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A Message from Father Idris:

Making a Difference

This was the theme for the Gibraltar Archdeaconry Synod held recently in Portugal. Clergy and Lay representatives met together for 4 days exploring this theme and sharing ideas and concerns. It is always a fruitful time and one of the few occasions when chaplaincies throughout the Archdeaconry realise they are not “alone”.  One of the problems of such a scattered diocese is that Chaplaincies can feel isolated and out on a limb. The clergy too can feel unsupported. Thankfully the clergy of the Canary Islands meet together three times a year and are always on the end of a phone or email!

When Christian people meet together in prayer and fellowship, they can “Make a Difference”. Christian Unity has been in our prayers and thoughts, especially during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Christians have worshipped together despite some theological differences, and this demands from us all respect and acceptance mingled with Christian charity and love.
Ecumenical services are a good way of sending a clear message to the world that we are united in the service of Our Lord.  Sadly so often we allow denominational differences to divide us and this is not a good witness to those who may be looking from the outside and wondering, “Shall I join them?”

This is why I have always believed in “All Inclusive” churches where no one is turned away, but embraced as a child of God, just as Jesus embraced the outcast and the marginalised. This did not always go down well with the “religious” people of his day, yet he did not cease responding in love to those who called out to him, saint and sinner alike.

Sometimes we are tempted to think that we cannot make a difference as an individual and so give up trying. Through our daily offering of ourselves through prayer, reading of the scriptures, meditation and sacrificial service we can make a difference.  Imagine you are a small pebble. Thrown into a pond, the ripples are far reaching. This is true of our meagre offerings. God can send out ripples of love and healing to others.

Lent is always a yearly opportunity to “give up” something. Instead of alcohol, chocolate or puddings, why not give up “apathy” and have a determination to “do something” for God?  The 14th March is Mothering Sunday, and the 28th is Palm Sunday which leads into the wonderful festival of Easter. Please come along. We would love to see you.
You can “Make a Difference”   God Bless you.   Fr Idris

Meetings and events to be held in March include:

Mothers’ Union:   On Monday 8th March at 2pm the Mothers’ Union will meet at the home of Marilyn Forder in Puerto del Carmen.  The speaker will be the Rev Idris Vaughan, continuing our theme on the “Cost of Relationship”,

Apostles Lunch:   The next Apostles lunch, which is a monthly informal social event, will be held on Tuesday 9th March.  The venue will be announced later at Sunday services.  If you would like to attend, please contact Freida Burke on 928 524347.

The Annual Parochial Church meeting will be held on Saturday 27th March at 11am at the Chaplaincy.  This will be followed by a Bring and Share lunch.

Bible Study  is held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.  Please contact David Dowdell on 928 834351.
Notices

Volunteers needed.  We urgently need to find volunteers to act a) as our deputy web-master, supporting David in the up-dating of our website, and b) as a member of our Publicity Committee.  If you would be willing to fill either or both of these untaxing, but valuable, roles  please contact any of the persons on the back page of this newsletter.

lanzarotechurch.com.  This is our website. Please visit it if you are able.  We would welcome your comments which should be addressed to David Dowdell at david.dowdell@btinternet.com or on 928 834351

Haiti Appeal.  Thanks to the generosity of our four congregations in Lanzarote, we have been able to send  £700 to our Diocesan appeal for relief in Haiti.

Holy Week and Easter Services.

28th March – Palm Sunday:  Normal services with distribution of Palm Crosses.
1st  April – Maundy Thurday: 12.30pm in Playa Blanca.  Holy Communion
with washing of feet.
2nd April – Good Friday:
12.30pm in Puerto del Carmen.  A dramatised reading of the Passion
6.00pm in Puerto del Carmen. Ecumenical celebration of the Way of the Cross

4th April – Easter Day:  Services as usual.

