Notices 29th October 2006

29 October 2006

Welcome to our Sunday morning service!

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 – There is a loop system available downstairs in the centre seating block for those who need it.

Scripture Focus:

“As a prisoner for the Lords, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” Ephesians 4:1

Prayer Focus this week: Please pray for the Rainbow Party, for a fun evening, safety and smooth running on the night. Pray this event will reflect God’s love for our community.

Rainbow Party – This Tuesday 6pm at the Town Hall

We are looking forward to a great evening with fun activities and games for the children. There are about a dozen tickets left – volunteers, remember you need to collect a ticket for your children. There are several `admin’ aspects of the party that volunteers and guests can help us with in preparing for the party: Volunteers – please complete and return your CRB declaration form, and attend the briefing meeting at 5.30pm on Tuesday at the Town Hall. Guests – please please return your registration forms to Debbie or the church before the event where at all possible – signing in the children on the night is a considerable task, and it will be much easier if we have these forms in advance. If you cannot return your forms until Tuesday evening, please phone Debbie to give her the names and ages of the children you have invited (this will save Debbie phoning all of you!). Please phone Debbie if you have taken tickets and will no longer be using them – we may have a waiting list. And finally … if you have offered to donate food for the event please call Rhiannon to make arrangements to get it to her before the event. There are still spaces to sign up for food donations on the noticeboard.

Austria Aid Trip 25 Nov - 1 Dec

Collection of the clothing starts on Wednesday, when it will be sorted and boxed ready for transporting. The team for Austria would like to ask you to help with this by collecting banana boxes from the local supermarkets and bringing them to the church.

Team Training dates for the Aid Trip are:

Thursday 2 Nov; Monday 13 Nov; Monday 20 Nov. £228 has been given towards shower mules so far – thank you. The target for a box of 120 is approx. £320. The cost of sending the van is £800 and we need to raise the funds for this too. Please pray and consider whether this is a way you could contribute to showing God’s love to those in need.

!Youth Matters!

Please take time to read Alanna’s insert in the notices this week.

Bible Sunday – today!

This is being celebrated with a joint service at 6pm, at Neston Church. The speaker will be Tony Brunn from The Gideons. There will be no evening service at PSBC tonight.

BMS Christmas Cards

Rachel will be selling Baptist Union Christmas Cards after services for the next few weeks. The profits from these sales go to the Baptist Missionary World Fund.

Condolences

Last Wednesday morning the mother of Dorothy passed away peacefully at Claremont Nursing Home. Our prayers and thoughts are with Dot, Lionel & Shirley and the rest of their family at this sad time.

Coffee Morning @ the Priors

The Priors are having a coffee morning with a Bring and Buy sale in support of Julian House on Tuesday 7th Novemeber, 10.30-12.30 at their home.

Tape Ministry

Mitch is making 2 copies of the morning service and 1 of the evening service and they are located near the door which leads into the hall on the left hand side in the tape rack – please help yourself. If any extra copies are required please ask Mitch. If you have finished with tapes you have borrowed from tape library please could you return them. Thank you.

Pastoral Notices

Geoff and Marilyn have now completed training to run “The Marriage Course – How to Build a Lasting Relationship”, a marriage enrichment course for couples. They hope to run two courses early next year, the first a pilot course in Jan/Feb for a few couples and the second “open to all” in April and May. The course is one evening a week for 8 weeks. More details will be available in November. Please note that Geoff & Marilyn are away from 1st-17th November.

Coming up …

The Rainbow Party 31st October

Church meeting 6th November

Lunch Club 14th November

Aid trip to Austria 25th Nov-1st Dec

House groups’ Christmas meal 13th December

This week:

Today No evening service

Youth Group – Invade @ the Mike & Christine’s home

Tuesday Rainbow Party @ the Town Hall, 6-8pm

Briefing for volunteers at 5.30pm

Wednesday Fourth “Introduction to Priory Street” Evening

Youth Group Meeting @ the Kembers’ 7.30-9pm

Thursday Early Morning Prayer Meeting 7.15-8am

Tots Accompanied – Priory Street 10-11.30am

Austria Team Training Evening

Debt Advice Centre 7.30-9.30pm

Friday Debt Advice Centre 9.30 am – 12.30 pm

Sunday Usual Sunday Services

Housegroups meet in various homes during the week. If you are interested in joining a housegroup, please speak to Graham.