Notices for Sunday 22nd April 2012

Third Sunday of Easter

 

Open Door Stewards: This is Week 4 on your rota.

CARM day: There is another one planned at All Saints church Nottingham (near the Arboretum) for Friday April 27th, 10-4, (similar to last year's at St John's). Still £10 for the day, bring and share lunch. There will also be an exhibition about CARM during the preceding week, at St Peter's church Nottingham. For further details please contact Ann Parker.

Bible Study Group: The next meeting will be in church at 2:15pm on Monday 30th April, to continue our study of the Pastoral Epistles. Will members please look at the series "Meet the Romans" on BBC2 at 9pm on Tuesday evenings.

 Silverwood: The next service will be at 11am on Monday 21st May. Support would be welcome.

Rev'd Claire: Following the announcement of Claire's appointment as the Vicar of Swanmore in the Diocese of Portsmouth, her last Sunday at Beeston will be July 1st. There will be a 'Bring and Share' Lunch following the 10am service. More details to follow in due course.  Her Licensing and Installation will be at 2pm on Saturday July 21st at St Barnabas Church, Swanmore.  Brenda Smith is booking a coach so again, sign-up lists will appear after Easter.

 CHURCH FAMILY NEWS

Baptism: Harry Robert Dunn, Billy George Dunn, Peter Skov and Sarah Skov will be baptised here at 12:15pm today. Please support and pray for Harry, Billy, Peter and Sarah and their respective parents and Godparents.

Prayers: please remember these people in your prayers: Ann Howell, Elizabeth Littlewood, Janet Toseland, Stewart Morris, Brenda Pletcher, Walter Beasley, Bill Hopkinson, Joyce Shaw, Bishop Patrick Harris, Peter Eden, Brian Loughborough and Lyn Capstick who are sick. Remember also Mike Wasey who died in recent days, and all those who mourn. 

 

This week at church...
BBC News (Nottingham)
Further searches for river man
Caution urged over train ballot
Man with paint 'denied bus ride'
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CofE Central Newsfeed
Results of House of Bishops' election for CNC
The Bishop of Gloucester and the Bishop of Carlisle have been voted onto the Crown Nominations Commission, CNC, the body that will nominate the next Archbishop of Canterbury. This result of the vote by the House of Bishops completes the make-up of the 16 member voting body of the CNC.
\"Send your Holy Spirit to light up our lives\" \- Torch Relay prayers released
Two new prayers, released today at www.olympics.churchofengland.org, are to ‘accompany’ the Torch Relay on its tour of England. They will be used by many of the CofE’s 16,000 churches publicly as the Torch makes its 70-day tour of the nation, travelling within an hour of 95 per cent of people in the UK, Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey.
Government agrees £30 million extra to resolve VAT concerns
The Church of England has welcomed today's agreement with the Government over the future funding of alterations and repairs to its 12,500 listed buildings, which will provide £30 million a year extra money. This is on top of the £12 million already in the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme (LPWGS).
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