[For details of Benefice services for the coming month, please go to the Services page] Services during the coming week Thursday, 1st March at 10.00am – Holy Communion at Millbrook House In our prayers
this week -
Those
who are sick, remembering especially -
Those who have died, remembering especially -
Events around the Benefice
Wednesday Messy Church is on the 29th February from 9.00am to 10.30am in Child Okeford Community Centre. Visitors (of any age!!) are welcome.
Shillingstone Lent Lunches 29 February Elizabeth
Melaniphy at Manor Farmhouse, Church Road - 7 March Vicky Thomas
at The Old Rectory, Church Road - 14 March with Bela Rogerson, Toad Hall - 21 March with Carole Whitfeld, Church Centre - 28 March with Mary Prendergast at
Everetts, Everetts Lane - 4 April with Pam Glanville & Maureen Haskell, Church Centre All lunches from 12.00 noon to 2.00pm and proceeds to Julia’s House, the only children’s hospice in Dorset.
Next Thursday, 1 March, is the first Thursday of the month and therefore the day that prayers will be said under the etched window in Shillingstone School, praying in the school for the school. Prayer Boxes are out in church and school and if you would like to make a particular prayer for the school, please put it in the box by 12.00 noon on 1 March. All are welcome at this brief and informal time.
There’s a Coffee Morning in Shillingstone Church Centre on Saturday, 3 March from 10.30am to 12.00 noon. Bring and Buy, Cakes, Raffle and Friendship!
Change of Deadline for the Shillingstone Parish Magazine Please note that the deadline for the April/May issue of the magazine has been brought forward to 4.00pm Thursday 22 March. (Diana J Lewis, Editor & Magazine Advertisement Secretary)
St Nicholas Child Okeford Lent Lunches on 29
March, 12.00 noon to 2.00pm in Child Okeford Village Hall. Look out for more details later.
The Revd Darren A’Court Has been appointed our new Priest-in-Charge/Rector Designate and he takes up the post at February half-term and will be licensed on 8 March - this will be at a special service at Holy Rood Church, Shillingstone at 7.30pm on Thursday 8th March. Darren's first service will be at St Nicholas Church, Child Okeford on Sunday 11th March at 10.00am and will be a special Benefice Eucharist. We look forward with great pleasure in being able to welcome Darren, his wife Jeanette and their three children to our parishes. From Revd William Ridding The Bishop of Salisbury, the Right Reverend
Nicholas Holtam, has invited Colette Annesley-Gamester to be an assistant
curate in the Benefice of Spire Hill.
Colette is currently training at Westcott House, Cambridge and will come to the benefice
towards the end of June 2012. She will
be ordained deacon at Salisbury Cathedral on 29 September 2012. Colette is married to Jonathan Harding, an
Army Education Officer who is currently working at Blandford Camp with the
Royal Signals. William Ridding, Rector
of Spire Hill, and the parishes of the benefice are looking forward to
welcoming Colette and Jonathan and sharing with Colette in her training to be a
priest in the church.
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