DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Sunday 7th January 10:45 am: Rev’d Neil Brighton
Sunday 14th January 10:45 am Open Service
Sunday 21st January 10:45am: Worship Service Rev. Neil Brighton and Church and Congregation Meeting
Sunday 28th January Communion and Covenant Service Val Hulme
Starting in mid January, our services, (excluding the open services), will be following a six week series based on What Christians Believe.
There will be no Chat ‘n’ a Brew in January
Tuesday 9th January Leigh Ladies' Luncheon Club 11:30 - 2:15 To be confirmed
Wednesdays 17th, 24th and 31st January Prayer Meeting 10:00 - 11:00 am Meet at 9:45am for tea/coffee/chat
Wednesday 17th January Deacons’ Meeting 11:15 am
Thursday 11th January Aglow 7:30 - 10:00 pm
Thursday 18th January Coffee+ 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Saturdays 13th, 20th and 27th January Walking With You group 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Our Pastoral Leader is on Annual Leave until Saturday 13th January.
Please note the date of our next Church and Congregation meeting - Sunday 21st January
There are still some calendars featuring the artwork of Linda Davey and Sandra Surridge, available. The A3 size 2024 calendar will cost £8.00, or £10.50 if it needs to be posted. Thanks to Linda and Sandra for freely giving of their time and talents. See Val or Jean.
PLEASE BE PROMPT. our morning worship meetings start at 10.45am. if you arrive later than that you are missing out on important news announcements and the introduction to the service's themes.
New Road Ahead.
Each of us has a new road ahead of us in the new year. It’s another road, a different road than any we’ve traveled on before. As we step off down that road, not knowing what we may find, not knowing exactly where we’re going, we can be comforted in knowing that for sure, the light goes with us, leading us, guiding us, showing us the way. God will be with us on our journeys down that new road ahead. Even now God is calling to each of us, whoever we are, whatever our circumstance, calling us to get up off our hands and knees, to stop creeping, and rise and shine, and continue on the journey, giving God our praise, and sharing the Good News with others along the way.
A New Year’s Eve poem I came across concludes with these words: “With courage we face the future, with warm memory we sing the old year out. With hope in our hearts and voices we face the sunrise of God’s new dawn.”So, let’s sing the new year in by singing together the refrain of that old song: ] “Rise, and shine, and give God the glory, glory, Rise and shine and give God the glory, glory, Rise and shine and [clap] give God the glory, glory, Children of the Lord.” May hope dwell in our hearts and voices, and may that sunrise, the light of Christ, shine brightly on each of us as we journey on the new road we’ll be traveling upon in this new year. Amen.
Rev K C.Landall. Firstchurchofharwich.org