Please take these notices home with you for reference!
Sunday 6th March 2016
A prayer for Mothering Sunday
WHEN WE CRY
When we cry
You rock us
When we are hungry
You feed us
YOU LOVE US
MOTHERING GOD
When we are lost
You find us
When we are happy
You laugh with us
YOU LOVE US
MOTHERING GOD
As we grow
You respect us
When we leave home
You bless us.
YOU LOVE US
MOTHERING GOD
Ruth Burgess
Readings this week:John 10: 25b - 27
This Sunday
8.00 amHoly Communion Service – Book of Common Prayer in Church.
10.30 amFamily Service for Mothering Sunday.
Monday 7th March
7.30 pmPCC meeting at church.
Tuesday 8th March
6.55 amPrayer breakfast at 15, Woodside View, Holmfirth.
2.00pmMother’s Union at Netherthong.
Wednesday 9th March
10.30 amLent weekly discussion group at 11, Shawfield Avenue, Holmfirth. See paragraph later in this newssheet.
Thursday 10th March
11.30 amHoly Communion followed by Lunch.
Friday 11th March
7.30 pmAn evening with John Senior at All Saints Church, Netherthong. Tickets £5. See Di or Sue Dawson please.
Sunday 13th March
10.30 amHoly Communion Service.
Tuesday 15th March
6.55 amPrayer breakfast at 15, Woodside View, Holmfirth.
2.00pmMother’s Union at Netherthong
Wednesday 16th March
10.30 amLent weekly discussion group at 11, Shawfield Avenue, Holmfirth. See paragraph later in this newssheet.
Thursday 17th March
11.30 amHoly Communion followed by a Faith Lunch.
1.30 pmCraft Group in the meeting room.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
March 20thEaster Egg Hunt Sunday 1.00 – 4.00 pm at Hogley Farm’s Woods, Hogley Lane. HD9 2QA. See poster attached.
April 10thSt. John’s Church AGM after morning service. All welcome.
23rd Saturday at 7.30 pm a Murder Mystery evening at the Upperthong Village Hall by the Emley Players. Proceeds in aid of church funds.
See paragraph later in this newssheet.
Les and Pat Hopkins are holding a weekly discussion group around the ‘Embrace the Middle East’ course which was distributed two weeks ago. If you would like to come to some or all of these sessions, just go along to:
11 Shawfield Avenue, Holmfirth, on Wednesday 9th March at 10.30am and on subsequent Wednesdays throughout Lent. If you’d like more information please call Les or Pat on 683217.
If you didn’t get a copy, please let Di know – 684207.
AN OLD FRIEND IS VISITING HOLMFIRTH
Mike Smithers will be at Longley Café at 10.00 am on Wednesday 6th April and would love to meet up with any old friends.
ADVANCE NOTICE
On April 23rd 7.30pm at the village hall there will be a ‘Murder Mystery’ evening presented by Emley Players. The evening will consist of a three course meal and a chance to decide ‘who dun it’! It promises to be a great deal of fun and will raise much needed funds for the fabric of our church building which will soon be in need of a new roof!! Tickets will be £12.50 each and will be limited to 50 so that there will be space for the actors to move among the audience. Tickets available soon.
CHURCH EASTER FLOWERS
Contributions towards the cost of flowers for the Church at Easter will be warmly received. Please see Pat Hopkins or Anne Horn.
RAFFLE FOR TANZANIA
The Team Tanzania Group are hoping to raise money for our friends in Kagwa Village in Tanzania by raffling a beautiful painting by local artist Jeff Beaumont, together with second and third prizes of a luxury food hamper and a wine hamper. Tickets are £1 each and are available from Val Shuttleworth or Di.
At the last family service many of you were given some daffodil bulbs to – hopefully! – grow on for Easter. Please could you bring your plants back to church over the next couple of weeks so that they can be used amongst the Easter flowers!?
If you would like to be part of a drama being enacted around Holmfirth on Good Friday afternoon, please let Di know as soon as possible.
Also, volunteers are wanted to help ‘Hand to Mouth’ puppets who will be doing a presentation at Kirkroyds School March 21st and 22nd from 9.15 – 11.30am. If you can help with either of these dates, please see Di. Thank you
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS WEEKLY NOTICE SHEET BY E-MAIL PLEASE LET LAWRANCE PARK KNOW ON 680590 OR AT
Church Contact Numbers:
Team VicarRevd Di Ellerton01484 684207
Church Wardens Mr Philip Broadbent 01484 684295
Mr Graham Dawson 01484 687482