Kidszone Rota
TODAY – Catherine Dalzell and Chloe McCormick
13th & 20th October – Joyce Currie and Louise Milliken
Porch Duty Rota
TODAY – Valerie McCutcheon and Ian Wilson
13th & 20th October – Ivan and Pat Crawford
TODAY is our Communion Service: Please note that Kidzone will be held in the Archie Agnew Hall. The children should be collected from there after the end of the service. Thank you.
The Rev Dalzell will be preaching at the evening Harvest Service in the Parish Church TONIGHT at 6.00 pm. All our members are invited to join our neighbours in the Parish for this service. Thank you.
The Church office is now open until 2.45pm on a Tuesday and Wednesday, and 1.45pm on a Friday.
Wednesday Private Prayer:- Our church is open for private prayer and quiet reflection every Wednesday morning. If you have any pastoral needs, please contact our minister Rev. Paul Dalzell or leave a message with our church secretary.
‘Wednesday Welcome‘:- The Hub is open on a Wednesday morning from
10:30 to 12 noon. Anyone is welcome to call in, a warm welcome is assured.
Bible Characters & Their Prayers
Prayer & Bible Study – Commencing this Wednesday 9th October at 7.30pm. Over a series of 4 Wednesday evenings, we will consider different aspects of prayer as seen in Abraham, Moses, Nehemiah and Daniel. If you would like to attend you will be made very welcome as we explore God’s Word and share together.
Something New! Hobby Hub continues this Thursday, 2-4pm in the Hub.
This is an opportunity for fun and fellowship while sharing interests and skills in a safe and relaxed setting. Please come along and support this new venture.
Feel free to invite family and friends. We pray this will evolve and grow in the coming months.
Saturday Coffee Morning: Our coffee mornings are continuing to be
held in The Hub every Saturday from 10:30 – 12 noon.
Come and enjoy tea/coffee and scones and bring your friends! Specialty coffees are also available from our new dispensing machine in the foyer.
Harvest Services: Our Harvest Services this year take place next Sunday 13th October. As before, we would ask members of the congregation to donate gifts of pot- plants, flowers and other appropriate items to decorate our church for these services. These should be left down at the church from 9:30 am next Saturday morning. Could we also invite members to leave in items that can be donated to Storehouse North Down. There is currently a particular need for tinned meats and sweetcorn, long life milk, jam, size 7 nappies and shampoo. Our morning service will be led by Rev Dalzell and our organist and choir are working hard in preparation for this important annual event in our church calendar.
Our evening service will be at 7:00 pm. and our guest preacher will be Rev Elliot Swattridge. After the service, the congregation is invited over to our church hall where light refreshments will be served. We would request that Elders remain behind to collect gifts for distribution before going over to the church hall.
PW starts the year on Monday 14th October at 7.30pm when our stars will be
Pat and Paul Miller. Hope to see you there.
Operation Christmas Child – This is an invitation to anyone, men and women, who would like to cover a shoe box for ‘The Samaritan’s Purse Christmas Child Appeal’ but is not sure just how to decorate their empty box.
Come along on Thursday 17th October at 10.30am with as many shoe boxes as you can, and if you have some spare Christmas paper, bring it along too. We can work together and have a chat and cup of tea or coffee while decorating the boxes. Some of them we can use ourselves and some can be left in the church for others to fill. All the boxes will be collected by the end of October.
Do come along on Thursday 17th for a fun morning.
A Right Royal Afternoon Tea – Hosted by the Mission Committee in the Archie Agnew Room on Saturday 19th October at 2:30 p.m. Guest Speaker –
Rev. Derek Kerr. Please come along and support this event which should be a fun day. Rev Derek Kerr is a renowned royal enthusiast and entertaining speaker. Proceeds will be in aid of ‘Open Doors’ supporting persecuted Christians around the world. Tickets available from members of the mission committee or church office- Price £10. If anyone has a spare cake stand that we could borrow for the day, please let us know. Thank you.
Advance Notice:
Sunday 20th October, 11.00am – Guides and Boys Brigade Service
Dr Pam Saturnia will be visiting us with a group from Muscatine Presbyterian Church, USA
Sunday 27th October, 11.00am – special guests, PCI Missionaries Stephen and Angelina Cowan
IMPORTANT NOTICE please note the Kirk Session has agreed, as part of our safeguarding policy, that in all public services of worship no photographs or videos may be taken without prior permission being sought and received from the Kirk Session
