Riverside Weekly. A warm welcome to our worship this Sunday Do join us for tea or coffee after the service this morning

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1 6 th May 2018 Number 965 Riverside Weekly A warm welcome to our worship this Sunday Do join us for tea or coffee after the service this morning Today s Flowers given by Margaret to celebrate Margaret & Sue s Birthdays. 11:00 Morning Worship Tim Guy 6:00 Praise & Worship at the Memorial Hall Rev Phil Poole Music provided by Ted Blackman. You were greeted at the door by John Newbrook Books were given out by Sue Smith Refreshments Joan Wilson Readings: John 15:9 17 (page 104 in NT) Gill Newbrook Acts 10:11 16 & (page 122 in NT) Alan Williams Today s steward is Alan Williams Happy Birthday to: Joan Wilson (Tomorrow) Elizabeth Roberts (Thursday)

2 Church Diary Sunday 6 th May 11:00 Morning Worship Tim Guy 6:00 Praise & Worship at the Memorial Hall Rev Phil Poole Tuesday 8 th May 10:00 Coffee Morning League of Friends of Orthopaedic Hospital the Memorial Hall Wednesday 9 th May 10:00 Prayer Group meet in the vestry you are very welcome to join us 11:00 Church Garden all helpers welcome 7:30 Bible Study at Paul & Anna s studying 1 Peter chapter 4 Thursday 10 th May 3:00 5:15 After school Drop-In at the Memorial Hall for Secondary School Pupils. Friday 11 th May 7:30 Concert in Church Choral Variations and Penley Madras Community Choir see page 5 Saturday 12 th May 1:00 Tea Party at the Memorial Hall, Tickets still available see page 4 Sunday 13 th May 11:00 Bible Club at the Memorial Hall 11:00 Holy Communion Rev Patrick Rudden Monday 14 th May 2:00 Home Group at 5, Gerddi y Bache Tuesday 15 th May 10:00 Coffee Morning or Christian Aid the Memorial Hall Wednesday 16 th May 10:00 Prayer Group meet in the vestry you are very welcome to join us Thursday 17 th May 3:00 5:15 After school Drop-In at the Memorial Hall for Secondary School Pupils. Friday 18 th May 12:45 Open the Book at Ysgol Bryn Collen Saturday 19 th May 10:00 Coffee the Memorial Hall and Christian Aid Street Collection Sunday 20 th May 11:00 United Pentecost Service in Riverside Park

3 News from Cytûn. Christian-Aid week will soon be here from 13 th 20 th May. Tuesday 15 th May 10:00 Coffee Morning in the Memorial Hall, our help and support will be needed to make this united event a success. Saturday 19 th May 9:00 Street Collection, with coffee available at the Memorial Hall, we are to provide collectors to cover the 12:00 till 1:00 slot, if you can only collect at other times, other groups won t mind you joining them, Help will also be required for serving coffee. Sunday 20 th May 11:00 Pentecost service at the bandstand, help with readings and refreshments will be required The editor s jottings! Coffee Morning last Tuesday big thank you to everyone for supporting and helping at the Coffee Morning we made Concert this Friday do come and hear the concert that Choral Variations and Penley Madras Community Choir will be putting on in our church this Friday full details on page 5. Pentecost Sunday if you can help with the refreshments after the United Service in Riverside Park, please let one of the stewards know. If you are available to do a reading during the service please let Elisabeth or Yvonne know. Summer Meal if you intend to come please make sure your name is on Gill or John s list. Typos in Riverside Weekly if you find any that both the editor and proofreader have missed, do let us know so we don t perpetuate them! Norman Minister:- Rev Philip Poole (01978) philpoole@btinternet.com

4 Tea Party to support our Youth Work. On Saturday 12 th May at 1pm, there will be a Tea Party at the Memorial Hall in aid of our Circuit Project, which this year is to fund our Circuit Youth Worker, Trish Erlam for a further three years. Trish is doing some fantastic Christian work with children and young people across the Circuit, and in Llangollen where she co-ordinates the After School Drop in for Secondary School Pupils and helps with the Games & Activity Evenings. Trish will be speaking to us more about her role as Circuit Youth Worker at the Tea Party. Do please come along and enjoy a Traditional Afternoon Tea, some live music and a chat and support this very worthwhile cause. So that we know the exact numbers to cater for, please could you purchase your tickets in advance from Amanda or Peter If you are unable to attend the event but would like to support our Youth Work, any donations may be given to Sheila. Thank you. Amanda. A Date for Your Diary For all Church Friends & ex-this n That-ers... Advanced notice of our Summer Evening meal This will be held on Monday 11 th June at Sweeny Hall, Oswestry 7:00 for 7:30 We would love you to join us in sharing this time of friendship together, transport can be arranged for non-drivers. Names to Gill or John please by Sunday 3 rd June if possible (Friday 8 th June at the latest). 2 course menu with coffee/tea for 22 Menus available nearer the date!

