The parishes of Dereham, Scarning, Swanton Morley,Beetleywith East Bilney,Hoe, Shipdham and East with West Bradenham
Week beginning Sunday 5th March 2017
Sunday
First of
Lent / 5 / 8.00am
9.30am
11.15am
11.15am
9.30am
9.30am
8.00am / Holy Communion (BCP), Dereham
Parish Communion, Dereham
Morning Prayer, Scarning
Parish Communion, Swanton Morley
Parish Communion, Beetley
Café Church, Shipdham
Holy Communion (BCP), Bradenham / The Curate
The Rector
Alan Barrett
The Curate
The Rev K Pilgrim
The Revd D Fotherby
The Vicar
Monday / 6 / 7.30pm / Bell Ring Practice, Dereham
Tuesday / 7
Wednesday / 8 / 10.00am
10.00am
2.30pm
6.30pm / Holy Communion, Dereham
Holy Communion, Shipdham
Funeral, Thomas Howlett, Dereham
Bell Ring Practice, Scarning / The Rector
The Ven A Hawes
Thursday / 9 / 7.30pm Bell Ringing Practice, Shipdham
Friday / 10 / 10.00am
12.00noon
6.00pm / Coffee, Church House, Dereham
Holy Communion, Dereham
Choir Practice, Dereham / The Curate
Saturday / 11
Sunday
Second of Lent / 12 / 8.00am
9.30am
3.00pm
6.30pm
11.15am
11.15am
9.30am
2.00pm
9.30pm
11.15am
9.30am / Holy Communion, Dereham
Parish Communion, Dereham
Café Church in Church House, Dereham
Choral Evensong, Dereham
Parish Communion, (APCM)Scarning
Morning Prayer, Swanton Morley
Morning Prayer (BCP), Hoe
Baptism, Beetley
Parish Communion, (APCM), East Bilney
Parish Communion, Shipdham
Café Church in Village Hall, Bradenham / The Rev D Ackroyd
The Curate
The Rector
Adam Pyke
The Rev D Ackroyd
Lydia Crick
Adam Pyke
The Curate
The Rector
The Vicar
Helen Jeckells
St Nicholas Sanctuary Flowers:Last Sunday the flowers were given to David and Claudette Webster.
St. Nicholas Monthly Charity: From April 2017, a new list of charities will be created to cover a period of six months to September. No charities were put forward when a notice was put in the January newsletter. If you have a charity which you would like our congregation to support, please letthe PCC secretary have details which will be submitted for consideration at the next PCC meeting which is on Thursday 16th March 2017. Suggestions can be left at the office in Church House. Celia Barker.
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The Bishop's Lent Appeal 2017will be focused on raising money to provide a car for Hospice Ethiopia to reach those in need of palliative care. Hospice Ethiopia is the only palliative care unit in Ethiopia. They provide free community based palliative care to terminally ill people within threedistricts of the capital city. With just one specially trained doctor and three nurses, they serve an estimated population of 900,000. Through the appeal, your money will go towards providing the Hospice with an off-road rental car for two years. Roadsare often rough and of poor quality, and public transport is busy and unreliable. We want to help enable care and equipment to reach those who cannot travel to the hospice. Some of our churches will be joining in this appeal. Furtherinformation and gift aid envelopesare available. For further details contact the Rector on 693680.
This Sunday at St Nicholas The Lenten organ voluntary after the 9.30 service will be Cesar Franck’s Prelude, Fugue and Variation in b minor.St Nicholas Choral Evensong will be sung on 12th March by the Dereham and Bradenham choir plus friends with Dougal Smith at the organ.
Annual Meeting of Parishioners and Annual Parochial Church Meeting: Each year there is the opportunity for people to be involved in decisions concerning their ecclesiastical parish. Any resident on the Parliamentary Register of Electors can take part in the election of Churchwardens at the Annual Meeting of Parishioners. Only those on the Church Electoral Roll can participate in the Annual Parochial Church Meeting. If you would like to join the Electoral Roll then forms will be found in church or contact the Churchwardens to be put in touch with the Electoral Roll Officer.
Beetley with East Bilneyat St. Mary’s, East Bilney on Sunday 12th March at 10.40am following Parish Communion.
Scarning at SS Peter and Paul on Sunday 12th March following at 12.20pm following Parish Communion.
East with West Bradenham at St. Andrew, West Bradenham, on Sunday 19th March following 9.30am Choral Mattins.
Swanton Morley at All Saints’ on Sunday 9th April at 12.15pm following Morning Prayer.
Shipdham at All Saints’ on Wednesday 19th April at 7.30pm.
Dereham at St. Nicholas on Sun. 30th April at 10.45am following Parish Communion.
Hoe to be confirmed
/ Fairtrade Fortnight(27th Feb - 12th March). Kate Baldry invites you to a 'Big Brew' Coffee Morning on Tuesday 7th March from 10.00am to 12.00noon at her house, 11 William Cowper Close, lifts will be available - call 695503.Traidcraft will be available at Friday Coffee in Church House on 10th March.
