Author: lismuller

The May edition includes village and church news, prayers and thoughts for this difficult time, suggested bible readings, puzzles, cartoons and the regular Thornton ‘nature notes’ article. If you haven’t seen it before, why not take a look? Please go to https://www.j22churches.org.uk/ to download yours!

Thank you to Mary and the team for producing this for our church and benefice.

St Peter’s apologises to those who receive the VILLAGE LINK church magazine that there is no hard copy of the magazine being delivered this month (for obvious reasons!) HOWEVER there is a downloadable version for anyone who would like to read it, on the church website https://www.j22churches.org.uk/

Thank you Mary Gibson for producing this month’s Junction 22 Church Magazine.

Geoff, who usually organises the distribution of the hard copy magazines to local deliverers, has asked me to assure those who regularly subscribe to the Junction 22 Magazine in Thornton, Bagworth, Stanton under Bardon, Markfield and Copt Oak that your £5 subscription for 2020 will eventually provide you with ten hard copies of the magazine, as your subscription will be extended into 2021 and there will be a reduced subscription fee for the rest of next year. Thank you to those who usually deliver magazines. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we need your help again.

ps Please note the pdf is as would have been produced for printing. If just reading online the pages will be out of order (but manageable, once you realise). It is probably best to print it off!

…and he’s gone viral on social media!

https://www.dgmusic.co.uk/blog/2020/3/video-of-george-lee-aged-97-goes-viral.html

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement of 23rd March, the Archbishops have written to clergy in support of the measures, requiring that churches must now close both for private worship and public services.

Our church buildings are therefore now closed for public worship,  private prayer and all other meetings and activities except for vital community services until further notice.

Only a week ago I thought I would be encouraging you all to spend this time to prepare your gardens for us all to enjoy on June 21^st.  But things have moved on and we don’t know how things will pan out but it seems highly unlikely that having 450 people attending such an event would be desirable or acceptable.  We have therefore taken the decision, at this stage, to postpone the event until June 2021.  Friends of St Peters would like to thank those who had already agreed to open – we look forward to visiting your gardens next year. Take care all.

In light of the Government guidance around non-essential contact, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued advice that public worship is suspended until further notice.

Routine church services, worship and events will not take place but all four churches in our benefice – including St Peter’s in Thornton – will be open on Sundays from 10-12, for personal prayer and reflection. All are welcome, but we respectfully ask that all visitors wash their hands on entering and leaving the church, and that they adhere to the government’s advice on ‘physical distancing’.

For information regarding the current situation with funerals, or to make bookings for weddings or baptisms in the future, please contact Pauline Ashby in the usual way.