Parish News - Sunday 6th March 2011

6th March 2011 - All Age Service - Weekly Sheet

The Parish Church of Branksome, St. Aldhelm

CHURCH CONTACTS

Vicar—Revd Canon Stephen Batty 764420 (Day off on Friday)

Curate—Revd Sarah Bryant 386155 (Off Sat & Mon)
Parish Office Open weekdays during term-time—9am—12 noon Tel: 764420 Email: office@st-aldhelm.com www.twitter.com/stadhelms

http://www.st-aldhem.com/

WEEKDAY SERVICES — THE HOLY EUCHARIST:
Tuesday - Holy Communion - 12.00 noon
Wednesday - Holy Communion with Ashing - 10.30am & 7pm
Thursday - Melton Court - 10.30am
Thursday - 7.00pm

Next Sunday— Baptism / Lent 1
Holy Communion—8.00am
Baptism Service - 10.00am

PARISH NEWS

MESSAGE FROM BROWNIES

Today— the Brownies will be holding a cake sale to raise funds for the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity. They hope to raise with other events about £1,000. Please support.

REV. SARAH BRYANT

Sarah will be leaving us in March and her final Sunday with us will be March 20th. After the 10.00am Parish Eucharist there will be a bring and share lunch in the parish centre to which all are welcome. Please see Sam Waldron if you are able to come to the leaving lunch on Sunday 20th March, we would love to hear what food you would like to bring for the bring and share lunch. Salads, quiches, crisps, etc and of course the outstanding puddings St. Aldhelm’s is getting famous for!! Please could we have some volunteers to help out during the meal.

SPRING FAYRE

—2 weeks to go - Our Parish Spring Fayre will be held on Saturday 19th March in the Parish Centre. We would be grateful for any donations for the stalls including; bric-a-brac, books, toys, cakes on the day, bottles, raffle prizes. Help also would be appreciated to set up and pack away. Donations can be brought to the parish office. Thank you.

EMULSION PAINT LEFTOVERS

If anybody has any tins of half empty emulsion paint to give to Frances at the Vicarage, it would be much appreciated. Bright colours are particularly useful – as is white. Please leave in the Vicarage porch or back of church. Thank you.

TRADITIONAL MID LENT TEA + FUN QUIZ

Will be held in the centre on Saturday 9th April between 2.30pm –5pm. Tickets £3.50 adults and children £2. Available from John Kilminster—tel: 257541 or Richard Gibbs, Pam Christy, Roy Barker, Joyce Lavender or Clair Pay. All welcome.

MOTHERS’ UNION COFFEE MORNING

Will take place in the lounge from 10am on Saturday 12th March, raising funds for the M.U. Relief Fund.

DIARY
6th SUNDAY All Age + Parade
B.C.P. Holy Communion—8.00am
All Age Service with Parade—10.00am
and Brownies Cake Sale
S.T.A.K.S.—6-8pm
8th Tuesday Shrove Tuesday
Coffee Morning—10.30am—in church
Holy Communion—12 noon
Pancake Party from 5.30pm in the hall
9th Wednesday Ash Wednesday
Holy Communion with Ashing—10.30am & 7pm
10th Thursday Melton Court Holy Communion—10.30am
Toddlers—2pm
Holy Communion—7pm
12th Saturday Spring Clean Me—meet in church 9.30am onwards
M.U. Coffee Morning—10am—lounge
13th SUNDAY B.C.P. Holy Communion—8.00am
Baptism Service—10.00am

SPRING CLEAN ME

We shall be Spring Cleaning the church and centre on Saturday 12th March from 9.30am. Please come along and lend a hand—all ages welcome.

SHROVE TUESDAY

We shall be holding our annual Pancake Party in the parish centre from 5.30pm. Bring along your frying pans, eat pancakes and join the races. Fun for all! Helpers needed, please.

LENT TO EASTER

To mark Lent we will be joining with St Joseph’s to follow some of Simone Weil’s reflections about the Lord’s Prayer, Joy will hold a Lent study group, we shall mark the 70th anniversary of the Bourne Valley Air Raid—Full details can be found on a purple A4 flier at the back of church.

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS:
Lillian Stickland (of Melton Court)—RIP
Barbara Jesse who passed away recently—RIP

Please write your prayer intensions in the book where morning prayer is held; we will offer prayers at the weekday services.

SPECIAL OFFER FROM HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS!
Are you an UK taxpayer: either PAYE or from a pension or self employed?
For every £1 donated to your church we can claim back an extra 28p from HMRC. Provided you have paid income tax an amount equivalent to the total sum of your donations, we can claim this money under the Gift Aid scheme at no extra cost to you. Please complete the details on one of the yellow giving envelopes located in each chair, or sign up to our regular Planned Giving Scheme.

Our expenditure amounts to approximately £1,400 per week
This includes £807.52 per week which goes to the Diocese for our “share”.
Last weeks donations were as follows:
Planned Giving £231.20 (including standing orders) Collections £168.87
Please see our Hon. Treasurer—John Sprackling—Tel: (01202) 751553
sprackling@branksome.freeserve.co.uk