Notices : 12th November 2006

12th November 2006

Welcome to our Remembrance Sunday services!

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:

“He has done everything well,” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” Mark 7:37b

Prayer Focus this week: This week as we remember the veterans and victims of World Wars I and II, pray also for those in the armed forces who are still fighting for peace today.

Austria Aid Trip 25 Nov - 1 Dec

Thank you to everyone who has donated towards the purchase of shower shoes – we now have enough money in this fund to bless the Oasis team with nearly 200 pairs of shoes.

Well done to Cathy’s Key Stage 2 Junior Church group who raised just over £200 for shower shoes with their sponsored stay-awake. If you would like to donate to the Austria fund, we are still collecting funds for the cost of the trip, for which we have approximately £150 of the £800 required. Please pray and consider whether this is a way you could contribute to showing God’s love to those in need in this way.

WE ALSO NEED MORE MEN’S CLOTHES!!

Please ask your friends, neighbours, and relations if they have men’s clothes they can donate, reminding them that we do not need children’s and ladies’ clothes (except long ladies’ skirts and maternity clothes).

The team are still running their banana box competition and will be needing more boxes this week for the clothes coming in. They say “May we kindly request that the banana boxes you bring in are: sturdy, deep and have full lids…they need to be easy to carry and pack. … Nice prize for the winner … and no, it won’t be a box of bananas!!”.

If anyone would like to help with the sorting of the clothing, please speak to Cathy or Sue. Team Training dates for the Aid Trip are:

Monday 13th and Monday 20th November.

Lunch Club – this Tuesday

This Tuesday our older folks and guests will be meeting for lunch and a time of fellowship together, from 12 midday.

Please pray for …

Ian and Anne as they travel up to Nottingham this weekend. Ian’s father is critically ill and the family has been advised to go up and see him. Can you pray for peace over George and that God would touch the whole family with His comfort and presence at this difficult time.

Can anyone help?

Is anyone in the church able to help set up a data base application? If you can, please speak to Graham, Debbie or Louise. Many thanks.

Men’s Night Out

Dave is organising a men’s curry night in January. If you are interested, please speak to Dave so he can get an idea of numbers.

Traidcraft Christmas Catalogues

If anyone is interested in ordering Christmas Fairtrade items, please speak to Helen who has the Christmas catalogues.

BMS Christmas Cards

We are selling Baptist Union Christmas Cards after services for the next few weeks. The profits from these sales go to the Baptist Missionary World Fund. All packs are priced and payment can be made into the box provided, cheques payable to PSBC.

Can You Help?

A colleague of Cathy requires a Mon-Fri car parking space in Corsham. If you can help and require further details, please speak to Cathy. Thank you.

Can you donate board games to Crusaders?

With the winter months coming up, the Crusaders group are looking for indoor games for the children. If you have board games you no longer use, they would love to take them off your hands! Crusaders youth group is run by members of this church, as part of the national Crusaders youth organisation, and is provided free to the children of Corsham. The group is not run by the church and is self-funding. Please give any donations to Monique. Thank you.

A Big Thank You

From Michael and Wendy to everyone who supported our bring-and-buy sale on Tuesday, which raised £295.50 for Julian House (the charity of the homeless in Bath.

Coming up …

Lunch Club: 14th November

Aid trip to Austria: 25th Nov-1st Dec

House groups’ Christmas meal: 13th December

Men’s Indian Meal Night: January (tbc)

This week:

Today: Usual Sunday Services; Youth Group-Invade

Monday: Austria Team Training

Tuesday: Tots Accompanied @ Rudloe; Lunch Club at 12 midday

Wednesday: Youth Group Meeting @ the Kembers 7.30-9pm

Thursday: Early Morning Prayer Meeting 7.15-8am; Tots Accompanied: Priory Street 10-11.30am; Debt Advice Centre: 7.30-9.30pm

Friday: Debt Advice Centre 9.30 am – 12.30 pm

Sunday: Traidcraft stall

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

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