Intimations – Sunday 2 April 2015
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 close today for the school Easter holiday break. They both resume on Sunday 7 May.
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.
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.
Annual Accounts for 2016 : Copies of these are available in the Front Vestibule. Why not come to the AGM for a full explanation of these accounts ?
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
Christian Aid East Africa Crisis Appeal : As you are no doubt aware people are dying daily from hunger and malnutrition across East Africa in what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis since 1945.
Any “white envelopes” should be placed in the collection bags if you wish them go to church funs However, if you would wish your donation to go to the Christian Aid East Africa Crisis Appeal you should place it in the special box in the Vestibule marked “East Africa Appeal”.
The box will remain in the Vestibule for the next two Sundays to allow any further other donations to be made.
MORNING SERVICE
Greetings and Intimations
Address to Young People
Hymn CH 151 God, who made the earth
Reading Jeremiah 31 : 31 – 34 (Pew Bible Page 793)
Hymn CH 32 Immortal, invisible
Prayer
Offering
Prayer
Reading John 12 : 20 – 33 (Pew Bible Page 1080)
Hymn CH 96 Thou hidden Love of God
Sermon
Hymn CH 216 What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone
Benediction
EVENING SERVICE
Greetings and Intimations
Hymn MP 631 Tell out, my soul
Prayer
Offering
Reading Luke 16 : 19 – 31 (Pew Bible Page 1050)
Sermon
Hymn MP 708 To God be the glory !
Benediction
