the week beginning 23rd February:
Mondays at 7.30pm; Tuesdays at
2.30pm & 7.30pm; Weds at 10.30am,
2.30pm & 7.30pm. Please sign up on
the sheet at the back.
Ash Wednesday Holy Communion
Weds 18th February, 8am and
7.30pm. Please come along to mark
the start of Lent.
Experience Easter—can you help?
Children from local schools will be visiting the church during the week of
22nd March to find out more about
the meaning of Easter. Helpers are
needed to read a brief story at each of
the Easter “stations”. If you can help
at any of the following sessions,
please sign up at the back: Mon 23rd
1.45-2.45pm; Tues 24th 9.3010.30am; Tues 25th 1.45-2.45pm;
Weds 26th 1.15-2.15 & 2.15-3.15pm.
Diocesan Courses
There is information on a variety of
courses being organised by the Diocese on the Community Board.
Junior Church
There is no Junior Church today or
next week due to half term. From 1st
March, the leaders will be trialling a
move to the Parish Centre. Watch
this space for more information.
Women’s World Day of Prayer
Friday 6th March, 10.30am at St.
Mary’s. The service has been prepared by the Christian women of the
Bahamas and Revd Rosanne Roberts
will be the speaker.
Spare tickets to the RSC
Nigel Sharp has 2 tickets to The Shoemakers Holiday, 28 Feb, 1.30pm, £38
each. See Nigel if you’re interested.
Churchyard Clear Up
The monthly churchyard tidy up
mornings will be starting again on Sat
21st March (9am-1pm). Volunteers
are always needed to keep the open
space around St. Mary’s looking its
best for all the people who walk
through, come on a Sunday or attend
baptisms, weddings and funerals. You
don’t need to be green fingered! If
you can help, simply turn up.
Refreshments are provided.
News from the Diocese
The Messenger, the monthly newsletter from the Diocese which used to
the included within our Parish Magazine, is now available at the back.