Flower Festival 2012
A part of our celebrations this year, St Leonard’s is planning a Flower Festival to coincide with the annual Mid-May Market Day, the weekend of May 12-13
The Flower Festival will depict the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Olympic Games and other anniversaries celebrated during the year. More news next month.
From the Registers
From the Registers
Holy Baptism
November 6 Thomas Richard John Stott
November 20 Harry Joseph Phillips
December 11 Amelia Anne Meadows
Henry Paul Obafemi Heard
November 26 Terry & Tina Kemp
Funerals in Church
October 17 Nicholas Jones
November 21 George Cuthbertson
Diary for January
January at St Leonard’s
Sunday Services 8.00am and 10.00am (NB no 10.00am service on 8th)
Choir Practice Seniors Thursdays 8.00pm from 12th, Juniors 7.00pm from 13th
1 Sunday 8.00am Holy Communion
6 Friday 10.00am Holy Communion (Epiphany)
8 Sunday 8.00am Holy Communion
10.15am United Service at Baptist Free Church
9 Monday 10.30am Pastoral Committee
10 Tuesday 12.30pm Tuesday Lunch
11 Wednesday 2.00pm Prayer Chain Meeting
12 Thursday 2.00pm Missions Committee
13 Friday 2.00pm Praise and Play
14 Saturday 10.30am Saturday Club
16 Monday Ladies’ Fellowship New Year Lunch
3.30pm Monday Club
7.30pm Food for Thought
Wednesday January 18 to Wednesday January 25
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
22 Sunday 3.30pm Churches Together
Service at St Anne’s Church, Bosworth Drive, Chelmsley Wood
23 Monday 3.30pm Monday Club
24 Tuesday 10.00am Holy Communion (Week of Prayer for Christian Unity)
30 Monday 3.30pm Monday Club
on St Leonard’s
As you read this you will probably, like me, be recovering from Christmas. Thanks are due to all concerned in the ‘run up’ to
Christmas – always a particularly busy time – and over the Festival itself. As I write this I am only able to comment on ‘Advent-urous Desserts and the Christingle Service, both already over. As well as being a most enjoyable occasion the first raised a magnificent £1,231. Thank you! The Children’s Society profit all the year round from the boxes, and on the day, from the proceeds of the Christingle Service. Thanks are due to Mr Roy Smart, a Commissioner of the Children’s Society, who was our visitor, and to Jeff Davis, our Childrens’ Society Officer, for all the work he and others put in to this important cause. I might mention particularly our Treasurer, Peter Roberts, who counted the money given on the day, most of it in coins, many of them copper.
The Craft Fair was a huge success too, raising £1850. Thanks and congratulations to all involved in the venture.
Turning to January we think of Christian Unity. As we do every January we join in worship with the Baptist Free Church, this year there on the 8th. The next two United Services, in the summer and in January 2013, will be at St Leonard’s.
January also sees the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which always runs from 18th to 25th. A programme of services to be held on most days of the week at different churches appears elsewhere, but particular mention should be made of the ‘main service’ at 3.30pm on Sunday 22nd, venue St Anne’s Roman Catholic Church, Bosworth Drive. I have been asked to have with me that afternoon Bishop Francis Kaulanda, the Bishop of Lake Malawi; who with another Malawian Bishop is spending two weeks in the diocese before attending a conference in London. He is to be delivered to St Anne’s by someone from the church in Harborne he will have visited that morning and I am to take him to Edgbaston (not the cricket ground!) after the service. So whilst he is my responsibility that afternoon he will not be in Marston Green at all. If you would like to meet him please come to the service at St Anne’s.
You will see from the Diary that a lot is going on in the first half of January, no doubt things not yet arranged will take place later in the month. I do hope that a busy month will lead into a busy and fruitful year – and a happy 2012 to you all.
Happy Birthday to the Book of Common Prayer – still (though not much used) the Official Prayer Book of the Church of England. 1662-2012; 350 this year.
Roy Allen
