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DEWSBURY MINSTER NOTICES (For a full diary, updated weekly, click on this website's Diary page). DEWSBURY MINSTER NOTICES; THIS WEEK'S DIARY FOR THE CHURCH, TEAM & COMMUNITY followed by INSPIRATIONS{www.dewsburyminster.org.uk} KEVIN is taking The Annual District Church Meeting at Trinity this morning & will be leading and preaching in The Minster this evening. Resources for children are available. Please make use of them, and if parents could tidy up afterwards, that would be a great help. Toilets can be found in the corridor at the end of The Lower Hall opposite the Worship Area. Refreshments are served in The Refectory after each of our Services. Please stay for a drink & a chat. Today’s Services & Readings are: 10.30am Holy Communion Isaiah 55 vs 1-9 (p.742) ; I Corinthians 10 vs 1-13 (p.1151) ; Luke 13 vs 1-9 (p.1046) ~o~ 6.30pm Evening Worship Psalm 12 (Sung as Hymn 766)) ; Genesis 28 vs 10-19a (p.30) John 1 vs 35-end (p.1064) Bibles for your use may be found in the bookrests of the chairs. We encourage you to follow the Readings, either in Church or at home later on. LENT There are Retiring Collections after Services during Lent in support of The Bishop’s Appeal. Monies received will be split between Issenye Secondary School (Lab for Lent) in our Link Diocese of Mara & The Bethany Healing Centre in this Diocese PLEASE PRAY FOR
THE MINSTER SHOP still needs Volunteers – please check the list and sign up for a session if you are able to do so. BLANKETS FOR THE BALKANS – If you enjoy knitting, please knit 6 inch squares to make blankets for those in real need among the people of the Balkans and hand the completed squares to Rita Hetherington who will arrange for them to be forwarded. Please also read the Information Prayer Letter that has been received with the grateful thanks of all those recipients in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania & Bulgaria. SAINSBURY’S “Active Kids” Vouchers are available again. Please don’t decline them, just bring them into church and we shall distribute among the many schools in which we work. THE INTERVIEW is billed as “a stunning, shimmering, heart breaking and relevant production” which addresses issues of The Holocaust and which will be shown at Dewsbury Town Hall during Holy Week. We are intending to make a Group Booking for Tuesday March 30th. If you would like to go, please sign the list on reception. The Prices are: Stalls £11 ; Concessions £8. Gallery £5 (with No Concessions) Please note: The List will be removed after today’s Service. HAS GOD BLESSED YOU with a reasonable voice? Would you like to find out more about joining the enthusiastic group of singers who lead our worship week by week ? If so, why not have a word with Stephen or Daniel and come along to one of the practices which are held fortnightly from 7.30pm – 9pm on a Friday night. ~o~ MINSTER PROJECT INFORMATION C.D’S “A CELEBRATION OF ORGAN MUSIC “featuring Gordon Stewart playing The Minster Organ are now on sale, priced £7.50. We have plenty to sell, so please commit to supporting CHURCH DIARY THIS WEEK
~o~ INSPIRATIONS Dear God,A Prayer for A New Day a simple prayer to You I pray, be by my side throughout the day, and may all the things I say or do, reflect the love that comes from You. Where there’s despair, pray, bring me hope, when I feel weak, please help me cope, and when I feel my anger burn, may it be to You I turn. And when the cold, dark night appears, relieve me Lord of all my fears, forgive me Lord of all my sins, until another day begins. AMEN A Prayer for This Week Lord Jesus, fill our souls with your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess our whole being so utterly, that our lives may only be a radiance of yours. Shine through us, and be so in us that every soul we come into contact with may feel your presence in our soul. Let them look up and see no longer us but only Jesus! Stay with us, and then we shall begin to shine as you shine; so to shine as to be a light to others; the light, Lord, will be all from you, none of it will be ours: it will be you, shining on others through us. So let us praise you in the way you love best by shining on those around us. AMEN (Source unknown)
