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Pulling up the bucket
Ode to a Geordie
Quiztime - the
answers!
GenR8 news
Children & church
MAECARE Concert
Friends First
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Nigel writes about....Ending
or Beginning?
Does your worship in Church on a Sunday end your week. Or does it
begin a new week? Are you looking back when you come into church, or
looking forwards? A strange question to ask, perhaps, but a
significant one. It is easy to view church as a place of refuge, a
place to rest and recharge batteries at the end of a busy or
frustrating or tiring week. A better view would be to think of Sunday
worship as the place where one meets with the Lord God to be prepared
and equipped for the coming week.
Sunday is the first day of the week and worship should be the offering
of the best we have for the Lord, not the dregs at the ends. And the
same goes for your worship during the week. Do you give the Lord some
quality time? Or is it a few sleepy moments at the end of the day.
We were challenged by Keith Trout during his recent visit to St
Barnabas' Church to ask ourselves what kind of image or picture of
Jesus we show to the world. He pointed out that Jesus is the visible
image of the invisible God and that we are bearers of Christ in the
world.
It seems to me that the image of Christ within us needs to be renewed
and refreshed on a daily basis, otherwise the image and presence of
Jesus is out of date, or becomes battered and bruised and ill defined.
In these days of fear and anxiety about events in the wider world, we
are called to be bearers of hope and life. I found the following to be
helpful in my own walk with the Lord.
O Father, give my spirit power to climb to the fountain of all light,
and be purified. Break through the mists of earth, the weight of clay;
shine forth in splendour, you who are calm weather and quiet resting
place for restless souls. You carry us, and you go before us. You are
the journey and the journey's end.
Ode to a
Geordie
When God first made the universe, His handiwork was
grand.
He made a man of every creed to cultivate the land.He made Eskimos
for Iceland, Africans to stand the heat. But when He came to
Geordieland, He reckoned He was beat.
So He made a man of iron with muscles forged of steel, for hewing
coal and building ships. A job that He's done well, and just to
finish him off well, so I've been told.
He completed His first Geordie by giving him a heart of gold. So
when you ask, what is a Geordie? Just stop and think again, if it
wasn't for Geordie Stephenson we'd have no railway train and old Joe
Swan from Sunderland first made electric light.Then we had St
Geordie, slew the Dragon, well I think that's right!
DID YOU FIND
THE NAMES OF 16 BOOKS FROM THE BIBLE IN THE PARAGRAPH?
HERE ARE THE ANSWERS.
"I once made the reMARK about the hidden books of the
Bible. It was a luLU KEpt people looKING So
hard for fACTS - and for others it was a
REVELATION. Some were in a JAM ESpecially
since the names of the books were not capitalized. But the tRUTH
finally struck home to NUMBERS of our readers. To
others it was a real JOB. We want it to be A
MOSt fascinating few moments for you. YES THERe
will be some really easy ones to spot. Others may require
JUDGES to help them. I will quickly admiT IT USually
takes a minister to find one of them, and there will be loud
LAMENTATIONS when it is found. A little lady says sHE
BREWS a cup of tea so she can concentrate better. See how
well you can comPETE Relax now, for there really are
sixteen names of books of the Bible in this paragraph."
Courtesy of Grove Books
www.grovebooks.co.uk
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GenR8
The next GenR8 event is on Saturday 29 March
at St John's Church Hall.
As usual it will begin at 7pm (doors open from 6.30pm for
refreshments). The title of this event is "Putting
on the armour of God" and we look forward to you joining us as we look at this aspect of
worship together. The usual mix of audio-visual worship will be present
in this latest episode in our investigation of worship. If you haven't
been to one of these events before, then we hope you can come along and
see what is happening.
Diocese of Ripon & Leeds
Diocesan Council for Mission Children + Church
Worship and Prayer
A morning for people who work with children in church
With Diana Murrie, National Children's Officer for the Archbishops'
Council
Saturday 22nd March 9.30am - 1pm
St John's School Adel
Who is the day for?
Responding to feedback from the last event we are offering a morning on
prayer and worship for
* People praying and worshipping with children in junior church and Sunday
school (4-13)
* People who loch confidence in exploring prayer and worship with children
* People wanting to refresh their ideas for prayer and worship
with children
What will happen?
Diana Murrie, who is the National Children's Officer for the Archbishops'
Council will lead 2 sessions with workshops on:
(i) giving confidence in a range of approaches that can help children pray
(ii) developing skills for enabling children to worship both in junior
church and in contributing to the worship of the wider church family
Moor Allerton
Elderly Care (MAECare)
We are holding a fund-raising event on Tuesday 25th March at
1.45pm in
St Stephens' Church. Entertainment by the Alwoodley Singers.
Tickets are £2
Changing Your Life with New Friends
Friends First is an organisation that assists single Christians
to meet new friends and potential partners. It was established in early
2000 and Katharine Gray, the co-ordinator, has recently written to us
telling us that it continues to go from strength to strength as people of
all ages find new friendships really do change their lives. Katharine says
that the feedback she receives from happy members says it all:-
"I know I joined 'Friends First' to meet other people, but I cannot
believe what is happening in my life. I did not anticipate meeting someone
so lovely as Felicity and that we would get on so well. If I have learnt
anything over the last year it is that it is only when you take a risk,
only when you do something different, do you allow God to start working in
your life."
Membership continues to grow as the organisation attracts men and women
in their 20's to their 80's (and everything in between), from all walks of
life - both professionals and non professionals, single people and people
who've been married before.
Although it can seem daunting to join something like this, it is a
friendly, discrete and confidential service. Moreover the organisation is
founded on the principles of security, integrity and discretion. If you
think it's a service that might be of interest to you or your friends then
further details can be obtained in a number of ways. Look at
www.friendslst.co.uk, ring Katharine on 0121 427 1286 or write to her
P0 Box 8377, Birmingham B1 7 9TE, or finally email her at
info@friendslst.couk.
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