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Llansantffraid and Llanfechain Diary

 

The Grouped Parishes of Llansanffraid and Llanfechain

July 2010

By the end of the month I hope to be off to Africa. I feel really honoured to be part of a group of seven going to our partner Diocese of South West Tanganyika in Tanzania. Bishop John Simalenga stayed with us two years ago and made a shorter visit last year. He is very grateful for the friendship as well as the financial support from our parishes and St Asaph Diocese but we feel that in different ways we can bring so much back about their way of being church. We will be taking part in a Confirmation and Ordination whilst being there and will visit a few of the parishes, schools, hospitals, Mothers’ Union group  and a dairy farm. Between us we hope to collect enough information to put together a DVD and presentation for the Diocese. Before visiting others I’ll try it out on you first!
 
During July members of the worship team will be working on the Menter course ready to roll out across the Deanery in September. Menter is a weekly course which examines aspects of our faith and is ideal for everyone-for those mature in their faith as well as those dipping their toes into church. It will also serve for adult Confirmation as START did a couple of years ago. Those of us setting out to deliver the Menter course will probably feel like those seventy disciples Jesus appointed to deliver the Gospel. (Luke :1-11, 16-20 is the reading for 4th July) Today the labourers are still few and in many respect we are like “lambs in the midst of wolves” but I am confident that through prayer and preparation  we will help others to draw nearer to God’s love.
 
Those who attended the Diocesan Conference will have received information about the Church in Wales’s “Giving Direct” This initiative has potential to help both of our churches and I will use sermon time on Stewardship this month before we launch Gift Direct .properly.
Thank you for supporting the Strawberry Tea . Although we need rain we hope that the weather will be kind  for our Llanfechain weddings and Llanfechain Fete this month.
Blessings, Pam

 

Regular services:

 Morning Prayer or the Morning Office will continue at 8.30am in churches (Mondays and Wednesdays in Llanfechain and Tuesdays and Thursdays in Llansanffraid.) This is a half hour service in which we pray for the World, the Church and our Parishes, including individual concerns.
Thursday Communions at 10am in Llansanffraid and 11.15am in Llanfechain. A said Communion (1984 Rite/ Green Book) which is a half hour service.  (Only on 1st July in Llanfechain this month)
Healing Service on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7pm Llansanffraid. The next service will be on the 8th  
School Worship In Llansanffraid this is at 2.45pm on Mondays followed by Pathfinders and on Thursdays at 1pm in Llanfechain preceded by Pathfinders. We finish the school year with a Pathfinders Party in the Vicarage garden and Leavers Services.
The Vyrnwy Nursing Home is visited by the Pastoral Team for Holy Communion. This month’s visits will take place at 2pm on 14th and 28th  .

 

4th July: Pentecost 6

Llansanffraid

8am Holy Communion

11am Holy Communion

6pm Meeting for Confirmation candidates

 

Llanfechain

9.30am Holy Communion with Marriage Blessing

3.30pm Compline 

 

11th  July: Pentecost 7/Sea Sunday

Llansanffraid

11am Holy Communion with Baptism

 

Llanfechain

9.30am Morning Prayer

3.30pm Holy Communion

 

18th July: Pentecost 8

Llansanffraid

8am Holy Communion

11am Holy Communion

 

Llanfechain

9.30am Holy Communion

3.30pm Compline

 

25th  July: James, Apostle

Llansanffraid

11am  Family Service (Holy Communion)
6pm Holy Communion

Llanfechain
9.30am Holy Communion
3.30pm Compline

Prayer Group meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday from 7-8pm in St Garmon’s - 6th and 20th this month.
 
Our August sheet will be in churches on Sunday 31st July. Additions to this list will be given in Sunday services and on noticeboards.

 

St Garmon’s Fete Llanfechain 10th July 2-5pm

St Garmon’s Fete is  Llanfechain’s  main fundraiser of the year. Will St Garmon’s members please look at the “help needed” sheet and sign up for whatever you can do-either on the day or before.
Thank you!

 

Other Dates:

Saturday 3rd:

10am-12.00 Worship Leader Training in Llanfyllin
Wednesday 7th:

7pm Menter Training for Leaders in Llanfyllin
Saturday 10th:

12.00 Worship Leader Training in Llanfyllin  
12.00 Wedding of Amy Davies to Christopher Yapp
2pm Llanfechain Fete
Thursday 15th:

Mothers Union Wave of Prayer this morning 10am St Ffraid’s and 10.30am St Garmon’s

2.15pm Leavers Service in St Garmon’s

7pm Menter Training for Leaders in Llanfyllin
Friday 16th:

9.30am Leavers Service in Llansanffraid
Saturday 17th:

10am-12.00 Worship Leader Training in Llanfyllin
10am-12.00 Coffee Morning in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer at Sheila Jones’s.

12.00 Wedding of Ceri Roberts to Clive Griffiths
Tuesday 20th:

 7pm Menter Training for Leaders in Llanfyllin
Saturday 24th:

 10am-12.00 Worship Leader Training in Llanfyllin
Wednesday 28th:

 2.30pm Visit from Berriew Mother’s Union
7pm Menter Training for Leaders in Llanfyllin
Thursday 31st:

10am-12.00 Worship Leader Training in Llanfyllin
Pam and others leave for Tanzania

 

The volumes of collected readings have arrived and will be used shortly in St Ffraid’s and dedicated to the memory of Mr John Carey Edwards. We hope that this will be the month we will get the go ahead to start the car park in Llansanffraid.
St Garmon’s will have their Bat Survey done this month as part of planning requirements for re modelling.

 

 

 

News Archive

Confirmation September 2008

Some of our 08 Confirmees with Bishop John on his last Confirmation in our  Deanery. We wish Bishop John and Mrs Davies a long and happy retirement.
 

 

St Ffraid's Church, Llansantffraid

Some of the animals who came to our blessing service yesterday. Rather wind swept but terapins, guinea pigs, ducks and a range of dogs brought their owners to worship. The talk was given by our local community vet-Mr Mark Overend who talked of the awe and wonder of his work particularly in the field of cardiology.

 

In March this year we held a Celebration of Marriage in St Ffraid's' church. This year our sister church, St Garmon's Church, Llanfechain has hosted more weddings than in the last 20 years. Half of these are Roman Catholic weddings and we are proud to share our church with another denomination. There have also been more weddings booked in Llansantffraid this year and our two churches are enjoying developing a ministry to couples and young families.
 

Easter

 

 

As usual we enjoyed a full week of services with our Worship Leaders leading the evening services.

 

 

 

This year Bruno led the Palm Sunday procession from the Community Hall to church and on Wednesday of Holy Week we enjoyed a pilgrimage to Pennant Melangell.

 

 

Confirmation

 

Bishop John after the Deanery Confirmation on 23rd September at St Ffraid's. Fifteen of the confirmees were from our parishes and we look forward to them all getting involved in our church life through youth events, Pathfinders and Family Services.

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Llansantffraid hosted a day for all those in the Llanfyllin Deanery preparing for Confirmation.

Favourite part- definitely the lunchtime BBQ!

 

 

 

Pathfinders

 

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Members of Pathfinders from Llansantffraid and Llanfechain Churches joined together on 1st August to enjoy a day at Redridge Adventure Centre on one of the sunniest days of the year. The group were challenged at heights, through artificial caves and on water. Pathfinders will start again on Mondays (Llansantffraid) and Thursdays (Llanfechain) with a lot more resources - thanks to a grant from the Archbishop of Wales' Fund for Children.