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THE PARISH OF OLLERTON WITH BOUGHTON – useful information
Churchwardens Kate HelliwellJean NewtonPauline WaltersLynda Conroy 01623 836462Mark & Rachael Harrison Bust 01623863907
Check out: Ollerton with Boughton Parish website: www.cofe-ollerton.org.ukFacebook - follow us: https://en-gb.facebook.com/ChurchesinOllertonwithBoughton / Twitter – find us: https://twitter.com/CofEInOllerton Instagram – find us https://www.instagram.com/cofeinollertonandvillages/
St Paulinus Community & Church HallAll booking enquiries to Revd Phil tel: 07946206586 or [email protected]
…………………………………………………………………………Our other websites and facebook pages:
For each parish church, Check out our websites using ‘A Church Near You’: use the link - https://www.achurchnearyou.com/
Facebook: St Andrews Eakring https://www.facebook.com/st.andrews.eakring/…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
TEAM OF MINISTERS FOR OUR FAMILY OF CHURCHES
Priest in Charge: Revd. Zoe Burton tel.01623 862818; email: [email protected] the page Rev Zoe Burton
Curate: Revd. Philip Howson tel. 07946 206586; email: [email protected]
Children and Families Worker: Lisa Buckley tel. 361334 email: [email protected]
Growing Disciple Priest: Revd. Anna Alls tel. 611007; [email protected] the page growing disciples priest
Rev Margaret Groves: [email protected] 01623 870679
Readers:Heather Brown 01623 870517 [email protected] Janice Hannington 07964 441723 [email protected] Joan Wood 01623 882175 [email protected]
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“Growing Disciples: Wider, Younger, Deeper”
‘Healthy People, Healthy Church, Healthy Communities’
The Parish of Ollerton with Boughton:St Giles, St Paulinus, St Matthews
Ollerton Village New Ollerton Boughton Working together with the parishes of
Bilsthorpe, Eakring, Egmanton, Kirton, Kneesall, Laxton with Moorhouse, Walesby & Wellow with Rufford
NEWS4U
If you are new to the community or visiting our churches for the first time, please do make yourself known.
Welcome to our second edition of our monthly newsletter!
In this newsletter you will find:Page 2 – Janice writes writes…Page 3 – prayer focus for MayPages 4 & 5 – Calendar of services & events in MayPage 6 – News & forthcoming eventsPage 7 - the services for April across the Family of 12 churchesPage 8 – useful information which includes contact information for the team of ministers.
MAY 2019
Janice Hannington writes…………………… I can't imagine there are many Christians who at some point in their faith life feel they are more distant to God than they want to be and we of course know it isn't God who has moved aside; it is us.
Maybe, like me, you experience times when you know you aren't as spirit -filled as you have been and you have veered off the track of walking the talk. The Good News is God is faithful and He will place the desire in our hearts, by the power of the Hoy Spirit, to do something about it – is God prompting you?
There are many rewards for a God -centred life, a disciplined life, life when our thoughts words and deeds are being moulded, moment by moment, in the potter's hands. God hasn't made it an obstacle course to be mindful Christians, challenging yes, but not for us to be defeated. God's plan is that we learn to seek Him with our whole heart, to earnestly want a closer relationship, a two way relationship. We all know Jesus was continuously in touch with the Father and Jesus wants us to follow in his footsteps.
We have travelled through Lent together, we shared and celebrated Easter Day, we have shared in rejoicing with those who have been confirmed, we are in a good place to seek to be deeper disciples; to explore the worship of God.
Zoe has invested in the Holy Habits resources and those who joined the home group, to discuss and reflect on the first Holy Habit of Prayer, were all inspired in some way. There is a saying, "God loves us as we are but loves us too much to leave us there"; in other words God wants us all to learn and grow through regular holy habits and we need encouragement to live this way.
Luke in his Gospel and in Acts often presents praising God in response to experiencing God's loving help or saving grace.
To understand 'Worship' in all its fullness is to have a heart from which flows gratitude towards God and we don't always recognise God's goodness and grace in our reasonably, comfortable lives and then when we find ourselves in troubled times we find it difficult to worship. The apostle Paul longed for his congregations to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of God to enable their worship. Our offering of Worship to God is because He deserves it and should involve our whole life, it is 24/7 , everyday discipleship.
A secure faith that sees God's "greatness" and our "littleness" in everything, in every thought, word and deed, is a step in the right direction, a step that enables us to simply come afresh to the heart of Worship.
Sunday Services across the Family of 12 Churches May 2019
HC = Holy Communion EP=Evening Prayer WFA=Worship for All MP=Morning Prayer BCP=Book of Common Prayer
5th May Easter 29am Eakring WFA9am Kirton HC10.30am St Giles HC, Ollerton Village 10.30am Bilsthorpe WFA3pm Café Church, St Paulinus Community & Church Hall4pm Wellow Evensong
12th May Easter 39am Walesby HC9am Eakring HC 10.30am Laxton HC10.30am St Paulinus HC, New Ollerton10.30am Bilsthorpe HC4pm Egmanton Evensong
19th May Easter 49am Walesby HC 9am Egmanton HC 9am Eakring MP 10.30am Boughton, St Matthews HC10.30am Wellow HC 10.30am Bilsthorpe MP
26th May Easter 5 / Rogation Sunday9am Eakring HC 10.30am St Paulinus, New Ollerton HC10.30am Laxton Common – Rogation Sunday Service10.30am Bilsthorpe HC6pm Wellow Maypole Service
Midweek Holy Communion Service at St Giles, Ollerton Village 10am service on Wed 8th and Wed 22nd May. The church will remain open after the service until 1pm to receive visitors.Thursday 30 th May – Ascension Day 7pm Family of Churches Holy Communion Service, Bilsthorpe
Tuesday 14 th May – ‘Open Vestry Hour’ for christening and wedding enquiries6.30pm – 7.30pm at St Paulinus Church Office, Church Circle, New Ollerton.
