The Hexagon - Arnesby · Benefice Services p12 (Church of England) Curate Rev‘d Andrew Rhoades The Rectory, 21, Dag Lane, North Kilworth. LE17 6HD 01858 460150 [email protected]

The Hexagon Parishes Newsletter February 2012

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The Gift of Love

Welcome to a new year and we wish you one that is full of positives! This month we will celebrate Saint Valen-tine‘s day on February 14

th and

some will exchange tokens of their love and appreciation for those who are special to them. There are ap-parently several Saint Valentines but the one that is most probably com-memorated on this day was a Christian Priest, living in Rome during the reign of Claudius II, who assisted young Christian couples to get married when Christians were being persecuted and helping them was against the law. Valentine was eventually executed and martyred for his help and concern.

Love can take different forms and the Greeks used words to differentiate between pas-sionate love (eros), parental love (storgeo) and friendship (phileo). One of the popular bible passages heard at weddings reads ‗Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envi-ous or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not

Clergy letter p1

Benefice news p3

Other denominations p11

Benefice Services p12 (Church of England)

Curate Rev‘d Andrew Rhoades The Rectory, 21, Dag Lane, North Kilworth. LE17 6HD

01858 460150 [email protected]

Lay Reader Mr Roy Oldham 0116 2403900

Lay Reader Mr John Raven 0116 2707591

In this Edition

Carol Higson continues her new journey in faith, ex-

ploring and sharing with us how God is part of all we

experience in life on page 10

rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, be-lieves all things, hopes all things, endures all things‘.

This love is called agape and de-scribes a sacrificial, unconditional, deep and caring love, a love that God gives to us as a gift. Another passage tells us that ―God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but

may have eternal life‖ and yet an-other ―You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart‖ and ―You shall love your neighbour as yourself‖.

It‘s always good to be told that you are loved and Valentine‘s day gives us that op-portunity to ex-press our love to those who are special to us.

It is also perhaps an opportunity to

remind ourselves of that agape love from God and that love we can return to him through prayer and that love we can show each other through the way we treat each other.

Reverend Andrew Rhoades

February 2012

Whilst Reverend Andrew Rhoades is on a training placement in February he

has arranged visiting priests to take the

services throughout the Benefice. We would like to welcome these visitors to

our services.

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MARRIAGE

Danielle Suzanne CHAMP and Matthew Lee BOWN 28th December, 2011 at St James Church, Southam

Congratulations to our Headteacher at Husbands Bosworth C.E. School and his wife!

“ God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God and God abides in them”

FUNERALS Mrs Joan Margaret DUNMORE

Aged 91 years 12th January, 2012 at All Saints, Husbands Bosworth and Kettering Crematorium

and laid to rest on 17th January, 2012 at All Saints Memorial Garden

Mrs Jean Eileen HUDSON Aged 77 years

17th January, 2012 at Kettering Crematorium Interment of Ashes: Mrs Frances Jean PYE

Aged 59 years 29th December, 2011 at All Saints, Theddingworth

“God be in our heart and in our thinking. God be at our end and at our departing

Pancake Party on Tuesday 21st February for all those of primary

school age.

Join us for a fun filled party with pancakes and drinks for all those of primary

school age at the Community Church Hall in Husbands Bosworth between 4pm

and 6pm. Contact Reverend Andrew Rhoades on 01858 460150 or email to

[email protected] if you would like to book your place.

Enjoy an evening of Spring Harmony on Saturday March 17th at

7:30pm with the Griffin Singers directed by Lance Atter.

A varied programme of light music and humour held at St Nicholas Church

Mowsley. Tickets are available at £7.50 including refreshments from Janet Ben-

nett on 0116 2402408. Proceeds go towards St Nicholas Church funds.

Joint Husbands Bosworth School Awards Service with All Saints, Church on 9

th February at 2:45pm

Parents & carers of school children and the All Saints congregation are invited to the school awards service which will be a time of worship for the children and for adults followed by the presentation of awards.

Refresh @ Mowsley Breakfast café for all ages continues on Sunday morning 26th February

Drop into the village hall at Mowsley whether you are on your own, with friends or family for a free breakfast from 9:30am to 11:30am. There will be a time to relax, children‘s group, the Sunday papers and ‗food for thought‘ at 10:30am. With compliments of

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If you would like to learn to paint in watercolour you might be interested in attending one of PETER WELTON’s workshops. There are three planned in Arnesby for 2012….March 24th,

May 12th & August 4th. Full details on his website.

