Living Brook Benefice (Piddington, Hardingstone and Quinton)

We wish everyone in our Benefice a wonderful Easter and rejoice that Jesus died on that cross so that we too could enjoy an eternal life with Him.  Hallelujah Jesus is risen! Here is a message from the Bishop: The life, death, and resurrection of Christ has inspired the creation of many beautiful buildings over the last 2 , 000 years. Today we can announce the launch of  ‘2018: THE YEAR OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CHURCHES’  – a  campaign to promote the beautiful and historic churches of our county with the local community and beyond. The launch of this campaign took place on Tuesday March 27 th , and we are hoping to open doors in order to open eyes to appreciate all that we have close around us. Please visit the website  ‘NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: BRITAIN’S BEST SURPRISE’  ( www.northamptonshiresurprise.com ) and share what you find and enjoy. Happy Easter Bishop Donald

Our congratulations go to Revd. Beverley who has just been elected to the General Synod of the Church of England. This is a fantastic honour and a great achievement!

Deborah Marsh is to become Team Vicar within the Oakham Team Ministry, with responsibility for the parishes of Whissendine, Teigh, Ashwell and Market Overton. She will Licensed by the Bishop of Brixworth on Sunday the 4th February at 3pm at St Andrews Whissendine. We ask for your ongoing prayers for Deborah and Gary as they prepare for this new role.

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If anyone is interested and would like to attend this training day on becoming a dementia friendly church p lease phone Sally Crossley on the number below in the poster for more details. This is something that is important to us all, and we are blessed to have a dementia friendly champion in Jo Wilde who has delivered a number of sessions on the subject for us. This course moves on from the material Jo has used and looks at what churches can do to support members and local people who have dementia.

A Christmas message from Revd Beverley I used to visit a retired midwife, and I loved her stories of delivering babies, sometimes in very interesting or challenging places. What a privilege it must have been for the first century woman, the village equivalent of a midwife, who would have come to help Mary through her labour and  so became the first human to touch the Messiah as she delivered the precious child into the world. The child was named Jesus, which means ‘God saves’ and is sometimes translated as ‘the Saviour’ or ‘The Deliverer’. If we call Jesus ‘Deliverer’, we’re using the word in an old fashioned way, not suggesting that he was destined to bring us our parcels (we all know that’s St Nick’s job…). No, Jesus is the deliverer in the sense that we say in the older translations of the Lord’s Prayer ‘deliver us from evil’ – when we pray that if we find ourselves facing evil in any form, Jesus will protect and save us from it.  That was the point of his coming – t...