WELCOME TO THE SERVICE

Please join us for coffee and tea in the Wesley Hall following the 10:30am service. Traidcraft goods and greetings cards will be on sale. If this is your first visit, we invite you to sign the Visitors' Book and collect a Welcome Pack

Creche facilities are available at the 10.30am service.

Please ask a steward for directions.

Sunday, 5^th October 2008 – Ordinary 27

Disability Sunday

Today's Services

9.00am Holy Communion led by Rev Barbara McIntivey

10.30am Morning Worship led by Mrs Anna Mwadiwa

Tapes of this service are available if you are, or know of someone, unable to make it to the service. Please ask one of the stewards if you wish to borrow one of them.

Isaiah 5:1-7 / Philippians 3:4b-14 / Matthew 21:33-46

Blessèd are you, O Lord,

and blessed are those who observe and keep your law.

Help us to seek you with our whole heart,

to delight in your commandments

and to walk in the glorious liberty

given us by your Son, Jesus Christ,

in whose name we make our prayer. Amen.

Almighty and everlasting God,

mercifully look upon our infirmities,

and in all our dangers and necessities

stretch out your hand to help and defend us;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Flowers are given in loving memory of Fred Beer

Today

• Pudding Club – delicious puds are available in the Wesley Hall after the 10.30am service. Come to choose yours!

• Pinkneys Green House Fellowship meets 8.00pm at 8, The Paddock.
• Belmont Group meets 8.00pm at 11 Belmont Road, home of the Barratt's. All interested are invited to come along and join them.

• Toddlers meet 9.30am
• Wesley Walkers meet 10:15 at the Royal Standard, Wooburn Common Road, Wooburn Green, HP10 0JS (grid ref SU922876).   Walk about 4 miles. The route is almost flat with no hills and was firm and dry but could get muddy if it rains. Contact Gordon Nevill (638745).

• Brownies meet 6.15pm and Guides meet 7.00pm

• Cubs meet 6.30pm

• High Street Art Workshop 10am – 12.30pm. Check beforehand with Liz on 625604
• Lunchtime Communion Service at 12.30pm.
• Beavers meet 6.00pm
• Questors – seeking to draw closer to Jesus - meet 8.00pm at the home of Lavinia and Elijah Kommu, 20 Winbury Court, West Road, SL6 1PD. (See Other Notices)

Friday

• Coffee 10am to 12 noon in the Wesley Hall – Jan Fenner & Jean Austin
• Lunch Club meets 1pm in the Wesley Hall
• Scouts meet 7.30pm
• Choir practice 8.00pm

Saturday

• Coffee 10am to 12 noon in the Wesley Hall – Sea Scouts
• "Once upon a Time....." a story-telling, by David England, 7.30pm in the Wesley Hall, Café style event with coffee and cakes. Tickets price £5.00 available from Jean Barnett 01628 629675 (children free). Please come and support this event for the Restoration Fund.

• Saturday 11^th of October - Coach/Boat Trip to the Isle of Wight arranged by Burnham Methodist Church. Coach leaves Lent Rise at 8:30am, and returns 8:30-9:00pm. Cost is £25.00 for the day (coach, ferry and tea included). If you are interested, please call Jo Webb 01628 603014.
• Sunday, 19^th October, 3.00 pm - Maidenhead Interfaith group service hosted by the Christian Science Church, Maidenhead during the Week of Prayer for World Peace (19^th – 26^th October). Christian churches are asked to lead both the opening and closing ten minute slots, which is a kind recognition of the Christian community's majority presence in the area.
• Saturday 15^th November, 7.00pm – Quiz Night and Supper in aid of Restoration Fund. Make up your own team of 6 or join a team on the night. Tickets £10 available from the Church Office or Margaret Maskell (674036).

OTHER NOTICES

• Thanks to the stewards and helpers who arranged the delicious harvest lunch last week. Also a special BIG thank you to all who helped decorate our church so wonderfully, and to distribute the produce later.
• CROW A big thank you to all who welcomed visitors at this event. 6 walkers and 6 cyclists (aged 6 to 60+) visited High Street throughout the day and were pleasantly surprised and impressed by the interior of the church, having passed it often but never been inside. A special thanks to Ruth and Robert Hill who participated, cycling round several local churches. Donations are still welcome (50% to Berkshire Historic Churches Trust who have given us a £5,000 grant and 50% to Restoration). Please give to either Ruth or myself. Keep Saturday 12 September 2009 free for next year's event! Irene Morse
• If anyone would like their name put on the preaching plan list, please telephone Jill Griffiths on 675652
• The Church Choir has recently lost several members, and is now in need of some new voices, particularly sopranos. If you feel you could help us, please speak to any choir member. Training could be given if necessary. Please think carefully whether you could help, otherwise we may find it very difficult when the Carol Service etc. comes along.
• Sunday Coffee – please, please volunteer to take YOUR TURN to serve coffee on a Sunday after Church. We are ALL busy!!  Please ring 01628 625823.
• The Maidenhead Advertiser is offering a share of £20,000 to Community Groups who collect a minimum of 200 tokens from the paper. Tokens for the Scout Group should be given to Dorothy Minors, or for the Guides should be given to Don or Judy Stimson, or left in the pigeonhole for Claire Boycott.
• Questors – Jack Roberts will be leading a series on The Revelation of St John. Please come and join us, everyone is welcome. For more information ring Rosemary and Arthur 01628 633720.
• Jack Roberts in Bourne End is offering some interesting, constructive and relevant Bible Study.  He is willing to come to a morning, afternoon or evening group.  Please contact Jack at 01628 522 131 to make arrangements.
• Every month Waitrose in Maidenhead donates £1000 to a local charity. Customers are given a green token at point of sale to put in a collection box near the door. Three charities are nominated each month with a percentage of the money going to all of them dependent on the number of tokens collected. The Bridge Trust (which sponsors Re:Charge) and Family Friends have been nominated as two of the charities for this month. Please help us by doing your shopping at Waitrose and donating your token to us.

• The funeral of Pam Gibbs will take place on Wednesday 8^th October. There will be a private service at Easthampstead Crematorium at 11.15am followed by a memorial service at Holy Trinity Church, Bracknell at 12.30pm to which all are welcome. No flowers please but donations in lieu to Thames Hospicecare, c/o A B Walker Funerals, 157 Binfield Road, Bracknell RG42 2BB.
• Love and sympathy to Pat and Alan Crowle on the death of Pat's mother on Monday, 29^th September.

Sunday, 12^th October 2008

10.30am Holy Communion led by Rev Philip Morse

6.30pm Evening Worship led by Rev Philip Morse

The Offering for Sunday 28^th September totalled £1031.95

Items for Notices to Anne in the office by Friday 9.00am latest

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