Weekly Notices 17th May

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Family Friendly Film 'Paddington' (cert. PG) will be shown on Friday 22nd May at 5:00pm. Bring your favourite toy for a teddy bear's picnic. Marmalade sandwiches provided! Invite your friends.

Covenant Service on Sunday 24th May at 10:30am led by Katie Leonowicz, followed by a Bring and Share Lunch at about 12:30pm in the church hall. If you wish to stay for this, would you please sign the list on the welcome desk. Could you also indicate whether you will bring savoury or sweet, please. Thank you.

Also on 24th May there will be an Extra-Ordinary Church Council meeting straight after the morning service, to agree a figure for our circuit assessment. Please could all the members of the church council gather in the Owlerton Room, after the service.

This month's Chippy Church is on Friday 29th May at 6:30pm.

Table Top Sale in aid of Mesothelioma UK Charitable Trust (supporting people with asbestos cancer) on Saturday 30th May 10:00am-1:00pm. Tables £7 each.

Next Worship Consultation Committee meeting will be on Tuesday 2nd June at 7:30pm. If you are a local preacher, worship leader, church steward, communion steward, organist, Power Point operator etc... this meeting is for you. Please book the date!

Infant Baptism on Sunday 14th June at 2:00pm. The family wish to have afternoon tea in the church hall afterwards. They are providing cakes, but it would help if we could supply cups of tea to family and friends. If you can help, please see Katie. Thanks.

Summer Magazine. Please email/hand all new articles for 'Branching Out' magazine to Stuart C. by Sunday 14th June.

Christians And Sheffield Schools (CASS) Conference on Saturday 20th June 10:00am-3:00pm at Victoria Hall Methodist Church. £15 including lunch. Book on www.cass-su.org.uk.

Wisewood Summer Festival on Saturday 27th June 10:00am-4:30pm at the Sports Centre and RIVA Cafe, organised by the Friends of Wisewood and District. Stalls, refreshments, football tournaments, dance and gym displays, bouncy castle and bungee run, mascot race, tug of war, community singers' performance and loads more!

Prayer Group Report

We read from Revelation about the various churches whose conduct was not that desired by God and thought about today's church worldwide which is so divided. We prayed for unity and guidance.

We prayed for the persecuted church to be upheld by the Holy Spirit as we see more and more Christian communities being targeted and enduring much pain and suffering.

Thinking of our own church, we gave thanks for the new initiatives helping to make inroads into the community and prayed for events being arranged in the coming weeks, for all who come onto the premises and for all the groups and activities which happen throughout the week.

Thanks too for the success of the 'Churches Together' Fun Day despite poor weather and for the contacts made there.

We prayed for Hillsborough Tabernacle Church whose 'Year of Hope' began this weekend. The church was bombed in WW2 but was rebuilt with the hope and faith to continue its witness for Jesus. Various activities and events will be organised over the coming year.

Our prayers continued for the people of Nepal and for all the aid workers who are helping in the area.

We gave thanks that, following a 42 day period with no new cases, Liberia has been declared free of the Ebola virus. Nearly 5000 people died from the disease in Liberia.

We prayed for our new government , for their thinking to be guided by God's Holy Spirit to achieve a just and fair society.