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Prayer
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Please
Give Thanks For
All the people we
have seen over Holy Week and
Easter.
The people who
check us out on the website.
Our growth in
numbers over recent months.
Please
Pray For
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The work of
the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit,
particularly their case workers and solicitors as they
work with some of the most poor and desperate members of
our society.
Paul Mason,
ill at the moment.
Barbara and
her daughter Holly.
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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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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
This Month
Jenny-Anne’s
birthday was on the 1st, Harry’s is on the
10th, Philip’s on the 11th, Ashwin is 40 on
the 13th, and Andy Jenkin’s birthday is on the
19th!
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IN
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1.
Welcome
2.
Today’s Service
3.
Thanks
4.
Smartie Tubes Back Now!
5.
Survey on Midweek Activities
6.
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
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Christ is
risen! Alleluia! Today we meet to celebrate the
resurrection of our Lord Jesus. We celebrate that God,
in Jesus, came to earth, lived amongst us, suffered the
injustice of a trial and execution and rose again.
Through the power of the Holy Spirit Jesus is alive and
present to us now, leading us to new life and new hope, making
all things new and bringing hope to deep places of
despair.
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THANKS |
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Thank you for
your generosity last week. The collection in church came
to £143.50 in addition to the £1400 given to the bank
each month. 35 people attended worship. 10
people attended the Stations of the Cross service on
Wednesday, 22 people share the Passover Meal on Maundy
Thursday and 14 came to the Good Friday
service.
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SMARTIE
TUBES DUE BACK NOW |
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Throughout Lent we
have been collecting money in Smartie tubes for the Greater
Manchester Immigration Aid Unit. Now Lent is over it’s time to
collect the tubes, count the money and write the cheque! We
have already had over £180 given for this and we hope that figure
will climb substantially over the next few weeks as the tubes come
back in. You may know that the Government has made significant
changes to the Legal Aid system which will give a flat payment to
solicitors regardless of the amount of time spent on a particular
case. Asylum cases are very complex and a lot of time needs to
be spent with each client. We know that Moses’ case took a lot
of time and effort from Hermione and her colleagues. The flat
rate that the Government will pay will not reflect this and will
force many firms to abandon legal aid work with asylum
seekers. It is more important than ever for us to help support
the GMIAU. If you haven’t been collecting you may like to make
a donation anyway, or you may like to top up your Smartie tube
donations a bit to help with this vital work.
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THIS
AND THAT |
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We are off for a
meal together next
week after worship – to Shanghai a Chinese restaurant
opposite the gay village. The venue has disabled access –
through a side door – but parking can be tricky. If you want
to come please let Elen know so we know how big a table to
book. St Chrysostom’s are planning to install a new sound system in Church in
the early Summer. This will be able to cope with both spoken
and sung voices and will also have an induction loop for those who
use hearing aids. This will, once we have learnt to use it,
enhance our worship as well as St Chrysostom’s.
You may have noticed our church
advert in the Out NorthWest Magazine. We received
grant funding to pay some of this and Dan designed an excellent
advert for us. There is no Quiet and Calm service this
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CONGREGATIONAL
SURVEY |
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In the Summer we hope
to start two new mid week activities – a home group and a weekly
service. Many churches have mid week groups to give a chance
to study the faith, pray, and socialise together. We hope to
have a group led and hosted by Margaret and Gwen in
Altrincham. We would also like to expand on our monthly Quiet
and Calm service into a weekly service “Sacred Chill”. This
would have a similar format of gentle music, space for silent prayer
and meditation and a relaxed gentle space. We would include
the Eucharist, adoration, prayers for healing and prayers for the
world over the course of each month. We hope to offer this on
Tuesday evenings. The first stage in our planning for this is
to survey the views of the congregation. You can offer you
feedback on line by going to our website and then, from the front
page, going to our survey page.
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ANDY'S
MOVEMENTS THIS WEEK |
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Andy is taking Tuesday
as leave. Monday is a public holiday. He is in court on
Wednesday and will be travelling to Bournemouth on Thursday. He returns on
Saturday. You can contact Andy, in an emergency, on 07944
378049 or you can email him via revandy@mccmanchester.co.uk |
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