Liz’s Letter 11/08/2024

Dear All
Hope you have had a good week.

Picnic Lunch
After the service next Sunday, 18th August, we invite everyone to bring a picnic lunch to church so that we can spend some time together enjoying food and fellowship. Drinks will be provided. If it is a nice day we will eat outside so if you would like, please do bring a chair or picnic rug.

New Wine Celebration
Paul Harcourt will be speaking at a New Wine Celebration evening at Lawford Church on 7th September. We understood tickets would be available from this week but they don’t appear to have been released. If you would like to go please do sign up in the foyer and I will apply for the tickets.

Toddler Group
It has been a joy to see the Toddler group grow over the year and we thank Esther for all the time and effort she puts into this. Esther would really like some help going forward for people to come and support her and chat with the parents and grandparents who come. This has become a really special and important way to connect and reach out to young families. If you would like to offer to help or would like to know more about this please do speak to Esther.

Fantasy Football League
Our thanks to Stewart Bird for arranging the Fantasy Football League again for us. He writes:
For the 2024/25 Fantasy Premier League why don’t you join my mini-league “United by Football”?
Joining the league couldn’t be easier. Simply use the link below and you’ll be added automatically after you’ve entered the game.
https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/oyk85a
League Code: oyk85a

Questions for the Prospective Minister
Just a reminder that we are beginning to prepare for the weekend when the prospective minister comes to meet the churches and preach with a view.
We would like to invite all those who would like to submit questions to do so by sending an e-mail to admin@plumeavenuuchurch.org.uk We would ask that all questions are submitted by 31st August.
You may ask why we are asking for questions to be submitted and why give a date? We currently have 120 people on our database plus children and young people. It would not be possible to ask 120 + questions on the day. There will also be those who are very happy to put their hand up and ask questions but equally there are those who are more introvert and wouldn’t put themselves forward to ask a question in a large setting but who might have a very valuable question to ask.
We therefore would like to give everyone the opportunity to submit their questions – many of the questions submitted will no doubt be asking the same thing, maybe in just a different way. We will go through the questions and try and combine as many as we can together so that we achieve a manageable amount of questions for the day. There will of course be opportunity to ask questions individually over the weekend when you meet the prospective minister.
To help you with preparing your questions you may like to know that:
• The core things they bring are a heart for pastoral work, preaching and prayer (the 3 P’s!)
• This will be the candidate’s second ministry post with the URC
• They currently serve in a pastorate which has more than one church
• They describe their theology as biblical, evangelical and charismatic
• They are married with a young family
We would encourage the whole church family to submit questions so if you have children and young people in your family please do ask them if they have questions and let us have those with your own.

Prayer for Holiday Club
Please do continue to pray for our Holiday Club. This takes place on Monday mornings from July 29th to August 19th. Please continue to pray for the children who are coming, that they will have a fun experience and encounter with God, the leaders and those helping in the café area where parents and grandparents will stay. So far we have had two wonderful mornings.

This week
There will be a prayer meeting on Wednesday and Saturday morning at 9.30 am. Zoom details will be e-mailed early in the week.

With love and blessings.