Bowland Benefice
Pews News 1 June 2025
Collect for 7 th Sunday of Easter
O God the King of glory,
you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ
with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven:
we beseech you, leave us not comfortless,
but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us
and exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ

is gone before,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
This week in the Benefice

Saturday
31 May

from
9.30am to
11.30am

The Big Breakfast
at Peopleton
Rectory

from
10.30am

Flower Festival in
St Kenelm’s
Church, Upton
Snodsbury

Sunday
1 June

10.30am
from
2.00pm

Family Service in
Upton Snodsbury
Flower Festival
continues
11.00am Holy Communion
in Peopleton

6.00pm

Evensong in
White Ladies
Aston

Sunday
8 June
Pentecost

10.30am

Holy Communion
in Upton
Snodsbury

10.30am

Family Service in
White Ladies
Aston
Come rain or shine – come to

the Big Breakfast at Peopleton Rectory this Saturday!
Tim and Claire look forward to welcoming you to their
garden for the complete breakfast experience!
£12 (under 10s £4) for a Full English with breakfast
rolls available for those with smaller appetites.
Unlimited tea and coffee. Tickets from Kim (840911),
Shirley (841991), Carole (840879) or Sue (840037).
Also on Saturday and continuing on Sunday –
Flower Festival in St Kenelm’s, Upton Snodsbury
From 10.30am to 4.00pm on Saturday and 2.00pm to
4.00pm on Sunday, come along and revel in some
wonderful flower arrangements under the title of
From my Garden. There will be a craft stall and
refreshments available. Come along and enjoy the
beauty and fragrance of wonderful flowers in the
beautiful setting of St Kenelm’s church.
Entry £2 and all the money raised will go towards
church floor repairs and retarmacking a stretch

of the churchyard path.

I have a friend who was in Liverpool celebrating last
Bank Holiday Monday – meeting up with friends and
family and enjoying the simple pleasures of getting
together for a happy occasion.

Another shocking and almost incomprehensible event
in our world along with all the ongoing conflicts,
terror and horror happening everywhere.
We feel so helpless.

The prophet Isaiah wrote of the violent society

around him:

They are swift to shed innocent blood……
acts of violence mark their ways.
The way of peace they do not know;
there is no justice in their paths.
We look for light, but all is darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

(Isaiah 59: 7,8,9)
So we say: God, send your peace.
Peace to this world,
Peace to this country,
Peace for my friends and my community,
Peace for my family and my loved ones.
God give me your peace,
And then help me to give it away. Amen.

Heavenly Father,
surround us with your love,
protect us from evil
and fill us with your Holy Spirit
that we may walk in the way of Christ
and grow in the knowledge of your love. Amen.
(taken from St Ann’s Church Manchester)
As administrator I have been around for a good few
years now and have got to know more people in the
Benefice. It is a great joy to work with and for Claire,
the wardens and everyone I have met. If I was asked
to sum it up I would say I am always met with warmth

and commitment.

I attend the Benefice Council meetings which are
businesslike, always relaxed and full of fun and with
members showing great respect for others’ differing

views and opinions.

Why am I saying this you may be wondering?
Revd Claire is keen that the members of our
congregations should get to know each other more by
attending services in other churches. June’s Benefice
Communion Service is in Upton Snodsbury on 15 June
at 10.30am. Claire would love to have a full
house……it is Trinity Sunday and I have been told that
writing a sermon for that day is particularly
demanding. Why not give it a go and support her and

the loyal band at St Kenelm’s?
I would love to advertise any events connected with
our Benefice churches. Please do contact me on
[email protected] and I will endeavour
to include your event in The Pews News.