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Prayer
Requests
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Please
Give Thanks For
The
five people who have made out new standing orders
to MCC and the increased financial stability this
gives us.
Timothy
Spiers from MCC South London who has been declared
free of cancer following surgery. He now
just needs regular check ups, but no more
treatment.
Please
Pray For
The
success of our church weekend away now with 15
participants.
Smiley
as she continues to suffer with
illness.
Drew
as she prepares for surgery in Thailand.
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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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IN
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1.
Welcome
2.
Today’s Service
3.
Thanks
4.
Come and Sing Day 3rd
November
5.
Social Action Group Starting
6.
This and That
7.
Emmaus Group
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
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We
continued our series looking at songs by Madonna
and today looked at the song Oh Father. We
looked at forgiveness as both a blessing and a
curse and what forgiveness might mean in the face
of profound hurt. It doesn’t mean forgetting
or acting as if nothing had happened; instead it
means not letting the bad experience or person
control our lives anymore.
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THANKS |
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Thank
you for your generosity last week. Last week
33 people attended worship and the collection was
£75 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; last year just 41 people attended once or
more in August.
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COME
AND SING DAY 3RD
NOVEMBER |
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We are
organising a “Come and Sing” day on Saturday
3rd November from 11am until 4pm. This
is a chance for us to improve our singing, learn some of
the new songs we will be using over the next three
months, and spend some quality time together. It
is designed for anyone – not just the choir! If
you have an inclination to join the choir, however, this
is a good way to start! If you want to come,
please sign up at the back or let Philip or Neil
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SOCIAL
ACTION TEAM STARTING |
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Steve Gray
is setting up a new social action group to co-ordinate
the different areas of social action we involve
ourselves in. Over the years we have become good
at sending letters to oppressive governments on behalf
of Amnesty and taken part in the Christmas greeting card
campaign that they organise. We have also
campaigned for Moses to stay in the UK. Steve will
be producing a monthly newsletter which will be sent to
all those who sign up for this new ministry, the
newsletter will some selected cases of prisoners on
conscience or other areas where we can write letters to
make a difference. The newsletter will suggest a
model for such letters. Sometimes we think that
writing letters is rather ineffective but a released
prisoner of conscience from Vietnam wrote: We could always tell when
international protests were taking place... the food
rations increased and the beatings were fewer."
If you are interested in this please see
Steve or email him via socialaction@mccmanchester.co.uk.
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THIS
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We
are always looking for more choir members and
musicians. If
you would like to sing with us, the commitment is to get
to church for 3pm and join in the pre-service choir
practice where we run through the songs for that
day. We also arrange some “Come and Sing” Days
where we learn new material. We hope to organise
one of these for early November – again this is a good
time to come and try your voice out and see if you would
like to join the choir. Similarly we always are
looking out for
musicians – of any instrument – who would
like to help deliver the musical aspects of
worship. If you are interested please see Philip,
Andy or Neil. Alma is involved in “Café
Church” a fresh expression of the Free
Churches in Chorlton. It offers good food and
conversation, creative activity and space to think, talk
and pray. It meets next on Wednesday between 8pm
and 9.30pm at TomToms opposite Morrison’s. All are
welcome. Advent is
coming! We are preparing for our Advent
services already; we will use the same format as we have
for the last two years with pre-recorded readings and
reflections mixed with modern music to re-tell the
Christmas and Advent themes. These will be mixed
with visual images too. There will be three
readings and reflections per service but no
sermon. As a result the services have a different
feel and have been well received in the past. Andy
has chosen the readings and put the services together,
Dan is busy sorting out music and we will be getting
lots of different people to record their contributions
over the next few weeks. We hope to offer this
resource to other MCCs again.
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EMMAUS
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8 people
attended our first Emmaus group meeting last Thursday –
with apologies from two people. The group started
to look at the theme of prayer using the Lord’s Prayer
as a model. It will meet every other week and the
next meeting, at Gwen and Margaret’s home in Altrincham,
takes place on 27th at 7.30pm.
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ANDY’S
MOVEMENTS THIS WEEK |
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Due to
Ian’ recovery Andy will be working a lot of the time at
home. 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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