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Let us Pray
Hebrews 7:25 “Therefore He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them.”
PRAYER FOCUSFor the Easter season here is a prayer for after Communion which is from the Eucharist in the Celtic Tradition at the Community of Aidan and Hilda, Iona:
Heaven is intertwined with earth. Alleluia! We have taken the divine life into ourselves. Alleluia! And so now each can say, I rise up clothed in the strength of Christ. I shall not be imprisoned; I shall not be harmed; I shall not be downtrodden, I shall not be left alone; I shall not be tainted, I shall not be overwhelmed. I go clothed in Christ’s white garments; I go freed to weave Christ’s patterns; I go loved to serve Christ’s weak ones; I go armed to rout Christ’s foes.
Pray for the sick: Ann Fretwell, Penelope Ridley, Simon Hurt, Will Newton, Marcia Butler, Vic Sales, Mavis Ilett,, Valerie Bust, Doris Blythe
Remembring those who have died recently, their families and friends:May Eyre, Joy Wereham, Sheila Furniss, Ellen Eland, Wilfred Hill, John Hibbert
In April we celebrated the baptism of: Ezra Hughes. In May we celebrate the baptisms of:Aurora-Anne Eland & Arthur William Tullett and the thanksgiving service of Alice White
In April we celebrated the confirmations of: Rosie & Emily Kunz, Laura Mclafferty, Janette Juska and Ernest Dickman
Café Church – Sunday 5 th May @3pm in St Paulinus Community & Church hallCafe church runs the 1st Sunday of month, same time & venue. In April we remembered Jesus as ‘the Celebrity’ King,‘the Compassionate and caring King’, ‘the crucified King’and ‘ the Conquering King’. This month as we continue journeying through Jesus’ life, we re-member Jesus as ‘the Ascended King’ and the difference this makes for our lives. Please continue to pray for this initiative as we reach out to our communities.
Home Groups – Holy Habit – Worship Instead of Rev Zoe’s vicarage, we will be meeting in St Paulinus Church. Our weekly study on Worship begins Tues 7th May at 7.30pm. Curious and what to know about Worship, what it is, how we worship……Come & join us. All are welcome
Holy Week & EasterLots of joy, celebration and hope at our services Easter Sunday across our family of 12 churches. Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services were well attended and people journeyed deeper through the Holy Week events which made Easter Day all the more joyous and much more of a celebration. Thank you to everyone who worked tirelessly hard behind the scenes to make everything happen: all the hidden ministry from cleaning, preparing and decorating churches, tending to churchyards, for teamwork in abundance........THANK YOU!
Saturday 15 th June – ‘Celebrating Special people in our lives’ : 11am -4pm Summer Fayre for our 3 churches in Ollerton with Boughton - hosted at St Paulinus Church.
Stalls including cake stall, face painting, activities for children, raffle, tombola, cream teas in the afternoon and culminating in a song of praise in church at 4pm. For the Songs of Praise, Rev Zoe would like to project photos of special people in your life and create a top 10 lists of favourite hymns that you identify with these special people – we will sing some of these at our celebration songs of Praise. Please pass on your photos and hymns to one of the churchwardens (Jean or Kate) or Rev Zoe. It would be great if we could support this event as a church family as we reach out to our communities.
If you are able to donate any raffle or tombola prizes – please place them in the clear boxes, labelled raffle/tombola prizes in each church & thank you!
A prayer group meets in Ollerton at 7pm on Mondays. For requests and with names for the sick list please contact Margaret Grey on 01623 861027
Christian Aid Week - Sun 12th May – Sat 18th MayEnvelopes are available in each church should you wish to make a donation to Christian Aid.
Advance Diary Date to note: Church event for our parish churches at St Paulinus Sat 7 th Dec 11-4pm Christmas Tree Festival with Christmas Fayre followed
by carol singing in the church
SUNDAY MON TUE WED THURS FRI SAT
1 2 3 4
5 St Giles Church 10.30 am Holy Communion
Service
St Paulinus Community & Church
hall3pm CAFÉ CHURCH
6 7
7.30pm Home Group in St Paulinus
8 10am said Holy Communion at St Giles
9 10 11
12 Christian Aid WeekSt Paulinus Church
10.30am Holy Communion Service12.15pm Christening
13 Christian Aid Week9.15am -11.15am - SP C & C Hall
Little Angels
14 Christian Aid Week 6.30-7.30pm Vestry Hour in St Paulinus Ch Office
7.30pm Home Group in St Paulinus
15 Christian Aid Week
7pm Churchwardens’ visitation – Southwell Minster
16 Christian Aid Week
17 Christian Aid Week
18 Christian Aid Week
May 2019 Abbreviations: SP, St Paulinus; SP C& C hall – St Paulinus Community & Church Hall; SM – St Matthews; SG St Giles.
19 St Matthews Church
10.30am Holy Communion Service
12.15pm Christening
20 9.15am -11.15am - SP C & C Hall
Little Angels
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7.30pm Home Group in St Paulinus
2210am said Holy Communion at St Giles
23 24 25
10.30-11.30am St Paulinus ChurchChristening Preparation session
26 St Paulinus Church
10.30am Holy Communion Service
27 28
7.30pm Home Group in St Paulinus
29 30 7pmAscension Day service at Bilsthorpe Church
31 1st June9am O & B PCC at SP