We welcome everyone to our services today, especially any visitors, and invite you to stay for coffee after the morning service. If you are new to the area and would care to leave us your name and address please speak to one of the stewards after the service. All children 3+ are welcome at SPARK
Thought for the Week
"Take the best into your mind and only that. Nurture it, concentrate on it, visualize it, pray over it, surround it with faith. Make it your obsession. Spiritually creative mindpower, aided by God power, will produce the best. Never start a day or any job without praying about it. You will get some of your best ideas that way"
(From Positive Thinking Bible - A footnote by Norman Vincent Peale)
SERVICE TODAY
10.30 am Morning Worship & Communion … Rev W. Stuart Drummond
SERVICE NEXT SUNDAY
10.30 am Morning Worship ……………………… Rev W. Stuart Drummond
Lead Steward Today: ……………… Sheila Le Noury - Tel.644594
Next week:………… Derek Bristow - Tel. 654558
WEEKLY DIARY
Tuesday 10.00am Squeals on Wheels
10.15am Banner Group
2.15pm Table Tennis
7.30pm Ashcroft Ladies coffee at
Margaret Goddbeer's
Friday 10.00am Coffee Cup
Ashcroft Ladies
Tuesday 5th we are meeting at the home of Margaret Godbeer at 7.30 for coffee and chat. Tel: 01285 655911
Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust
Annual Sponsored Ride/Walk 2008: Saturday 13th September
Although usually known as a bike ride, this can be done as a walk. Including St Peter's Stratton (to which we would start by catching a bus), there are ten churches in and around Cirencester. Although it is a sponsored walk with half the money raised going to the 'home' church, there is no pressure at all to raise money. If anyone is interested in joining a group to do this, and invite friends from other churches to join us, please speak to Dinah Wise Tel. 652744 soon!
G A R A S
There will be a collection of goods for this refugee organisation at Coffee Cup on FRIDAY August 15th 10.am - 11. 30.am. Here are some suggestions for articles which would be appreciated, (a comprehensive list is on the Notice board) : Tinned food (Not baked beans), dry goods, toiletries.
This is our local mission project this year and your support would be very welcome. - Thora Manning
NCH
Would those who have NCH Collecting Boxes, please let Ralph Stephen have them at the end of this month or in early August if possible. (He expects to be at Morning Service on 27th July, 3rd and 10th August.)
Order Of Service
Minister
Rev. Stuart Drummond
Organist
Miss Janet Edwards
Steward’s Welcome – then a Pause for Quietness.
Introduction to worship:
Leader: God said, ‘Let joy abound!’
And he created a world of infinite beauty.
Inspired by what he saw, a Psalmist said:
ALL: ‘You have made humankind master over all that you
have made, crowning us with glory and honour…
You have put everything in subjection under our feet:
all sheep and oxen, all the wild beasts,
the birds of the air, the fish of the sea,
and everything that moves along the ocean paths.’
Leader: God said, ‘Let joy abound!’
And he gave his Law and sent prophets to teach his will.
Inspired by God’s Spirit, one named Isaiah said:
ALL: ‘The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me
because he has anointed me;
he has sent me to announce good news to the
humble and to bind up the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to captives,
release to those in prison…
and comfort to all who mourn.
Leader: God said, ‘Let joy abound!’
And he came himself, incarnate in Christ who proclaimed
God’s Kingdom and blessed people with these words:
ALL: ‘I am the bread of life…My words are the words
of eternal life.’
‘Peace is my parting gift to you, my own peace,
such as the world cannot give.’
Leader: God said, ‘Let joy abound!’
And he gifted his Holy Spirit to all who believe in him
that we may know that God’s joy abounds!
ALL: In the joy God gives, we praise our Maker.
Amen
HYMN H&P 50 BEHOLD, THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD
(Glasgow)
Prayer of Approach & Thanksgiving:
Short talk:
HYMN CMP 50 BE STILL, FOR THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD
(Be Still)
Spark Leave Congregation: The Lord be with you
Spark: And also with you
Readings: Isaiah 55vv1-5 Joyce Miller
Matthew 14vv13-21 George Smith
Minister: For the Word of God in scripture,…among us,…within us,
ALL: Thanks be to God.
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
HYMN H&P 483 THANKS TO GOD WHOSE WORD…
(Regent Square / 80)
Sermon
Offering & Dedication
HYMN JESUS CALLS US HERE TO MEET HIM
(Tune: Lewis Folk Melody – Common Ground 66;
Words: John Bell & Graham Maule / WGRG Iona Community)
v1 Jesus calls us here to meet him
as, through word and song and prayer,
we affirm God’s promised presence
where his people live and care.
Praise the God who keeps his promise;
praise the Son who calls us friends;
praise the Spirit who, among us,
to our hopes and fears attends.
v2 Jesus calls us to confess him
Word of Life and Lord of all,
sharer of our flesh and frailness
saving all who fail and fall.
Tell his holy human story;
tell his tales that all may hear;
tell the world that Christ in glory
came to earth to meet us here.
v3 Jesus calls us to each other:
vastly different though we are;
race and colour, class and gender
neither limit nor debar.
Join the hand of friend and stranger;
join the hands of age and youth,
join the faithful and the doubter
in their common search for truth.
v4 Jesus calls us to his table
rooted firm in time and space,
where the church in earth and heaven
finds a common meeting place.
Share the bread and wine, his body;
share the love of which we sing;
share the feast for saints and sinners
hosted by our Lord and King.
Sacrament of Holy Communion / United Reformed Church order
HYMN H&P 69 THE KING OF LOVE MY SHEPHERD IS
(Dominus Regit Me)
Benediction & Amen