Notices: Sunday 14th December 2014

Today:
10am Sunday School
11am Family Nativity Service
7.30pm Christingle Service - Brooke Memorial Hall

Next Sunday: Sunday 21st December 2014
11am Morning Prayer
7.30pm Carols by Candlelight with Maguiresbridge Band

This Week:
Monday 15th 8pm Bowls party night
Thursday 18th 8pm Riverbrooke Community Carol Service - Brookeborough Elim Church

Coming Up:
Sunday 28th SNATCH Movie Night - Clabby Rectory
Wednesday 31st 11.30pm Watchnight Service

Thank you!
Thank you to the young people of the Sunday School for presenting the Nativity, and to Linda, Heather, Myrtle, Pamela, Gemma, and Sarah for all their hard work. Sunday School begins again on Sunday 11th January 2014.

Christmas continues at Aghavea
Tonight:
7.30pm Christingle Service - Brooke Memorial Hall

Sunday 21st December:
11am Morning Prayer
7.30pm Carols by Candlelight with Maguiresbridge Silver Band

Christmas Eve:
11.15pm Christmas Eve Communion

Christmas Day:
10am Christmas Family Communion

Call His Name ‘Jesus’
A Festival of Flowers and Music to celebrate Christmas in St John’s Fivemiletown. Concludes today: 2-7pm with Carols and Readings at 7pm.

Prayer Diary
Sun 14th Today’s services - that the light of Christ will shine in us and through us to the world
Mon 15th The Bowling Club, for fun and fellowship together
Tue 16th All who are housebound, as Home Communions begin
Wed 17th Our mission partners as they settle in their new place
Thur 18th Local churches, as we meet for community carols
Fri 19th It’s not too late to invite people to Sunday’s Carol Service - pray as you invite friends and neighbours
Sat 20th The farming community, working in winter weather
Sun 21st Myrtle, choir and band as they lead our praise

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. - 2 Corinthians 8:9

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.

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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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