Notices: Sunday 4th December 2016

Today:
11am Holy Communion & Sunday School
7pm SNATCH Christmas Party - Clabby Rectory

Next Sunday: Sunday 11th December 2016
11am Church Family Nativity - Aghavea Hall
7.30pm Christingle Service - Brooke Memorial Hall

This Week:
Monday 5th
8pm Bowls match away v Sallaghy

Tuesday 6th
6.30pm GFS Christmas party (GFS begins again 4th January)

Wednesday 7th
8pm Bible Study - Rectory

Thursday 8th
9pm Football - Maguiresbridge

Friday 9th
Sunday School Christmas party

Coming Up:
Tuesday 13th
7pm Mothers’ Union carol singing in Northwick House

Saturday 17th
7pm SNATCH & TAG carol singing in Gortacharn Nursing Home & supper at Andrew & Marina Elliott’s home

Sunday 18th
7.30pm Carols by Candlelight

Monday 19th
8pm Bowls Christmas party night

Saturday 24th
11.15pm Christmas Eve Communion

Sunday 25th
10am Christmas Family Communion

Christmas Fair Thanks
Thank you to everyone who helped at or supported the Christmas Fair on Wednesday evening. Over £3000 has been raised - well done!

Christmas at Aghavea
Sunday 11th
11am Church Family Nativity - Aghavea Hall
7.30pm Christingle Service - Brooke Memorial Hall

Sunday 18th
11am Morning Prayer with Baptism
7.30pm Carols by Candlelight with Maguiresbridge Silver Band

Saturday 24th
11.15pm Christmas Eve Communion

Sunday 25th
10am Christmas Family Communion

Bible in One Year
4th Dan 3-4, 1 John 3
5th Dan 5-6, 1 John 4
6th Dan 7-8, 1 John 5
7th Dan 9-10, 2 John 1
8th Dan 11-12, 3 John 1
9th Hos 1-4, Jude 1
10th Hos 5-8, Rev 1
11th Hos 9-11, Rev 2
12th Hos 12-14, Rev 3
The next Bible study meeting is this Wednesday 7th December at 8pm in the Rectory.

Prayer Diary: Pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
Sun 4th SNATCH members & leaders, as they meet together tonight
Mon 5th Those who are ill, at home or in hospital - for God’s healing
Tue 6th GFS leaders & girls, celebrating at their Christmas party tonight
Wed 7th Bible study meets together - for God’s light and truth to shine
Thur 8th SAMS mission partners, especially Claire Holmes in Paraguay
Fri 9th Sunday School hosting their Christmas party tonight
Sat 10th The Pantry, providing food and help to those in need
Sun 11th Today’s Nativity & Christingle services - that we hear the Christmas message afresh
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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