Notices: Sunday 6th September 2015

Today:
11am Holy Communion

Next Sunday 13th September:
11am Morning Prayer & Sunday School - ‘Come and see’
7pm SNATCH begins - Colebrooke - Registration Forms available

This Week:
Monday 7th
8pm Bowling Club opening night - new members welcome

Tuesday 8th
8pm Mothers’ Union - The Cecil Frances Alexander Story with Eva Baxter

Wednesday 9th
7.30pm CDYC meets - Aghavea Rectory
8pm MU Diocesan Prayer Chain meets - Aghavea Hall

Coming up:
Tuesday 15th
8pm Select Vestry meets - items for agenda by Thursday

Organisation Start Dates
Mon 7th 8pm Bowls - Church Hall
Tue 8th 8pm Mothers’ Union - Church Hall
Sun 13th 11am Sunday School - begins in the morning service
Sun 13th 7pm SNATCH Youth Fellowship - Colebrooke Church Hall
Wed 16th 8pm Bible Study - Rectory
Wed 23rd 6.30pm GFS - Church Hall

Ordinations
Please pray for our recent preachers being ordained in the next few weeks:
6th Sept - Alistair Donaldson, Curate of Roscommon (Kilmore, Elphin & Ardagh)
- Robert Smyth, Intern Deacon of Kilkeel (Down & Dromore)
13th Sept - Dennis Christie, Intern Deacon of Muckamore (Connor)
20th Sept - Robbie Robinson, Curate of Omagh (Derry & Raphoe)

Lay Ministry Opportunities
Anyone who would like to begin training to become a Parish Reader or Diocesan Lay Reader should speak to Gary over the next month. Closing date for applications is mid October.

Children’s Ministry Commissioning Service
Tonight at 7pm in Enniskillen Cathedral, for all Sunday School leaders and helpers. Organised by Clogher Diocesan Board of Religious Education.

Prayer Diary
Sun 6th Our new series - We have seen his glory - as we meet with Jesus
Mon 7th The Bowling Club as it begins tonight - for fun and fellowship
Tue 8th Mothers’ Union members, living for Christ in their families
Wed 9th CDYC, preparing for the Deeper youth events this year
Thur 10th All who mourn, that they would know God’s comfort & strength
Fri 11th SAMS Ireland staff - Bishop Ken Clarke and Gillian Neill
Sat 12th Sunday School teachers and children, beginning tomorrow
Sun 13th SNATCH begins a new term tonight - for young people & leaders
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.

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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