NEWSLETTER. September

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1 NEWSLETTER September

2 FROM THE MINISTER S STUDY Dear Friends, I am sorry about this. A friend of mine always wanted to be run over by a steam train. When it happened, he was chuffed to bits! (Tim Vine) When Sarah and myself first received the news that stationing had matched us with the Nottingham North Circuit we were chuffed to bits. Moving here had been our first choice out of all the possible appointments in the book and so we were absolutely delighted both with the match and everything we discovered when we came to visit. Since that time, people have been incredibly kind, generous and welcoming. We would like to say an enormous thank you to so many people, but especially to David and Val for everything they have done on behalf of the Circuit for us as a family. As a new minister joins a Circuit there is always a welcome service. When I started my previous appointment in Coventry and Nuneaton I was one of 3 probationers and 2 ordained staff who joined at that time. The beginning of ministry is something of a whirlwind and so perhaps not surprisingly I would have struggled to remember very much about this service. I know the service involves both ministers and the churches making promises which should shape our life together, which sounds like something I probably should have remembered. However, for this article the truth is that I had to look these promises up! The first comes when the Chair of the District asks the new minister: Will you hold before us the story of God s love and mercy, above all, the Gospel of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and will you be among us as one who preaches the word of God, administers Baptism, presides at the Lord s Supper, teaches the faith, and cares for the flock? The minister replies I will. These are two very daunting words. Fortunately, they are quickly followed by the prayer I ask God to help me. Without this prayer I know the Circuit would be in big trouble! In the days and weeks ahead please do join me in this prayer that God will indeed equip and inspire my ministry in the Circuit.

3 Far more important than the promise the minister makes is the invitation that follows. Having asked for God s help the minister then says, I invite you all to join with me in proclaiming the Gospel of life and hope. The work of sharing God s love, mercy and hope to our world, a world in desperate need, is shared among all God s people. The task of sharing our faith, growing in faith, helping others do the same and caring for the people of God s world is the mission and ministry of all the church. In this fundamental calling, the whole church commits itself to being the people of God, following the way of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit. Again, in prayer may we all ask God to enable us to play our part in proclaiming the Gospel of life and hope. As Sarah, the girls and myself join you on this journey, I hope that we can all remember and live out the declaration we make in the welcome service: Through Christ, we have Good News to share. Love, peace and joy. Andrew SUNDAY SERVICES FOR SEPTEMBER Services are held each Sunday at am and 6.00 pm. Junior (ages 7-11) and Primary (ages 3-7) Sunday School meet at 10.45am (except on Family Service Sunday). Late Risers (11+) meet at 6.00pm. 4 th 10.45am Rev. Loraine Mellor - Circuit Service 6.00pm Rev. Andrew Charlesworth - Holy Communion 11 h 10.45am Rev. Robert Gollins 6.00pm Rev. Andrew Charlesworth - Youth Service 18 th 9.00am Rev. Andrew Charlesworth - Holy Communion 10.45am Rev. Andrew Charlesworth - Harvest Festival and 50 th Anniversary 6.00pm Rev. Lynita Conradie 25 th 10.45am Rev. Andrew Charlesworth - Holy Communion 6.00pm Rev. Ruth Orton 2

4 CHURCH S 50TH ANNIVERSARY AND HARVEST FESTIVAL Please join us on Sunday 18th September to celebrate 50 years of the Church on its current site. Our former ministers have all been invited to the celebration and seven of them are coming to our special service and lunch. It promises to be a great occasion and a lovely chance to meet old friends who have played such a part in the story of Nuthall Methodist Church. This Harvest Festival service will be followed by a bring and share lunch. A list of the items required is on a noticeboard in the church coffee lounge. Please put your name against an item. We need cooked jacket potatoes, hot dishes to top the potatoes, along with prepared salads, other side dishes and of course cakes and desserts. We also need volunteers on the day to help serve the food, tidy up and wash the dishes after the lunch. If you can help please speak to Tina Harvey, Kirstie Dane or Sue Perrett. We look forward to seeing you and celebrating this wonderful anniversary! A short history of the church is included in this newsletter. NUTHALL NEWS PRAYER STREETS Please remember the residents of the following streets in your prayers. Our friends at St. Patrick's Church and the churches in Kimberley are joining with us in this activity. The streets in italics are in Kimberley. September 4 th Watnall Road & Stanmore Close Lawn Mill & Bayswater Road 11 th Queens Drive & Bloomsbury Drive Hardy Close & Eastwood Road 18 th Buckingham Way & Oakwood Gardens Station Road, Abber Close, Westby Lane & Broxtowe Ave 25 th Canterbury Close & Chelsea Close Critch s Flatts, Brown Flatts & Lulworth Close THANK YOU Many thanks to my friends who have been so kind and supportive during my recent recovery from knee surgery and for the many cards, flowers and phone messages that I have received. My sincere thanks to you all. Beryl Tantum 3

