LEVENSHULME METHODIST CHURCH Woodfold Avenue, Levenshulme, Manchester M19 3AP Web Site: www.levenshulme-methodist.org Minister: Deacon Al Henry Tel: 0161 224 0410 or 07951 894739 Email: deaconalhenry@hotmail.co.uk Email: deacon@levenshulme-methodist.org 12th October 2014 We welcome all our visitors to worship today. If this is your first time please make yourself known to one of our Stewards who are wearing Steward badges. If you do not have a home church, why not make Levenshulme Methodist Church your own? Please pick up a visitor welcome leaflet near the entrance. We serve tea and coffee after the service and invite you to stay and meet other members of the congregation. Bibles, for use during the service, can be found in the swivel stand as you enter the Church. Please feel free to take one as you enter and return it after the service. Thank you. The use of mobile phones disturbs members of the congregation and interferes with the amplification system. If you have a mobile phone please SWITCH IT OFF and keep it switched off during the whole of the service. Thank you. Sunday 12th October 10:45 am Preacher Church Stewards Junior Steward Clavinova Welcome Stewards Reader Reading(s) Cashier Refreshments Gospel Church Steward(s) 1:00 pm Sunday 12th October 6:30 pm Monday 13th October Wednesday 15th October 1:30 pm 10:30 am Wednesday 15th October Thursday 16th October 7:00 pm 7:00 pm Morning Worship Local Arrangement Fiona Fulton & Cheryl Graham Paa Amponsah Betty Thompson Janet Hignett & Ezekiel Sagay Fiona Fulton Isaiah 25 v 1-9 & Matthew 22 v 1-14 Sue Dunn Linda Williams & Joana Amponsah Janet Hignett We are invited to join St. Peter's Church, Stockport Road, Levenshulme at a joint Evening Worship Friendship Club - Rev Ian Mutton Drop-in café until 12:00 noon - informal time to meet the community. All are welcome. Church Council meeting Bible Study & Prayer until 8:30 pm. All are welcome. Deacon Al appeals to all members of the congregation to attend, as this is very important to our spiritual well-being as a church. Today, Sunday 12th October, remember the folk at Northmoor Road as they celebrate their Harvest Festival at 10:30 am. Pray for the future of the Church there. PRAYER LIST Please remember, in your prayers, the following members and friends of the Church who need our special thoughts and prayers: Brian, Perlita, Ruby, Swanston, Davood. If you know of someone you wish to add to the weekly prayer list, please see one of the Church Stewards prior to the start of the service. Sunday 19th October 10:45 am Preacher Church Stewards Junior Steward Clavinova Welcome Stewards Reader Reading(s) Cashier Refreshments Gospel Church Steward(s) 1:00 pm Tuesday 21st October 7:00 pm Wednesday 22nd October 10:30 am Wednesday 22nd October 7:30 pm Thursday 23rd October 7:00 pm Morning Worship – Church Anniversary Service and dedication of Stewards and Pastoral Leaders. Deacon Al Henry Joana Amponsah & Susan Kinsey Afia Amponsah Sue Dunn David Thompson & Linda Williams Cheryl Graham David Thompson Carmen Ward & Gloria Griffiths-Robinson Fiona & David Fulton Preparation for the Messy Church Light Party which will be an all-age activity during half term on Wednesday 29th October from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm. All are invited to the preparation and the event. Please come with ideas of crafts, games, songs and activities on the theme Light. Drop-in café until 12:00 noon - informal time to meet the community. All are welcome. Safeguarding Training for pastoral leaders, stewards, key holders, preachers and those who deal with children or vulnerable adults. If you have not yet done the training, please register with Julie Portland, our Safeguarding Officer, or Deacon Al Henry, our minister. Bible Study & Prayer until 8:30 pm. All are welcome. 150th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS In May next year we celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the building and opening of this Church. Plans for the occasion are in hand. You can help. In order to provide a focus on the event, members of the celebration steering team have suggested that a logo be designed. Members of the congregation are invited to submit a design or designs for consideration. The design criteria are that the logo * must be Christian in nature; * must recognise 150 years; * must be associated with Levenshulme Methodist Church; * must be simple. It is planned to use the logo on cups, pens, leaflets, presentations and any other appropriate materials associated with the anniversary. Because we need to prepare materials we have to choose the successful design before Christmas 2014. All designs should be submitted on A4 paper and handed to one of the Church Stewards before 1st December 2014. As part of the celebrations there will be a slide show and a display of the history, life of the Church and of Levenshulme too. Whilst we do have some old photographs we need more! If you have any photographs, documents or material relating to the Church would you please see Jim Jackson. The Traidcraft Autumn catalogue is now available from Janet Hignett