www.stmichaels-church-colehill.co.uk The Revd. Suzanne Pattle, MA, The Vicarage, Smugglers Lane, Colehill Email: 01202 883721 The Revd. Lorraine McGregor, Tapiola, Marianne Road, Colehill T: The Church Office, Colehill Lane BH21 7AB (Telephone 841677) is open daily from 10.00 am until 12 noon If you wish to book the Church Centre or have any other enquiry, please leave a message on the office answer phone, or on , in the Centre post box or with the office staff Sunday 22nd February 2015 1st Sunday of Lent 8.00am Holy Communion 9.30am Parish Eucharist 11.00am Coffee in Church Centre to hear Sheila report back on her South Sudan visit. Monday 23rd 2.00pm MU Committee Meeting in Alec Moore Room Tuesday 24th 8.00am Morning Prayer 10.30am Organ Practice Wednesday 25th 8.00am Morning Prayer 10.30am Holy Communion – MU Corporate 11.30am Centre Rendezvous 1.45pm Lent Course (afternoon group) Session 1 in Church Centre 7.30pm Lent Course (evening group) Session 1 in Church Centre POINTERS FOR PRAYER: The church throughout the world & for Justin Welby as he leads the Anglican Communion. Give thanks for Sheila’s safe return from South Sudan ` The church in South Sudan Our Diocese - Bishop Nicholas, Bishop Graham & Bishop Ed. Our Church in Colehill Liz Chant holding St. Michael’s Cross Those who work with our children & young folk (Wayfinders) th Thursday 26 8.00am Morning Prayer 1.55pm St. Michael’s School Year 6 Assembly in Church 7.00pm Community Choir in Church th Friday 27 8.00am Morning Prayer 9.30 – 11.30pm Cherubs Mother’s & Toddler’s Group In Church Centre 2.00pm Church Wardens’ Meeting at Vicarage 7.00pm Choir Practice Next Sunday 1st March 2nd Sunday of Lent 8.00am Holy Communion 9.30am All Age Worship 3.00pm Dorset Island Discs with Chris Dowie in Church Centre (see notice inside) Our Churchwardens & PCC Our Ministry Team & LPAs For a holy Lent of reflection & prayer For peace, reconciliation, healing & justice in God’s fragmented world: Syria Israel & Palestine South Sudan Nigeria Ukraine & Russia The Ebola crisis in West Africa The work of Christian Aid The sick & infirm & others in need: Sheila Spenceley, Paul, Brian Watson, Derrick Wollen ,Coral Roberts, Angie Walden & Katie Bedford-Smith RIP: Laura Dowie, Vi Salisbury & Juli Spendley C E RENDEZVOUS T R E The LUNCHTIME VENUE for the whole community OPEN Wednesdays 11.30am – 1.30pm Centre Rendezvous - Good Food & Good Company! CENTRE RENDEZVOUS Food & Hygiene Course Saturday 14th March, 9 a.m-1 p.m. Please sign up on the sheet at the back of church. CHRISTIAN AID LENT LUNCHES Our local Christian Aid committee have once again arranged these, to take place each Thursday, at Wimborne Methodist Church, from 12.15 onwards, from untill 26th March. There will be a “Thought for the Day,” and donations are requested for the work of Christian Aid. St. Michael’s will be “in charge” on Thursday, 19th March. WIMBORNE DEANERY A DAY FOR MEN Saturday 14th March, 9.30-4 p.m. at the Lantern Church, Merley. “The Battle to be a Christian Man!” All details on posters in Centre. Tickets a tenner, to include hog roast, etc ALL AGE WORSHIP Following positive comments I received following the last All Age Worship & discussion at our Ministry team meeting last week & consultation with the PCC, I now propose to continue the trial of having a non-Eucharistic All Age Service in MARCH, MAY and JUNE (First Sunday of April is Easter Day and is therefore Eucharistic), at which point we will review things. Suzanne LENT COURSE STARTING THIS WEEK A sign up sheet is available at the back of church for the Lent course (afternoon and evening sessions will take place every Wednesday up to and including Wednesday of Holy Week). Books accompanying the course are now available from the back of church. Please do not let cost be a barrier to attendance at the course - if there is need, just contribute what you are able. Please take one and sign on the sheet at the back & mark on the tick sheet if you have paid or not! We begin the course with a showing of the film this Wednesday 25th February at both the afternoon and evening groups. CALLING ALL CAKE MAKERS! Suzanne Woodlands Burial Ground is to have an open weekend over the weekend of Mothering Sunday, 15th March, for those who want to come to remember their mums and lay flowers. One of the staff there is a member of a church in Lilliput, and has asked her MU branch to come and serve tea and cake, receiving donations for the MU. It would be wonderful if we as members of St Michael’s were able to supply some home made cakes to support this initiative. I plan to pop in on both days of the