St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 24th August 2025
We seek to be a church that lives by faith, is known by love and
is a voice of hope to the community we serve.
Website https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/11671
Sunday 24th August
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship on Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church
12.30 pm Baptism of Nevaeh Doran – Dorothy W
Tuesday 26th August
12.00 pm Funeral of Mary McLellan in Church
2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church
Thursday 28th August
10.30 am Community Coffee Morning
12.00 pm Funeral of Ken Wooler in Church
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship on Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church
6.30 pm Community Prayers at Trinity Baptist
Daily Prayer
Monday 8 AM St Peter’s
Tuesday 8 AM St Nicholas’
Wednesday 8 AM St Nicholas’
Thursday 8AM St Nicholas’
Friday 8AM St Nicholas’
Evening prayer will be said privately this week
Private prayer is available immediately after the 10.45 service for anyone who wishes
to be prayed for or with in the Lady Chapel
“For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
Nancy’s funeral: Will be held in church on Monday, 22nd September. Her daughters have kindly asked that Nancy’s friends from church share a memory of her to be read during the service. If you would like to contribute, please write down your memory and give it to the Vicar by Sunday, 7th September, or alternatively, you may email the Vicar at [email protected]
Gaza City: On Friday a famine was officially declared in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhoods. More than half a million people are facing ‘catastrophic conditions.’ At the UN press briefing in Geneva on Friday, Mr Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator spoke passionately. His speech was broadcast time and again in the news bulletins. Here is part of what he said, “Please read the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, cover to cover. Read it in sorrow and in anger. Not as words and numbers but as names and lives. Be in no doubt that this is irrefutable testimony. It is a famine. The Gaza Famine. It is a famine that we could have prevented, if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food, in a fertile land. It is a famine that hits the most vulnerable first. Each with a name, each with a story. That strips people of dignity before it strips them of life. That forces a parent to choose which child to feed. That forces people to risk their lives to seek food. It is a famine on all of our watch. Everyone owns this. The Gaza Famine is the world's famine. It is a famine that asks 'but what did you do?' A famine that will and must haunt us all.”
Israel has labelled reports of starvation as outright lies.
God of mercy, hear the cries of Gaza. Children starve while food waits at the gates;
lives are lost not to drought, but to injustice. Break the walls of obstruction,
soften hearts hardened by power and let compassion prevail. Give strength to the hungry,
courage to the helpers and restless resolve to us all, until dignity and bread are restored. Amen.
Prayers: Some names have been removed from this list to make room for others who are currently very unwell or in special need of the Church’s prayers. Do speak to the Vicar if you want to add to the list. June Larkin, David Jackson, Brian Brown, Chris Kelsall, Harvey Stansfield, Sandra Foulkes, Maureen Baines, Lucy Ashworth, Hannah, Keith, Carol Walters and Sarah Taylor. We also remember Mary McLellan, Ken Wooler, Peter Tilling, Marion Cross and John Walker whose funerals are due to take place.