Harvest

Harvest will soon be upon us from the point of view of church celebrations and this is what we have planned:

 

This year we are supporting NOAH Enterprises as our Harvest partner.  It was good to have Tim Archibold with us on Sunday to give us an idea of the work they do and the needs they have. 

 

NOAH Enterprises    

this is a link to their latest newsletter:  http://www.noahenterprise.org

The loose offering from Sundays services will be given to them and also any harvest food gifts which can be used by them.  Any of the following food items would be welcome:

Tinned goods:- Beans, Spaghetti, Soup,Tomatoes, Potatoes.    

Flour, Sugar, Custard Powder, Baking Powder, Tomato Puree, Biscuits, Sugar, Tea, Coffee. 

Porridge, Breakfast Cereals, Rice, Pasta. 

Tomato Sauce ,Brown Sauce, Vinegar.

Cling Film, Foil Wrap.

 This is for Sunday 9th October so we have lots of time to gather a little of our plenty to serve those who have little.

Bar-B-Q

 BIG thanks to Johan, Francois and the cooking crew for Sunday's feast.  

Amazingly even the weather thought it should be a good day

Kevin Price

Kevin is currently in Nepal. Neighbouring North India has had an earthquake causing damage near to where he is.  He is unharmed and this is the e-mail he's sent:

 

Thanks for your prayers.

 

For me it was quite alarming at first as we didn't  know whether there was more to come, and having spent 10 days inspecting the poor quality of buildings in Kathmandu I was concious that they could be easily toppled. Then it became quite fascinating from a geographical perspecetive, and I enjoyed the challenge of navigating our walk back through the city in almost total darkness and finding our guesthouse. Some of our team were more a lot more shaken.

 

As we began to pick up news we realised the earthquake epicentre was about 170 miles away in North India and that there has been widespread damage and sadly about 50 dead so far. In Kathmandu there has been some property damage, and a few deaths - 3 of which occurred when part of the compound wall of the British Embassy collapsed onto a  motorcycle. Here the motor cycle is a very common means of transport and sometimes the whole family will ride on ONE. Sadly in this incident it was a father and young daughter who were killed.
 

We decided to go to bed on Sunday night prepared to evaccuate with an emergency bag packed which was a bit unnerving but we did manage to sleep.

 

Normal life has resumed yesterday and we went out of the city for the first time visiting a medieval palace and a hilltop village with views through the cloud at 7500 ft.

 

I have packed my bags for the next stage, and having been in touch with the trekking people am expecting to fly to Pokhara tomorrow. I am just a bit wary of landslides (!) as there has been some very heavy rain since the earthquake. If there are any problems then I can stay in the hotel at Pokhara or back in Kathmandu, and the BMS people will let me keep the communal mobile phone we have been using on our trip for a few more days so I can contact them if there are any problems.

Sunday 11th September

Services at 11.00am and 6.00pm as usual this Sunday.
David is starting a new series in the morning :- 
          'A vision of Christian character'

Keith will be leading in the evening and David will be continuing the study on  

Galatians.

We are very aware that this will be the 10th anniversary of '9 11' so please pray for those who have been and still are being affected by that horrific event .


There are invitation handouts at the back of the church for next week's BIG Welcome & barbecue - so please take a few and invite the odd friend (well..... invite them even if they're NOT odd).

The 'experts' will be manning the cooking pots - and if last years is anything to go by there will be a few folk licking their lips in anticipation.  (If the weather isn't quite up to last year's standard we will eat indoors.)

Sunday 18th September

Sept/Oct newsletter

Use the 'newsletter' link on the left of this page to access the current newsletter.

Sunday 4th September

Sunday it will be back to full steam ahead into Autumn with the resumption of evening services.
A new preaching series-
 Sunday evenings:  'Justified by faith' - Paul's letter to the Galatians.


Advance notice:    

Sunday 18th September  11.00am  The BIG Welcome  

an opportunity to invite folk to our version of 'Back to Church Sunday'
followed by :

a church barbecue