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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 finished our sermon series based on
insights from Madonna’s songs that we started
before Andy’s holiday. We
looked at the song “Material World†and
considered the rampant culture of materialism that
we live in and how we as Christians can respond to
this and make our world a better
place.
This and
That On
Tuesday evening we have a welcome and
introduction evening for those people who have
recently starting coming along – although it is
open to everyone! We will get
to know each other a bit better and find out more
about MCC Manchester’s ministry and ways of
doing things as well as our links with our wider
denomination. Our
next Come and Sing Day is going to be held
on 3rd November between 11am and
4pm. It is a chance to try out
your singing skills, learn new songs and get to
know each other better. See
Philip or Neil for more details.
Our Emmaus
Group meets next on Thursday 25th October at
Gwen and Margaret’s home in
Altrincham. This is a small
group meeting together to study and get to know
each other. See them for more
details. If you would like
to sing or play an instrument in worship
see Neil or Philip – we are always looking for
more people to get involved.
The main commitment - other than helping to
lead the singing and music in worship – is to be
at church for 3pm to
rehearse.
Thanks.
Thank you for your
generosity in recent weeks. On
30th September 34 people attended
worship and the collection was £165.
On 7th October 29 people
attended and the collection was £99.50 and last
week, 14th October, 44 people attended
giving £120.50 in the collection.
This is on top of the £1500 or so a month
that is given directly to our bank account via
standing order. 63 attended MCC
Manchester at least once in September this year
compared to 46 who did so in September last year.
Fellowship
Sunday. Next
week we celebrate the 39th anniversary
of MCC starting. The Rev Troy
Perry, an excommunicated former Pentecostal
pastor, started a church in his front room and 12
people showed up. Now we have
300 churches around the world.
Troy’s vision was to start a church where
all would be welcomed and which would proclaim
Christian salvation, build Christian community and
engage in Christian social action.
This is the vision that has energised every
generation of MCC since we started and which
guides the work of this congregation.
To mark Fellowship Sunday we will have a
second collection to raise some funds for the new
MCC congregation being started in Glasgow by the
Rev Jane Clarke and her partner Kate
Wood. Jane preached for us in
September and the Board felt it would be good to
mark Fellowship Sunday by raising some funds for
this new outreach in the UK.
Andy's Movements this
Week Andy is working
from home on Monday, Tuesday afternoon and
Thursday afternoon. He should
be in the office on Tuesday and Thursday
mornings.
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In Your
Prayers
The Rev
Jane Clarke’s father who is gravely ill at the
moment.
Those who
have started attending in recent
weeks.
Those who
saw us at Pride, wanted to come along but
haven’t done so yet.
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
Gwen’s
was 60 on the 16th and Jasmine’s is
tomorrow.
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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