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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 attending our
worship services or mid week meetings, or by using
the various resources on our website. You
can keep in touch with us in person, by email, or
by text. It is our prayer that our people
grow as committed disciples of the Lord
Jesus.
Today's Service marked Palm Sunday; the
start of Holy Week. We
reflected on Jesus’ triumphal entry into
Jerusalem and how the crowds acclaimed him as
their Messiah and King and yet those same crowds,
just a few days later, bayed for his
blood. We received palms folded
into crosses to remind us of this dichotomy –
cheers and jeers.
This and That
If you wish to come to the Maundy Thursday
Passover meal please sign up at the back of church
or email Andy to let him know you are
coming - we have to know who is
coming to help us set places.
Thanks.
Thank you for
your generosity last week. 36 people attended and
the collection was £141.50. This is on top of the
£1200 or so a month that is given directly to our
bank account via standing order.
Introduction to Sexuality
Studies. This
MCC sponsored course will be taught in Manchester
from Sunday 9th – Thursday
13th of November this year by Andy and
the Rev Jane Clarke. It will
cover many aspects of human sexuality and how we
unit aspects of our sexuality with our
spirituality. The course will
be held at the police college in Sedgley Park and
will cost £100 for day students and £235 for
residential students. More
details are on our website – go to the yellow
bar on the right and then go to the sexuality
page. You can download a
booking form from there too. If
you intend to come please book!
Holy Week Services
Tuesday in Holy
Week.
We meet at 8pm
for a multi-media presentation of the journey that
Jesus made to Calvary. We use
clips from Mel Gibson’s the Passion of the
Christ mixed with music from Handel’s Messiah,
reflections and readings.
Maundy
Thursday.
We meet at 7.30pm
at Hulme Hall Chapel for a shared Passover
Meal. We use a form of the
traditional Jewish liturgy and end the meal with a
simple celebration of Holy Communion.
Please bring food to share and let us know
you are coming so we know how many places to
set.
Good
Friday.
We meet at 5pm in church for a simple
service At the Foot of the Cross to mark
this most sombre of days.
You can find more
information about these services on our
website.
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In Your
Prayers
Please
remember
Smiley,
under the weather, at the moment & Don
recovering from his stroke.
Gay people
in Iran.
MCC
Edinburgh as they adjust to their pastor leaving
and wait for an interim pastor to be
appointed. MCC North London
as they start to prepare for their pastor,
Pressley, leaving.
Those
preparing for membership of MCC
Manchester.
Jill Gray
and her father who is critically ill.
Farzad as
he continues with his asylum claim.
Daily
Devotional
You can get our daily
devotional in church or on our website. It
is designed to help us grow spiritually by
giving a resource for our own daily prayer
times. It consists of a short "order of
worship" of a Psalm, other Biblical reading and
a reflection. It also gives ideas of
things to pray for.
Birthdays This
Month
Joanne
McCulloch’s was on the 9th, Amanda
Styles on the 29th and Iain
Blackburn’s on the
31st.
On Our
Website
Our website is
an excellent way to keep in touch with what we
are doing. You can catch up with the
sermon, and listen to it, if you missed church,
you can download the daily devotional, read
the newsletters, visit the church blog, do
some quizes and find out more about
us.
Contact
Details
MCC
Manchester,
PO Box
19,
Manchester,
M34 3XF
www.mccmanchester.co.uk
revandy@mccmanchester.co.uk
Phone: 0161
249
0649
Text:
07781 472445 Emergency:
07944 378049
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