Weekly Newsletter

Morning Service at 10.30 on Sunday 15th March at Glenvale C of E School

Message from the Vicar:

‘Connecting with Jesus, with each other, with the community’

Easter

Please see below under the heading ‘Easter’ for the details of events as they come in. Please can you donate chocolate Easter Eggs for the Good Friday morning event – just bring them along on Sunday mornings. Could you also donate your used cardboard egg cartons for a craft activity (the ones that have 12 cups please). And might you be available to help on Good Friday morning? Please speak to me asap.

Revd Dawn Airey

Weekly Services:

This Sunday we will be celebrating those being baptised by full immersion or renewing their baptismal vows which were made on their behalf as children.

Midweek Service at Glenvale Care Home:

Easter

Extra News

‘How to be a Bad Christian and a Better Human Being.’ Dave Tomlinson

We are invited to watch an ‘In Conversation evening’ with Rev Dave Tomlinson at Kettering Arts Centre (St. Andrew’s church) on Wednesday 22 April, starting 7.30pm.

Dave – you’ll know – is best known for his ‘Pause for Thought’ contributions to Radio 2’s breakfast show. He was a C of E parish priest for 19 years and, via his books and Holy Shed podcast, is committed to keeping / bringing back Christian discourse into the mainstream of public debate. Having spent time as a leader of the house church movement in the 70s, Dave went on to found Holy Joe’s – a church in a pub for those disillusioned with organised religion – before his time as a Church of England vicar in north London.

Our conversation will be a discussion of Dave’s experiences, widening out to consider the larger questions of how Christians and the church should respond to and engage with the wider world in 2026.

The title of our evening takes its names from one of Dave’s best-known books: ‘How to be a Bad Christian and a Better Human Being.’ Dave is a great speaker – I’m delighted to be able to bring him to Kettering and I’m sure it’ll be a great evening, both thought-provoking and entertaining. Early tickets are £10 from the venue website -Kettering arts centre [dot] com. Best wishes Duncan Steer.

Parish Prayer:

There are two opportunities to pray together as a parish each week:

1) Sunday mornings from 9.45am in the glass pod off the corridor at Glenvale School.

2) Tuesday mornings, 11am at the Vicarage.

Prayer Chain:

If you would like to send a prayer request to the prayer chain, or join the prayer chain, please contact Jackie Brooks Cheesman: jackiebrookscheesman@yahoo.co.uk

Giving:

Thank you to you all for your sacrificial giving. If you would like to give to the work and ministry of the church please collect a form from the table at church which will enable you to give via the recommended route of the Parish Giving Scheme (PGS). However, people are welcome to give in whatever way suits them and please consider gift aiding your contribution so that the church receives an extra 25%.

You can also give via the QR code:

Please contact Dale Gilbert for more information: treasurer@nwanglicanchurch.co.uk

Church Vision – Key Priorities

Discipleship:

Connect Groups:

Connect Group Facilitators:

Monday afternoon (fortnightly 2-4pm): Carol Maycock
Wednesday evening (fortnightly 7.30pm): Ruth Wium
Thursday morning (fortnightly 10.00am): Alan Palmer
1st Sundays in the month evening (12.20): Rev Livvi Haughton-Scales

Under 18’s:

Wholeness in Jesus/wellbeing

Creations Craft Group:

Bereavement Support Group:

The Facebook support group has 85 members and continues. If anyone feels they have the capacity and passion for reaching out to those bereaved, please speak to me.

Safeguarding:

As God’s distinctive community we want to be a church that is safe for everyone. Where there are safeguarding concerns please talk to me (or if I am away, to John Gilyead our parish safeguarding officer) as soon as they arise. Even if you’re not sure, just talk to me anyway….please. Dawn.