St Nicholas Charitable Giving: A cheque for £31.70 has been sent to the Children’s Society from the Schools’ Christingle services, and a cheque for £77.26 has been sent to Christians Against Poverty.
All Saints Church, Swanton Morley: Owing to work commitments, the present treasurer will be unable to continue in this key role. If anyone feels that they could undertake this voluntary roleplease contact the Rectory (693680) in the first instance.
Beetley& East Bilney Churches will be holding a Lent Lunch at Bilney House, East Bilney on Wednesday 8th March 2017 at 12.00noon. ‘Please join us for soup, cheese and fruit pie’. To register please phone 860316.
The St Nicholas PCC has agreed that, with immediate effect, the monthly 11.15am communion service onthe thirdSunday should be discontinued.This is partly becausethe average attendance during 2016 excluding the celebrant and organistwas 7, made up chiefly of those who were on duty or who had already attended an earlier service.Also this will give us the opportunity to concentrate onnew projects such as Cafe Church.
The Funeral for Felicity Browning will take place on Wednesday 8th March at 1.45pm at Mintlyn Crematorium; the family invite you to join them, and afterwards for Refreshments at 102, Middlemarch Road, Toftwood from 4pm.
Dereham Churches Together: An evening of Praise and Fellowship will be held in the Wellspring Family Church on Tuesday 7th March at 7.30pm. All Welcome.
Extract from the Revd. B Armstrong’s Diary:
March 5th, 1863
The day after tomorrow the Princess Alexandra of Denmark will arrive at Gravesend to be met by her fiancé, the P. of Wales, and be conducted in State through the City to Paddington, en route to Windsor, where they are to be married on Tuesday next. Such a sight has not been seen in London for many a year - vast preparations are being made and enormous prices being given for seats along the line of the procession. My father, being for many years a Director of the Amicable Assurance in Fleet Street has a window allotted for him & his friends, & wrote today inviting us to occupy it. After many 'pros & cons' it was decided for my dear wife and Helen to go.
For avid readers of the extracts from Benjamin Armstrong diaries you may be interested in the illustrated talk by his great grandson at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 8th March at the Trinity Methodist Church Hall, Theatre Street, Dereham. Admission is £3 at the door or £1 for members of the Dereham Antiquarian Society.
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Today’s Worship
First Sunday of Lent
Collect:Almighty God,
whose Son Jesus Christ fasted forty days in
the wilderness,
and was tempted as we are, yet without sin:
give us grace to discipline ourselves in
obedience to your Spirit;
and, as you know our weakness,
so may we know your power to save;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
First Reading: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7
Psalm:32
R:Be glad you righteous, and rejoice in the Lord
Happy the one whose transgression is forgiven,
and whose sin is covered.
Happy the one to whom the Lord imputes no guilt,
and in whose spirit there is no guile.R
For I held my tongue;
my bones wasted away
through my groaning all the day long.
Your hand was heavy upon me day and night;
my moisture was dried up like the drought in summer.
Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and my iniquity I did not hide. R
I said, 'I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,'
and you forgave the guilt of my sin.
Therefore let all the faithful make their prayers to you
in time of trouble;
in the great water flood, it shall not reach them.
You are a place for me to hide in;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with songs of deliverance.R
'I will instruct you and teach you
in the way that you should go;
I will guide you with my eye. / 'Be not like horse and mule which have
no understanding;
whose mouths must be held with bit and bridle,
or else they will not stay near you.' R
Great tribulations remain for the wicked,
but mercy embraces those who trust in the Lord.
Be glad, you righteous, and rejoice in the Lord;
shout for joy, all who are true of heart. R
Second Reading: Romans 5:12-19
Gospel: Matthew 4:1-11
For our prayers:
The Sick: Carla Mitchell,BarrieHall,Josie Lloyd,
Melanie Martin,Joan Garraway, Margaret Davies,
Colin Rant, Geoff Dixon, Janet House,
Josie Palmer.
Please continue to pray for:
Margaret Houke, Pam Dixon, Norman Brooks,
Pat Hunter, Angela Watkins, Eileen Malt,
Peter Johnson, John Brunning.
The Recently Departed:Charles Billman,
Thomas Howlett, Felicity Jemmett.
Those on the Anniversary of their Death:
Ruth Warwick-Smith, Simon Barrett, Leslie Gynn, Stanley Burton, Malcolm Farrant, Mary Clarke, Joan Stack.
Post Communion:
Lord God,
you have renewed us with the living bread
from heaven;
by it you nourish our faith,
increase our hope,
and strengthen our love:
teach us always to hunger for him
who is the true and living bread,
and enable us to live by every word
that proceeds from out of your mouth;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Readings for next week:Genesis 12:1-4a, Psalm 121, Romans 4:1-5.13-17, John 3:1-17
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