THE CHURCHES OF DUNNINGTON, STOCKTON ON THE FOREST, WARTHILL & NEWSLETTER Sunday 8 March : 2nd Sunday of Lent Genesis 12.1-4a; Romans 4.1-5, 13-17; John 3.1-17

Services & Meetings Today This Week : 9 - 15 March

St Nicholas, Dunnington Monday 9 March 8.00 am Holy Communion 8.30 am Morning Prayer : St Nicholas, Dunnington Revd Canon Terry Joyce 8.30 am Coffee & Croissants : Holy Trinity, Stockton 10.30 am Morning Worship 9.15 am Toddler Group & Coffee : St Mary, Warthill Carole White & Anna Lewis 7.30 pm Lent Course (Buddhism) : Methodist Church Tuesday 10 March Methodist Church, Dunnington 8.30 am Morning Prayer : St Nicholas, Dunnington 10.30 am Morning Worship 9.45 am Prayer Meeting : Methodist Church, Dunn Mr Ralph Frankland 1.45 pm Little People : St Nicholas, Dunnington Holy Trinity, Stockton 7.30 pm Community Choir : Methodist Church, Dunn 10.30 am Holy Communion Wednesday 11 March Revd Canon Terry Joyce 9.00 am Holy Communion : St Nicholas, Dunnington 10.00 am Holy Communion : Holy Trinity Church, Stockton St Mary, Warthill 10.00 am Fair Trade Coffee Stop : Methodist Church, Dunn 10.30 am All Age Worship Revd Nick Bird Thursday 12 March 8.30 am Morning Prayer : St Nicholas, Dunnington Holy Trinity, Holtby Friday 13 March 9.00 am Holy Communion 7.30 pm Beer ‘n’ Hymns ‘n’ Pimms : St Nicholas, Dunnington Revd Nick Bird Saturday 14 March 10.00 am Morning Coffee : Methodist Church, Dunnington 10.00 am Coffee Morning : Holy Trinity Church, Stockton

rd Sunday 15 March : 3 of Lent Come and See Mission Exodus 17.1-7; John 4.5-42

St Nicholas, Dunnington 8.00 am Holy Communion 10.30 am All Age Holy Communion 12.30pm Holy Communion 1.00pm Parish Lunch 6.00pm Ignite (youth group)

Methodist Church, Dunnington 10.30 am Morning Worship

Holy Trinity, Stockton 10.30 am Morning Worship

St Mary, Warthill 9.00 am Holy Communion

If you would like a gluten free wafer (available at all our Benefice Churches) or non-alcoholic wine (currently only available at St Nicholas Church) please tell the sidesperson on duty. News & Notices Parish Lunch. Our next lunch is on Sunday 15 March when we shall also have some of the Come and See team joining New Curate. We are pleased to announce that a new us. The list is now in the Tower Room for you to sign. curate will be joining us in the summer. There will be a Communion Service at 12.30pm. Mark Poole is coming to the benefice of Rural East to serve his curacy from July this year. He is married to Coronavirus and Gluten Emma and they have two grown up children, James and Churches should already be following best-hygiene Hannah, practices that include advising parishioners with coughs Mark has had a twenty-year career in primary school and sneezes to refrain from handshaking during The Peace teaching and was a headteacher for twelve of those, in and to receive Communion in one kind only (bread). At three schools, as well as an Adviser for North present, there is no Government advice that suggests the Education Authority. Following early retirement in 2010, use of the Common Cup should be suspended. he has worked as a chef and in a tearoom before starting In addition, priests presiding at the Eucharist, communion work at Scarborough Hospital in 2013 as a Nursing administrators and servers should wash their hands, Assistant. Since 2015 he has worked for Adult Speech and preferably with an alcohol-based (minimum 60%) hand Language Therapy at the same hospital. sanitiser. Mark started training at St Hild College in Mirfield in Intinction (dipping) is not permitted (even by celebrants or September 2017, and he and Emma currently live in communion-administrators) as this represents an Norton. infection transmission route. It is also a route by which It is expected that Mark will be ordained in York Minster contamination of the wine by the bread can take place, on Sunday 5 July this year, and will join us then. which may have serious effects on someone with coeliac condition or a gluten intolerance. From now on chalice will Single use towels at St Nicholas. We now not be offered for people to intinct. have baskets of old face cloths by each sink in the kitchen and toilets in the Tower Room. These are for anyone who, for Discipleship Days hygiene reasons, would prefer to dry their 10.00am until lunch in the Tower Room at St hands using a single-use cloth rather than Nicholas. the larger towel. The cloths are proving popular and it would be useful to have a larger supply. If anyone has any An opportunity to grow in discipleship, and spare face cloths, please give them to Carole, or leave be enabled and equipped to live that out. them in one of the baskets. Thank You! Each day will include some teaching, time for personal reflection and discussion, and some question and answer March Dates time. The session will finish with a bring and share lunch for those who can stay. Children’s Society House Boxes – All welcome! Dunnington. Please bring boxes for opening to the Tower Room on 4 April The Discipleship journey - stages of growth Sunday 8 or 15 March. Alternatively, Ven. Sam Rushton (Archdeacon of York) if more convenient for you, boxes 4 July Reading the Bible Intelligently can be brought at other times to 1 Greenside Walk. If you Dr. Sally Guthrie MA, PhD (Theol) are not able to bring your box please ring me on (01904) 489008 to arrange collection. New box holders very 19 September Spirituality of Aging welcome, please contact me for more information. Thank Revd. Keith Albans (Methodist Superintendent you. Eve Scoreby, Box Co-ordinator. Minister) Beer & Hymns – Hymns & Pimms. As part of ACPM dates our Come and See Mission, we are hosting a Beer & Hymns, Hymns and Pimms evening. Warthill - Sunday 8 March, 11.30am in St Mary's Singing traditional hymns in an informal Stockton - Tuesday 31 March, 7pm in Holy Trinity setting! An opportunity for you to invite friends and Dunnington - Sunday 26 April during 10.30 am service neighbours to our mission event where Bishop James from Holtby - Thursday 30 April, 7pm in Holy Trinity the Diocese of Carlisle will be sharing something of his faith story and the life and work of a bishop. Friday 13 Lectionary Corner at St Nicholas March, 7.30pm in the Tower Room of St Nicholas. Tickets are available from Diane Benson (07951582672), Joan As there are no Saints Days or festivals this week, a selection Verrier (481626) and Judith Hewitt (488331). of prayers will be displayed at Lectionary Corner.

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