Normal services during March will be as follows:

Costa Teguise  – “Avecost” Meeting Hall, C/La Fragata.  9.30 am
1st & 3rd Sundays: – Morning Prayer
All other Sundays: – Holy Communion

Nazaret   -  Church of Nuestra Señora de Nazaret      -    10.00 am
1st and 3rd Sundays only: – Holy Communion

Puerto del Carmen -  Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen
in the harbour area of the Old Town   -  12.30 pm
Every Sunday: – Holy Communion

Playa Blanca – Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen – 5.30 pm
Every Sunday: – Holy Communion

Flowers will be distributed at all services on Mothering Sunday, 14th March.

NB:  If you would like prayers for loved ones during intercessions at our Sunday services, please contact Father Idris  (see below).

Principal Church contacts are:

Chaplain:   The Reverend Idris Vaughan        928 514241 Chaplaincy House, Calle Los Sabandenos 37,  35510   Puerto del Carmen
Reader:   David Dowdell                928 834351
Churchwarden & Secretary to the PCC: Linda Davis   928 520803
Churchwarden:   Ken Rees                928 173003
Lay Vice-President:   Michael Norsworthy        928 173052

If you have any ideas, messages or prayer requests for future newsletters, please contact Michael Norsworthy at  mnorsworthy34@yahoo.co.uk   or  928 173052.

Transport to Church Services.  If anyone should wish to attend one of our church services but is unable to do so for lack of transport, please contact Ray Macfarlane-Archer on 928 845818.  Details of the scheme are shown on the website. Volunteers to provide occasional lifts, please contact Ray.

Interdenominational Church in Lanzarote

Welcoming and friendly service for all – 11am every Sunday at the Barcelo Hotel, Avenida del Mar, Costa Teguise, Lanzarote

Norman and Hilary McElroy are back from Donaghadee to Lanzarote for almost all of March. Once more they will host a Wednesday morning fellowship and bible study time in their home in Costa Teguise. All – residents and holidaymakers – are welcome, ‘phone 928 833382 for details.
Norman will also be preaching on Sunday 7th March when the title of his message will be “The Lukewarm Christian”.

German evangelist Anton Schulte will be preaching for us once more on the 14th March and Bob Nichols will continue his series “Going Forward” on the 21st.

Our Palm Sunday message on the 28th March will be brought to us by American Baptist missionary the Rev. Joe Vásquez.

We celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper on the first Sunday of each month.

Our services are relaxed and informal – come just as you are and enjoy this hour of fellowship with us.

If you have a church in Lanzarote, and would like to see your services and news included monthly on this website – then please contact Elle via the contact us page on this website.

Thanks!

Anglican Church Services – February 2010

Costa Teguise  – “Avecost” Meeting Hall, C/La Fragata.  9.30 am

• 1st & 3rd Sundays: – Morning Prayer
• All other Sundays: – Holy Communion

Nazaret   -  Church of Nuestra Señora de Nazaret      -    10.00 am

• 1st and 3rd Sundays only: – Holy Communion

Puerto del Carmen -  Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen in the harbour area of the Old Town   -  12.30 pm

• Every Sunday: – Holy Communion

Playa Blanca – Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen – 5.30 pm

• Every Sunday: – Holy Communion

On Ash Wednesday, 17th February, there will a service of Holy Communion with imposition of Ashes at 12.30 pm in Puerto del Carmen, old town.

NB:  If you would like prayers for loved ones during intercessions at our Sunday services, please contact Father Idris  (see below).

Other Anglican meetings – February 2010

• Mothers’ Union:   On Monday 8th February at 2pm the Mothers’ Union AGM will be held at the home of Kath Harding in Playa Blanca.  The AGM will be followed by a talk, continuing our theme “Cost of Relationship”, by David Dowdell entitled “Did you ask how much?”.  Visitors are welcome to attend the talk, joining us at 3pm.

• On Shrove Tuesday, 16th February, there will be a pancake tea at the home of Sheila Lewis in Playa Blanca.  We welcome visitors to this event.  A charge of 5 euros will be made and, after expenses, any surplus will be divided between the Mothers’ Union Literacy Fund and Young Heroes.

