Saint David’s Uniting Church
Castle Street, Treforest CF37 1TA
Minister: Vacancy
Church TelephoneNo: 07766892487
Website: www.stdavidsuniting.org.uk
Admin email: [email protected]
Link for Live Stream https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1ftWuXHexnfFdo1FKwXBZA
29th September 2024
We welcome you all to our service today, especially if you are worshipping with us for the first time.
Iestyn Henson is leading our service, and we will celebrate Harvest and reflect on the Parable of the Sower.
Envelopes are available for donations (cash only) for our Harvest Appeal for the Pontypridd Foodbank, if you wish to gift aid the donation please write your name on the envelope.
At Iestyn’s request tea and coffee will be served in the hall following the service. Handmade cards will be on sale. Please join us for this time of informal fellowship.
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Church Family and Pastoral News
We include this in the newsletter to inform our prayers during the week:
- The Elders as they meet this Sunday to look at the way forward for future ministry and beginning to plan activities at St David’s Uniting Church, Treforest
- Pam and Viviane as they are both going into hospital on Monday for operations. We hope all goes to plan for them and that they recover as quick as is possible.
- John and Jean are both reasonably well and were pleased to be visited.
- Elsie is to have an injection in her knee which will hopefully ease her pain.
- We think of those who are facing family anniversaries without loved ones.
Birthdays.
Only one person that we know of with a birthday this week: John Henson on Thursday 3rd October. We hope you are able to spend time with your family and friends.
Diary for the Week
Sunday 29th The Elders are meeting at 6pm.
Monday 30th Language class in the Hall at Treforest at 10.00am.
The Park Ramblers will meet at 10.15am, followed by coffee at the Blueberry
Wednesday 2nd St David’s Guild start the Autumn session at 2.00pm (See Dates for your Diary)
Sunday 6th Our service at 10.45 will be led by Rev Ray Vincent .
Future Services
Sunday 13 October Rev Dr Phil Wall Zoom service. (See Dates for your Diary)
Sunday 20 October Hadyn Blackey
Sunday 27 October Rev Owen Griffiths
Dates for your Diary
Wednesday October 2nd is the first meeting of St David’s Uniting Guild to be held in St Catherine’s. We will meet at 2.00pm. Someone will be there to direct you to ‘our’ room.
For our first meeting we will look back over the last 20 plus years and those who have been involved and how the many speakers we have had have influenced us.
Thursday October 10th at 7pm ~ The Ordination and Induction of Rev David Lloyd Powell, as an accredited Baptist Minister in the Baptist Union of Great Britain, will be held at High Street Baptist Church, Merthyr Tydfil
Sunday October 13th – The first Zoom service to be streamed from the sanctuary in Treforest and Rev Dr Phil Wall will be our guest as it is Prisoners week.
We will be experimenting! The aim to make the service inclusive whether you are at home or in the Church. With Phil leading us anything can happen, there will be some interaction!
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After service refreshments.
We recognise the importance of getting to know one another which is why we offer tea and coffee as a chance to chat and catch up. Do YOU like staying and chatting with friends over a ‘cuppa’? At the moment we only do this twice a month. Would you like this to be more frequent?
If the answer to these questions is YES, would you be willing to volunteer? If so. please speak to Liz or Catherine today.
Nobody in our community should have to face going hungry. Which is why the Foodbank provides three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to them in crisis. They are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.
We have a collecting box for monetary donations.
Used Postage Stamps
We collect stamps for Amnesty International, so please check your mail, cut off the stamps – leaving a small border – and put them in the box by the Copper Pot. Please remember the barcode is part of the stamp.
Please remember the Copper Pot, which is by the Clavinola, and put your loose change in it before you leave, it will be used to benefit local charities.
The Autumn edition of New Day the magazine of the Leprosy Mission is available today. Please pick one up by the main door. There are many interesting articles in it.
Library Service
Did you know that if you are unable to visit your local library, RCT provide a free service that delivers books to you. Paperback, Hardback, Large print and Audiobooks are available. To find out more contact 424837, 424835 or 424831. If using a mobile phone prefix with 01443.
Thought for the week
Life is not made up of great sacrifices and duties
but of little things in which smiles and kindness given habitually
are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) English Chemist and Inventor