On Sunday 1st December Paul Brown and Emma Knight from YMCA Leicester came to St Leonard’s church and spoke passionately about the work they do amongst young people and some of the personal transformations that they have witnessed. From 3rd to 10th December any donations that are made will be matched and so doubled as part of The Big Give. The project is to convert a piece of wasteland in Aylestone into a place of nature for young people to enjoy what country folk experience. If you feel minded to do so, please visit YMCA Leicester online and see what is going on.

Hayley came to talk to us about her ‘Pilgrimage in Paint’ during our Family Service on 8th September. It was a very interesting talk which was finished off with a lovely video show-casing nearly all of the 80+ churches she’s sketched so far. With 320 churches to sketch in total in the Leicester diocese she’s going to be busy for a while yet.
She announced that she will be releasing a book at the completion of the project so we hope to welcome her back for a book signing sometime next year.
Here’s how she sketched St Leonard’s:

On Sunday 1st September we bid a fond farewell to Rev. Colin Resch as he stepped down from being our acting Priest in Charge as his Mountsorrel Churches will be in a different Minster Community to St Leonard’s.
We all wished him well in the traditional way, with a wonderful cake and glasses of Prosecco.
He will be greatly missed by all at St Leonard’s.

Sadly from Sept ’24 we will lose Rev. Resch as a priest for St Leonard’s as the churches he ministers to in Mountsorrel will be in a different Minster Community group to St Leonard’s.
This means we will no longer be able to offer the wonderful opening page to The Link that Rev. Resch provided.
It’s therefore been decided to maintain the news items but mostly in electronic format. This monthly newsletter will be sent to everyone on the church mailing list, posted on this website and hard copies will be available in the church porch.

If you’d like to be added to our mailing list please contact Mary Toone by sending her an email.

Following our service on 30th June when a member of the Exaireo Trust came to speak to us, we were able to donate £125 towards their work with homeless local people.

At our Open afternoon on 13th July when we were entertained by the Thurcaston Handbell Ringers, we raised £227 for LOROS their chosen charity.

Many thanks to all who so generously gave both their time and money.

Bible Study restarts in September with a study of the I Am sayings of Jesus. As preparation you might like to read through John’s Gospel where all seven ‘I AM’ sayings are to be found.

The dates for the course are as follows

Tuesday 24th September at St Leonard’s Church, Swithland
Tuesday 1st October at the Methodist Church, Woodhouse Eaves
Tuesday 8th October at the Baptist Church, Woodhouse Eaves
Tuesday 15th October at St Leonard’s Church, Swithland
Tuesday 22nd October at the Methodist Church, Woodhouse Eaves
Tuesday 29th October at the Baptist Church, Woodhouse Eaves
Tuesday 5th November at St Leonard’s Church, Swithland

All at the usual time of 7.15 for 7.30pm

For more information CLICK HERE

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