• Apostles Lunch:   On Tuesday 9th February, at 1.30pm, the Apostles lunch, which is a monthly informal social event, will be held at Blair’s Restaurant in Puerto del Carmen, close to the petrol station below the Chaplaincy House.  If you would like to attend, please contact Freida Burke on 928 524347.

• Bible Study  is held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.  Please contact David Dowdell on 928 834351.

Anglican Church Notices

Volunteers needed.  We urgently need to find volunteers to act a) as our deputy web-master, supporting David in the up-dating of our website, and b) as a member of our Publicity Committee.  If you would be willing to fill either or both of these untaxing, but valuable, roles  please contact any of the persons on the back page of this newsletter.

St Laurence Website.  If you are able, please visit our new website at lanzarotechurch.com.   We would welcome your comments. Please contact David Dowdell at david.dowdell@btinternet.com or  928 834351

Transport to Church Services.  If anyone should wish to attend one of our church services but is unable to do so for lack of transport, please contact Ray Macfarlane-Archer on 928 845818.  Details of the scheme are shown on the website. Volunteers to provide occasional lifts, please contact Ray.

A genuine blooper from another church magazine:
“Don’t let worry kill you off.  Let the Church help.”

Interdenominational Church Services – February 2010

• Held every Sunday at 11am at the Barcelo Lanzarote Resort, Avenida del Mar, Costa Teguise

If you would like to see your own church’s services and meetings included in this website each month for free -  then please contact Elle via email on info@lanzaroterelocation.co.uk

A message from Father John Jenkins (Anglican Church):

As you may have heard, Father Idris, your chaplain, has had to fly to the UK a week earlier than expected because his brother has been taken critically ill.  So this message falls to me.  First of all, let me wish you all a very happy and blessed New Year and Decade.  The New Year calls for resolutions, so let our resolution be to do what the prophet Micah said that the  Lord requires of us: “to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God”

The leadership of our parish has recently been considering how to resource our future ministry in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.  As a result you will see inside a plea for volunteers for two positions within our parish structure.  And there will other vacancies in March when we elect new members to the PCC and our churchwardens, in addition to the on-going need to find welcomers and sacristans for our Sunday services.  We need to involve more lay people in the running of our parish.

Later this month the season of Lent will be upon us.  Traditionally Lent is a time of self-examination and self-denial when we attempt to break the hold upon us of those fears and addictions which impede our consciousness of freedom and truth.  But it is also a season of renewal and reformation.  Self discipline is essentially a loving activity, but it is of little value if it is not harnessed to unrealised potential, and if it does not allow us to give ourselves more creatively and unselfishly to the needs of others.  So I urge you to think carefully about how you can help our parish to thrive and grow, rather than struggling to keep going with our present range of services and activities.

The insight of Micah above is good advice as we face the unknown territory of a new decade.  The past has gone; the future is in God’s hands.  So we must put our whole trust in His goodness and mercy.  Trust in God in this precarious life is the only way to foster hope and courage.  Dag Hammarskjold, a former Secretary General of the United Nations, said this about the unknown future.  “Each day a first day;  each day a life. Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being, to receive, to carry, to give back.  It must be held out empty, for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape and its capacity”.
Fr. John

Anglican Church Contacts

Chaplain:   The Reverend Idris Vaughan – 928 514241. Chaplaincy House, Calle Los Sabandenos 37,  35510   Puerto del Carmen
Reader:   David Dowdell  – 928 834351
Churchwarden & Secretary to the PCC: Linda Davis – 928 520803
Churchwarden:   Ken Rees   – 928 173003
Lay Vice-President:   Michael Norsworthy – 928 173052

Interdenominational Church Contacts

Alan Shaw – 928 833 382.
Website: www.sundayworshiplanzarote.com

A Message from our Chaplain, the Revd Idris Vaughan:

