Notice Sheet 17th September 2006

17 September 2006

Welcome to our Sunday services today!

10.00 am Every Sunday - Morning prayer for our services.

All welcome

10.45 am Morning Worship with Junior Church and crèche.

After the service, prayer is available for anyone who would like to be prayed with – please make your way to the front of the church where the prayer team will meet you. Please join us for tea and coffee after the service in the hall. If you are a visitor here today, we have a welcome leaflet available. Please ask if you have not received one.

6.00 pm Evening Service

Large print copies of the song words are available on

request from the door stewards.

Hearing Loop – if you wish to use the hearing loop, please switch your hearing aid to the T position. Note: it will only

operate in the downstairs centre seating block.

Scripture Focus:

“When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the “sinners” and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and “sinners?”. On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Mark 2: 16 &17

Prayer Focus:

Please pray this week for Emma as she takes up her new post in Youth Work with Crossroads Church in Geneva this week and for Doris while she is staying at Claremont Nursing Home for a time of respite care.

Welcome

We welcome Alanna to the staff at PSBC this week who will be our new Youth Worker. Alanna has been working in Swansea for two years as a voluntary youth worker on a mission placement.

Retreat Weekend, last day to book today!

There are a few places left for the retreat 13^th - 15^th October. Booking forms are available from the back of the church today for the Priory Street Retreat Weekend at the Christian Encounter Centre, Shaftsbury. The leaflet gives details of accommodation and costs. All booking forms must be returned to the church office today.

Harvest Service - 1^st October

This year for Harvest we will once again be collecting tins for the “doorway” homelessness project in Chippenham. As well as meals, the Project provides a whole range of services to the homeless – see the posters around for more details.

We will be collecting tins of meat, fish, fruit, peas, vegetables, baked beans, tomatoes, rice pudding, tea and coffee. Please bring all offerings to the Sunday services on 1^st October.

Access through Arnolds Mead Garden

The new tenant at our Arnolds Mead property has noticed people walking through the garden in order to get to their cars on a Sunday morning!! May we kindly ask that members of PSBC use an alternative route to get to their vehicles. Thank you.

Alpha

The Alpha Supper and Course have been postponed. We apologise for any inconvenience and disappointment this may cause. Information about the next course will be available when a new date has been set.

News from Scott, Army Training Camp, Surrey

“I’ve been here now two weeks and am finally starting to enjoy it although it is still is very tough! … continue to pray for me and that God would really use me as a tool to get these guys and their lives on the right path! … I am looking forward to receiving a few letters from any of you who want to write to me … you could even send me a parcel if you feel like it …” For Scott’s full letter see the back notice board.

Richard and Judy - Sponsored Walk

Richard and Judy Davies are doing a sponsored walk around Bath to raise money for Julian House. If you would like to sponsor them, or find out more about the event, please speak to Judy after the service or phone her.

To Good Homes …

Once a month, in the notice sheet, we are going to highlight any items which church members have that are surplus to their needs and which may be of use to another member of the congregation. We would like to stress that this is not an opportunity to sell items, but rather to pass them on, for free, to folk who may need them. If you have any item/s, please contact Louise at the church office who will include the item in the notice sheet.

Events ...

An Evening with Philip Yancey (see notice board)

“An Event not to be missed!” – Friday 22^nd September, 7.30pm, Clifton Cathedral, Bristol. Tickets £9/£7 from Saltmine on 01384 454808

Nancy and Phillip in Concert

Nancy and Phillip are holding “An Evening of Acoustic Music and Poetry” on Saturday 30^th September, 7 pm, at Sheldon Road Methodist Church, Chippenham. Tickets are available on 01249 444375 or from Revelation Bookshop.

Delirious Concert Tour

“The mission bell” tour is taking place between 11^th October and 1^st November, see poster on the back notice board, or www.delirious.co.uk for tickets and more details.

Important dates for this term:

Harvest service 1^st October

Retreat weekend 13^th –15^th October

Joint housegroup 18^th October

The Rainbow Party 31^st October

Church meeting 6^th November (changed from 16 Oct)

Aid trip to Austria 24th Nov-1^st Dec

House groups’ Christmas meal 13^th December

This week:

Today Traidcraft stall by the young people

Tuesday Rudloe Mum’s and Tots 10-11.30am

Thursday Early Morning Prayer Meeting 7.15-8am

Tots Accompanied @ PSBC 10-11.30am

Debt Advice Centre 7.30-9.30pm

Friday Debt Advice Centre 9.30 am – 12.30 pm

Sunday Usual Sunday Services