Lanzarote Relocation

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

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