Readings Proverbs 8.1,22-31; Colossians 1.15-20; John 1.1-14
We remember in our prayers
Sunday 15th February
Matlosane (formerly Klerksdorp) - (South Africa) The Rt Revd Stephen Molopi Diseko
Barrackpore: Bishop Brojen Malakar
Monday
The Most Revd Gerald James (Ian) Ernest Archbishop, Province of the Indian Ocean & Bishop of Mauritius
Heanor, Langley Mill
Tuesday
Mbaise - (Province of Owerri, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Bright Joseph Egemasi Ogu
Clergy: Dan Pattimore, Kristy Pattimore; (Langley Mill) Methodist Minister: Diane
Wednesday
Mbale - (Uganda) The Rt Revd Samwiri Namakhetsa Khaemba Wabulakha
Marlpool and Aldercar
Thursday
Mbeere - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Moses Masamba Nthuka
Clergy: Karen Padle
Friday
Meath & Kildare - (Dublin, Ireland) The Most Revd Dr Richard Lionel Clarke
Loscoe, Morley, Smalley
Saturday
Medak - (South India) The Rt Revd Badda Peter Sugandha
Clergy: Mike Alexander, Eleanor Berry
Notices for the week
Sunday 15th February - Second Sunday before Lent
8.00a.m. Holy Communion - Sutton
9.30a.m. Mattins - Boylestone
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Church Broughton
10.00a.m. Family Service - Longford
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Dalbury
1100a.m. Holy Communion - Trusley
2.30p.m. Evensong - Long Lane
Friday
9.00a.m. Longford School in church for part of a Science day
12.30p.m. Funeral of Betty Slack - Dalbury
Next Sunday - Next before Lent
9.30a.m. Family Service * Holy Baptism - Boylestone
9.30a.m. Mattins - Church Broughton
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Longford
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Long Lane
11.00a.m. Family Service - Sutton
3.00p.m. Evensong - Radbourne
6.45p.m. Evensong - Trusley
Advance Notice
Sunday Sizzle The Family Serviceon 1st March at Church Broughton at 10a.m. will be followed by a fun family fry-up in the chapel schoolroom. All welcome to share bacon, eggs and more. Suggested donation £1 to cover costs. Finishes around 12.30p.m.
Please note the wind concert mentioned in the magazine scheduled for 14th March has been postponed to a date to be fixed.
Barn Dance Saturday 28th March
In Dalbury Lees Village Hall in aid of St Andrew’s, Radbourne
Tickets £7-50 - ring 01332 824742 or
Sunday Groaner
I lent my brother £20 last week. Turns out I'm now the UK's fifth biggest lender.
Cadburys is to launch a chocolate bar you don't have to pay for until next year. It will be called the Credit Crunchie.
Marks and Spencers are to merge with Poundstretchers. The new stores will be called Stretch Marks.
Poundland is to restructure for the recession and will be called '50p Land'.
Northern Rock is to be rebranded Northern Pebble Bank Managers are to concentrate on the Big Issues. They'll all be out on the street selling them next week.
The Isle of Dogs bank collapsed today. The retrievers have been called in.
The Origami Bank has folded, and 5,000 staff got the chop at the Karate Bank.
What do you call five hedge fund managers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start.
How do you define optimism?
A banker who irons five shirts on a Sunday.
Quote Unquote With the economy in mind:
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. - anon
Everyone lives by selling something. - anon
There are but two ways of paying a debt; increase of industry in raising income, or increase of thrift in laying out. – Carlyle
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. – Publius Syrus
And many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. – Shakespeare
The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other. – Greek proverb
None are so near falling as those who are most confident in their own standing.
– W Burkitt
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, leisure, and liberty.
– J R Lowell
Rich people should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. – Bishop Hall
We have seen better days. - Shakespeare
The Parish Pump & the Benefice entry in the South Derbyshire Churchman can be found on the internet at:-
http://churchbroughtonchurch.blog.co.uk