“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.” Psalm 136:1
Dear All
Manse Garden Thank you
Thank you to everyone who helped with the Manse garden clear up last Saturday. The garden is looking wonderful. Thank you to all the gardeners, refreshment providers and to Matt for his amazing piece of machinery which made light work of some heavy woody items.
Operation Christmas Child Shoe Boxes
Thank you to everyone who packed shoe boxes this year. A total of 69 boxes were collected. Please do pray for the children who will receive these boxes.
Prayer Morning
There will be a prayer morning at church next Saturday 23rd November from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. This is open to everyone, of all ages, to drop in for all or part of the morning. The focus is to pray as we look ahead to Advent and Christmas. There will be prayer stations to help focus our prayers. Our thanks to Jo who has organized this for us.
Induction Service
A date has been set for the induction of Rev Andrew Mudharara. This will be on Saturday February 15th 2025. More details to follow.
Piano
We have a piano in the store cupboard at the back of the large hall which is no longer required. If you or someone else you know might like it please let us know – it is free but whoever takes it will be responsible for moving it.
Christmas Nativity Trail
This takes place on Sunday 8th December in the afternoon. The trail is for the community as well as church families and is a joint venture with Prettygate Baptist Church. We need help with welcoming, refreshments and crafts for the afternoon. If you can help, please sign up in the foyer.
New Wine talks
We continue screening the Bishop Ruth Bushyager’s talks she gave on the mornings of New Wine this week. This week’s talk is the one which we missed on the Monday morning because of holiday club. These are on Saturday mornings at 10.15 am and Sunday evenings at 6.45 pm (the same talk but at different times). Next week we will not screen the final talk on the Saturday morning because of the prayer meeting. We will still screen it on the Sunday evening. This final talk will be shown on Saturday 30th November.
CYO Celebration Event 2024
The CYO celebration has sadly had to be postponed – they hope to hold this in the Spring.
Decorating the church for Christmas
We will be gathering together on Friday 29th November from 7pm to decorate the church for Christmas. There will be refreshments available too. These evenings are normally great fun and are open to all ages (although children must bring an adult along with them!). Please do join us.
This week
There will be a prayer meeting on Wednesday morning at 9.30 am (NB No prayer meeting on Saturday as it is the prayer morning at church). The Tuesday evening Bible Study homegroup will also be meeting. Zoom details for these will be e-mailed early in the week.
With love and blessings.