
11th May 2025
By Justin Dyche in Sunday Service on 17 May 2025
Hello everyone,
I have heard from Sheila this morning that John Pender has been transferred to Spinneyfields Specialist Care Centre in Rushden for a time of rehabilitation following his fall last week. Thank you for your prayers and please do continue to pray for John to make a full recovery. Also on the subject of people needing prayer please remember Bruce Rae’s father who has been in hospital for the last three weeks with life threatening issues but he is now making slow progress, please pray that this progress continues and that he makes a good recovery.
MOVIE NIGHT
Tonight is our movie night in church when we are showing Encanto at 6.30pm. There is no charge for admission but popcorn, sweets and drinks will be on sale (cash or card). Please do come along and support this evening. We are expecting some children from Showstoppers and some other visitors so it would be great to have a good number of our church family there to welcome them.
SUNDAY 11th May
We have two services on Sunday as follows:
10.30am HOLY COMMUNION at St Columba’s, Corby – with children and young people’s ENERGIZE groups during the service. This service will be available to watch as a livestream here: https://youtube.com/live/yXGScCjEhdE?feature=share
3pm FAMILY SERVICE at St Leonard’s, Rockingham – this service will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day and is open to all, just tell the person in the kiosk as you enter the Castle grounds that you are going to church.
And at 6pm we will have the PRAYER MEETING in St Columba’s.
NEXT SUNDAY
We have one service next Sunday as follows:
10.30am HOLY COMMUNION at St Columba’s, Corby – with children and young people’s ENERGIZE groups during the service.
And at 6pm we will have the PRAYER MEETING in St Columba’s.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRAYER
We had a wonderful time of prayer with people from the Northampton Call to Prayer last Tuesday and are looking forward to our regular Prayer Meeting again on Sunday evening at 6pm. However if that is not enough prayer for you then the Deanery are holding 24 HOURS OF PRAYER from 6pm Friday 6th June to 6pm Saturday 7th June in St Columba’s. More details of this and how you can join in will be available soon, but do come along, even if it is only for an hour, and join in the prayer.
LOOKING AHEAD
We are going to start a new course in church looking at the whole Bible over just 8 weeks! This is written and presented by Andrew Ollerton of the Bible Society, who some of us heard at Spring Harvest, and we are just waiting for the new edition of the course to be published. In the meantime please book Wednesday mornings or evenings for the next couple of months to attend this new course. Also, if you would like to buy a copy of the course guidebook for £9.99 please let me know as it will be possible to obtain a discount if we order in bulk. Just email ianpullinger@btinternet.com and and I will order the book for you.
VISITORS
I am pleased to announce that we have two special visitors in the next few months, so you may like to book these dates now:
Sunday 8th June our former vicar Roger Morgan will be with us at the morning service to preach and pray with people. After the service those who knew Roger are invited to lunch in the Hall, more details later.
Sunday 28th September Bishop John is going to be with us at our morning service. This is particularly special because it is John’s last Sunday in the diocese before he retires. We will have a lunch after the service to give John a “Corby Farewell” before he goes to the Cathedral for a more formal farewell in the afternoon. Again more details nearer the time.
PRAYER OF THE WEEK
This week our prayer is more topical as we pray for Year 6 Students (11 year olds) who are taking their SATs this coming week. Please pray for them, especially young people in Studfall Juniors, Rockingham Primary and Woodnewton schools. These same young people will be receiving a copy of Scripture Union’s book “It’s Your Move” all about moving to Secondary School later this term, so please also pray that they would be open, not only to the practical information in the book, but also to the Christian testimonies shared there. We will be praying again for these children when the books are given out. Please also pray for older children taking GCSE, A level and other exams over the coming weeks.
Best wishes to all,
Ian
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