Aghavea Parish Church

Hi folks This is very urgent!  I ask you to read this carefully and consider helping. Our Mothers' Union have been contacted - as with the other groups - to ask for help!  The hospitals are desperately short of teddy bears and blankets.  These knitted items are given to children and babies who arrive in to the Emergency Department and the Neo-Natal unit to comfort them in their distress, and to distract them from the emergency situation they find themselves in. I have downloaded a simple pattern for a teddy bear - but if you have a better pattern, please share it with me and I'll share it with the wider community!  Please do not use Angora wool - or any related "flavour" as the young children put them in their mouths, and we do not want hairs coming off in their mouths. If you need any materials (wool, stuffing, etc), please send your receipts and I'll ensure that you are reimbursed ( even though our Treasurer doesn't know it yet, haha ). If you have...

Aghavea Parish Church A CELEBRATION OF WHOLENESS AND HEALING GREETING In the name of Christ, we welcome you. We have been called out of darkness into God's marvellous light. Grace and peace be with you   and also with you. HYMN The love of God has been poured into our hearts, through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us: we dwell in him and he lives in us. Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples. Sing to God, sing praises to his name; and speak of all his marvellous works. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty; who was and is and is to come. THE COLLECT OF THE DAY (or the Collect of Healing may be used) Heavenly Father, you anointed your Son Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit and with power to bring to us the blessings of your kingdom.   Anoint your Church with the same Holy Spirit, that we who share in his suffering and victory may bear witness to the gospel of salvation; through J...