THE WEEK AHEAD
Monday
June
10 – 12 Stroke group meeting in church room
Tuesday 23rd June
10 -12 Tiddlywinks
Wednesday 24th June
10.00 am Mid-week Communion Service
6.00 – 7.00pm – Vestry Hour in Church Room
Thursday 25th June
7.30pm Churches Together AGM at St. Denis, Silk
Willoughby
22nd
Vacancy update
As part of the Diocese move towards Mission
communities with the appointment of more priests
within parishes the Loveden Deanery are keen to
appoint a Pioneer mission vicar to one of their
benefices. In order to make this a viable option our
PCC has been approached about the area of Greylees.
Historically it has been part of Quarrington parish but
this was before the recent housing developments when
the only building was Rauceby Hospital. We know that
Greylees has been a very difficult area in which to
promote mission and the ever growing population of
Quarrington will only increase these difficulties. The
parish of Rauceby are getting a growing number of
requests for Baptisms from Greylees, a number of the
children attend the school and, of course, individuals
are free to worship at whichever church they choose.
Having attended a meeting of the Loveden Deanery to
discuss their way forward in mission it was very clear
that the parish of Rauceby are passionate in their
desire to work as a pioneering mission community
within Greylees to bring the Kingdom of God to that
place. The PCC have therefore passed the following
proposal…..
“The PCC of St. Botolph’s Church, Quarrington
raise no objection to the Loveden Deanery
pursuing the possibility of changing the parish
boundary so that the Greylees housing estate falls
within the parish of Rauceby.”
This is, of course, only the beginning of the process,
nothing is set in stone, there are many hurdles before
anything is finalised but it does affect the writing of our
own parish profile for the advertising of our own post.
Race for Life
This time last year I was battling cancer and having
chemotherapy. I was barely able to walk to the end of
the street. This year I've decided to try and get fit so
I've taken up jogging - something I've never done
before. To give myself a challenge I've signed up for
the Race for Life at the Lincolnshire Showground on
19th July where I'll be aiming to jog/walk for 5K. If you
would like to sponsor me to raise money for Cancer
Research UK please either see me at church or log on
to my Just Giving site at
http://www.justgiving.com/sally-annecaunter
Many thanks Sally-Anne Caunter
Fundraising
The PCC need YOUR help. We would like to set up a
group of people to oversee fundraising activities for the
church. We feel it is too much to ask one person to
organise every event but could be shared amongst a
group. The first task would be to hold a general
meeting for anyone to attend to share ideas of how to
raise funds particularly involving the community and
others outside of the congregation. If you are able to
help with setting up this group please speak to Carole
after the service so that you can be put in touch with
each other. It was made clear at the APCM that we do
need to make every effort to increase the income of the
church.
Churchwardens – Carole Shepheard 01529
307781, caroledenzil@tiscali.co.uk
Tim Conning, Home: 01529 304886 Mobile: 07894
500295 (preferred) timconning@btinternet.com
Parish Administrator – Judith Harris –
07905521610
stbquarrington890@gmail.com
THE DIOCESE OF LINCOLN
ST BOTOLPH’S QUARRINGTON
www.quarringtonchurchsleaford.co.uk
WELCOME TO CHURCH TODAY!
We hope you will enjoy our worship this morning.
Everyone is welcome to stay for tea/coffee after
this service.
OUR SERVICES TODAY – 21st June 2015
Third Sunday after Trinity
11.00am Holy Communion
Rev. David Boutle will preach and preside
Hymns: 267, 423, 386, 308, 555
Duty Warden – Carole Shepheard
2.30pm Baptism of Kian James Rance
3.30pm Baptism of Freya Elizabeth Shaw
SERVICES – 28th June 2015
11.00am – Holy Communion
COLLECT FOR 3rd Sunday after Trinity
God our saviour, look on this wounded world in pity
and in power; hold us fast to your promises of peace
won for us by your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ.
THE FIRST READING – Job 38. 1-11
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without
knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man,
I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
‘Where were you when I laid the foundation of the
earth?
Tell me, if you have understanding.
Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
On what were its bases sunk,
or who laid its cornerstone
when the morning stars sang together
and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?
‘Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb?—
when I made the clouds its garment,
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
and prescribed bounds for it,
and set bars and doors,
and said, “Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stopped”?
THE SECOND READING – 2 Corinthians 6.
1-13
As we work together with him, we urge you also not to
accept the grace of God in vain. For he says,
‘At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a
day of salvation I have helped you.’
See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of
salvation! We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way,
so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as
servants of God we have commended ourselves in
every way: through great endurance, in afflictions,
hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots,
labours, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity,
knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit,
genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God;
with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand
and for the left; in honour and dishonour, in ill repute
and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet
are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as
dying, and see—we are alive; as punished, and yet not
killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet
making many rich; as having nothing, and yet
possessing everything. We have spoken frankly to
you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you. There
is no restriction in our affections, but only in yours. In
return—I speak as to children—open wide your hearts
also.
THE GOSPEL READING – Mark 4. 35-end
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them,
‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the
crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just
as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale
arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the
boat was already being swamped. But he was in the
stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up
and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are
perishing?’ He woke up and rebuked the wind, and
said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased,
and there was a dead calm. He said to them, ‘Why are
you afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were
filled with great awe and said to one another, ‘Who
then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’
POST COMMUNION PRAYER
O God, whose beauty is beyond our imagining and
whose power we cannot comprehend: show us your
glory as far as we can grasp it, and shield us from
knowing more than we can bear until we may look
upon you without fear;
through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Churches Together
The Churches Together AGM will be held on Thursday
25th. June at 7.30 p.m. at St. Denis’, Silk Willoughby,
to which all are invited. The Speaker prior to the AGM
will be Bob Stoner, a Street Pastor and member of
Street Source. At the AGM we will need to appoint a
new Chairman and Vice-Chairman of CTSD and also
need to fill the roles of Christian Aid Treasurer and
Secretary. We urgently need nominations for these
posts and hope everyone in all the churches of
Sleaford will consider prayerfully if you can make a
nomination or offer your services. More details from the
present officers and nominations to Rev. Steve Faber,
please, ideally in advance of the meeting.