weekend, just to be around with people and it is an excellent way of us serving the wider parish. Please do deliver cakes either directly to Woodlands Burial Ground on the Friday, or leave them in the Church Office and I will deliver them. Many thanks. Suzanne READING GROUP We are hoping to start an evening Reading Group at St. Michael’s. We will be meeting once a month and will be affiliated to the Dorset Library service so there is no cost involved in buying books. We will read books chosen by members and hope to have a wide range both of books and members! Please speak to Caroline Jones (01202 849873) if you are interested in joining. We will try to arrange our first meeting soon. Look forward to hearing from you. FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT This runs from rd 23 February to 8th March. Saturday 28th February Special Event in Wimborne Square-members of AFC Bournemouth Youth Team will show how Fairtrade hits the Target. There will be a Coffee Morning on Saturday 7th March, 10-12.30, at 14, Westfield Close by Westfield car park. WIMBORNE MUSIC SOCIETY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING EVENT: Sunday 1st March at 3.00pm St.Michael's Church Centre, Colehill The Dorset Rural Music School Presents DORSET ISLAND DISCS (Local musicians introduce works which have shaped their careers) CHRIS DOWIE in conversation with Richard Hall Tickets : £7.50 (to include tea and cake) From Square Records, Wimborne WEDNESDAY HOLY COMMUNION After a six month period of offering a weekly communion service on a Wednesday, attendances do not justify maintaining this pattern so it has been decided that we will revert to a once a month pattern of the MU corporate communion on the last Wednesday of each month, to which all are welcome. The change will take effect from the beginning of March. Suzanne ART EXHIBITION at SHERBORNE ABBEY 21st.February to 28th March 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. This exhibition, entitled “Embracing Life”, is the work of a Lithuanian artist, Birute Nomeda Stankuniene. The press release, containing two pages of information, is on the church board in the Centre. Entrance to the Abbey and the exhibition is free. WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER The Service is at 10.30 a.m. on Friday 6th March at the United Reformed Church in Chapel Lane in Wimborne off East Borough. Please come & support this in your usual good numbers! Parking is not easy in that area, so doubling up and dropping off will be needed. Freda & Marjorie PRAYER CORNER IN CHURCH This is now taking shape and will provide a helpful focus for anyone to come and use during Lent (and beyond) - the church is always open weekday mornings from 10-12noon. Huge thanks to Lorraine, Jackie and others who are using their creative and prayerful gifts to create a wonderful space to enrich our worship and personal devotions. Suzanne The BIBLE SOCIETY A Dramatised Recital of St. Mark’s Gospel at Canford Parish Church on Monday 16th March, 7-9 p.m. (See poster on pillar in church.) Free entry. Collection for the Bible Society and the Sudan Link. TODAY’S COLLECT Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ fasted forty days in the wilderness, and was tempted as we are, yet without sin: give us grace to discipline ourselves in obedience to your Spirit; and, as you know our weakness, so may we know your power to save; 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. Genesis 9.8-17 T hen God said to Noah and to his sons with him, ‘As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.’ God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.’ God said to Noah, ‘This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.’ prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight people, were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him. Mark 1.9-15 I n those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.’ And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him. Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news. POST COMMUNION PRAYER Lord God, you have renewed us with the living bread from heaven; by it you nourish our faith, increase our hope, and strengthen our love: teach us always to hunger for him who is the true and living bread, and enable us to live by every word that proceeds from out of your mouth; through Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Peter 3. 18-end F or Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS 1st March – 2nd Sunday of Lent Genesis 17. 1-7, 15-16 Romans 4. 13-end Mark 8. 31-end
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