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Incidentally, he welcomes absolute beginners as well as the more experienced.

Arnesby, St. Peter’s Church Page 5 Churchwarden: Brian Spriggs Tel 0116 2478559 www.village-web.co.uk

Knitters & Stitchers-Arnesby Clickers: Thu 2nd Feb at Jasmin Cottage, The Bank at 7:30pm. All welcome.

Flicks in the Sticks: In Arnesby village hall at 7:30pm.

Tue 7th Feb: Brief Enounter -1945 classic with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

Tue 21st Feb: The Blind Side -Sandra Bullock adopts a young black teenager who becomes a football star.

Swap Shop: Sat 4th Feb & Sat 10th Mar 10-12noon in the village hall. Bring along books, toys, DVDs, CDs and jigsaws (children‘s or adults) that you would like to ex-change for something different. Entrance 50p to cover hire of hall and light refreshments.

―Let’s Clean up Arnesby‖ : Village litter pick on 10th Mar 10-12noon, at the same time as Swap Shop.

Welcome to Arnesby: To Karen & John who have moved to 3, Mill Hill Rd and to David Hannah and family in

The White House, Welford Rd. ☺☺ Arnesby Loseby Charity Trust: Allotment (half-plot) available for rent. Contact Monica Dowson, The Granary, Arnesby for more information, 0116 2478296 or email [email protected]

Christmas Events:

St Peter’s Church Bazaar: We made a total of £1018 for church funds. Thank you to all who helped or came along.

Christmas Eve Carol Singing: Raised £242 for ―Cancer Research‖. Many thanks to the singers and all who donated so generously.

Cantamici Concert: A packed St Peter‘s Church heard a marvellous concert of choral Christmas music and two piano pieces played by Peter Houtman. £160 of the profits went to each of The Leicester Gondar Link, Can-tamici Choir & St Peter‘s Church.

Promises Auction: Fri 30th Mar at 6:30pm in the village hall. Your Promises will be collected on Tue 28th Feb or Thu 1st Mar; alternatively give to Brian or Sue Spriggs,

REGULAR EVENTS

Morning Prayer - Tuesdays, 9:45am, in church

Baptist church Coffee Morning— Tuesdays 10.30-12.00

Parent & Toddler Group — village hall Fridays 10.00am -12.00 noon (contact 0116 2478745)

Arnesby Church Bells (contact 0116 2478982)

Date Event Place Time

Wed 1st Shearsby & Arnesby W.I: ―A Life in Stitches‖ speaker Eileen Williams

Arnesby village hall 7:30pm

Tue 14th & 28th Mobile Library Old Adult School 11:50-12:20pm

Wed 29th Arnesby book club: Animal, Vegetable & Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

The White House, Robert Hall Rd

7:30pm

Wed 22nd Ash Wednesday Holy Communion St Peter‘s Church 7:00pm

Cambridge House, South Close. Profits to be divided be-tween Arnesby village hall (new store), Arnesby Baptist Chapel (conference centre refurbishment), St Peter‘s church (interior stonework repairs) and the LOROS Manor Croft day centre in Knighton.

Midweek Services in Lent: Compline will be said in St Peter‘s Church on Wednesdays at 7:30pm starting on 29th Feb.

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Arnesby C. of E. Primary School 0116 2478563

Happy New Year from staff and children at Arnesby School. 2012 will be an exciting year for us. The plans for our new classroom are near completion with parents and governors evaluating the build as you read this. There will be a new secure lobby to the school office and an outside classroom too. A group of children has been chosen to help with the outside classroom design, which will have an emphasis on outdoor education for Early Years. Our school noticeboard is now easily visible next to Arnesby village hall and the plans are displayed here for the com-munity to view as well. In the next issue we may have news of how the timetable of build work will proceed.

Don‘t forget about joining the children in the village hall for school lunches. Ring the office for details of the menu.

