St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 21st August 2022
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 21st August
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship via Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sides persons Judith & Dorothy W. Reader –Karen
Monday 22nd August
1.15 pm Funeral of Stephen Cunliffe at Carleton
Tuesday 23rd August
2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church
Wednesday 24th August
10.30 am Funeral of Margaret P in Church
5.00 pm Baptisms of Sophie and Lily Myers
Thursday 25th August
10.00 am Community Coffee Morning
Friday 26th August
12.00 pm Funeral of Barbara Blundell in Church
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship via Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sides persons Susan & Christine. Reader –Margaret Pook
12.30 pm Baptisms of Sienna Collins and Autumn O’Donnell Welcome and set up – Margaret Kershaw
As at this weekend we have £29,000 in the roof fund against a target of £50,000. We are sincerely grateful for so many amazing gifts. If you would still like to donate, you can do so online. Just go to the menu on this website.
Jesus at the Mount - Save the date! On Wednesday 14th September at 5.00 pm you are invited to join the Vicar and Canon Dick Cartmell on the Mount in Fleetwood! Dick has a keen interest in community, but an even keener interest in how the Church can be a more integrated part of the community, seeking out the lost and serving the poor and rejected. We will hear contemporary parables, sing, contemplate, pray and share some food, as Jesus and his disciples often did together at the seashore. Dick is going to say a bit more about the purpose of us meeting in this way in the next week or so, but in the meantime please do consider joining us for this ‘taster event’.
Praying for our community - Could be the first step in changing the world. Do you sometimes leave church and think to yourself, “How am I going to make a difference for Christ? I can’t fly to another country and care for orphans.” Have you attended a meeting and said to yourself, “What use am I? I can’t sew. I’m not crafty. I can’t cook.” Do you watch the evening news and think, “So sad all this violence.” Many of us think there is nothing that we can do to make a difference. But we can pray! Prayer makes the difference. There are many times we feel powerless in our lives, especially in the face of difficult circumstances. By ourselves, we can do nothing. The bible confirms this. In John 15:5, Jesus says, “Apart from me you can do nothing.” So, let’s all commit to specific and persistent prayer and expect to see the results.
Holy Spirit, our Comforter, and our Friend, we ask that You rain down on us. Let Your power fall on us and change our hearts. Open heaven wide and pour out the rain of Your Holy Spirit over our church, our lives and our community. Change us, renew us, empower us. We need Your touch again. Send us Your cleansing rain. Amen.
100 Club – Winners last week were Barbara Quirk, Muriel Freestone, and Freda Wayman. The summer winners were Elizabeth King, Dorothy Warren, Paula Meekins, Pat Warrington, and Berny McCarthy
Please remember in your prayers – Rev Jane Everitt, Tony and Maureen Hardman, Rev Martin Keighley, Gillian & Elizabeth King, Fiona, Eily, Mike Rimmer, Callum Boyle, and John Richardson. Also, the families of Stephen Cunliffe, Barbara Blundell, Chris Boe, Doris Queen and Margaret P whose funerals are due to take place.