Notices: Easter Sunday 5th April 2015

Today:
6.30am Dawn Service followed by breakfast
11am Easter Family Celebration

Next Sunday: Sunday 12th April 2015
11am Morning Prayer - John 20: 19-31 Doubting Thomas

Coming Up:
Sun 19th Lunch & Easter Vestry - please sign up for lunch
Sun 26th Confirmation

Mothers’ Union Outing
Saturday 23rd May 2015. Morning Coffee in The Tannery, Moira; shopping in Newtownards; Flower Festival and evening meal at St Mary’s Comber. To book your place, speak to Valerie Crawford or Helen Rutledge.

Easter General Vestry
The Easter Vestry will be held on Sunday 19th April at 12.30pm, following a light lunch after the Church Family Service. At the meeting we will hear reports on church life, appoint and elect Churchwardens and Glebewardens, and elect the new Select Vestry. All are welcome to the lunch and the meeting, but only Registered Vestry members can stand for election or vote.

Prayer Diary
Sun 5th Give thanks for the hope we have because Jesus is alive!
Mon 6th Pray for Crosslinks mission partners, sharing the good news
Tue 7th Pray for Deacon Interns, beginning the Curacy rounds today
Wed 8th Pray for those preparing for marriage this year
Thur 9th Jeff Gawn and SU volunteers preparing for It’s Your Move
Fri 10th The Pantry, sharing God’s love with those in need
Sat 11th Myrtle and the choir as they lead our praise tomorrow
Sun 12th Kenny Rutledge, as he proclaims God’s word to us today
Pray without ceasing - 1 Thessalonians 5:17

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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