Sunday 22nd February 2015

'Bringing the community to life'

All are welcome whatever their background. 

Why not join us for refreshments after the service?

About Today's Service 
Sunday 22nd February 2015 at 10:00am - Lent 1 
Leader/Celebrant/Preacher: Nic 
Assistant: Stella 
Welcomers: Sandra A, Stella & Carolyn 
Readings: Genesis 9; 8-17 read by Jan 
               Mark 1; 9-15 
Prayers: Mick 
Bread & Wine: Sandra B & Marika 
Climbers: Lorna 
Sunday Club: Sharon, Andrea, Lynette, Rachel 
Projector: Ben 
Tea: Janice, Jan & Lynette 

                                                 Diary Dates 
Confirmation Preparation For Adults - Sunday 22nd February, 1st & 8th March   

Annual District Church Meeting (ADCM) will take place on Sunday 22nd March after Worship.

Bishop of Warwick, John Stroyan, will join us for worship and Confirmations on Sunday 12th April.

Notices
 
Annual District Church Meeting (ADCM). Please can you submit Reports to Stella asap. 

Church Membership List (Electoral Roll). Each year we have to revise our membership list. If you attend the church regularly and would like to be included on this list, please speak to Lorna. 

Love Your Church - The church is open every Saturday from 10am-12noon for cleaning, tidying, fixing, moving, sorting, trimming, planting, painting, bonding, helping, doing, watching, organising, teamworking, decorating and building. Please feel free to drop in and “love your church”. 

Coventry Night Shelter.…please be praying for this venture, for safety and strength for all involved in running it, and for God to bless the guests who will be benefitting from it. Please pray that God’s love is made known, and also that the guests are able to make real progress in getting off the streets permanently. There are also likely to be other overheads so any monetary donations would be welcomed if that is how you feel called to respond. If you can possibly help, the more volunteers we have, the less often each person needs to volunteer. The actual weekly rota will be being done locally by Elke.

Please pray: 
• For the peace of the whole world, for the welfare of the Holy Church of God, and for the unity of all. 
• The Global economies at this difficult time 
• For all those using our building 
• For God's blessing upon the church members and the local community. 
• At the start of Fairtrade Fortnight we give thanks to God for the progress made in ensuring a fairer wage for food producers and we seek God's help as we try to buy more fairly and in promoting a fair wage for all. 
• We pray for all those who suffer with eating disorders and for those who care for them. We thank God for 'Taste Life', a charity based in Kenilworth that has written and developed a course to help those who are dealing with eating disorders to look towards recovery. We pray for those who will begin on the course this month. 

Pray for those in special need at this time and those recovering from illness: 
Colin O’Shea; Les & Joyce Cave; J R Lindsey; Marlene; Florizel Anderson; Gill Wiles Canon Andrew White; Albert Hagan; Emma Smith 

Prayer for Today 
Heavenly Father, your Son battled with the powers of darkness, and grew closer to you in the desert: help us to use these days to grow in wisdom and prayer that we may witness to your saving love in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.