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Important notice: Although there is still scaffolding
in the church, work has not started and Sunday services will again take
place
in
the church from Sunday 7th February 2010.
St. Nicholas, Laindon with Dunton
Newssheet available during the service of 7th March 2010
Third Sunday of Lent
Please stay after the service for a chat over a cup of tea/coffee.
If this is your first time to a service at St. Nicholas please introduce
yourself to one of the clergy and fill in a “welcome card”.
Today’s readings: Luke 13: 1 - 9
Services this week:
Tuesday 9.30 – 11am Nippers (Pram Service) at Manor Mission
Next Sunday
10.00 a.m. Family Communion for Mothering Sunday
Morning Prayer at 8.30 a.m. in Church except Tuesday
During Morning Prayer on Saturday we will pray for the following people
from the electoral roll:
Dominic Mason, Jean Overy, Peter & Ros Pack, Jason Petty and Stuart
Popplewell
Please also remember in your prayers:
Chris, Yvonne, David, Robert, Alex, Janet; Rosa, Freda and her family following
the death of her brother, David & Joyce following the death of his
aunt, Dorothy following the death of her sister in law, and the families
and friends of Martin Inwood, Sidney Rice, Doreen Isaacs, Charles White
and Donald Turner.
Please give prayer requests to Diane or Helen.
Today 2pm at St Chad’s Vange – Dedication of MU Diocesan Wall Hanging
Monday 8th 12.30 pm Lent Lunch at The Vicarage
Thursday 11th
11am – Service at Woodbury Court
8.00 p.m. Lent Course (When I survey Christ’s cross and ours) at Vicarage
Sunday 14th – Deadline for the magazine
Monday 15th at 8pm – PCC meets at the Vicarage
Saturday 20th March – Bradwell Area Vocations Day at Emmanuel Church, Billericay
Bishop’s Lent Appeal:
We are asked to commit to enabling growing learning and living amongst the world’s poorest:
- rural communities in South India, needing help in escaping the most
terrible poverty;
- the learning community of St Andrew’s college in Kenya being further
equipped for mission; and
- the isolated communities of the Amazon being equipped to become more
sustainable for the future.
The money raised at the Lent Lunches will go to this Appeal.
It is lovely being back in Church for our Sunday services again,
even if we are sharing the building with the scaffolding. Because the
whole
ceiling in the Nave and Lady Chapel needs to be replaced (rather than the
small repair job we had originally thought was needed) the cost has escalated
to nearly £40,000. We will need to do a lot of fund raising over
the coming months, not just to cover the cost of repairing the ceiling
but also the urgent repairs that are needed to the bell tower and the disabled
access. We have applied for grant funding towards the cost of the ceiling
and hope to hear whether or not we have been successful at the beginning
of March. In the meantime it is business as usual in the Church.
We do have a number of weddings booked at St. Nicholas over the next few
weeks and so we will be decorating the scaffolding to make our Church look
as attractive as possible for these special days, and think the happy couples
will be pleasantly surprised to see what a difference some flowers and
ribbons can make to scaffolding, to have a sneak preview look on the Gallery
page.
We will continue to hold St. Nicholas Nippers at The Manor Mission (next
to Lidl’s) on Tuesday mornings until the scaffolding is removed and the
works are completed, and will be having our Sunday services at Laindon
Park School once the actual building works start but I will let you know
when that happens. Meanwhile, I look forward to seeing you at St. Nicholas
on Sundays.
God bless,
Diane
Images: Organ loft, First Communion, One of the bells in the bell tower
