6 July 2025

TRINITY URC METHODIST CHURCH NOTICES

6 July 2025

Our Service today, Sunday 6th July, will be a

Holy Communion service led by Rev Paul Davis.

Next Sunday, our Service on 13th July will be led by Rev Mark.

The Worship Area Flowers for today are arranged by Pam Shore.

The flowers for August will be arranged by Janet Kerr.

Today’s flowers are donated by Irene Barber, flowers for 13th July will be donated by Enid Flannery.

FUNERAL SERVICE FOR IRENE BENTLEY

Following a private cremation, a service celebrating Irene’s life will be held at Trinity tomorrow, Monday 7th July at 11.30am. 

All are welcome at this service and to stay for refreshments in the hall downstairs afterwards. 

The family have requested no flowers thank you but if wished, donations in Irene’s memory can be made to Trinity URC Methodist Church. 

A cremation service will also take place for John Shelton, Wednesday 9th July at 12.20pm. Please remember both families in your private thoughts and reflections.

Thanks to all who helped at Rev Noma’s service last Sunday afternoon, especially helping with refreshments and cake baking, and the techies in church.    Margaret Dugdale

Congratulations to Freda Wells who will celebrate a milestone birthday (ending in a zero), Wednesday 9th July.

Julia and Ian Kitchin will celebrate their Diamond wedding on 17th July and in recognising this, they will be providing the refreshments at the Rishton Gift Day (Sunday 13th July: 2pm-4pm) and looking forward to seeing you all there.

They were married on the Saturday of the 'July Holidays' 1965 and, after honeymooning in Wales, moved into temporary rented property next to the Greyhound Track in Blackburn.

Their first encounter with Rishton Methodist Church was attending the evening service on 1st August when Annie Butler was the preacher.  Here, they were made welcome and soon integrated into the society.  The Methodist Church became their main interest, and they served the church at local, circuit, and district levels for over 50 years 'til old age and infirmity overtook them.

They were blessed with three children whose upbringing in the church is reflected in that one is now Anglican, one Methodist and one Baptist!

New Nursery at Rishton Methodist School. We now have a nursery section at our school and anyone seeking places for pre-school children is invited to an Open Morning on Monday 14th July between 10:45 and 11:45am.

The Table Top Sale at Rishton Methodist Church, last Saturday, has raised £395.11 it was nice to see new people attending, we would like to say thank you to everyone who helped to make this a successful event.

The Finance and Property Team.

FORTHCOMING DATES FOR YOUR DIARIES

Sunday 13th July is ACTION FOR CHILDREN SUNDAY. By then most of your bulging boxes will hopefully be emptied, but I am STILL asking for your help. We need a really scrumptious cake stall to "put the icing on the cake" for this year's contribution to Action for Children. Not only that, we need people to buy these scrumptious cakes, (in some cases, the same people who make them!) So, I am asking again for your generosity, by "Baking and Buying" in order to get anywhere near last year's total of over £1800 pounds!!!!! No, I can't believe it myself, but we can only try. With so much confidence in your generosity, Eileen xxx 

Great Harwood Charity Fair - Saturday 16th August 10am-12.30 pm.

Volunteers required to help set up and manage the stall. Cakes will be needed too.

There is a list in the hall to sign up for cakes and to help please see Avis Dent or Pam Shore. Thanks.

 Halcyon Performing Arts School, who are based here at Trinity, would like to invite you to their end of year production ‘Into the Woods Junior’, a world where fairy tales collide.  The cast are all local children and young adults, who have been rehearsing hard.    

Performance dates and times at Trinity Church are:-

Friday 11th July 7pm

Saturday 12th July 2pm

Saturday 12th July 7pm

Tickets are available to buy on their website halcyonperformingarts.co.uk

See poster below.

ECO Church Tip: Recycle or donate clothes

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 07522486223

Room Bookings: Chris Talbot 01254883427 or 07505121210

TRINITY WEB PAGES https://www.trinitychurchgreatharwood.org/

Email address: ghtrinityenquiries@gmail.com

Trinity Facebook link http://www.facebook.com/trinityurcmethodist

Streamed services: https://www.greatharwoodmethodistcircuit.org/about-us/streamed-services

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Information for this Notice Sheet to be given to Nick Schumann in writing or by email nickschumann1960@gmail.com by Thursday at 10.00am Thanks.

A Thought for Today

RIVER, WASH OVER ME (2 Kings 5:1-19)

But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he (Elisha) would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. – 2 Kings 5:11

Naaman, the highly esteemed commander of the Aramean (Syrian) army, went away in a rage because the cure for his disease – to bathe in the filthy River Jordan – was demeaning. As a hero, filled with pride, he expected a heroic cure.

His reaction is also a picture of the barrier we put in the way of God’s offer of forgiveness: it doesn’t allow for us to express the proud, heroic view we have of ourselves.

However, when Naaman did eventually demean himself and bathe in the Jordan, his leprosy was washed away. Our sin is likewise washed away when we stop pressing God for a solution on our terms; and instead accept His mercy, His cure, His way.

Nick Schumann, 1st July 2025.