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BISHOP STREET METHODIST CHURCH Sunday 7th March 2010 Join us for tea/coffee in the foyer after the services.
Lectionary Readings for today: FLOWERS: today are given by Mrs M Roberts in memory of Mrs W G Sharpe, and arranged by Dee Brunning We're glad that during the month of March our TEENAGERS are helping us plan the services. They will also go out as a group with something relevant to do for part of each week's worship. If you know teenagers who would like to come and join in during March please invite them to come. During Lent we are collecting small change for WaterAid to help those who have no access to safe, clean water. Every Sunday we have a bucket for donations. If you are giving something up for Lent you might like to consider giving the money saved to this worthwhile cause. WaterAid and its partners work in some of the poorest parts of the world, using practical solutions to provide safe water, constructing basins to harvest rainwater, tapping into existing springs, constructing subsurface dams, piping water downhill in high areas, digging wells, installing handpumps and buckets and providing better sanitation.
NEW ROTA: We need to get the New rota, for March, April, May, filled in as soon as possible. Please enter as many dates as you are able to offer, on the board in the Foyer. Thank you. NEW ROTA: The first draft of the New rota, for March, April, May, is now out, but please fill in as many of the blank dates as you are able to offer, on the board in the Foyer. Thank you.
“God, you are awesome.” HALSTEAD QUIZ NIGHT: Saturday March 13th is the annual Halstead Methodist Quiz Night in aid of the Leprosy Mission. Held at the Village Hall at Tilton on the Hill, this is a cheerful social occasion, with a fabulous meal and teams entering from around the circuit and the locality. Bishop Street will be entering a team again. See Sheila Swire for details and ticket prices. SOMETHING NEW FOR LENT: During Lent 2010 Bishop Street Methodist Church are having weekly sessions in our foyer for people to learn basic British Signing for welcome and worship. This is a sociable, free way of being able to welcome and include any deaf people who may come to the church services. The sessions will be each Wednesday in Lent, from 12.00-12.45, followed by a short 1.00pm service which will include some of the signing learnt. People are welcome to join us for any or all of these sessions. Fairtrade Fortnight ends today: We are promoting this annual celebration of Fairtrade by giving away tea-bags for people to sample. Please take one, and try it if you don’t normally use fairtrade tea, or pass it on to someone else, if you are able. Have a look in the shops this week, to see what other fairtrade offers and products you can switch to. Forward Planning Meeting is taking an Easter Break. Next Meetings: Thursday 6th May and Thursday 3rd June (both meetings at 152 Victoria Park Road), Arrive from 7.00 for 7.30 start. End Water Poverty. March 22nd is World Water Day, and to raise awareness of the need for sufficient safe water around the world, there is to be an attempt to get the record for the longest toilet queue in the world. To be part of this, and to mark the completion of our new disabled toilet, we shall be forming a 10 minute queue to our new toilet after our service on Sunday March 21st. Please stay and be part of this celebration and campaign. (And don’t forget, we will also still be collecting the small change for WaterAid as well.)
CHURCH CALENDER
Sat 27th Spring Cleaning Day: Come along between 10.00am and 2.00pm to help for an hour or two.
APRIL 2010 WESLEY HALL Gospel Concert is on Saturday 20th March, 7.00pm, featuring Kainé Gospel Choir, Mark Bunney and more. Tickets available on the door. University of Leicester Chaplaincy Lecture, 2010: This is a public lecture at 5.30pm on Thursday 11th March in the Ken Edwards Building LT3. Dame Mary Tanner, European President of the World Council of Churches will be speaking on “Transformative Conversations in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue”. Visit to WESLEY HOUSE, Cambridge. You are invited to join the Wesley Hall members for a day out in Cambridge, on Sat. May 15th. The coach, from Mayflower Church at 9.00am, returning c.6.30pm, will cost £7.50/person. David Palmer will lead tours around Wesley House Theological College. Wesley Methodist Church, will provide morning coffees and afternoon teas, and there will be plenty of time to explore the city. Bring a packed lunch, or eat out in Cambridge. Please sign the list if you would like a place. Further details from Jenny, tel. 0116 2519553
For future notices please send any items by 10.30am on Friday to the Church office. Tel. 0116 255 4111, Email office@bishopstreetchurch.org.uk If you would like to receive these notices each week by email, please email us at office@bishopstreetchurch.org.uk Visit our website: www.bishopstreetchurch.org.uk For national Methodist news have a look at www.methodist.org.uk/momentum
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- you are pregnant - you have a sick child under one year old - your condition suddenly gets much worse - your condition is still getting worse after seven days (or five days for a child) The National Pandemic Flu Service is a self-care service that will asses your symptoms and, if required, provide an authorisation number which can be used to collect antiviral medication from a local collection point. For those who do not have internet access, the same service can be accessed by telephone on:
Key actions Swine flu is spreading fast in the UK. Prepare now by:
Key reading
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