Sunday 15th February 2015 THE SUNDAY NEXT 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: 2 Kings 2: 1-12; Mark 9: 2-9 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 Valentine’s Breakfast Church St Nicholas, Arne 10.30am 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 22nd February: Genesis 9: 8-17; Mark 1: 9-15) Today’s Collect Almighty Father, whose Son was revealed in majesty before he suffered death upon the cross: give us grace to perceive his glory, that we may be strengthened to suffer with him and be changed into his likeness, from glory to glory; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, 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 Services - Sunday February 22nd 2015 The First Sunday of Lent Mon 16th Feb 1.30pm Hospital Service Lady St Mary Tue 17th Feb No Morning Prayer at Arne or East Holme today 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30am Communion No pancake races at Northmoor Wed 18th Feb ASH WEDNESDAY 11.15am Family Worship (Parish Hall) 7.45am Communion at LSM 3.00pm Baptism 9.00am Prayer Walk at Northmoor. Meet at 6.00pm Purbeck Evening Praise the Entrance to the Golf Club Sandford St Martin’s 11.00am Communion Service at SMOW Community Worship Centre 7.00pm Prayers for the Parish in LSM 9.30am Holy Communion Thu 19th Feb 8.00am Celtic Morning Prayer St John’s, East Holme 7.00pm Grace Course, both to be held at Sand3.00pm Evening Prayer (BCP) ford St Martin’s Community Worship Centre Anglebury Court Sat 21st Feb 8.45am Ladies’ Breakfast at Sandford St Martin Community Worship Centre 3.00pm Wareham Church Family Service to be led by LSM Team 10am Parish Hall Coffee Morning Reminders this week Prayer Focus - We thank God for our Bishop and Brother in Christ, Paul Modi. As he returns to South Sudan give him renewed confidence in the power of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for strengthening our partnership. May we, here, and your church in the Diocese of Terekeka continue to serve our communities with courage and compassion to the glory of your great name. Please pray for troubled parts of the world, for the hungry, those without work, those who are lonely, those suffering hardship or without a home and those with addictions We thank God for our local schools, for our hospital, Anglebury and Moretons Court, and all those who help with the work of the church Those of our congregation asking for Prayer: Peter Breakingbury, Doris Heys, Helen Reed, Brian Wilkins, June Taylor, Olive Lane, Richard Scott, June Benham, John & Janet Fisher Those who have died in recent days and those who mourn for their loved ones Catherine Grynyer, William King (k/as Bill) Sydney Gover The Pancake Races, originally planned and advertised in the Diary of Events for Tuesday 17th February at Hauses Field in Northmoor, will no longer be taking place. Sunday 22nd February at 9.30am Angel Voices in the Parish Hall Please note that ‘Open House’ at Sandford will be held on Thursday 26th February and not the 19th, as advertised in the Diary of Events for February. Snowdrop Day on Saturday 28th February 2 - 5.00pm at Hilfield Friary, Dorchester, admission £2. Lithuanian Artist, Birute Nomeda Stankuniene, is travelling all the way from Vilnius in Lithuania with a collection of her paintings for exhibition in Sherborne Abbey from 21st February to 28th March, opening hours Mon-Sun 8am4pm FOC