Notices: Sunday 21st August 2016

Today:
11am Church Family Service

Next Sunday: Sunday 28th August 2016
11am Morning Prayer - Psalm 121

This Week:
Tuesday 23rd
8pm Select Vestry meeting

Thursday 27th
9pm Football - Maguiresbridge

Friday 26th
8pm Aghavea BBQ - tickets available now

Coming Up:
Tue 6th 8pm Crosslinks Prayer Meeting - Church Hall
Wed 7th 8pm Through the Bible Fellowship Group - Rectory
Thur 15th 7.30pm Safeguarding Trust refresher - Clabby Church Hall

Organisation Start Dates in September
Mon 5th 8pm Bowling Club - Church Hall
Wed 7th 8pm Bible Study - Rectory
Sun 11th 11am Sunday School - begins in Church
Tue 13th 8pm Mothers’ Union - Speaker: Pat Hey (Talking Newspaper)
Wed 21st 6.30pm GFS - Church Hall
TBC: SNATCH

Church Repair & Renovation
Plans for the repair and renovation of the parish church are available for inspection in the Church Hall after this morning’s service.

Aghavea Parish BBQ
Friday 26th August
Music by Nigel Livingstone
Tickets £12.50

Clogher Rural Deanery
A Safeguarding Trust training & refresher course is being held on Thursday 15th September at 7.30pm in Clabby Church Hall. This evening is for all who volunteer with youth and children’s work in the parish and Rural Deanery.

Building for God’s glory
The message of the prophet Haggai
New sermon series begins Sunday 4th September.

Bible in One Year
21st Ps 119:1-48, 1 Cor 3
22nd Ps 119:49-104, 1 Cor 4
23rd Ps 119:105-176, 1 Cor 5
24th Ps 120-123, 1 Cor 6
25th Ps 124-127, 1 Cor 7:1-24
26th Ps 128-131, 1 Cor 7:25-40
27th Ps 132-135, 1 Cor 8
28th Ps 136-138, 1 Cor 9
The next fellowship group will be on Wednesday 7th September in the Rectory.

Prayer Diary
Sun 21st David Atwell, in his ministry as a Parish Reader
Mon 22nd Healing and strength for all who are ill, at home or in hospital
Tue 23rd Select Vestry meets tonight - for God’s wisdom & guidance
Wed 24th Local nursing homes - for staff, residents and families
Thur 25th Football brings men together - pray for evangelism opportunities
Fri 26th Tonight’s BBQ as we serve and welcome visitors
Sat 27th SAMS missionaries in South America, especially Claire Holmes
Sun 28th Pray for our church family, as we seek to grow in love together
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

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

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

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