Intimations – Sunday 18 June 2017

Sandor’s Annual Leave :  As part of his Annual Leave, Sandor is at present in Hungary spending time with his family and especially his new Granddaughter.

He returns to duty on Friday 23 June and will lead worship on Sunday 25 June

During his absence urgent pastoral matters should be referred to the Session Clerk, Bill Marshall, who may be contacted on 01478 650 405.

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.  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.

Evening Worship :  Tonight at our Evening Worship, Archie MacDonald will precent the Psalms.

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 :  From Tuesday 6 June the group will meet in the Church Hall at 7.00 pm each Tuesday evening.   All are welcome to attend.

Volunteers Needed Urgently :  Thee is an urgent need for additional support with the serving of After Morning Worship tea and coffee.  Your service would only be required once every 5 weeks.  If you can help, please give your name to Bill Marshall.

Church Magazine :  The next edition of our magazine is due to be issued in August. We welcome items on your favourite hymns, poems, humorous stories, etc.

Please submit your items as soon as possible to enable an early start to be made on this edition.  Items may be left in the folder in the Front Vestibule or, preferably, emailed to Trevor Dee at trevordee@gmx.co.uk

Holidays : The holiday period will soon be upon us and members of the congregation will be visiting many different parts of the country.   If anyone visits a church elsewhere and finds that, like Portree Parish Church, spare copies of a magazine are available to visitors then the Magazine Committee would be extremely grateful to receive a copy.   These can provide ideas for future articles in our own magazine

Any magazines obtained can be placed in the Magazine Folder in the Front Vestibule.

MORNING SERVICE

Greetings and Intimations

Address to Young People

Hymn     CH  151      God, who made the earth

Reading                       Psalm 23                         (Pew Bible Page 555)

Hymn      CH  387      The Lord’s my Shepherd      

Prayer

Offering                                 

Prayer

Reading                       Matthew 8 :  5 – 13        (Pew Bible Page 972)                                                                                                                                                              

Hymn      CH  214      Thine arm, O Lord, in days of old                            

Sermon

Hymn      CH  216      What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone       

Benediction

EVENING SERVICE

Greetings and Intimations

Hymn  CH  138          How excellent in all the earth  (Winchester)            

Prayer

Offering                                 

Reading                       Romans 8 : 12 – 17                (Pew Bible Page 1134)

Sermon

Hymn  CH  390          O greatly blessed the people are  (Newington)         

Benediction