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OCT 2018 Parish News Parish Saint Peter’s Church, Heversham; Saint John’s Church, Levens and Saint Thomas’ Church, Milnthorpe Church, and Saint Thomas’ Levens Saint John’sChurch, Heversham; Church, Saint Peter’s 1 Sundays in October at the Parish Churches 7th 8.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) at St Thomas’ 9.30 am Parish Communion at St Peter’s 10.00 am All Age Worship United for Harvest with the Methodists at St John’s 11.00 am Parish Communion and Sunday School at St Thomas’ 4.00 pm Harvest Service at Levens Methodist Church 14th 8.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) at St Peter’s 9.30 am Communion Praise at St Peter’s 10.00 am Parish Communion at St John’s 11.00 am Parish Communion and Sunday School at St Thomas’ 21st 8.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) at St Thomas’ 9.30 am Parish Communion at St Peter’s 10.00 am Parish Communion at St John’s 11.00 am All Age Worship and Sunday School at St Thomas’ 6.30 pm Prayer and Praise at St Peter’s 28th clocks change ! 8.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) at St Peter’s 9.30 am All Age Worship at St Peter’s 10.00 am Parish Communion at St John’s 11.00 am Parish Communion and Sunday School Fall at St Thomas’ . Please note: 4th Nov 4.00 pm Service for All Souls at St John’s Please check weekly notices for any changes Also at the Parish Churches Tuesday - Thursday 8.15 am at St John’s Church Morning Prayer: if there is no formal Morning Prayer on any occasion you are welcome to visit the prayer chapel to use the books there at any time. Second Wednesday each month( 10th Oct) 6.30 pm at St John’s Prayers for Healing Service Thursday An afternoon Service once a month 2.00 pm 18th October Communion Service (Book of Common Prayer) at St Thomas’ Church followed by tea/coffee. Second Friday each month 10.00 until 10.10 am at St Thomas’ Shoppers’ Service ‘a thought for the day’, a hymn, a prayer Saturday 8.00 - 9.00 am at St Peter’s to pray for the life of the church and for Sunday’s services. Come along when you can. You don’t have to say a word – silent prayer and listening to God, is just as effective! 2 News from the Parish Churches Milnthorpe with Heversham MU Messy Together Wednesday 3rd Oct 2.00 pm Sunday October 28th 4.00 pm at the Old School Heversham. Light Party at St John’s Pat Shackleton - First World War celebrating the gift of light Heversham boys and Women at war. at a dark time of year www.themothersunion.org For all families with children from International Christian Charity new-borns up to Y6 primary school 4 million members across 83 countries - storytime, art and craft, action rhymes, singing, refreshments T: 60441 E:[email protected] A Discipleship Course started on Harvest Service Monday 17th Sept - for anyone from Levens St John’s, St Peter’s and St Thomas’. Sunday 7th October Good turn out - 43 people came ! This course based on the book ‘Holy Harvest Supper is on Habits’ is not taking the place of any Monday 8th October at 6.30 pm, Home Groups. It is not essential Levens Institute, tickets £7 for folks attend all sessions - and adults, £3 for children 12 years and - you’re welcome to join at any time. under, available at church after Dates, monthly over 10 months, are service or contact Liz Addison. 15 Oct, 19 Nov, 17 Dec, 21 Jan, 18 Feb, Liz would also be grateful for 18 Mar, 8 April, 20 May, 17 June. offers of help with the catering. Next meeting will be in St Peter's at 7 pm. Please check Weekly Notes for any changes at all over the course duration. Knit & Knatter: It is the time of year Course book details are: Andrew Roberts to start preparing again for the Holy Habits £8 ISBN 978-1910786-15-4 Christmas Shoe Boxes; Any questions please ask or email the knitting group will be meeting [email protected] Annie on Tuesday afternoons through to November 13th from 2.30 – 4.00pm at 4, Church Close, Levens. All the info is also on the Boxes of Hope Cumbria website. If you cannot manage Tuesday Boxes can be returned to churches afternoons do phone Mary Orr around the 4th of November, if you could (61170) to find out the sort of things have them ready to make. for this date All welcome and please. there is usually cake Further at the end details will be in of the session! the weekly news sheets. 