Saint David’s Uniting Church
Interim Moderator
Rev Vaughan Rees
Tel: c/o 07575 576468
Website: www.stdavidsuniting.org.uk
22 Sept 2013
We welcome you all to our services today, If you are a visitor or worshipping with us for the first time, we hope you will feel the warmth of our welcome and return again soon.
We warmly welcome once again Haydn Blackey, a lecturer at the University of South Wales, who is leading our worship this morning,
Our evening service at Church house, which will include communion, will be led by the worship group.
Tea and coffee will be served in the hall following the morning service, and handmade cards will be on sale.
ALL are invited to join in this time of informal fellowship.
The Copper Pot is, as usual, on the table; so please, don’t take your ‘small change’ home with you, put it in the pot, where it will be used for local charities.
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Morning Worship
Hymns 341, 405, 560, 4
Readings As announced
Evening Worship
Hymns 105,(or 302), 227, As a bride unto her chosen,
We meet you , O Christ
Readings ‘Manna in the Desert’ and ‘Feeding the Hungry Crowd’.
Church Family News
We have received a letter from Mark, please read it! – it is on the notice board. Mark’s father, Lyndon, is to have heart surgery this month, we remember him and the family at this anxious time.
We continue to pray for Jayne Brights’ father and all who are unable worship with us because of ill health or frailty.
We are pleased to report that Beth Davies is out of plaster!
We pray also for Cerys and Deborah who are attending a website design course in Windermere.
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Diary for the Week
| Today | NO Cantorion practice. |
| Monday | Brownies 6.00 pm at Church House |
| Tuesday | Kids Club 6.00 pm at Church House |
| Wednesday | Rainbows 5pm at Church HouseGuides 6.30pm |
| Thursday | Youth Group at Church HouseSing for Life Choir, AA |
| Saturday | Coffee Bar 10.00am – Noon |
| SundayHARVEST | Family Worship at 10.45 will be led by Phil George and our evening worship at 6pm will be a Uniting Churches Service when Rev Simon Walkling will be the guest preacher. Refreshments will be served after both services. |
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Dates for your Diary
Thursday 26 September Student Welcome Service
The Welcome service this year will be at the Meeting House at 7pm and we would be grateful for offers of all kinds of cakes for the evening.
If you can help, could you please contact Jan Harris on 07919256382 or email Janice.harris@southwales.ac.uk
Thought for the Week
Listening is at the heart of our communication with God.
Sunday 29 September Harvest Services
This year our monetary gifts, which can be gift aided, will be donated to Water Aid and ‘harvest’ gifts will be given to the Pontypridd Food Bank, lists showing suggested items are on the table.
At our evening service we will welcome friends from, Llanederyn, Canton, Cowbridge and Taffs Well, when the guest speaker will be Rev Simon Walkling. Refreshments will be served following the service. We will be asking for donations of homemade cakes!
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Wednesday 2 October Ladies Guild
This will be the first meeting of our Autumn Session, and we will welcome Edwina Smart who will be talking about ‘What our library can do for you’. The library is no longer just a place to go for books!
All are welcome to join us in the Victoria Room at 2pm.
Saturday 5 October Worship Leaders Conference
‘Prepared to lead worship?’ Share ideas, learn skills, build confidence, be better equipped. The free conference is being held at Christwell URC, Swansea from 10.30 till 15.30, take a packed lunch – tea and coffee will be provided. See poster for more details.
Saturday 19 October Synod Meeting
Is there anyone who can represent us at the Autumn Synod in Newtown? – please let Marcia know
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Notices
News sheet
For the next few weeks the news sheet will be compiled in the Spanish office, the deadline for items will be 5pm Thursday. Please keep me in touch or there will be NO Family News
Prayer Handbook 2014
A collection of unique prayers and meditations for individuals wishing to follow a contemporary weekly prayer life: Cost £6. If you want a copy please let Marcia know. Orders need to be in by September 30th
Harvest Services
This year our monetary gifts, which can be gift aided, will be donated to Water Aid and ‘harvest’ gifts will be given to the Pontypridd Food Bank, see list of suggested items..
At our evening service we will welcome friends from, Llanederyn, Canton, Cowbridge and Taffs Well, Please can we have donations of homemade cakes!
Reform
I am learning quite a few things in this month’s Reform. In an interview with a former Mormon I get an insight into a faith that I know little about and learn about the doctrines of the ‘Eternal Family’ and of ‘Pre-Existence’.
Also, at the URC headquarters in London there is a blue plaque to Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park, who were ‘Victorian cross dressers’. Their story is very interesting and worth reading. Cerys
Leprosy Mission
It is the time of year for Annual donations and for boxes to be handed in: Please give them to Pat Howell during the next few weeks.
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Flowers for September are being donated by
Colleen Rowan, Fiona Liddell, Elsie Bennett, Marlene McCloy, Russell Howells and Janet Bayliss
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Sunday Coffee
Sept 22 Catherine Sept. 29 Mo
Saturday Coffee Bar
Sept 21 Anne & Viviane Sept 28 Alan & Stephanie
Please take this sheet home with you.