The Coplow Benefice ' Contact Us: * th Revd. Alison: 0116 259 6321 [email protected] Edition Date: Friday 4 June 2021 Hilary Painter: 0116 259 9752 [email protected] Andrea Grindley: 0116 259 6741 [email protected] Services – In Person: June 2021 Julia Unna (Admin): 01572 822331 [email protected] Sunday 6th June: : 9.00 am Holy Communion Bishop Martyn’s Sermon Preacher: Revd. Jeff Hopewell Please see the link below to read the sermon made by

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Led by: The Revd. Alison Booker Gaulby: Gaulby Patronal Service: 6.00 pm Everyday Calling: Led by: The Revd. Alison Booker and Hilary Painter Find out about Everyday Calling in the diocese and how the vison for lay ministry has been renewed this year. Services – Online: Saturday Morning Prayer: 9.00 am 5th June https://www.leicester.anglican.org/news/everyday-calling-

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In our Gospel, Jesus’s family try to bring him to his senses. ' A Prayer for The Day Jesus brushes them off. However, he isn’t rejecting God of truth, help us to keep your law of love them, rather making them realise his family is so much and to walk in ways of wisdom, bigger than just his birth family. We are all part of that that we may find true life family, all precious in God’s eyes. In God’s kingdom there is in Jesus Christ your Son. Amen room for absolutely everyone – misfits and all.

Light a virtual candle ': This week let’s all think and pray about all outsiders and how we can include everyone in our church family. Light a candle to pray for yourself, for a loved one or for a situation. Please click the link below. Hilary Painter (Reader) https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/light-candle & Bible Readings for Zoom on Our Churches Online... Sunday 6th June – Trinity One All have web pages on ‘A Church Near You’ – for sermons, videos, information: Old Testament Reading: Genesis 3.8-15 (NRSV) Hungarton Keyham Billesdon

8 Skeffington Goadby The Gaulby Group: They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man Online Giving – Please help us: and his wife hid themselves from the presence of As we try to move forward in the wake of COVID, the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But please donate to help keep our ministry going, the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where please click on your village below: are you?” 10 He said, “I heard the sound of you in the Billesdon Skeffington Hungarton garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid 11 myself.” He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Food Bank Appeal: Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded Our Churches continue to support local Foodbanks. All you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom donations welcome, which may be left in any of our you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, Church porches, or you can donate online. and I ate.” 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, Make a donation to The Well's Food bank fund, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, by bank transfer to The Well Kibworth “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” 14 The LORD God said Sort Code: 40-32-04 Acc: 41666959 Ref: 'Foodbank' to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are Gift Aid Forms can be downloaded from the website: you among all animals and among all wild creatures; thewellkibworth.org and sent to them. upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all Leicester South (Wigston). donate money online the days of your life.

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