July/August 2013 News from Bolton-le-Sands, Nether Kellet and Christ Church (United Reformed) Parish Magazine | £1 www.bolton-le-sands.co.ukBric-a-brac Sale Scout camp news Shrimps inmessenger danger! | 1 Community Services Christ Church United Reformed Church Worship at Holy Trinity Rev’d Y Burns - Minister 822747 Sunday 8.00am Holy Eucharist Mr G Shaw - Treasurer 67644 10.30am Holy Eucharist Mrs M Park - Secretary 823096 3.00pm Liturgy of Healing (every 2nd Sunday in the month) Old Boys’ Free Grammar School Wednesday 10.00am Holy Eucharist Mrs Joan Baker 824384 First Friday Worship Trefoil Guild The first Friday of each month at Holy Trinity at Judith Spotswood 736929 7.30pm – followed by refreshments and fellowship. Thwaite Brow Woods Consevation Project Details of services are displayed on the outside notice Mrs L. Belcher 824191 board, and are given in The Link each Sunday. Women’s Institute Worship at St Mark’s Nether Kellet Mrs Hazel Short 822614 Sundays 9.00am First Sunday Holy Eucharist - Common Worship Lune Valley Keep Fit Organisation Second Sunday Morning Prayer Sheila Stockdale 823632 Third Sunday Holy Eucharist - Book of Common Prayer Fourth Sunday Morning Prayer Men’s Group Fifth Sunday Morning Prayer Mr Keith Budden 824247 Worship at Christ Church United Reformed Church Bowling Club 7th June 10.00am Rev G Lear Mr Geoff Forrest - Secretary 824346 Flowers from - Mrs P Newall Cricket Club 14th June 10.00am Rev G Barton Mr Mike Clarkson - Secretary 824059 Flowers from - Mr. J. Jones 21st June 10.00am Rev G Barton Tennis Club Flowers from - R Dickenson and M Heaton Mrs Pam Holding - President 733805 28th June 10.00am Rev Y Burns Flowers from - Flower Fund Bolton-le-Sands & District Floral 4th Aug 10.00am TBA and Horticultural Society Flowers from - C Richardson Mrs Amanda Kerr 720730 11th Aug 10.00am Rev Y Burns Flowers from - G and A Shaw Petsearch 18th Aug 10.00am Rev G Lear Mrs Margaret Carter 823013 Flowers from - Flower Fund 25th Aug 10.00am Rev G Barton 2nd Bolton-le-Sands Scout Group Flowers from - Flower Fund Debra Thackrah - Cub Leader 07900 803139 [email protected] Dave Squirrell - Scout Leader Mass times at St. Mary of The Angels 07811 274452 [email protected] Sundays 9.00am Monday - Friday 10.00am Bolton-le-Sands Guides Catherine Spreckley - Guide Leader See Parish Bulletin on notice board by the Church 07708 275582 [email protected] gate for variations Bolton- le-Sands Brownies Rachel Shaw - Brownie Leader 01524732726 [email protected] 2 | messenger www.bolton-le-sands.org.uk Dear all... We are all workers in God’s kingdom. We are all of us called by God into his service. Every one of us has been given our particular set of gifts, talents and abilities to put to God’s use. We all are asked by God to do God’s work in the world. When we respond to God and ask for his blessings in our lives, we are offering ourselves to God, offering ourselves for work, his work. God calls us by name and has an individual part for us. I once knew lady who had deteriorating MS and became confined to home. “I can’t do any work for God,” she said “except pray.” She had the monthly magazine from church and the weekly newssheet and she made sure that every single thing that the church did was soaked in prayer, that every confirmation candidate was prayed for by name, and every PCC meeting, even the finance meetings and choir practices, had prayer going on at the same time. It was a busy church, but I think she may have been the hardest worker by a mile. She told me that through her illness she had been given the gift of time, and that she was called to use her gift to make a difference to the kingdom of God by praying, and through her generosity God poured out blessings through her. She made a difference to God’s work in the world as God’s blessing flowed abundantly through her and out to others. We are all called by God. For some people that work will be in a church based setting, for a few that means a public ministry, for some it will be doing what we can, praying and giving, being alongside those in need, for some