Sunday 8th March 2020

Second 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          Morning Service Deacon Joan Cole                       

4.30pm            Café Church

THIS WEEK

Monday 9 March        2.30pm at Fremington Methodist Church

                                    Methodist Women in Britain Committee

                                    7.30pm Friendship Group

                                    ‘Folklore of Devon’ with Peter Christie 

Tuesday 10 March      9.30am-12.00noon Coffee Morning

                                    9.30-11.00am Tuesday Stay and Play

                                    9.30am Prayer Meeting

                                    10.00am-12.00noon Sound It Out

Wednesday 11 March 9.30-11.00am Nurture Group

                                    1.00pm Toddler Praise

                                    1.30-3.00pm Parents and Toddlers

Thursday 12 March    10.15-11.15am Two Bridges Café

                                    2.30pm Ladies Fellowship

                                    Speaker: Revd Tim Sutton

                                    7.30pm Lent Group

Friday 13 March         10.00-11.30am Hob Nob Tea, coffee, cakes

                                    10.30am Lent Group

Saturday 14 March     8.30am Men’s Breakfast: Steve Bedford

                                    11.30am-2.00pm Christian Aid Lent Lunch

                                    Soup, roll, tea/coffee, home made biscuits 

                        NEXT SUNDAY 15 MARCH 2020

10.30am          Family Service Revd Don Macalister

12.30pm          Kenya Calling! A preparatory meeting for Christian

                        Aid Week in May, led by Jill Stone, Regional

                        Coordinator for Christian Aid South West.

                        See notice board in corridor. Bring your own lunch. 

6.30pm            Communion Service Revd Robert Hurley

                                    FURTHER AHEAD

Monday 16 March      2.15pm ‘Time to be with God’

                                    for everyone, especially those with memory loss and their carers (see Messenger, p.7)

                                    2.30pm Third Monday Bible Study Group

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 and another on Friday mornings. Please feel free to join them.  

               Minister: Revd Don Macalister (Day off: Sat 14 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

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