5 PRE-SERVICE SINGING GROUP I'd like to trial a small group to sing as people enter church every so often (nothing formal and no regular practices, just something to add as a change to the piano before services). The first time we could do this would be on Sunday morning 18th September, before the 50th celebration/harvest service. If you would like to be part of this, please come along to a one-off practice for this event on Sat 17th Sept 10-11am when we will run through the songs in the church. You don't need to have been in the previous 'HIS' group or read music, just enjoy singing (words will be provided). Self-sufficient musicians are very welcome too! See Lorna Page for any queries. BOYS BRIGADE AWARDS EVENING Our annual Boys Brigade Awards and Enrolment evening will be on Friday 16 th September, commencing at 7.00pm. We would welcome any parents and members of the Church to attend the presentation and stay for a tea or coffee, kindly prepared by the BPFA, afterwards. BOYS BRIGADE ANCHOR BOYS We are actively seeking people to become officers in our Anchor Boys Section. The Anchors meet every Friday of term time 6.00pm to 7.00pm in the Trinity Lounge area of Church. Anybody who wishes to become an officer please speak to Peter Bales or Gill Maloney. NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICE - SUNDAY OCTOBER 2nd at 3.00PM Everyone, including Church members and friends, are welcome to join us for the last Neighbourhood Service of the year, but we particularly extend a warm welcome to those in the community who are housebound due to mobility or transport problems. We hope that you will be able to join us for this service which is quite informal and a lovely time to worship in a warm and friendly way. Refreshments are served after the service and transport is available to arrange by calling Doug/Margaret or also John/Beryl on If you know of anyone in the area who would like to join us then please let them have these details or call us on any of the above numbers. 4

6 HOPE COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR CONCERT Sat 17th Sept 7pm at The Nottingham High School. We're a community choir of all standards that come together to enjoy singing and fellowship. Come and join us and our guest musicians/singers for our annual get-together - you'll be tapping those feet, clapping those hands and joining in with the singing before the night is over! Tickets 5 (children under 16 free). See Lorna Page or Rosie Lishman for tickets or more info. GIRLS BRIGADE AWARDS EVENING Please put Wednesday 19 th October at 7.00pm in your diary for the Girls Brigade Awards Evening. APPEAL FOR BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION During September the BHF are having a campaign called BAG IT BEAT IT to help raise money for research. The BHF are asking YOU if you could fill a bag with any unwanted items that could be sold in their charity shops. Barbara and John Hardy (local BHF volunteers for this area) have empty bags and will be pleased to collect the filled bags from you Thank you so much. PLEASE HELP! RESEARCH IS HOPE RESEARCH SAVES LIVES. Coach Trips 2016 Christmas Markets York - November 19 th Birmingham December 10 th 16 Adults Child/OAP s Date for your diary: Elsie invites you to The Hogs Head Christmas Meal on Saturday 3 rd December. Details to follow. 5