it will be to make a difference in our place of work. But for all of us it is God’s work that we are called to do, wherever it is based, whatever the shape of that ministry is, and still doing God’s kingdom work even when we are at the coalface and facing an impenetrable secular context. It is sacrificial, we are not like volunteers, we are more like conscripts who are nevertheless free to walk away and deny our calling. Imagine God asking you, “What difference for my kingdom are you making in the world?” And imagine God asking you, “Will you let me pour my blessing through you into the world?” We are all abundantly blessed. Praise God. Nancy General Synod again debates Women Bishops DIOCESE OF Please come along to a service to celebrate women’s ministry at BLACKBURN Lancaster Priory on Saturday 6th July at 4pm with very special guest preacher, The Revd Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James’ Piccadilly and a regular contributor to Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’. Lots of the women priests from Blackburn Diocese will be there and it will be good to show local support. www.bolton-le-sands.org.uk messenger | 3 DID YOU KNOW! 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Mothers’ Union Boxes Please could all M.U. boxes be handed in to church, or dropped off at my house 174 Coastal Road, during the month of July. The Coffee Morning to support the Overseas Fund is on Thursday 22nd August and unfortunately I will be away. I would like to have all the boxes emptied, and the money in the bank before I go. Do hope you can support the Coffee Morning, in the Community Centre; the usual contributions to stalls raffle etc will be greatly appreciated. Sorry I won’t be there! Enjoy the rest of the summer, with love to all Gaynor The Messenger The next edition of The Messenger will be September 2013. The deadline for contributions will be Tuesday August 20th. www.bolton-le-sands.co.uk messenger | 5 Please could all M.U. boxes be handed in to church, or dropped off at my house 174 Coastal Road, during the month of July. The Coffee Morning to support the Overseas Fund is on Thursday 22nd August and unfortunately I will be away. I would like to have all the boxes emptied, and the money in the bank before I go. Do hope you can support the Coffee Morning, in the Community Centre; the usual contributions to stalls raffle etc will be greatly appreciated. Sorry I won’t be there! Enjoy the rest of the summer With love to all Gaynor Mothers’ Union Update Tunstall Deanery Festival took place on Members recently joined with others from a sunny afternoon in June at St Luke’s, Lancaster Deanery on a Bluebell Walk led Slyne-with-Hest and was well attended by by their Deanery Chaplain, the Revd Linda members from Silverdale, Hornby, Slyne and Macluskie, followed by bacon butties at Bolton-le-Sands, as well as our MU Diocesan Woodies at the Crook o’ Lune. Do make a Vice-President, Enid Nutland. note in your diaries of the next Walk, planned for Wednesday 11th September. It follows The service was taken by the Revd Pauline an easy path from Condor Green to Glasson Bicknell and took the form of a Songs of Dock, so should be suitable for everyone. We Praise, with hymns chosen by the various shall set off at 12.30, but those who wish to branches. We were treated to singing by the have a picnic or lunch at the Café de Lune children of St Luke’s C of E School, which this may like to go earlier. week is celebrating 50 years on its present site on Shady Lane. A medley of songs Our Summer Lunch at Morecambe Golf Club is from the Hans Christian Andersen suite was planned for Friday 16th August and promises followed by the song “Electricity” from the to be another popular event. Before then stage show, “Billy Elliot”. we will host a Coffee Morning at the Village Hall on Thursday 18th July, with another Mr Paul Bowden, the Head-teacher, took his to follow on 22nd August, both excellent address from the reading of Ecclesiastes 3, opportunities to meet up in the summer “To everything there is a season and a time months.