INTIMATIONS 28th NOV
Men’s Club Indoor Bowls: The next meeting of the Indoor Bowls will be tomorrow afternoon 29th Nov at 1.30p.m. in the hall. A warm invitation is extended to all men of the congregation and friends to come along and enjoy an afternoon of fun and fellowship.
The Guild : The Guild Christmas meal is on Tuesday 7th December at the Radstone Hotel. 6:30pm for 7pm.
Christmas Bereavement Memorial Service : This will take place in St Machan’s Church on Sunday 12th December at 11.00a.m.
Church Magazine & Free Will Envelopes : The Christmas edition of the magazine is now ready for uplifting and delivery. The Free Will envelopes for next year are also now available and both can be collected after the service from the boxes in the Guild room. To access the Guild Room please leave as usual by the side doors and then make your way to the outside doors leading to the hall.
Christian Aid Retiral Offering : Following a recent request for help from our Christian Aid Co-Ordinator, Grace McGhee, highlighting the recent reports about the dreadful situation in Afghanistan the Session recently agreed to have a retiral offering which would go to Christian Aid’s Global Hunger Emergency Appeal. They are trying to provide food and medical supplies for more than 40 million people facing famine. Families in South Sudan, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso desperately need food and clean water to survive and are all included in the Global Hunger Appeal. Please pray for all those millions and, if you are able, please give what you can.
The offering will be taken next Sunday 5th December.
Flower Rota for 2022 : We are hoping to reintroduce flowers into our sanctuary from the beginning of the new year. A blank Flower Rota from January to June 2022 is now on the notice board in the Guild Room and I am looking for your help in filling up the calendar. Quite a number of folks have already put their name on the rota sheet and, to those folks, thank you - I am so very grateful. However, there are still a few dates to be filled. If you are able to take a turn, even if only for 1 Sunday, then please fill your name on the rota against the Sunday/s of your choice stating your preference as to supplying, delivering or both. If you would like to help for the first time and are unsure of what is involved, then please head through to the Guild Room entering via the outer doors to the hall after the service where I can let you know how it is organised. By offering your services you will, not only keep our Sanctuary beautiful on a Sunday morning but also, more importantly, will be providing a very important pastoral care role in the life of our Church. Thank you.
Prayer Group : Whilst the Prayer Group is not physically back up and running they have been, throughout lockdown actively supporting anyone they knew of in need of prayerful support, and continue to do so every week. If you would like someone’s name added to the prayer list please speak to Joe Williamson or Sadie McKnight.