7 WEDDING INVITATION Jenny Corah and Robin Leathley (and their families) would like to invite you to join them for their wedding ceremony at Nuthall Methodist Church on Saturday 29th October at 2pm. We would love to see you there, and to share in tea and cakes after the ceremony. BEAUVALE NEWS BEAUVALE EX-MEMBERS ACTIVITIES Our friends from Beauvale are reminded of the following events: Sunday September 11 th at 6.00pm Greasley Group of Churches United Service at Our Lady of Good Counsel RC Church. Wednesday September 28th at 2.30pm. Beauvale Fellowship at 9 Vale Close. CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT NEWS CIRCUIT SERVICE The next Circuit Service will be at Nuthall on September 4th at 10.45am. This is an important service as we will be welcoming our new minister, Rev. Andrew Charlesworth and also Marc Williams who is the new Youth Worker. We will also be recognising Joan Hallam's 60 years of being a local preacher. The Chair of District, Rev. Loraine Mellor, will be preaching. Please join us for this important service. HARVEST DISPLAY AT AWSWORTH Our friends at Awsworth Methodist Church would welcome you to a Harvest Display of Thanksgiving on September 10 th, 10am- 4pm in The Youth Wing adjacent to the village hall. Refreshments will be available and they thought it would be good for their circuit friends to see where they worship. Car parking is at the rear. 6

8 LETTER FROM LORAINE MELLOR Dear Friends and Colleagues, By now you may have realised that I have been designated as President of the Methodist Church for 2017/18. I consider this to be a great honour and privilege and I look forward to travelling around the Connexion and meeting our Methodist people. I am grateful to those who nominated me, but most of all I am grateful to God for his love, care, blessings and the honour of serving his church in this way. I am thankful too for the many expressions of...congratulations from around the Connexion and especially from the District for the cards, texts, s, letters, flowers and gifts, the generosity and prayer support has been truly overwhelming. You may be wondering what this entails and what happens in the District during my time as President. Well first let me reassure you that the District will be in the very safe and capable hands of Revd Mike Redshaw and Revd Paul Worsnop as Deputy Chairs and the District team. The presidency is over a three year period: During year one I will be attending a variety of meetings some of which I already attend in my role as Chair. This of course will increase and Mike, Paul and I have been working together now for some months and have already agreed what roles we share and we feel this has been working well. We now all offer preaching appointments across the District, pastoral care is now much more coordinated and we have been able to respond to requests coming to us from the Superintendents. We are also continuing Prayerfest until the end of the calendar year and also a new initiative which we hope to inform you of soon that we have called Chair s team talks" this will be coming to a church near you in the new Connexional year. In year two you will see much less of me though I do intend to honour any preaching appointments I have already made for 2017/18 in the district. During this year I will travel the Connexion encouraging the Methodist people and I hope you will pick up a prayer card and follow Jill Baker the Vice President and I as we travel around. I will endeavour to put as many updates on social media as I can. The arrangements for the District will be on the agenda at the District Executive when we meet in September and we will of course keep you fully informed. In year three I will be back in the District and it will be much like year one and picking up the Chair's role again. I hope this gives you a flavour of the next three years and I will of course update this page when further information is available to us. I know I serve the best District in the Connexion, and I am very confident about us being able to work together in the coming months and years and as I travel around the Connexion I will be telling lots of stories about the great things that are happening here as we seek to serve God and build his kingdom. In prayer, Loraine 7

9 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY SEPTEMBER 6 th 12.00noon Midweek Communion 8 th 2.00pm Women s Fellowship - Dr Joan Barks My time as a shepherdess 10 th Coach Trip to Scarborough (see Nuthall News) 10 th 10.00am Harvest Display at Awsworth (see Circuit News) 11 th 5.00pm Finance & Property Committee Meeting in the coffee lounge 16 th 7.00pm Boys Brigade Awards Evening 17 th 10.00am Singing Group Rehearsal (see Nuthall News) 17 th 2.00pm BFPA Jumble Sale 15 th 2.00pm Take Time Together 19 th 7.00pm BFPA AGM & Committee Meeting in the coffee lounge 22 nd 10.30am Women s Fellowship Coffee Morning hosted by Mrs. V Morgan at church OCTOBER 3 rd 3.00pm Neighbourhood Service 4 th 12.00noon Midweek Communion TO MAKE YOU SMILE.. FUNNY THINGS CHILDREN SAY In school, the vicar was showing a painting of Jesus to a class, but understand, it s not really Jesus, just an artist s impression of him. Well, said one child, It certainly looks like him. Some seven year olds were asked to draw a scene from the bible. They were busy and silent for 15 minutes, drawing the crucifixion, the nativity scenes, etc. One lad had a bearded figure driving a car with a sad looking man and woman in the back seat. Gently the teacher asked which scene from the bible had he drawn? Well, Miss said the boy, quite proudly, It s God driving Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. 8