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6 Today s Bible Study (from the Methodist Church Website) Readings John 15:9-17 Abide in my love (v. 9) Psalm 98 Background On the last night of his life, Jesus prepared his disciples for a new phase in his relationship with them after his death. He taught them that just as he had experienced God (the Father s) love for himself, in the same way he had loved them. When he was physically gone, they were to continue to live in a permanent remembrance of this dynamic of receiving and giving back of love. Abide is an old-fashioned word meaning live to permanently somewhere, or be at home with. Jesus was encouraging his disciples to continue after his death to be at home with himself (the Christ), and so also the Father and one another. To live moment by moment with reference to these others would be an eccentric life, a life centred not in themselves. Jesus told the disciples how to do this. It was not a matter of an idea but of a practice. They were to keep his commandments, as he had kept the Father s commandments (verse 10). In this way the spiritual joy that Jesus had experienced in abiding in his Father s love would bubble up in his disciples in fullness of life (John 10:10). In verse 12 Jesus reminded the disciples that his commandment was to love one another as he had loved them. Jesus had spent three years living in close intimacy with his disciples, who he now called his friends. They were friends, not servants, because they were co-workers with God, intentionally caring for and loving the world, co-operating with God s purposes (as God had originally intended for humans Genesis 1). Jesus was about to lay down his life for his friends (verse 13) and taught them that nothing: no honour, wealth, or power was greater than the self-emptying love of giving your life for friends. Jesus reminded his disciples, who might feel overwhelmed by the enormity of their calling in his physical absence, that he chose them, they did not choose him. Just as everyone is chosen by God, because of God s love, not because of their inherent qualities. As we consent to being chosen, abiding in the love of God, Christ and one another, and participating in this dynamic love, so we become fruitful.

7 To Ponder When have you been eccentric in living the Christian life? Have you had the experience of continuing to feel the presence of a loved one after they have died? How would you describe this experience? When have you experienced being fruitful? What was it like? Bible notes author: The Revd Jenny Ellis Some of the religious programmes on TV & Radio this week BBC1 16:00 Sunday 6 th May Songs of Praise Young Choir of the Year (Senior Semi-Final) Aled Jones hosts the second semi-final of the brand new singing competition - Young Choir of the Year 2018, from the Pontio Centre in Bangor. Five senior choirs from across the UK sing to win a place in the final. Radio Wales 7:30 Sunday Celebration Information for Riverside Weekly should be sent to the editor, Page 7 9:00 Sunday All Things Considered Radio 2 6:00 9:00 Sunday Good Morning Sunday With Jason Mohammad and the Rev Kate Bottley Radio 4(FM) 5:43am weekdays Prayer for the Day A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Richard Hill. 8:10 Sunday 13 th May Sunday Worship Canon Ann Easter, former Chaplain to the Queen, reflects on the joy of marriage ahead of the Royal Wedding. Live from the Garrison Church in Windsor.. Radio 4 (LW) 9:44 Weekdays Daily Service A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music Norman Pybus (01978) editor@llangollenmethodist.org.uk

8 SING! `You shall have a song...in the night. Isaiah 30:29 NKJV WHY DOES the Bible say, It is good to sing praises to our God (Psalm 147:1 NKJV)? Because when you express the promises of God s Word in song, your faith is strengthened. The Great Depression of the 1930s hit a businessman named J.C. Penney particularly hard, endangering his very health. Anxious and desperate because of his huge financial losses, Penney sank so low he felt he had nothing left to live for. Even his family and friends shunned him. In the hospital one night, he grew so demoralised that he expected to die before morning! Then he heard singing coming from the hospital chapel. The words of the song were: Be not dismayed whate er betide, God will take care of you. Beneath His wings of love abide, God will take care of you. Entering the chapel, he listened to the song, the Scripture reading, and the prayer. He wrote: `Suddenly something happened. I can t explain it. I can only call it a miracle. Word for Today I felt as if I d been instantly lifted out of the darkness of a dungeon into warm, brilliant sunlight. From that day on, J.C. Penney was never again plagued with worry. He described those moments in the chapel as `the most dramatic and glorious twenty minutes of my life. And when he died at ninety-five, he left behind 1,660 department stores bearing his name. When nothing else works, the praises of God set to music can lift you out of a spiritual funk. That s why the Bible says, It is good to sing praises to our God. Try it and see for yourself. It works! Published by UCB, Stoke on Trent For free daily readings see Elisabeth or Norman