Best wishes to all,

Headteacher, Chris Dorian-Hurst

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Bruntingthorpe, St Mary’s Church Page 7 Churchwardens: Andy White 0116 2478914 Steve Gillies 0116 2799051

Christmas Services at St Mary’s Church: Christingle Service: The Christingle Candle collection boxes raised £67 for ―The Children‘s Society‖‘ Carol Service: The collection was £138 and has been sent to ―Christian Aid‖. The Christmas Raffle: Raised £463 for St Mary‘s Church. Heritage Group: We would like to thank everyone who has provided photographs of Bruntingthorpe and Brunting-thorpe residents. You may have seen seventeen of these photographs in the publication ―Around Countesthorpe Re-visited‖ by Henrietta Schultka & Ann True (History Press 2011). We are hoping to develop our own series of small booklets and would welcome any memories or photo-graphs etc. (These can be scanned/copied and returned) Mary Arkell [email protected]


Wed 1st, 15th & 29th Mobile Library The Plough 11:30-11:45am

Sun 19th Benefice family communion St Mary‘s Church Note new time!! 10:30am

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Light snacks (rolls, freshly baked

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Open fire and real village pub

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Full range of lagers & cask Ales,

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Gilmorton Chandler C. of E.(Aided) Primary School As a school judged by Ofsted and the Local Authority to be ‘outstanding‘, Gilmorton Chandler is being en-couraged to convert to academy status if the Gover-nors feel it is the right decision for the school. We in-tend to give careful consideration to the arguments for and against academy status. You can participate in the consultation process which ends on 17th Feb :

. You can email questions and comments to

[email protected] . You can write to the Chair of Governors, Mr Graham Read, c/o the school . For more details, see: www.education.gov.uk/schools/leadership/typesofschools/academies Headteacher: Marie Sandford

Do you know? Hedgehogs: Facts Although Hedgehogs are common and wide- spread, evidence of a drastic decline is mounting. Surveys show that populations have dropped by almost 50% over the last 25 years and this is still continuing in England and Wales. If nothing is done to reverse the trend then this mammal could be ex-tinct from some areas by 2050. This has led to the hedge-hog becoming a UK Priority Species and conservation measures are being put in place. Hedgehogs range over several gardens each night to find food. Make sure your garden is accessible by leaving a small gap in your fence or under a gate. www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk

Husbands Bosworth, All Saints Church Page 8

Churchwardens: Brian Smith 01858 880225 Lorrie Forman 01858 880281 www.husbandsbosworth.info

Historical Society: On Wed 1st Feb Harborough Movie Makers will be bringing along a selection of their award winning films - all local areas. This is always a good eve-ning and anyone is welcome to come along. Classic Film Nights: Fri 10th Feb at 7:30pm in the com-munity church hall. ―Home and Away‖ with Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison & Thora Hird. Entrance £3 to include refreshments in the interval and all proceeds towards refur-bishment of the hall. Peter Jones

Joint Husbands Bosworth School Awards Service: Thu 9th Feb at All Saints Church at 2:45pm. Parents & carers of school children and the All Saints commu-nity are invited to the school awards service which will be a time of worship followed by presentation of awards.


Wed 1st Historical Society : Harborough Movie Makers - See below

Community church hall– for details contact Heather on 880165

7:30pm

Tue 7th & 21st Mobile Library 3:05-4:00pm

Wed 15th Methodists coffee morning—visitors welcome 25 High Street 10:00-12:00

Thu 9th Husbands Bosworth School Awards Service All Saints Church 2:45pm

Tue 21st Pancake Party Community church hall

Tue 28th Luncheon Club: £7:50 each. Contact Janice to book or cancel (01858 880668)

Kilworth Springs Golf Club (24 hours notice needed)

12:30pm

REGULAR EVENTS

Mid-week Holy Communion service—Wednesdays at 9.15 am, All Saints Church

All Saints Church Bells (contact 01858 880066)

Hand Bell Ringers - Tuesdays 7.30pm at Orchard Cottage, Honeypot Lane (contact 01858 880668)

Honeypot pre-school group— term-time, All Saints Church and Community Hall (contact 01858 881143)

Whist drives in aid of All Saints— 1st Monday of month, 2.00 pm, Kilworth Springs Golf Club

