Notices: Sunday 18th October 2015

Today:
11am Church Family Service

Next Sunday: Sunday 25th October 2015
11am Morning Prayer & Sunday School - John 5: 1-17

This Week:
Monday 19th
8pm Bowls match at home v Sallaghy

Tuesday 20th
8pm Select Vestry - agenda available today

Wednesday 21st
6.30pm GFS
7.45pm SNATCH leaders meet - Church Hall

Thursday 22nd
9pm Football - Castle Park, Lisnaskea

Saturday 24th
Anois youth weekend begins

Coming Up:
Monday 26th Aghavea Fun Pairs Bowls Tournament begins, until Friday
Wed 28th 8pm Christianity Explored Session 4 - Rectory

Clabby Parish Events
Tonight: Praise Evening at 7:30pm. Newmills Praise group. Donations to Church Missions.
Saturday 31st October: Come and join us to watch the Rugby World Cup Final at 3:30pm for kick off at 4:00pm, in Clabby Parish Church Hall followed by a curry.
Friday 4th December: New Irish Choir and Orchestra Christmas Concert. We have a few seats left in the bus. Please contact Clabby Rectory 02889521697 as soon as possible, if you would like to go. £22 for students & those over 60 years; other ticket price £24. Bus price to be given on the night £5 per person.

Brookeborough & Tempo Surgery
Open Flu Vaccination Clinics this October:
Wed 21st: 2.10pm - 4.30pm - Brookeborough. Mon 26th: 2.10pm - 4.15pm - Tempo
The shingles vaccine is also available for patients aged 70, 71, 72, 78 or 79 on 1st Sept 2015. If you received it last year, you don’t need it this year.
Brookeborough Surgery: 028 8953 1225

Prayer Diary
Sun 18th Pray for a growing hunger for God’s word among us
Mon 19th Pray for all who mourn - for God’s comfort and hope
Tue 20th Select Vestry, for God’s wisdom in decision making
Wed 21st GFS members and leaders - give thanks for new members!
Thur 22nd Bible Society, bringing God’s word to new language groups
Fri 23rd Staff & residents in local nursing homes
Sat 24th SNATCH members at the Anois youth weekend, beginning today
Sun 25th Sunday School teachers as they share the good news of Jesus
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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