Intimations – Sunday 5 March 2017
After Morning Worship Fellowship : After Morning Worship today Tea , Coffee, Juice and biscuits will be served in the Church. Please stay behind for as long or short a time as you can manage and enjoy a time of fellowship with other members of the congregation and with visitors to our church.
Our Praise : Normally at our morning services the items of Praise are taken from Church Hymnary Third Edition (CH3) and those at evening services are taken from Mission Praise (MP).
If you feel more comfortable sitting during the items of praise, please feel free to do so.
Crèche: There is a crèche in the Church Hall behind the Church if anyone wishes to leave their children there during the morning service.
Sunday School and Youth Fellowship : The groups meet every Sunday during the school term, initially in the Church before moving to the Church Hall.
The Ladies’ Bible Study Group : The group meets in the Church Hall on Tuesdays from 10.30 am to 12.00 noon. All ladies welcome.
The Prayer Fellowship : The group meets in the Manse at 7.00 pm each Tuesday evening. All are welcome to attend.
Pastoral Visits : The Minister asks that he would be kept informed of any member of the congregation who is ill, in hospital or would welcome a visit from him.
Church Magazine : The next edition of our magazine is due to be issued for Easter which, this year, falls on Sunday 16 April.
We need articles about your memories of Easter in your past, your thoughts on how it is celebrated today, your favourite hymns, poems, humorous stories, items on Spring etc.
Dates for the Diary :
The following are important dates for April and we would ask you to take note of them.
Tuesday 4 April at 7.30 pm
The AGM of the church will be held in the Church Hall and we encourage you to attend to hear reports on the various activities which have taken place during 2016.
Friday 14 April at 7.30 pm
Good Friday Preparatory Service. Of all the Preparatory Services during the year this is the most significant.
Sunday 16 April at 6.05 am
Sunrise Service at the Lump with sunrise being at 6.12 am
Sunday 16 April at 11.00 am
Morning worship with the celebration of the Lord’s Supper.
Sunday 16 April at 6.00pm
Evening Worship for Easter Sunday
New Communicant Members : Any Adherent who would wish to become a full communicant member of the church should speak to the Minister at the end of the service or contact him by telephone. We would dearly love to see more Adherents take up full communicant membership of the church and take Communion on Easter Sunday, 16 April.
MORNING SERVICE
Greetings and Intimations
Address to Young People
Hymn CH 97 Father, lead me, day by day
Reading Psalm 25 : 1 – 10 (Pew Bible Page 556)
Hymn CH 74 Show me thy ways, O Lord
Prayer
Offering
Prayer
Reading 1 Peter 3 : 17 – 22 (Pew Bible Page 1219)
Hymn CH 431 Jesus, Master, whose I am
Sermon
Hymn CH 133 Break forth, O living light of God
Benediction
EVENING SERVICE
Greetings and Intimations
Hymn MP 649 The King of love my Shepherd is
Prayer
Offering
Reading Matthew 7 : 13 – 14 (Pew Bible Page 971)
Sermon
Hymn MP 59 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
Benediction