Husbands Bosworth C. of E. Primary School: I am pleased to tell you that we have just launched our school website. This can be found at www.husbandsbosworth.leics.sch.uk. This includes infor-mation about the school, classes and events. We also have an area on this site for the church. Rev‘d Andy has already begun to include information. Please take some time to look at this site. Any comments would be appreci-ated by myself or Rev‘d Andy. In time we hope to develop this site to include more information about the village. Towards the end of last term we received some good news: we feature in the top ten schools for the county. This was reported in the Leicester Mercury‘s Dec 15th edition. Well done to all the pupils and staff for all their hard work in order to achieve this. Let‘s hope this year is just as successful for us. Headteacher: Matthew Bown

Training Sessions For Voluntary Organisations,

community groups and Registered Charities

―Funds & Figures‖

―Finding & Managing Funding‖

Thu 16th Feb 7-9pm Medbourne village hall

―Strategic Funding & Finance Management‖

Wed 29th Feb 9:45-4:00pm Evangelical church, Market Harborough

To book: email Christine Barrett on

[email protected] or call 01858 439264

Lottery funded

Individual and supportive programmes designed for

pupils with numeracy/literacy difficulties or a

Dyslexic diagnosis.

Mrs Margaret Issitt. M.A

Dip SpLD, AMBDA

Tel: 0116 247 8569

Mowsley, St Nicholas Church Page 9 Churchwardens: Janet Skinner 01858 880276 Erica Hearnshaw 0116 2404054 www.mowsley.leicestershireparishcouncils.org www.leicestershirevillages.com/mowsley

Carol Service: On Tue 20th Dec. The £90 collection was do-nated to ―Marie Curie Cancer Care‖ . Thanks to all the readers and to everyone for their generosity. Thanks also to Mrs Made-leine Hutchinson for the gift of the Christmas Tree. Village Carol Singing: On the shortest day of the year the carol singers turned out to entertain the villagers. The singing was especially melodious this year, with some descant singers in our midst. Another record collection of £310 in aid of ―Barnardo‘s‖. Thanks not only to the singers, but also to every-one for donating so generously. Pauline Dawes Heritage Society: Thu 2nd Feb, ―A New Archaeology of the Upper Welland Valley‖, speaker Alan Clark. Thu 1st March, two films by Harborough Movie Makers ―Tales of a Land Army Girl‖ (by Pat Fox, Lubenham), and ―The Changing Face of Market Harborough‖, contrasting the last two centuries.

Enjoy an Evening of Spring Har-mony: Sat Mar 17th at 7:30pm in St Nicholas Church with the Griffin Singers directed by Lance Atter. A varied programme of light music & humour. Tickets £7:50 including refreshments from Janet Bennett 0116 2402408. Proceeds towards St Nicholas Church funds.

MOWSLEY REGULAR EVENTS

Morning Prayer - Thursdays, 9:45am in church

Afternoon teas (see above) - come and enjoy a chat over a cuppa and delicious cake!


Thu 2nd Feb & Thu 1st Mar

Heritage Society: See below Village hall—visitors welcome 7:30pm

Thu 2nd Feb, 1st Mar Afternoon teas St Nicholas Church 3:00-4:30pm

Wed 1st, 15th & 29th Mobile Library Phone box 12:45-1:10pm

Tue 21st Gardening Club: ―Plant Photography‖ speaker Peter Sheasby

Village hall—visitors welcome 7:30pm

Sun 26th Refresh @ Mowsley Village hall 9:30-11:30am

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Refresh @ Mowsley Breakfast café for all ages con-tinues on Sunday morning 26th February. Drop into the village hall whether you are on your own, with friends or family for a free breakfast from 9:30am to 11:30am. There will be a time to relax, children‘s group, the Sunday

papers and ‗food for thought‘ at 10:30am. With com-pliments of St Nicholas Church. Further information from Roy Oldham on 0116 2403900 or Rev‘d Andy Rhoades 01858 460150

Shearsby, Church of St Mary Magdalene Page 10 Churchwarden: David Durran 0116 2478708 www.village-web.co.uk

―The Children’s Society‖ House Boxes: Over 162,000 supporters keep a House Box in their home, filling it with loose change throughout the year, raising in excess of £2 million. If you would like a House Box contact the Shearsby Parish Co-ordinator, Nigel Walker on 0116 2478518. Boxes will be emptied in February. Thank you for helping The Chil-dren‘s Society in this way. Visit www.childrenssociety.org.uk

Christmas Events in Shearsby:

Christmas Coffee Morning: A perfect start to the Festive Season! Bargains galore, delicious cakes and tasty break-fast baps. Over £700 was raised for St Mary Magdalene Church. Many thanks to Ann, Jill and all the helpers and for the kind donations.

