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
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The church in South Sudan
Our Diocese - Bishop Nicholas, Bishop Graham
& Bishop Ed.
Our Church in Colehill
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Liz Chant holding St. Michael’s Cross
Those who work with our children
& young folk (Wayfinders)
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Thursday 26
8.00am Morning Prayer
1.55pm St. Michael’s School Year 6
Assembly in Church
7.00pm Community Choir in Church
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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