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing. 2 Timothy 4 verses 7-8 ~o~ LITANY FOR A NEW YEAR Lord, as we begin this new year; as we surround ourselves with new resolutions and good intentions, help us, dear Lord: to remember your mercy and wait for your strength. As we leave behind the old year, as we put behind the mistakes, and celebrate the triumphs; help us, dear Lord: to remember your mercy and wait for your strength. As we walk into new days and nights, as we face the unknown and unexpected, the shocks and surprises; help us, dear Lord: to remember your mercy and wait for your strength. As we move on together as a church – and as a Team, as we seek to share each other’s joys, and bear each other’s burdens; help us, dear Lord: to remember your mercy and wait for your strength. ~o~ The Visitors They saw the star, and knowing it signified the birth of a king, they followed it. And travelled mile after mile; with hopes rising and falling, ever determined to discover the king. Joy filled them on their discovery and kneeling to worship him they gave not only their gifts – but their very selves. Unreservedly, with eagerness; knowing that here lay, in this tiny baby, their only hope of salvation. Copyright: Jo Elliston ~o~ “It’s amazing what God can do through you if you don’t care who gets the credit.” {Revd CanonGeorge Kovoor – Principal of Trinity College, Bristol} ~o~ "Ready steady slow Online advent calendar 2009 Take time out this Advent at www.whywearewaiting.com with go-slow lifestyle challenges and stories along with daily videos and podcasts from around the Church of England - and beyond. The online calendar opens on Advent Sunday November 29 with a special video message going live on Thursday November 26. The website will also have daily Bible passages and prayers. Fingertip facts from the CofE ~o~ THE CLEAREST MEANING
{Copyright: Ken Taylor – “Cradle of Hope” Mayhew 1997}
The manger confronts you with mystery but the message is quite plain: God-with-us (Emmanuel). It means he comes to us not waiting for us to come to him. It means that God is not only beyond us but beside us …in every situation. It means that he is with you wherever you are now. It means that he really does know and understand how you feel, what you fear or worry about, why you do what you do – and loves you. It means that even in the deepest darkness you are not alone. God-with-us means that you will never ever be alone again. And because Christmas is but the beginning of the miracle, “alongside us” also means that, suffering with us….and dying for us, he will lead us to resurrection.
… ~o~ DEDICATION Lord, you call us to your service- each in our own way. Some to caring, loving, healing; some to preach or pray; some to work with quiet learning, truth discerning, day by day. Life for us is always changing, as your work we share. Christian love adds new dimensions to the way we care. For we know that you could lead us, as you need us, anywhere. Seeing life from your perspective makes your challenge plain, as your heart is grieving over those who live in pain. Teach us how, by our compassion, we may fashion hope again. Lord, we set our human limits on the work we do. Send us your directing spirit, pour your power through, that we may be free in living, and in giving all for you. Copyright: Marjorie Dobson (LPMAA) ~o~ We pray for those Ordained in the Church of God: Lord our God, you have chosen ministers to serve you in your church, and have given them a perfect example in the person of your Son; pour your blessing on your servants, that by word and deed they may proclaim your saving love, and so enable all your people to grow up into Christ, who is our Lord and Head for ever and ever, AMEN. ~o~ A General Thanksgiving Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace and for the hope of glory. And we beseech thee give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we shew forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory, world without end. AMEN ~o~ Barnabas The Apostle: Bountiful God, giver of all gifts, who poured out your Spirit upon your servant Barnabas and gave him grace to encourage others: help us, by his example, to be generous in our judgements and unselfish in our service; through Jesus Christ your Son, our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. AMEN ~o~ God Bless Africa Let her fame spread far and wide Hear our prayer May God bless us! Come, Spirit, come! Come, Holy Spirit. Come and bless us, her children. ~o~ “Jesus was born in a borrowed manger. He preached from a borrowed boat. He entered Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey. He ate the Last Supper in a borrowed upper room and he was buried in a borrowed tomb. Now he asks to borrow the lives of Christians to reach the rest of the world.” {J.John – Evangelist” ~o~ “Don’t tell me ‘it is impossible for me to influence others.’ If you are a Christian, it is impossible for you NOT to influence others! It is impossible for a Christian’s light to lie concealed. So brilliant a lamp cannot be hidden.” St John Chrysostom – A.D. 307-407. ~o~ Our God is a God of risks. God is ready to jeopardise His divine enterprise, to have me as His agent of transformation so that the Kingdom of this world will become the Kingdom of God and His Christ. Archbishop Desmond Tutu. ~o~ Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! ~o~ A wooden stall, rough hewn when first he came, and then old Joseph’s bench, and wood to plane. Then last of all those hands so good were nailed upon a cross of wood. Marion Wilmshurst ~o~ Some helps….If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it. |
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