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 September – Ordinary 23

Today’s Services

10.30am Morning Worship led by Mr Richard Cracknell

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.

6.30pm Holy Communion led by Rev Gary Homewood

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 / Psalm 1 / Philemon 1-21 / Luke 14:25-33

O God, you bear your people ever on your heart and mind.

Watch over us in your protecting love,

that, strengthened by your grace

and led by your Spirit,

we may not miss your way for us

but enter into your glory,

made ready for all in Christ our Lord. Amen

Go before us, Lord, in all that we do,

with your most gracious favour

and guide us with your continual help,

that in all our works,

begun, continued and ended in you,

we may glorify your holy name,

and finally by your mercy obtain everlasting life;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

	Stewards	Door Stewards	Organist	Bible Reader
10.30am	Felicity Kendon Mark Zieg	Pauline & Michael Moore	Gillian Yard	Laura Zieg
6.30pm	Felicity Kendon Mark Zieg		Pat Crowle	Lavinia David

Flowers are given by Arnold Johnson

Monday

· Belmont Bible Study Group meets 8.00pm at 11 Belmont Road, home of the Barratt's. All interested are invited to come along and join them.

Tuesday

o Toddlers 9.30am

· Wesley Walkers meet 10.00am at The Royal Oak, Ruscombe Lane, Twyford RG10 9JN to choose lunch menu followed at 10.15am by flat 4 mile walk, partly along River Loddon and through Nature Reserve. Don and Judy Stimson (620429)

· Finance Committee meets 7.45pm in the Bromley Room

Wednesday

· Cubs meet 6.30pm

Thursday

· High Street Art Workshop 10.00am – 12.30pm. Check beforehand with Liz on 625604.

· Questors Bible Study Group meets 8.00pm at the home of Lavinia and Elijah Kommu, 9 Crescent Drive, Maidenhead SL6 6AQ. For more information ring Rosemary and Arthur on 633720.

Friday

· Church Open Morning 9.30am – 12.30pm – Volunteer needed / Jill Griffiths

· Coffee 10.00am to 12 noon in the Bromley Room – Jan Fenner

o Lunch Club meets 1.00pm in the Wesley Hall

· Scouts meet 7.30pm

· Choir practice 8.00pm in the Church

Saturday

· Church Open Morning 9.30am – 12.30pm – Tony Stock

o Coffee 10.00am to 12 noon in the Wesley Hall – Home Missions

Saturday 11^th September

3.00 – 5.00pm – Come and meet our new minister, Rev Gary Homewood and his family at St Mark’s Methodist Church, and enjoy afternoon tea and garden games.

10.00 – 6.00pm RIDE + STRIDE (formally known as CROW)

Visit as many Churches as you can between 10am and 6.00pm (including High Street and St Mark’s!) Money raised will be shared between your Church and the Berkshire Churches Trust.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

· Wednesday 15^th September, 8.00pm – Worship Committee meets in the Bromley Room (please note rescheduled date for this meeting)

· Sunday 19^th September, 6.00pm – Come, Taste and Sing at Old Windsor for Harvest with Rev Barbara McIntivey. Tea served from 5.00pm

· Monday 20^th September, 7.30pm – WAMCF Women’s Group meeting at Sikh Temple, Rutland Road, Maidenhead and deadline for contributions to “Women of Faith” project. See details on notice board.

· Thursday 23^rd September, 7.45pm – Mission and Outreach Committee meets in the Bromley Room.

· Saturday 25^th September, 10.00 – 2.00pm - Come and have fun making small craft items for the Christmas Fair – no experience needed, materials will be provided and we’ll show you what to do. Ask Gwyneth for more details.

· Sunday 26^th September – Windsor Half Marathon. Imran (Bobby) Malik will be running in aid of Living Hope, a charity which seeks to improve the lives of children in Pakistan. To sponsor Bobby, please fill in your details on the sponsorship form on the notice board. Thank you.

· Saturday 16^th October – Burnham Methodist annual coach trip to Isle of Wight, with lunch in Shanklin. Coach leaves Burnham 8.30am sharp and returns about 9pm. Cost is £30 including coach fare, return ferry between Southampton and Cowes and tea at Totland Methodist Church. Contact Jo Webb on 01628 603014 or 07527 173997 by 30^th Sept to reserve your place.

· Saturday 23^rd and Sunday 24^th October – Sing Lustily and with Good Courage. A weekend workshop for singers and instrumentalists being held in Crowborough, East Sussex.  Accommodation is not included. See leaflet on notice board for more details.

YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOUR HELP

· VOLUNTEER DRIVER(S) STILL NEEDED to help bring people in for Sunday morning worship and also for Friday Lunch Club. If you are able to help at all, but preferably on a regular, even if infrequent, basis, Anne-in-the-Office will bite your arm off/welcome your kind offer!

· CHURCH OPEN MORNINGS We still need volunteers to step up for 1½ hrs once in a while during the Open Mornings each Friday and Saturday. Please contact Arthur Baker to offer help or put your name up on the list on the notice board outside the Choir Vestry.

OTHER NOTICES

· FLOWER FESTIVAL “AUTUMN GLORY” 2010 - We invite you to let us have up to five photographs each for display during the event.   The photographs can be of any subject, not necessarily limited to "Autumn".  They should be in colour, and each print should be no larger than 7 x 5 inches.  Please add your name and a title to the back of each, place them in an envelope addressed to David Birch, and put them in the pigeon hole outside the kitchen door.    The closing date is right  after the morning service on  September 19th.  All pictures will be returned during October.

· CHURCH MAGAZINE – COPY DEADLINE TODAY Articles on paper to Michael Minors, or by email to michael@minors.free-online.co.uk .

· PRAYER MANUALS are now available price £3.05. Please collect next Sunday, September 5^th, from Pat at the Fairtrade stall.

· ACTION FOR CHILDREN - Illustrated brochures for diaries and Christmas cards are now available from Rosemary & Arthur Baker.  The diaries are red and priced £2.00 each. Please order as soon as you can for October delivery.  Thank you

· CTiM CHRISTMAS LUNCH - The caterer who has prepared the meal for a number of years is unable to do so this year and we need someone who will be able to take charge of cooking a full Christmas lunch for up to 120 guests, most of them elderly.  The food will need to be delivered, before 1pm, to WAMDSAD, Braywick Road where the event is held. All ingredients will be provided by CTIM. If you can help please call either Tony Weeks on 01628 627 265 or Pietro Abate/Kathryn Reddy on 01628 824 506.

· JENGA – Does anyone have the large garden version of Jenga which they could lend to Felicity?

CHURCH FAMILY NEWS

· Philip Morse sends greetings and good wishes for the new Methodist year.

Sunday, 12^th September 2010

9.00am Holy Communion led by Rev Gary Homewood

10.30am Holy Communion led by Rev Gary Homewood

The Offering for Sunday 29^th August totalled £ 1,013.05

plus £7.21 for the Pakistan Relief fund

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

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