Weekly Notices REGULAR MEETINGS & Activities MONDAY 7.15pm House Fellowship (last Mon in month) 10.30am - 12 noon AGE UK (monthly) WEDNESDAY 10.00am - 3.00pm COGS Club 12.15pm - ‘Living Stones’ (alternate Wed) 4.30pm - 9.00pm - Encore Music School 7.30pm - Trefoil Guild (monthly) 25th – 31st January 2015 Have you considered making your offertory by Direct Debit? For more information see Tony Brown. If you are a UK tax payer you can most likely GiftAid your giving, for more information see Paul Skipp. SATURDAY 8.30am Prayer Focus including breakfast (as arranged) HIGH STREET, SITTINGBOURNE, KENT Web site www.sittingbournemethodist.org.uk Minister: Rev. Dr. Gary Watt – Tel: 01795 422573 Collect for this Sunday Loving God, through your Son you have called us to repent of our sin, to beleive the good news, and to celebrate the coming of your kingdom. Grant that we may hear the call to discipleship and gladly proclaim the gospel to a waiting world; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THURSDAY 10.00am 3H Club 12.15pm Lunch Club FRIDAY 9.15am Prayer Focus (as arranged) 10.00am Coffee Morning 2.00pm Needles & Pins (fortnightly) 7.30pm Choir & Praise Band Practice Sittingbourne Methodist Church Original Real Easter Egg – new design Easter, I hear you say we've only just finished Christmas! Easter isn't that far away and the Original Real Easter Egg has had a complete re-design and now includes a 24 page Easter story book/3ft Happy Easter banner and a pack of milk chocolate Chunky Buttons in the box. Features: 3 crosses on the box, comes with Mark’s Resurrection text in lid, 24 page Easter storybook/3ft Happy Easter banner, milk chocolate egg, pack of our Chunky Buttons 25g and a donation to Traidcraft Exchange. We extend a warm welcome to everyone worshipping with us today. If you are new to our church we would like to stay in contact with you so please take a card from the vestibule and fill in your name and address, handing it to a Steward following the service. Your Steward today is: Barry Langford Today’s Worship will be led by 10.30am Local Arrangement – led by the Worship Leaders Next Sunday's Worship will be led by 9.00am Breakfast followed by All-age Worship at10.30am Rev Dr Gary Watt & Deacon Pru Cahill – Cafe Worship Led by the Family Trust The eggs are £3.99 each, if you would like to order one please speak Paul Skipp Visiting our church and would like to Gift Aid your giving? Please take a blue envelope from the table in the welcome area and simply fill in your details. Notices for inclusion in next weeks edition should be left in the pigeon hole marked “Weekly Notices” in the church welcome area, or telephoned to Tony Brown on 01795 437801, or e-mailed to him at [email protected] all by 10pm on Thursday 29th January 2015. YOUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR Those Bereaved - Bill Brightman and Family Those receiving treatment or unwell at home or in residential care: Jenny Dixon, Vera Brammer and Emily. New Mugs! JOYCE BRIGHTMAN The Funeral of Joyce Brightman will take place on Thursday 29th January at 12.00pm at the Garden of England Crematorium Bobbing followed by a Memorial Service at this church at 2.00pm. With light refreshments in the Frontline Coffee Lounge afterwards. CafeWorship on Sunday 1st February. Breakfast from 9.00am followed by All-age Worship at 10.30am led by the family Trust. Church Flowers The 2015 Flower rota is now up on the Notice Board in the Lounge. So if you find any dates that suit your requirements, please feel free to append your names as soon as possible. Alternatively make a donation of money to the Flower Fund by seeing Anne Skinner on 01634 373877 who will accept it for the Flower fund. It is the donations that enable the Flowers to be in the Church on Sundays. Fundraising Meeting A meeting will take place on Wednesday 4th February at 7.30pm in Meeting Room 1 to discuss future events to continue the work of God in this church and the wider community. Do you have an hour to spare? There are a number of small cleaning and maintenance jobs that need doing around the church building. Some of them not the most attractive like cleaning the large cooker hood in the main kitchen cutting down weeds and brambles behind the hall, cleaning out blocked drains etc. – Not the the most up-front jobs but still part of our Christian service. Will you help????????? We’ve had 1 volunteer! If you can please speak to Tony Brown or Jean Jeffery. Now we have returned to the coffee lounge at the front of the church it has been suggested that we have some nice matching bone china mugs. If everyone donated just £1.00 towards a mug this would make it possible (and we promise not to break them). Please pass donations to treasurer Tony Brown. Thank you. Food Allergens Following the new legislation put in place by the government which came into force on 13th December regarding food allergies, all food prepared on the church premises and any prepared at home and brought on to the premises must state if they contain any of the 14 main ingredients which people who suffer from a serious allergic reaction may be susceptible too. House Fellowship Group A full list of those ingredients will be displayed in the main hall and the lounge. T hank you Sunday 8th February will be Doreen Koffie-Williams and the 22nd February will be Judith German. will meet at the home of Bill and Jenny Prince, 16 Marjoram Drive on Monday 26th January, 7.15pm for 7.30pm. Change of Preacher Last weeks collection amounted to £322.65 this does not include amounts given by other means. MOBILE PHONES Please ensure your mobile ‘phone is either switched off (preferably) or on silent during a church service. Apart from the disturbance this causes if it goes off it can also affect the churches AV equipment.