SOWERBY METHODIST CHURCH

www.sowerbymethodist.org.uk

 

‘Behind every saint stands another saint.’ (Friedrich von Hügel)

 

A very warm welcome to worship today, 2 November 2008, All Souls

 

10.30 am       Morning Worship: Rev Neil Graham

  6.30 pm       United Evening Worship at St Oswald’s: Rev Elizabeth Clark

  8.00 pm       After 8s: Fireworks Party at Bob’s

 

Monday          10.00 to 11.30 am Coffee at St James’s Green

                          7.30 pm Monday House Group at Chris Lawson’s

Tuesday         10.45 am Fellowship Group at The Green, looking at the parables of Jesus

2.30 pm Women’s Meeting: Anniversary Meeting: Mrs Joy Coates

  7.00 – 7.30 pm Local Preachers’ Meeting, followed by Chapter Meeting at 7.30, both at Northallerton chapel

  7.30 – 8.30 pm Tuesday Prayer Group (523245)

Wednesday     9.15 to 10.15 am Prayer in the Upper Room

Friday             10.15 to 10.30 am Prayer for church and world

                        10.30 am Coffee and conversation

12 noon to 1.30 pm Friendship Lunch at the Friends’ Meeting House

                         First Friday 6-7 pm 5 to 7 year olds; 7.30-9 pm 8 to 11 year olds

                         7.30 pm Choir rehearsal

 

Sunday 9 November 2008, Remembrance Sunday

 

10.00 am       Morning Worship: Rev Alan Powers

  5.30 pm       Worship at Cherry Garth

  6.30 pm       Evening Worship: Rev Elizabeth Clark

  8.00 pm       After 8s: Why do we need to remember?

 

People at Worship

Sunday 26 October 10.30 am 46; 6.30 pm 10.  Offering: £388.50

 

At the Church Council last Wednesday approval was given, in principle, to the suggested coffee mornings, sharing the evening service with Cherry Garth and a speaker in the spring to talk about encouraging growth in our church. All the proposals would undergo further discussion and planning by the Mission Co-ordinating Group and others. (I hope to append the minutes of the Council meeting to the weekly notices in due course.)

 

Sowerby NOW needs YOU!

Sowerby NOW is a quarterly colour glossy newspaper to be delivered to every one of the 1,800 Sowerby households (about 4,000 people), and it will replace Outlook. It is jointly owned by St Oswald’s Church and Sowerby Methodist Church, and is intended as a vehicle for outreach and mission, speaking to all the people who live in Sowerby, and as a community asset. It will be lively, readable, colourful, useful and non-pompous. Our two Churches’ editorial input will be ‘prominent but not dominant’.

We are seeking a small army of delivery volunteers who will each donate around one hour in every three months (starting 1 December) to extend further the mission of our Churches by taking Sowerby NOW out to our community (ie delivering to around 80-100 adjoining houses). These deliveries will replace the Christmas and Easter delivery of cards. If you are willing to help in this practical way, please leave your name, address and phone number with Norman Clark or on the list in the porch. Thank you.

 

Wednesday 12 November, 7.15 for 7.30 pm at the Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, Pickering, North Yorkshire Moors Churches Together host a meeting at which the speaker will be Rev Stephen Poxon, President of the Methodist Conference, on ‘The Grace of Hospitality’. Further information: Linda Gibbon 537421. (The President is also preaching at the 9.30 am service in Ripon Cathedral on 16 November.)

 

Saturday 15 November 4 pm and 7.30 pm at the Hambleton Forum: ‘Rock’, the story of Simon Peter by Roger Jones, conducted by Roger Jones. Tickets £8 (concessions £6), are available from Alison Daly or Jeanette Daly. For further information contact Janet Bryer 01609 773620.

 

Saturday 22 November, 7 pm at Romanby Methodist Church, ‘God through the seasons’: words & music with the Evergreen Singers. Tickets £5 from 01609 761414.

 

Friday 28 November, 7.30 pm in Thirsk Town Hall, ‘Design, Intelligence and the Word of God’. All are welcome to come and hear Andy McIntosh, Professor of Thermodynamics at Leeds University. Admission Free. (In association with Hambleton Evangelical Church)

 

J Sorry to say I couldn’t find any jokes about saints, so here is a selection about families, who should be saints because they put up with us…

 

An interviewer asked a high-powered executive, ‘Have any of your boyhood dreams been realised?’ ‘Yes,’ he replied, ‘when I was a little boy and my mother combed my hair, I always wished I didn’t have any.’

 

A father confided in a friend that he kept all his valuables in the bathroom. ‘With three teenage daughters, there is no way a burglar will ever get in there.’

 

They had been studying in school Darwin’s theory of evolution. When James got home he asked his mother, ‘Is it true that my ancestors were monkeys?’ ‘I can’t honestly tell you,’ said his mother, ‘I didn’t know your father’s family.’

 

Father to teenage son one Saturday morning, ‘No you can’t use the car, but please feel free to help yourself to the lawn-mower.’