First Sunday in 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 Communion Service Revd Don Macalister
Retiring collection for the Benevolent Fund
6.30pm Rejoice! Worship, prayer and praise
THIS WEEK
Monday 2 March 7.15pm Elders Meeting
Tuesday 3 March 9.30am-12.00noon Coffee Morning
9.30-11.00am Tuesday Stay and Play
9.30am Prayer Meeting
Wednesday 4 March 9.30-11.00am Nurture Group
1.00pm Toddler Praise
1.30-3.00pm Parents and Toddlers
Thursday 5 March 10.15-11.15am Two Bridges Café
2.30pm Ladies Fellowship
Speaker: Paula Littlewood
7.30pm Lent Group (see opposite)
Friday 6 March 10.00-11.30am Hob Nob Tea, coffee, cakes
10.30am Lent Group (see opposite)
2.30pm World Day of Prayer Service
(see Messenger, p.6)
NEXT SUNDAY 8 MARCH 2020
10.30am Morning Service Deacon Joan Cole
4.30pm Café Church
FURTHER AHEAD
Monday 9 March 7.30pm Friendship Group
‘Folklore of Devon’ with Peter Christie
Saturday 14 March 8.30am Circuit Men’s Breakfast
Speaker: Steve Bedford:
11.30am-2.00pm Christian Aid Lent Lunch
Soup, roll, tea/coffee, home made biscuits
Monday 16 March 2.15pm ‘Time to be with God’
for everyone, especially those with memory loss and their carers (see Messenger, p.7)
Friday 20 March 7.00pm Mayor’s Charity Concert
in aid of See Hear Centre and Age Concern Barnstaple and District Tickets £5 from
Barum House, The Square, or on the door
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OTHER NOTICES
Fairtrade Fortnight, 24 February – 8 March Please take look at the display in the vestibule – and sample the chocolate!
‘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 are following the book ‘Journey to the Cross’, one meeting on Thursday evenings, beginning this week on 5 March, and another on Friday mornings, which began 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: Wed 4 March)
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