Carol Service: Many braved the icy conditions to come and enjoy singing favourite carols with the rousing accompani-ment by the Wigston Band. £160 was raised for the local branch of The Salvation Army.

Carols Around the Christmas Tree: Nearly 100 people came to sing carols, eat mince pies and enjoy mulled wine on Christmas Eve. Thanks to the Shearsby community Associa-tion for providing the mulled wine. Liz Austin

A Date for your Diary: Shearsby Village Fete will be at 2pm on Sun 2nd Sept, with all the fun of the fair!

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Images speak without words: Psalm 19: 1-4 tells us that the heavens are telling the Glory of God. Carol continues to explore in this series how im-agery in our daily lives can bring us closer to God.

Transforming our lives: I always enjoy welcoming strangers into my work and family circles, but am sometimes made to


Tue 14th & 28th Mobile Library Post Box 10:45-11:05am

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feel uncomfortable by those who are puzzled as to why I feel the need to be so generous towards people I do not really know.

I experienced this feeling recently when a friend and two of her relatives joined us briefly on Boxing day. As they were unable to stay and eat with us I had prepared two small gifts for them to open and share together at home. This shocked my friend a little and she asked me why I was doing this. ―You don‘t know them‖, she said, ―so keep the gifts and reuse them another time‖.

I was tempted to follow her suggestion, when suddenly I felt a sharp reassuring tap on my knee from a family member. Immediately my mind flew to Jesus‘ words in Matthew 25 where he speaks about how to treat others: ―For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in….‖

These two people were not marginalised for any of the reasons mentioned by Jesus in Matthew‘s gospel, but instead they did not have the benefit of being able to celebrate Christmas within a family atmosphere. I learned from my friend later how much gladness and joy the small gifts had brought to them: I am very glad I gave them.

The birth of Jesus Christ changed the world forever, and during this season of Epiphany the Christian church celebrates His showing to the world. To me this tap on the knee was a sudden reminder of how a small gift given in love can become part of something so much greater. Now A Prayer:

Lord, you have given me so much in Jesus. Help me to give to others as freely and generously as I have re-ceived from you. AMEN. Carol Higson

OTHER DENOMINATIONS

Arnesby Baptist Chapel

Pastor Johnny Hutton, The Manse 0116 2478392

Church Services—February 2012

Services at 10:45am and 6:00pm every Sunday. For full details of ser-vices see noticeboard in the Chapel.

Sunday School and Bible Classes every Sunday morning during 10:45 am service.

Fun Club : Fridays, 6:30pm-7:30pm (5-11 years) Youth Club: Fridays, 7:45pm-9:00pm (12+)

Coffee morning: Tuesdays, 10:30-12:00

A.B.C. Toddler Group at the Chapel 10:30-12noon (at the same time as the coffee morning)

‘Youth After Church’ on Sundays at 7:00pm

Women’s World Day of Prayer service at the chapel on Fri 2nd March at 10:15am. Theme: ―Let Justice Prevail‖, prepared by Christian women in Malay-sia. Speaker Mrs Margaret Chapman. Everyone welcome - men, women and children. Refreshments after the service.

Husbands Bosworth Methodist Church

Minister: Rev‘d Brian Kennard 01858 462889 Service: 6:30 pm every Sunday

Husbands Bosworth St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church

Father Owen O‘Neill 01858 462359 Service: 8:30am every Sunday

Theddingworth Congregational Church

Contact: Liz Horton 01858 881250 Service: 6:00-7:00pm every Sunday joining with All Saints at their Family Service on first Sunday of the month.

