The Welland-Fosse Benefice: Prayers and Notices.

 Sunday 28^th June 2020:  Trinity III

 

• Please remember in your prayers those who are sick: Bishop John and his wife and Janette Saunders (all with Coronavirus), Barry Broughton, Graham Robinson, David Bradshaw and Derek Barker.
• Pray too for the soul of Eileen Denovan to be buried this week.
• We pray also for all those who put their lives in danger to serve others suffering from Coronavirus and for those who have lost their jobs in the crisis.
• Why not join us via Zoom for Morning Prayer each day at 8.30am – or Compline on Mondays and Wednesdays at 7.30pm? Sunday worship is at 10am, presenting a service with music and brief address.  Join us in the usual way via Simon’s email address, sialey@aol.com
• “5 Steps to Kick-start Prayer”?  Go the benefice website: wellandfosse.org
• Zoom bible studies in St. Mark’s Gospel will begin on Tuesday 7 July at 7.30pm. Please contact Christopher for further details: armstrong60@yahoo.com
• Our churches are open for private prayer. For details of particular churches, see below.

 

SOUTH LUFFENHAM

Our Church is open every day for private prayer from 10am to 4pm.

Please remember the Rutland Foodbank still needs donations – collection box outside 27 The Street. (Please see below what they need most)

MORCOTT

The church will open for private prayer 10am-4pm each Sunday from 5 July. Sanitiser will be on the Font. Please follow the Instructions that will be posted at the entrance. 

 

TODAY’S MEDITATION

Home schooling must be a nightmare for some families!  Thank goodness I am beyond that.  Socializing our children was bad enough. I can’t imagine trying to teach them physics!  ‘A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country’. There are many things that we cannot give our own family – surgery, dental care perhaps – but teaching is often one of them. Formal teaching anyway. It is a great skill. At the start of the lockdown, Professor Brian Cox remarked about the impossibility of home-schooling his own children.

 

Yet the actions of parents in supporting their children’s education is so important. It adds to the work of the authorized teacher. Those small acts like providing breakfast at the right time, supplying paper, a laptop, encouragement after an hour’s work around the kitchen table.  These all add to the work of the teacher.

 

And so, do those who support the life of faith. It is an extension of God’s work in growing the kingdom here on earth. There is a significant level of commitment involved in brass cleaning, mowing the churchyard, welcoming back the worshipper.  It encourages those who identify closely with the work of Christ and should not be overlooked. Who knows how God works through these simple tasks? I for one find massive encouragement therein.

 

See wellandfosse.org for much more information, including contact details for

The Very Rev Christopher Armstrong and the churchwardens

 

Our shopping list

• Coffee
• Dried potato (smash type)
• Jam
• Small bags of sugar
• Tinned potatoes
• Small sponge puddings
• UHT Juice
• Tins of Custard
• Shaving gel
• Washing up liquid
• Non- Bio washing capsules
• Toilet rolls