Weekly Notices 12th April

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Notices

Thank you all so much for your generous support last Sunday. £55 was raised from donations for after service refreshments. This will help baby girl Noor so much. Bridget. 

Church Steward Vacancy. New Church Steward wanted with effect from September 2015. If interested, please speak to one of the existing stewards.

Help needed with Weenies on Friday mornings, term time. Please get in touch with Christine D. a.s.a.p.

Church Council Meeting will be on Monday 13th April at 7:30pm in the Owlerton Room.

Ladies' Guild will meet on Tuesday 14th April at 2:00pm.

Chippy Church is back on Friday 24th April at 6:30pm. Theme: Springtime.

Fashion Show & Afternoon Tea in aid of Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice will be on Thursday 30th April 2:30-4:30pm at Café Moda, in Atkinsons. Tickets are £10 from Enid B.

Christian Aid Walk. This year’s charity walk will be held on bank holiday Monday 4th May. We will be walking around Dam Flask before returning to Wisewood Church for bacon sandwiches. More details will follow later.

Crucible Musical "Showboat" is scheduled for Thursday 14th January 2016 at 7:15pm. Tickets are £22 p.p. if 25 or more people book (£23 if 10-24 people book) and pay by Thursday 21st May 2015. Cliff P.

Please continue to pray for all those brothers and sisters who are unable to attend our services, whether because housebound, ill, in hospital or residential homes.

Sunrise Service

The prayer group did not meet in church over the Easter weekend but did gather on Sunday at 6:00am on Wadsley Common, along with several others, to celebrate Easter Day with a 'Sunrise Service'. This year the weather was kind to us and even at that hour of the morning was relatively mild.

We almost saw the sunrise but there was a bit of cloud in the way!

Our reading was from John's Gospel, chapter 20 v.24-31 - Jesus appears to Thomas - then a poem was read about Thomas and his doubting.

We blessed each other as we shared bread.

Prayers of adoration for all Jesus has done for us and prayers of intercession were said.

We prayed for those we know who are in any kind of distress and for Christians who are persecuted in many areas of the world, remembering especially the recent massacre of 147 people at a university in Kenya.

We sang a number of songs, ending the worship with 'Thine be the glory, risen conquering son. Endless is the victory thou o'er death has won.' Hallelujah.

Thanks to Dorothy most of us then dispersed to her house for breakfast of bacon butties and/or hot-cross buns.