The road to Easter

We gather in St Michael’s on Sunday (although the monthly parish pew sheet misprints this and incorrectly says we will be in St Nicolas’ - some redirection may be needed).

We have an ambition to have a Treasure Hunt which will end up with us mapping out everything that will happen from then until Easter. Come along and see whether this works!

New Year's Day

We won't be trying to do The First Sunday Thing (although there will have been a Last Saturday Thing in St Micahel's for an hour on New Year's Eve).  Instead there is one Family Communion for all the churches in the parish together at the Bishop King Learning Centre at 10.30 - our annual re-use of the former Bishop Edward King Church.  Normal services resume for the First Sunday Thing in February.

Today

Christingle

It is the Christingle Service on Sunday.  We meant to tell you that sooner!

November

At the 9.30 Communion this morning (ahead of the 10.30 First Sunday Thing), we were still reflecting on All Souls' Day earlier in the month as we read the Christian hope in the earliest writing from the New Testament beginning 'We do not want you to be uninformed about those who have died'.  We prayed for all those who had gathered for the parish's All Souls' Day service.  We remembered also and in particular John Brown, a retired Bishop from Cleethorpes whose Funeral had taken place in the week.  Few people locally really appreciated what a remarkable man there was living among us - demonstrated particularly by his Christian and diplomatic skills when he was our Bishop for the Arabian Peninsula through the time Terry Waite was in capitivity and through the Gulf War.  His name was one of those included in the First Sunday Thing's celebration of all the saints afterwards.

Prayers yesterday

We've saved the vine of prayer people created yesterday so that the prayers on it (and prayers for Terrie Stott, whose last service with us it was) can be offered a few more times over the next week or so.  It would have been more fun to post a picture of the party poppers going off around Terrie, but that picture didn't quite work!

2nd October

Our September service (including the Baptism of a member of the congregation) was a special experience.  Now, in turn, we look to our October service and two things stand out.  One is very routine - we will be meeting back in St Michael's again, which will remain our venue through the winter.  The other is far from routine - it will be the last service taken in the parish by terrie Stott before she leaves for her new job in Surrey.