Bowland Benefice
Pews News 14 June 2026
Second Sunday of Trinity
Collect
Lord, you have taught us
that all our doings without love are nothing worth:
send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love,
the true bond of peace and of all virtues,
without which whoever lives is counted
dead before you.
Grant this for your only Son Jesus Christ’s sake,
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
13 June 10.30am to 12.00noon Coffee Morning on the lawn at Jim Crow Corner, Peopleton
5.30pm for 6.00pm start Broughton Hackett Quiz Night in The Parish Room, WLA
Sunday
14 June
10.30am Holy Communion in Upton Snodsbury
10.30am Family Nature Walk starting in White Ladies Aston
Monday
15 June Noon to 2.00pm Meet and Eat in WLA Parish Room
Sunday
21 June
Trinity 3
11.00am Benefice Holy Communion in Peopleton
Please support the events taking place in the Benefice this Saturday – and help to raise much-needed funds for our Benefice churches…..catch up with friends and neighbours and have a good time too!
Something different this Sunday!
A Family Nature Walk. You and your family are invited to meet at St John the Baptist Church in White Ladies Aston at 10.30am and join others walking to St Michael’s, Churchill for prayer and refreshments. On the walk there will be a treasure hunt to take part in and an opportunity together to look at the marvels of God’s creation – His natural world - which we in our Benefice are so privileged to enjoy.
If you feel you can’t take part in the walk please do drive to the St Michael’s and join the walkers for prayers and refreshments.
A Thank you
From Gillian Creed to everyone who helped with this year’s Christian Aid collection by delivery envelopes in Peopleton and Upton Snodsbury.
£360.88 was collected for the work of Christian Aid.
If you missed the collection but feel you would like to support Christian Aid projects please look at the website and the Believe in the Impossible Appeal.
For £5 month – the cost of a bunch of flowers or pint of beer - you could help supply emergency shelters for families whose homes have been destroyed.
Goings-on in the Benefice in the next month or so:
Saturday 27 June from 2.00pm to 4.30pm, White Ladies with Churchill and Spetchley Summer Fete at Redfern House. All the money raised will go towards WLA and Churchill churchyards. All the traditional fete attractions – teas, stalls, games…….
Sunday 28 June at 3.00pm, Peopleton’s Pet Service at Jim Crow Corner. All pets welcome – and their owners too!
Sunday 5 July at 3.00pm, A Musical Journey with Severn Voices in WLA Church. Profits to the church Tickets £10 (under 18s £5) including refreshments.
Saturday 11 July from 2.30pm to 4.30pm, Upton Snodsbury Annual Church Fete in grounds of Upton House, by kind invitation of Julie and Fraser. All the usual stalls and jolly good raffle prizes too!
Have I missed anything out? Let me know by emailing [email protected] Will add next week.
How are you feeling? What are we doing to God’s world? Here are some prayers which may help……
God. I am feeling very alone right now.
Even when people are around me.
Sometimes I feel afraid. Sometimes I feel worthless. Please help me know I matter to you.
Help me to feel you near me.
Show me how to connect more deeply with others, and find new comfort and hope. Amen.
(based on Psalm 25 verse 126)
God, life isn’t going the way I expected.
I feel insecure and afraid.
I don’t know what will happen to me or those I care about. It seems really unfair.
Help me to know what to do.
If this means a new start, give me the strength
and confidence to move forward. Amen.
(based on Psalm 34 verse 17)
It is that time again when the teenagers we love can be at a loss. Just finishing GCSE and A Levels; worried about the results and what the future holds. Will they get the grades for university they need? Will the apprenticeship they have set their heart on be what they want? Will a job turn up? We think of them.