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United Benefice March 2023 Magazine

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March Magazine Event Posters!  Click Here:  There's loads going on so please take a look! Dear Friends,     Please find attached our March 2023 United Benefice Magazine, along with our event posters supplement and two advert supplements. Thank you, as always, to everyone who has contributed.     This month, as well as being full of information about local groups, events and services, the magazine contains a number of articles with opportunities to help and contribute locally. These are both in terms of donating a small amount of time to church or churchyard maintenance and gardening and also in terms of making donations to The Children’s Storehouse, Blackburn Foodbank and Chorley & District Support for Ukraine. Please see inside the magazine for further details and consider helping where you can.     Our events supplement, for our busy local community, includes posters with details of:     A Women’s World Day Of Prayer Service at Wilpshire Methodist Church  A Pop Up CafĂ© at Mel

It's Our Quiz on Friday!

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United Benefice February 2023 Magazine

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 February Magazine Event Posters!  Click Here:  There's loads going on so please take a look! Dear Friends,   Please find attached our February 2023 United Benefice Magazine, along with our event posters supplement and two advert supplements.   As our community plans for the year ahead, you may find it useful to read this month’s edition with your diary or calendar close to hand. February’s magazine contains not only our usual diary dates page for the next two months, but some of our local groups have also included dates of social events and meetings for the year ahead. Thank you to everyone who has contributed.   Our events supplement, for our busy community, includes posters with details of:   ·           A Warm Hub at Mellor Village Hall ·           Samlesbury Lunch Club ·           St Mary’s Church Village Quiz ·           Little Angels ·           Our United Benefice Lent Group: Book Talk ·           St Leonard’s Church Safari Supper ·           A New Pizza and Praise Service

Service of Hope

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With the help of some volunteer young people, Geoff Gill did a great job getting the message of Hope in Christ across to a large congregation in what was an uplifting "Golden Opportunity" service.  The children's participation was joyful, with their prayers and readings and our lovely Kiddie Choir's singing! Karen inducted four new choir members. Welcome Florence, Ruby, Bethany and George - so super to see our choir grow! We wrote our hopes for the year ahead on doves which were collected then blessed by Karen. Have a Happy Hopeful New Year!

United Benefice January 2023 Magazine

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  January Magazine Event Posters!  Click Here:  There's loads going on so please take a look! Dear Friends,     Please find attached your copy of our United Benefice Magazine for January 2023, along with our upcoming event posters and two advertisement supplements.     Many thanks, as always, go to all those who have contributed to this month’s magazine, in any way. Please can all contributions for February’s magazine be emailed by the deadline of  Saturday, 28 th  January . Thank you.     All upcoming January service and event dates can be found within the magazine and our posters section contains details of:   A Ceilidh on Saturday, 21 st  January at Samlesbury Memorial Hall   Little Angels on Tuesday, 31 st  January at St Mary’s Church, Mellor   Samlesbury Lunch Club on Friday, 17 th  February at Samlesbury Memorial Hall   Plans for a Warm Hub at Mellor Village Hall   We are delighted to welcome five new businesses to our community of advertisers in 2023:   Luxury Partybox   Pre

United Benefice Posters for the Christmas season

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Christmas Season Posters  

United Benefice December 2022 Magazine

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December Magazine   Christmas Posters!  Click Here:  There's loads going on so please take a look! Dear Friends,    We are delighted to share with you the final 2022 edition of our United Benefice magazine. As we begin Advent and prepare to celebrate Christmas, our December 2022 magazine is another extremely busy edition.     Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to our monthly magazines throughout 2022. As always, this is your magazine and anyone is welcome to submit an article to be included. Please can all items for our January 2023 magazine be emailed by  Wednesday, 4 th  January.  Thank you.    With so much happening locally, our posters supplement, once again, contains lots of information. We are now inviting younger United Benefice members, particularly our 11–18 year olds, to design these posters for us. Thank you so much to our younger members who have already designed our Festival Of Light, St Mary’s Carol Service and Christingle posters. If you know any United Bene