Quiz Night: Thank you to all who attended the Quiz night on Nov 19th, which raised £78 towards the village hall funds, £66 towards The British Legion and £12 towards ―Children In Need‖. A good night was had by all! Celia Rudge

Lunch in the Village Hall hosted by Thedding-worth W.I: On Sat 25th Feb between 12noon and 2pm. This will consist of homemade soup and crusty bread followed by dessert and coffee. The cost will be £5 per person and the proceeds will go towards W.I. funds. President: Pauline Rainey Theddingworth Gardening Club: All gardening enthusiasts are invited to

a social event hosted by Anita and Andy Thorp at Bun-galow No. 5, Main Street, Theddingworth on Sunday 25th March, starting at 11:00am. Guests can view a spring (alpine) garden, enjoy homemade soup and bread, and have a natter with club members. Entry only £1. Hon. Sec: Liz Colvin

Carol Singing in Theddingworth: Thank you to all who sang and all who gave so generously in collecting £150 for ―Rainbows‖. Thanks also to all who ―fed and watered‖ us on our way round! Margaret Jones.

Theddingworth, All Saints Church Page 11 Churchwardens: Pam Skinner 01858 880236 Ginny Beeby 01858 880386 www.leicestershireparishcouncils.org/theddingworth leicestershirevillages.com/theddingworth

Date Event

Place Time

Sun 5th

Family Communion All Saints 11:00am

Tue 14th & 28th Mobile Library Station Road 12:45-1:00pm

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Hexagon Benefice Church Services Page 12

February 2012

Date Type of service Church Village Time

Sun. 5th

3rd before Lent ——————-- Thu 9th

Holy Communion (BCP)

St. Nicholas Mowsley 8:00am

Family Communion All Saints Husbands Bosworth 9:30am

Family worship St. Mary M‘lene Shearsby 9:30am

Family Communion All Saints Theddingworth 11:00am

Family worship St. Mary‘s Bruntingthorpe 11:00am

Holy Communion St. Peter‘s Arnesby 6:00pm

School awards service All Saints Husbands Bosworth 2:45pm

Sun. 12th

2nd before Lent

Family Communion St. Mary M‘lene Shearsby 9:30am

Family worship St. Peter‘s Arnesby 9:30am

All-age worship All Saints Husbands Bosworth 11:00am

Teatime all-age worship St. Mary‘s Bruntingthorpe 4:00pm

Evening worship (BCP) St. Nicholas Mowsley 6:00pm

Sun. 19th 1st before Lent

Benefice family Communion

St. Marys Bruntingthorpe 10:30am N.B. !!

Ash Wed. 22nd

Holy Communion All Saints Husbands Bosworth 9:15am

Holy Communion St. Peter‘s Arnesby 7:00pm

Holy Communion (quiet)

All Saints Husbands Bosworth 8:00am Sun. 26th Lent 1

Family Communion St. Mary‘s Bruntingthorpe 9:30am

Family worship St. Mary M‘lene Shearsby 9:30am

Family Communion St. Peter‘s Arnesby 11:00am

Refresh Village Hall Mowsley 9:30am-11:30am

Sun. 4th March

Services as for 5th February

Published and printed by: Image Copy Print, Unit 2 York Court, Albert Rd, Market Harborough LE16 7FL 01858 468192 [email protected]

Mid-week services

A short service of prayer and reflection is held at:

St. Peter‘s, Arnesby on Tuesdays at 9:45am

St. Nicholas, Mowsley on Thursdays at 9:45am

A short service of Holy Communion is held at All

Saints, Husbands Bosworth on

Wednesdays at 9.15am

Editor Beryl Cane Oak Lodge Homestead Farm St Peter‘s Rd. Arnesby LE8 5WJ Tel 0116 2478136 beryl@bcane. wanadoo.co.uk

Advertising Bob Hutchings 16 Highcroft Husbands Bosworth LE17 6LF Tel 01858 880131 hutchingsbob1 @gmail.com

The inclusion of any

advert does not imply any

endorsement by the

Editorial Team.

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Copy for the March issue MUST reach the Editor by

12th February 2012

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The Hexagon can also be found at:

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www.leicestershire villages.com

TIME CHANGE –please note that starting this month the time of the Bene-fice service (on the third Sunday of every month) has changed to 10:30am

Heavenly Father, you love us, even when we

feel unlovely; you care

about us, through good times and bad;

you understand us, even when we feel lost

and confused. Help us

to recognise your love in our lives and seek to

know you more closely, through

Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen

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The Hexagon - Arnesby · Benefice Services p12 (Church of England) Curate Rev‘d Andrew Rhoades The Rectory, 21, Dag Lane, North Kilworth. LE17 6HD 01858 460150 [email protected]