Notices: Sunday 24th August 2014

Today:
11.00am Morning Prayer

Next Sunday: Sunday 31st August 2014
11.00am Morning Prayer - Psalm 87 Glorious things

This Week:
Tuesday 26th
8pm Fire Safety Training - for all organisations

Thursday 28th
8pm Rural Deanery Youth Leaders meeting - FMT Hall

Fri 29th
8pm Annual BBQ & music by the Alastair Scott Ceilidh Band. Tickets £12.50 available now

Youth and Children’s Ministry Training
Saturday 13th Sept - Invest Training Day - postponed.
Tuesday 23rd Sept - Sunday School Teachers’ Training Evening in Maguiresbridge Church Hall at 7.30pm. Speaker: Julie Currie, Down & Dromore Children’s Officer

Ordinations
Please pray for our visiting preachers preparing for ordination:
31st August: Rev Andrew Thompson (Presbyter for Donaghcloney), 4pm, Shankill Parish Church, Lurgan
7th September: Alastair Dondaldson (Intern Deacon for Fivemiletown), 7pm, St John’s Church, Fivemiletown
14th September: Cameron Jones (Intern Deacon for St Nicholas’ Carrickfergus), 3.30pm, St Anne’s Belfast

Organisation Start Dates
Monday 8th - 8pm Bowling Club
Tuesday 9th - 8pm Mothers’ Union (speaker: Val Irvine)
Wednesday 10th - 8pm Bible Study
Sunday 14th - 10am Sunday School; 7pm SNATCH - Aghavea Hall
Wednesday 24th - 6.30pm GFS

Fire Safety Training
It is essential for all organisations and hall users to be trained in fire safety - alarms, extinguishers, evacuation and prevention. A training evening for all is this Tuesday 26th August at 8pm.

iTunes
Sermon podcasts are now available on iTunes.

Prayer Diary
Sun 24th Sunday School preparations for the new school year
Mon 25th SAMS missionaries in South America - especially Tim Curtis & Asunción Rojas in the Chaco, Paraguay
Tue 26th Emergency services - safety serving the community
Wed 27th The Pantry, showing God’s love to those in need
Thur 28th Teachers and pupils as schools begin again
Fri 29th Tonight’s BBQ: gospel opportunities as we love, share & serve; & a warm welcome found by visitors
Sat 30th Those preparing for ordination over the next month - especially Alastair, Cameron, Robbie and Andrew
Sun 31st Give thanks for God’s faithfulness in August

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12

Prayer Diary updates can be accessed each morning at our Facebook page or by downloading the free ‘PrayerMate’ app for your smartphone and adding the Aghavea Church feed.

Comments

AccessNI Check process

Hi folks Please see the following pages for the process of getting our AccessNI accreditation for our Sunday School and GFS leaders and helpers. You will need to print out the pages and keep a special note of the long number provided to you by email and let me know as soon as possible. We require an Enhanced check for everyone - and use the PIN number 918066 as detailed on the first page. The second page details the forms of identification you will need to provide - one from the first group, and two from the second group. The quicker we can all get the checks completed, the sooner we can get everything back to normal and put this whole process behind us for another three years! If you can photograph yourself (by smartphone or tablet) and email (revdjohnny@gmail.com) or WhatsApp (07488371680) them to me, that'd be great. I will also be available at the Parish Hall on Monday evening from 7pm to 8pm to help you with anything you would like assistance with! If you need any help at all

Back to the BCP!!

Hi folks It’s been a long time since the pandemic started and the lockdowns - and Covid hasn’t really gone away! I had the dubious honour of getting Covid for the second time just before Holy Week, giving me the chance to think about ministry direction, both my own and in the parish. One of the original responses to the pandemic was to limit our use of the hymn books and our Prayer Books. At the beginning I produced a service sheet with all the relevant liturgy - which we used in the car park and when we returned to the church. Our “temporary measure” lasted almost three years - and it’s time to move on! Our Book of Common Prayer contains our unique identity - in fact the word “Common” doesn’t mean ordinary but that it shows our unity - the liturgy we hold in “common”. We will be returning to our BCPs from this weekend, the Second Sunday of Easter. We will be using Morning Prayer Two - and we will guide us through the service. We look forward to seeing you in church or online via Fb

Pray for Peace

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” Matthew 5:9 The Holy Land, the place sanctified by the presence of prophets, poets, and priests, crying out for justice, urging on towards hope, and seeking after peace, has been, and continues to be a place sacred to millions of people around the world. We have watched with horror the appalling violence that has been unleashed over the last few days around this sacred place. We have seen families devastated, communities shattered, and countless lives lost. We, as followers of Jesus are called in this time to pray. Pray for the end of hostilities, pray for the protection of the most vulnerable on both sides in Israel and Gaza, and pray for a recommitment to a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. We also pray that God might grant comfort to the afflicted, healing to the broken, strength to the weak, and courage to those in authority to lay down the instruments of violence and destruction and stud

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