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Prayer
Requests
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Please
Give Thanks For
The 72 people who
worshipped with us in April.
The people who
check us out on the website.
Our growth in
numbers over recent months.
Please
Pray For
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Neil’s job
interview this Friday.
Paul Mason,
recovering from illness.
Barbara and
her daughter Holly.
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Spirituality
Opportunities
This
Week
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Quiet
and Calm
We meet at
8pm on Tuesday in the side chapel for our monthly Quiet
and Calm service. This is a chance to relax in
God’s presence, feel the stress and strain of he day and
the week ease away, meet the Lord in a simple
celebration of Holy Communion and to be prayed for and
anointed with Holy Oil.
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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Visit
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. You can also
download the weekly devotional booklet there
too.
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Birthdays
in May
Farzad and Jill share a
birthday on the 5th, Duncan’s birthday is on the
7th Ben’s birthday is on the 17th – he will be
12 and Steve Gray’s on the 19th.
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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him. We will then remove you from our e-mailing list.
Email Andy via
revandy@mccmanchester.co.uk
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IN
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1.
Welcome
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Today’s Service
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Thanks
4.
Quiet and Calm Service
5.
This and That
6.
Church Outing to Buxton
7.
Smartie Tube Appeal News
8.
Andy’s Movements 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 Andy
looked at Jesus discourse to his disciples where he told them
to “love one another as I have loved you”. In the
context of the passage – where He washes their feet and is
very direct to Judas – we can see that love is not the same as
like. Love is tough, direct and not afraid to roll up
its sleeves in practical service of others. These should
all be hallmarks of our church.
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THANKS |
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Thank you for
your generosity last week. The collection in church came
to £108 in addition to the £1400 given to the bank each
month. 34 people attended worship. Our
average attendance for Sunday worship in April was been 37 and
we have seen over 72 people at least once last month.
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QUIET
AND CALM SERVICE - TUESDAY |
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On
Tuesday we have our regular Quiet and Calm service at 8pm. We
will hold this in the Side Chapel. This is an informal
celebration of Holy Communion with time for silent prayer,
reflection and an opportunity to be anointed and prayed for.
This service is an opportunity to leave aside the hustle and
business of the week and spend some quality time in God’s
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THIS
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Thanks
to the people who volunteered to
help with research on the plight of gay people in Iran; lots of have
volunteered and I am just waiting for the final details from
Hermione at the Immigration Unit about what we should be looking
for. Please keep
Neil in your prayers this week he is applying for a new
job in a school in Glossop; it’s a Head of Music Department job but
on just four days a week – which will allow him to work part time
for us from September as planned. His interview is on
Friday. Philip has found
some interesting statistics from our website. In
April 1,952 people visited our website reading at least 2
pages. An increasing number of people are visiting to read the
sermons. Some of these are our regulars who want to read a
sermon at home having heard it in church (or who have missed the
service); but many others seem to be preachers researching for their
own sermons. This page is fulfilling a very
powerful ministry task, because it brings people to an encounter
with our church who might never approach us via our typical keyword
'hooks' - gay, lesbian, transgender, inclusive, diverse, mcc, etc.
The actual content of the sermons will inevitably be full of our
church's spiritual DNA. By simply reading through our sermons,
visitors will encounter the core messages which underpin our
theology. If some of that content finds its way into someone
else's message, so much the better. Having arrived at our site, if
the visitor can be tempted to explore beyond the sermon archive in
to some other pages, they are likely to encounter many
opportunities to gain an understanding of what our church
stands for. The deeper and longer-term impacts of this casual
encounter with our message are hard to overestimate. It gets
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CHURCH
OUTING TO BUXTON |
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We are off to Buxton
on Saturday 12th May. The plan is to meet in Buxton
for 12 noon. Buxton is easily accessible by train and by car
and is a beautiful town in the Peak District. There is plenty
to do for everyone: The big attraction is
Poole's Cavern - extensive
limestone caves. There are guided tours (about 45 mins long +
30 min intro video) every half hour, but disabled access is
limited. By the cavern is the Buxton Country Park for the more energetic, with a
steepish climb up to Solomon's Temple - a folly on top of the
hill. If you want to go please let Elen know who will confirm
arrangements for meeting
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SMARTIE
TUBE APPEAL NEWS |
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Thank you for your
wonderful generosity. The Smartie total has now risen to over
£520! A few people have said they still have some money to
donate; please get this to us in the next couple of weeks. We
will stop collecting at Pentecost – any money that comes in after
this will be put in the pot for next year’s collection! With
the tax back on this donation we should be able to give the
Immigration Unit well over £600 for their valuable work with the
most vulnerable members of our society. |
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ANDY'S
MOVEMENTS THIS WEEK |
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Andy is in the office
on Monday but takes a service at the police training college at
lunchtime. He is in the office on Tuesday morning and taking a
wedding in Rotherham on Tuesday
afternoon. He is in the office all day on Thursday. Andy
is in court on Friday. He takes Friday off. You can
leave messages for Andy via 0161 249 0649 or via email: revandy@mccmanchester.co.uk.
In an emergency only
you can call him on 07944
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