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Prayer
Requests
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Please
Give Thanks For
Our
witness over the Pride festival; pray that it may
bear rich fruit.
Please
Pray For
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Ian
Wilson having major surgery tomorrow and due to
be in hospital for the rest of this
week.
The
Rev Dwayne Morgan.
Neil
starting his new, part time, job this week at a
school in Glossop.
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Spirituality
Opportunities
This
Week
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Prayer
Requests
Did
you know you can text and receive prayer
requests to us. All you need to do is to
text your prayer request to us at: 07781
472445. If you wish to receive prayer
requests please text and tell us!
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Birthdays
in September
Masoud’s
birthday is on the 8th and Neil’s on
the 29th.
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Our Website
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Daily
Devotional
We
produce a daily prayer devotional which is given
out each week in church. It has a Psalm,
prayer, reading, thought for the day and prayer
suggestions for every day of the week. It
normally follows the themes we are looking at in
our weekly sermons, but also usually has one
reading from one of the saints commemorated by the
world wide Church.
Sermons
on Line
Missed
church on Sunday? Don’t worry, you can catch
up with the sermon by going to our website, www.mccmanchester.co.uk and
pressing the sermon button. This means you
don’t miss the weekly teaching designed to help us
live as more faithful disciples of the Lord Jesus.
As
well as reading the sermon you can now listen to
it as a “podcast”. If you click on the audio
download button in the worship section of the
navigation bar you will be taken to the relevant
page. You can listen on line or by opposite
clicking and saving the file you can listen on
your computer or even save to an MP3 player and
listen whilst in the car, at the gym or when
having a walk.
You can also download the
weekly devotional booklet there
too.
Borrow
A Book
Visit
our library and see if there is a book you would
like to borrow. Simply email Andy your
choice and pick it up at church on Sunday.
We ask for a donation of £2 per book and a small
deposit per book.
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IN
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1.
Welcome
2.
Today’s
Sermon
3.
Thanks
4.
Giving
to MCC Manchester
5.
Elder’s
Monthly Reflection
6.
Andy's Movement's This
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WELCOME |
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Welcome
to this newsletter and to the ministry of MCC
Manchester. If this is your first contact
with us, know that you are welcome. You can
take part in our ministry through visiting us as
we worship each week or by using our resources on
our website. You can keep in touch with us
through email, in person or by text. It is
our prayer that our people grow as committed
disciples of the Lord Jesus.
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TODAY'S
SERMON |
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Today
we start a four part sermon series based on the
insights into spirituality and morality found in
some of Madonna’s songs. We looked today at
her song “like a prayer” and a reading from 1 John
which says that we know God by loving. The
song mixes profoundly spiritual and sexual images
and lyrics. We know from our own experience
that these two facets of human existence can be
wonderful if reconciled or very destructive if
they are not. Andy preached showing that to
love another is a way of knowing God; and that our
deepest spiritual and erotic yearnings are
profoundly linked.
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THANKS |
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Thank
you for your generosity last week. Last week
34 people attended worship and the collection was
£68.50 on top of the £1500 or so that is sent by
standing order to our bank each month.
62 people attended MCC Manchester at least once in
August.
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THE
REV JANE CLARKE – GUEST
PREACHER |
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Next week
we welcome the Rev Jane Clarke as our guest
preacher. Jane has served as the pastor of the MCC
in East London for the last 12 years and resigned in the
early Summer. She has now moved to Glasgow, with
her partner, Kate, in order to found a MCC congregation
there. It will be good to welcome Jane amongst us
and hear of her plans for a new MCC.
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TROY
PERRY IN SINGAPORE |
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Our
founder, the Rev Troy Perry, was invited to speak to
LGBT activists in Singapore who had prepared a
PowerPoint presentation of Rev. Perry's life with photos
from the pictorial book, "Troy Perry: Pastor and
Prophet," including pictures of Troy with
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, U.S. President Bill Clinton,
U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein, and other religious,
political, and social leaders. However,
homosexuality is illegal in Singapore though the
laws are rarely enforced. The police told Troy he
was not allowed to give public speeches; he was allowed,
however, answer one-on-one questions. The
organisers of the rally, therefore, read aloud
passages from four books written by Troy: "They used the
words from my writings to give me voice and to share my
beliefs about human rights for LGBT people," he
said. "But what happened next was simply a stroke
of genius," he enthused. The organizers announced that,
while I couldn't deliver my public speech, I had been
told I could answer one-on-one questions from
individuals. So for the next three hours, from 9 PM to
midnight, I answered one individual question after
another. Of course, I was answering them out loud in
front of the audience, so I was actually able to share
far more information than if I had only delivered my
speech. There's a saying that when a door closes,
God opens a window. That's also true of LGBT activists,"
said Perry. "When Singapore officials closed a door,
Singapore's LGBT activists opened a window." I am so
proud of LGBT activists across Singapore and Malaysia.
They are working to secure the human rights of LGBT
people in their countries and are doing so in the face
of great cultural and political opposition," he
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THIS
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We planned
two new mid week activities for the Autumn. The
first, a mid week homegroup – called an Emmaus Group –
starts on 13th September at Margaret and
Gwen’s home in Altrincham. It will meet every
other week and the first section of studies will be
focused on prayer – using the Lord’s Prayer as a
model. The material comes from the popular Emmaus
course which has been designed for use in many different
denominations. Our other mid week activity – a
quiet reflective
service will start later on in the Autumn
after Andy and Ian’s holiday.
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ANDY'S
MOVEMENTS THIS WEEK |
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Due to
Ian’ operation this week Andy will be working from home;
however, he will be visiting hospital a lot.
Please contact Andy, if you need to, via email or the
church phone. He will pick up messages each
day. You can contact Andy via 0161 249 0649 or on
his email revandy@mccmanchester.co.uk
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