3 info : An Alpha Course Christians Together in Levens starting in January at M:Hub - If you're a people CTiM - Christians Together person and have a passion for in Milnthorpe & Heversham sharing your faith with others you are welcome from all churches and backgrounds. GOSSIPING THE Initial meeting GOSPEL2 at M:Hub A practical united Tuesday 30th Oct 7.30 pm workshop, Contact Penny Severn, welcoming back facilitators Pioneer worker M:Hub Bishop Geoff and Jean Pearson [email protected] For ALL churches in she'd love to hear from you! Kent Estuary villages of Prayers and Volunteers Needed! Levens, Heversham, Milnthorpe, Also cooks and food supplies Beetham, Storth and Arnside On Tuesday 16th October at 7pm at the M:HUB in Milnthorpe How can we become more Levens Good Neighbours confident in talking about our faith will launch 29th October. Details will in Jesus Christ? be available in the November issue. This meeting helps us do this - naturally! Christians Together in Levens EVERYONE IS VERY WELCOME! The Monday Group meets again 1st October at Levens Methodist M:Oasis Church at 10.15 am. Methodists in Milnthorpe when the theme will be Jonah. M:Hub, Beetham Road We invite you also to join us in Sunday 14th and 28th Oct: - praying for our village; for those who Coffee, Cake & Bible at 3.00pm live in it, those who work in it, and Sunday 21st Oct at 10.30 am - those who visit. Sunday Gathering & Holy Communion In Oct we especially think of Bell Hill. Levens Methodist Church, Kent Estuary Catholic Churches - at 10.30 unless stated otherwise Milnthorpe - Arnside - Grange 7th. Harvest at St John’s 10 am Fr. Philip Smith, 015395 32731 Harvest at Methodist Church Christ the King RC Church 4pm led by Revd Hann. Haverflatts Lane , Milnthorpe 14th. Joan Jackson 21st. Revd. Heather Snape. Sunday Mass 10.30 am. Sacrament Service Confessions: Saturday 10.30 -11 am 28th. Mrs. A Wightman. or on request 4 Time for a Coffee ! Men’s Breakfast: St Thomas’ Church Centre Levens Coffee Shop on Second Saturday 13th October 8 am Mon Wed Fri - includes coffee of course! 2.30 - 4.30 pm Levens Methodist Church Old School, Heversham next to St Peter’s Church Community Drop In come & see improved Servery facilities Books 2 Borrow Jigsaws 2 we now have an oven and a fridge !!! Second and fourth Tuesdays Friday Coffee Morning 9th and 23rd October from 12.30 until 2.30 pm for the whole community serving Sandwich Lunch Every week 10.00 - 11.30 am St Thomas’ Church Centre, Milnthorpe Optional activities / table top quizes Also Shoe box time ! Help available for setting up shoeboxes on Fri 26th Oct. Community Coffee Morning All completed boxes can be returned at Plumtree Hall, Heversham to church on Friday 2nd or Sunday 4th November. second Monday of the month from 10 - 11.30 am & enjoy a chat with coffee and cake. the second Friday in the month Farmers’ Market Milnthorpe 10am Shoppers Service M:HUB Beetham Rd, Milnthorpe Friday October 12th Friday Coffee in St Thomas’ 9.30 am - 12.15 pm 10 minutes service with ‘a thought for the day’, a hymn, a prayer Macmillan Coffee Morning Date for Diary: Sat 24th Nov th Levens Brownies Coffee Morning Saturday 29 September in Levens Date for Diary: Sat 24th Nov Institute Heversham Bowling Club Christmas coffee morning 10 am - noon 5 ‘LEST WE FORGET’ Roger Bingham comments on how our War Memorials provide glimpses of the impact the First World War had on Heversham, Levens and Milnthorpe. Our village war memorials ensure that the names of those who ‘fell’ in the First World War ‘will live for ever more’. All our memorials are crosses, which perhaps symbolise the continuing role the Church has had in commemorating what, as regards casualties was Britain’s worst war. The grim statistics inscribed on the memorials tell the local tale: - Heversham 1914-1918 lost 17 men: compared to 4 in 1939-45, ; the Levens’ figures are 16 to 3 and Milnthorpe’s 21 to 9. Although the morality of the war has been challenged, most notoriously, 50 years ago, in the music satire “O what a Lovely War” contemporaries, believed that ’The Great War’ was a just war. Thus, Heversham’s cross proclaims that it was set up ‘to the memory of those who at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self sacrifice, giving up their lives that others might live in freedom’. Milnthorpe’s memorial calls them ’lads’. Very few were aged over 25. Civilian sacrifices were not recorded. Widows and orphans like the wife and child of Frederick Barnes killed in 1918 received pensions.