Notices: Sunday 8th November 2015

Today:
10.45am Service of Remembrance - Brookeborough War Memorial
11.30am Morning Prayer with an Act of Remembrance
7pm SNATCH - Colebrooke Hall

Next Sunday: Sunday 15th November 2015
11am Church Family Service - speaker: Rev Bryan Martin (Donaghcloney)

This Week:
Monday 9th
8pm Bowls

Tuesday 10th
8pm Mothers’ Union AGM

Wednesday 11th
6.30pm GFS

Thursday 12th
9pm Football - Castle Park, Lisnaskea

Coming Up:
Tuesday 17th Select Vestry
Saturday 28th Deeper into God’s Presence - Rossorry Church Hall

New Irish Choir & Orchestra Christmas Concert
Friday 4th December. 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.

Deeper into God’s Presence
Saturday 28th November at 8pm in Rossorry Church Hall. Leaving Aghavea at 7.30pm. Consent forms available from SNATCH leaders.

Christmas Fair: Wednesday 25th November 2015
We’re preparing for this year’s Christmas Fair and need your help. Could you...
Bake a cake or two? Make some Christmas crafts?
Provide some good quality items to sell? Help at a stall?
Contribute a book you’ve recently read? Assist Santa as one of his elves?
Please consider how you can help out prior to, or on the evening.
The Fair begins at 8pm, with stalls, refreshments, and Santa’s winter wonderland throughout the evening.

Prayer Diary
Sun 8th All who continue to suffer as a result of war or terrorism
Mon 9th Those who mourn - for God’s comfort and peace
Tue 10th Mothers’ Union office bearers following tonight’s AGM
Wed 11th GFS leaders and members as they seek to live for Christ
Thur 12th CMSI mission partners - for strength facing discouragements
Fri 13th Planning for Christmas services to help us share the good news
Sat 14th The emergency services, working to help those in need
Sun 15th Rev Bryan, as he teaches 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.

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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