Sunday before Lent
Welcome to worship
If you are able to, please do stay for tea, coffee, biscuits and fellowship after the morning service. If you are visiting from another congregation, do make yourself known and take our greetings back with you to your home church.
TODAY
10.30am Morning Service Revd Don Macalister
6.30pm Evening Service Revd Don Macalister
THIS WEEK
Monday 24 Feb 7.30pm Friendship Group
Sharon Snell: ‘Braddicks Family History’
Tuesday 25 Feb 9.30am-12.00noon Coffee Morning
9.30-11.00am Tuesday Stay and Play
10.00am-12.00noon Sound It Out
10.30am Communion Service
Wednesday 26 Feb 9.30-11.00am Nurture Group
9.30-11.00am Wednesday Stay and Play
1.00pm Toddler Praise
1.30-3.00pm Parents and Toddlers
7.00pm Ash Wednesday Circuit Service
Revd Sue Macbeth
Thursday 27 Feb 10.15-11.15am Two Bridges Café
2.30pm Ladies Fellowship
Speaker: Revd Stuart Innals
7.30pm Circuit Conversation
‘God in Love Unites Us’ (see opposite)
Friday 28 Feb 10.00-11.30am Hob Nob Tea, coffee, cakes
10.30am Lent Group (see opposite)
Saturday 29 Feb 9.30am-4.00pm Christ Church hosts Safeguarding Training Day
NEXT SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2020
10.30am Communion Service Revd Don Macalister
Retiring collection for the Benevolent Fund
6.30pm Rejoice! Worship, prayer and praise
FURTHER AHEAD
Monday 2 March 7.15pm Elders Meeting
Thursday 5 March 7.30pm Lent Group (see below)
Friday 6 March 2.30pm World Day of Prayer Service
Saturday 14 March 8.30am Circuit Men’s Breakfast
Speaker: Steve Bedford:
11.30am-2.00pm Christian Aid Lent Lunch
Friday 20 March 7.00pm Mayor’s Charity Concert
in aid of See Hear Centre and Age Concern Barnstaple and District Tickets £5
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OTHER NOTICES
‘God in Love Unites Us’ a proposed report of the Marriage and Relationships Working Group to the Methodist Conference. Before the Circuit Conversation on the report’s contents, you are invited to take and read one of the packs that are available in the vestibule.
‘Faith’s Fields of Hope’ a Christian Aid Lenten pamphlet in the vestibule, inviting us to count our blessings. Please take a copy.
Lent Groups Both our groups will be following the book ‘Journey to the Cross’, one meeting on Thursday evenings, beginning on
5 March and another on Friday mornings beginning on 28 February, both in Room 4. There is a signing-up sheet and a sample copy of the book on the table in the vestibule
Minister: Revd Don Macalister (Day off: Sat 29 Feb)
Room bookings, please, to Ian Allen Tel: 01271 374085 or ianallen065@gmail.com. Details for next Sunday’s notices, please, to Tony Coates by the preceding Wednesday, 6.00pm. Tel: 01237 471740 or coates@anthea-tony.eclipse.co.uk
