Intimations – Sunday 10 June 2018
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 & Youth Fellowship groups meet every Sunday during the school term. Sunday School meets initially in the Church before moving to the Church Hall. Youth Fellowship meets in the Church Hall at 11.00 am.
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 : Until further notice, the group will meet in the Church Hall 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.
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.
Church Calendar for June / July
Tuesday 12 June
The AGM of the church will be held in the Church Hall at 7.00 pm on and we encourage you to attend to hear reports on the various activities which have taken place during 2017.
Copies of the Annual Accounts for the church for 2017 are available from the Vestibule.
Tea / Coffee will be served at the end of this meeting.
Sunday 17 June
Morning worship at 11.00 am includes the sacrament of baptism when Liza, the daughter of Szende and Ferenc Erdös and grand-daughter of Sandor and Susan will be baptised by Sandor.
Normal Evening worship will take place at 6.00 pm
Thursday 21 June
A meeting of the Congregational Board and Kirk Session will be held in the Church Hall at 7.00 pm with the Kirk Session meeting thereafter.
Sunday 24 June
This will be the last Sunday when Sunday School and Youth Fellowship meet before the Summer holiday period. Classes will resume on Sunday 2 September.
As is our tradition, Morning Worship at 11.00 am will take the form of a Family Service with contributions from our younger members.
Normal Evening worship will take place at 6.00 pm
Tuesday 10 July
This will be the final date for the Ladies’ Bible Study Group before the Summer recess. The new session for the group will commence on Tuesday 21 August.
During the recess period an open invitation is extended to all ladies who would wish to meet informally in the Red Brick Café at Jans on Tuesdays from 10.30 am to 12.00 noon
MORNING SERVICE
Greetings and Intimations
Address to Young People
Hymn CH 1 All people that on earth do dwell
Reading Genesis 32 : 22 – 31 (Pew Bible Page 36)
Hymn CH 233 All glory, laud, and honour
Prayer
Offering
Prayer
Reading Matthew 14 : 13 – 21 (Pew Bible Page 981)
Hymn CH 462 Take my life, and let it be
Sermon
Hymn CH 437 Love Divine, all loves excelling
Benediction
EVENING SERVICE
Greetings and Intimations
Hymn MP 560 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven
Prayer
Offering
Reading Mark 1 : 14 – 20 (Pew Bible Page 1002)
Sermon
Hymn MP 486 Now thank we all our God
Benediction
