“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” Proverbs 3:6
Dear All
Preaching with a view weekend – 28th & 29th September
It feels very exciting that we have now arrived at this stage of seeking God’s leading for our new minister. Please do pray that we will all hear God’s leading clearly, both for us, Tiptree URC and for our prospective new minister and his family.
Here is a reminder of the weekend’s schedule:
28th September
3.30 pm Arrivals for a cup of tea or coffee
4.00 pm Introduction of the prospective minister by Rev Mark Ambrose, our interim
moderator. This will be followed by a question and answer session. The questions have been assembled into 10 themed questions from the 57 submitted. The candidate will also be given opportunity to ask the church questions.
5.30 pm Serving of a meal. Please speak to Andrea or Kate for more details or if you can help with the meal.
29th September
10 am The prospective minister will lead and preach at this service. To preserve confidentiality, the service will not be streamed so you will need to attend in person on the Sunday if you would like to hear him lead and preach.
30th September
7.30 pm Church meeting which will be chaired by Rev Mark Ambrose. This meeting will include a time of discussion and prayer before a secret ballot is taken. Anyone from the church fellowship is invited to attend this meeting, of all ages! However, only church members will be able to vote. You will be aware that he and his family will be with Tiptree URC at other times over the weekend.
We would request that no one goes to Tiptree to their sessions or their service. It is important for the candidate to see and experience the churches as they are normally.
An announcement about whether a call has been given and accepted will be made at some stage in the following days. This may have to wait for an announcement to be made in the candidate’s churches if he is called and accepts the call.
New Wine talks
As promised we would like to offer the opportunity for those who would like to, to hear Bishop Ruth Bushyager’s talks she gave on the mornings of New Wine this year. The proposed dates are on Saturday mornings at 10.15 am on 26th October, 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd November and Sunday evenings at 6.45pm on 27th October, 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th November. If we find that there are very few people coming on a Sunday evening we will review this. Hope you can make these dates if you were hoping to hear her talks either for the first or second time.
Fairtrade Church
This is just a reminder that we are registered as a Fairtrade church. Any supplies of tea, coffee, sugar, hot chocolate, chocolate etc should therefore carry the Fairtrade logo.
Baptisms
We have had some folk asking about baptism so we are proposing to have a baptism service in October. If you have not been baptised and would like to find out more, please do speak to me.
This week
There will be a prayer meetings on Wednesday and Saturday morning at 9.30 am. Zoom details for these will be e-mailed early in the week.
With love and blessings.