10 SUNDAY SERVICE DUTIES FOR SEPTEMBER Duty Steward Readers Door Stewards Pianist 4 th C. Milne J. Gray D. Pullen 6.00 H. Whittle J. Lievesley P. Corah W. & I. Green J. Wilson V. & R. Stone L. Page 11 th K. Dane D. Nicholls M. Silverton J. Wakefield V. Morgan S. Bowerman 6.00 H. Whittle C. Page T. & P. Kendall J. Wilson M. Waldram 18 th 9.00 J. Dent L. Page J. Wilson A. Wilcock Horsley family J. Wilson J. Wilcock 6.00 S. Moore D. & B. Coleman B. & J. Seeley C. Lovatt 25 th S. Pullen H. & K. Cameron 6.00 C. Milne B. Hardy B. Wakefield J. & P. Owen J. Wilson G. Evans S. Stack J. Wilson Please pass all items for the October newsletter to Margaret Sendall, post in the box in the Coffee Lounge or to mesendall@hotmail.com by September 18th, please 9

11 DUTIES AND ROTAS FOR SEPTEMBER CHURCH FLOWERS September 4 th Pat Dodd 11 th Gill Stokes 18 th Joyce Housley 25 th Beryl Tantum TODDLERS' DRINKS ROTA September 7 th Sue and Ken Shepherd & Ann Knight 14 th Joan Buttery and.(please will someone volunteer to help Joan with drinks on the 2 nd Wednesday of each month) 21 st Daphne Train & Sue Pullen 28 th Marjorie Silverton, Mick and Margaret Sendall COFFEE CORNER September 3 rd Sue & Dougie 10 th Sylvia & David 17 th? 25 th Heather & Fiona CAR PARK Car park duty has been suspended until November. MINISTER Rev. Andrew Charlesworth 2 Fairburn Way, Watnall, Notts, NG16 1GH ach2804@yahoo.co.uk SENIOR STEWARDS Cathy Milne Heather Whittle SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT Mrs. Josie Wilcock CHURCH / HALL BOOKING CLERK Mr. Ian Poxon CHURCH COACH BOOKING CLERK Mrs. Norma Ellis 10

12 REGULAR WEEKLY ACTIVITIES Sunday Monday Tuesday 9.00am Holy Communion (3 rd Sunday of the month) 10.45am Morning Worship (crèche for ages 0 to 3) Sunday School (ages 3 to 11) Family Service (3 rd Sunday of the month) 6.00pm Evening Worship Youth Service (2 nd Sunday of the month) Late Risers (ages 11+) 7.00pm Templars Youth Fellowship 7.15pm Ladies Keep Fit 12.00noon Midweek Communion (1 st Tues. of the month) 2.00pm Women s Fellowship (2 nd Tues. of the month) 7.30pm Badminton & TableTennis Club 8.00pm Wives Group (1 st & 3 rd Tues. of month, in homes) Wednesday Thursday 7.00am Prayer Meeting 10.00am Nuthall Methodist Church Walking Group (3 rd Wednesday of the month - contact M. Sendall for meeting point details) 1.30pm Toddlers Group 6.00pm Girls Brigade (Explorers age 5 to 8) 6.30pm Girls Brigade (Juniors age 8 to 11) 6.30pm Girls Brigade (Seniors & Brigaders age 11+) 1.30pm Art Group 2.00pm Take Time Together (3 rd Thurs. of the month) 6.15pm Zumba/Salsa (2 nd & 4 th Thurs. of the month) Friday 5.55pm Boys Brigade (Junior Section age 8 to 11) 6.00pm Boys Brigade (Anchor Boys age 5 to 8) 6.50pm Boys Brigade (Company Section age 11+) Saturday 10.00am Coffee Corner Come and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee, homemade cakes and scones, and of course, a chat with friends A list of House Fellowship and Bible Study groups is available on the noticeboard in the Coffee Lounge