4 May 2025

TRINITY URC METHODIST CHURCH NOTICES

4 May 2025

Palm Sunday

Service today at 10.30am

with Holy Communion

led by Rev Mark Jason

Next Sunday, our Service on 11th of May will be led by Margaret Dugdale.

The Worship Area Flowers for May are arranged by Avis Dent and in June by Gillian Conroy.

Today’s flowers are donated by Pam Russo; flowers for 11th of May will be donated by Avis Dent.

 Count Your Blessings. Thank you to all those who counted their blessings during Lent, a total of £454 has been raised for Methodist missions.         Thanks, Margaret. 

FORTHCOMING DATES FOR YOUR DIARIES

Trinity Bible Study Group

The Bible study group resumes on Tuesday at 7pm. We will be continuing our 'Women in the Bible' series and we begin a new study on the role of Mary Magdalene.

All are welcome. Rev. Mark.

Thursday the 8th of May 80th Anniversary of VE Day

An ‘Old Fashioned Social’ at Trinity at 7.00pm on Friday 9th of May. Dancing, a quiz and a potato pie supper, tickets from the stewards, Lunch Club or Trinity Shop £7.00. Brush up on your Voleta and the St Bernard’s Waltz you never know when they will come in handy!

Free Sunday Afternoon Family Fun: 11th May 2025, at Rishton Methodist Church, 11.30am – 1.30pm, to celebrate our Sunday Club’s anniversary. Bring your own picnic (Tea, coffee & juice provided)

Soft archery competition / Welly throwing / Chocolate prizes.

Children must be accompanied by an adult. More information available from Nick Schumann. Thanks.

Afternoon Tea & Film at Rishton Methodist Church, Wednesday 21st May 2025.

Our film is Little Women - a 2019 American coming-of-age period drama film, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, and is the seventh film adaptation of the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott, chronicling the lives of the March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 19th century.

An ensemble cast: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, and Chris Cooper.

Share tea and a chat with friends; children welcome with accompanying adult(s).

The film starts at 2pm and afternoon tea is served at about 4pm.   Come for both or just for tea!

Calling all friends and family!

The Trinity Team is having a sort out in the room downstairs off the main central hall (playgroup room) if you have a designated space would you come and tidy / sort it out so we can clean it. Thank you.

A BIG THANKYOU to Geoff Grundy! – From the Trinity URC Methodist Church family for your 21 years of faithful compilation of our weekly notices. We appreciate everything you have done (and continue to do) in the Lord’s service. Every blessing to you and to Anne. XXX

Special thanks to all at Trinity and the Luncheon Club for all the get-well cards, telephone calls, flowers and all your prayers. They have meant so much to me and helped with my recovery. I hope to be back at church soon. God bless you all.  With love from Linda.

ECO Church Tip. Swap your plastic toothbrush for a bamboo one.

Rev Mark Jason. 07305 805930 Email mark.jason@methodist.org.uk

Chief Steward: John Ansell 01254-888741 jcansell@ntlworld.com

Gift Aid Secretary: Geoff Grundy,

Trinity Prayer Chain: Audrey Adams 01254-888224.

Room Bookings: Chris Talbot 01254883427 or 07505121210

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Email address: trinityenquiries@greatharwoodmethodistcircuit.org.uk

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Information for this Notice Sheet to be given to Nick Schumann in writing or by email nick.schumann1960@gmail.com by Thursday at 10.00am Thanks.

A thought for today,

We give thanks, O God, for those who changed their ways:

Saul of Tarsus - changed by the blinding light of Your presence,

Pilate’s wife - who took dreams seriously,

Francis of Assisi - who turned from wealth to love You in the poor,

Hilda of Whitby - royal princess who heard your call to be a nun and abbess,

William Wilberforce - who defied social convention dedicating himself to ending slavery,

Elizabeth Fry - who turned from her middle-class comfort to reforming prisons,

Edith Stein – a Catholic nun murdered by the Nazis for being Jewish,

Oscar Romero - who turned away from the rich to serve the poor and protest injustice

Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

We offer to you, Lord Jesus, the places in our world which need to change:

Nations beset by military regimes, corruption, and dictators; places where war and terror rule, and people live in fear; countries and territories with insecure borders, where treaties are jokes, and babies are bombed; those left behind by business and capital, where global supply chains impoverish the poor; and people living in fear that their very existence is hated by newly empowered elites.

Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

And we bring ourselves to You, Most Holy Spirit, that we may be changed as we hear Your call; set us free from all that drags us down, give us the courage to say “no” to powers and patterns that entrap us, help us distinguish Your call from the siren voices of our world.

Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

The Revd Andy Braunston