BE STILL

On the 16th November the Mothers’ Union held their usual Quiet Day at Nazaret.  The setting was ideal, with a beautiful chapel and areas to sit and be quiet or read. But it is not just about being quiet with the absence of talk and noise; it is about “stillness” and being open to the voice of God speaking to us.
Not everyone finds silence easy, especially if you live alone. However, I think there is a difference between “silence” and “stillness”. You can be quiet, and yet have a raging torrent of noise going on in your heart or your head; anxieties, worries, regrets, failures. Often these can come bubbling up to the surface when you are quiet, and so people try to prevent them by constant noise, be it the television or radio.

Offering our concerns to God
These things that concern us are of great concern to God and so we need to bring them to him for his healing and grace. Instead of trying to block them out of your mind, why not make a conscious effort to bring them to God openly and honestly, for he can do something with them.
To do this, decide to have a definite time of “stillness”. Find a comfortable posture and place to relax your body and your breathing. Whatever things come bubbling up to the surface do not suppress them but offer them up to God with a short prayer like “Lord heal this” or “Lord take this away” or “Thank you Lord” for good things.
I always take a week’s Retreat at the beginning of a New Year during which, in my times of silence and stillness, I am open to God and the leading of his Holy Spirit for my life in the coming year. Not everyone can have the luxury of a week in Retreat, but spending a few minutes in a week offering to God this special time of stillness can be so rewarding.
There is an organisation called the Retreats Association who have a very helpful web site for anyone interested in Retreats etc. www.retreats.org.uk

And I leave you with their  PRAYER FOR STILLNESS.

God of stillness and
creative action,
help us to find a space
for quietness today
that we may live
creatively,
discover the inner
meaning of silence,
and learn the wisdom
that heals the world.
Send peace and joy
to each quiet place;
to all who are
waiting and listening.
May your still small
voice be heard
through Christ,
in the love of the Spirit.
Amen
I pray that you will have a Peaceful and Healthy New Year.      Fr Idris

Notices

St Laurence Website.  If you are able, please visit our new website at lanzarotechurch.com.   We would welcome your comments. Please contact David Dowdell at david.dowdell@btinternet.com or  928 834351

Transport to Church Services.  If anyone should wish to attend one of our church services but is unable to do so for lack of transport, please contact Ray Macfarlane-Archer on 928 845818.  Details of the scheme are shown on the website. Volunteers to provide occasional lifts, please contact Ray.

A genuine blooper from another church magazine:
“Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.”

Anglican Church

• Mothers’ Union:   On Monday 11th January the Mothers’ Union is holding a fish and chips lunch at 1pm at the home of Freida Burke in Conil.  All are welcome to this open meeting.  The speaker will be Sue Thain, the Honorary Consul for Lanzarote.  If you wish to attend the lunch, it is essential that you contact Marilyn Forder on 928 513480 or Sheila Lewis on 928 517894 not later than midday on Thursday 7th January.
• Apostles Lunch:   There will be no Apostles lunch in January.  Those who normally attend these lunches are encouraged to attend the Mothers’ Union lunch above
• Bible Study  is held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.  Please contact David Dowdell on 928 834351.
• Costa Teguise  – “Avecost” Meeting Hall, C/La Fragata.  9.30 am
  1st & 3rd Sundays: – Morning Prayer
  All other Sundays: – Holy Communion
• Nazaret   -  Church of Nuestra Señora de Nazaret      -    10.00 am
  1st and 3rd Sundays only: – Holy Communion
• Puerto del Carmen -  Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen in the harbour area of the Old Town   -  12.30 pm Every Sunday: – Holy Communion
• Playa Blanca – Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen – 5.30 pm
  Every Sunday: – Holy Communion

Interdenominational Church – Costa Teguise

• 11am at the Barceló Lanzarote Resort. Avda del Mar. Costa Teguise

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A Message from our Chaplain, the Revd Idris Vaughan:

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