WINTER/SPRING 2010

PREACHING PLAN

Sundays at 10.30a.m.

3 JanuaryMrs S WayFamily Service

10 JanuaryRev T Richards

17 JanuaryRev D HuggettCommunion

24 JanuaryMrs D Hewish

31 JanuaryMr R Bryer

7 FebruaryMrs J MorlingFamily Service

14 FebruaryMr M Bennett

21 FebruaryRev T RichardsCommunion

28 FebruaryMrs P Oakley

7 MarchRev E RidoutFamily Service

14 MarchMr C PitmanMothering Sunday

21 MarchMrs J FryCommunion

28 MarchRev T RichardsPalm Sunday

Winter/Spring 2010 - Special Events

Sat 6 February10.00am-12.00pm

Thrift Sale and Coffee Morning

PROCEEDS TO HAITI UNICEF APPEAL

Sat 27 February10.00am

Christian Aid Booksale

Hundreds of second-hand books and good refreshments

Fri 5 MarchWomen’s World Day of Prayer

2.00pm and 7.00pm

Speaker Rev E Ridout

Mission Church, Vestry Road

Service prepared by women from churches in Cameroon

Sat 6 March10.00am-12.00pm

Thrift Sale and Coffee Morning

Sat 3 April10.00-12.00pm

Thrift Sale and Coffee Morning

Sun 4 April10.30am

Easter Day Service

FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE

WINTER/SPRING 2010 PROGRAMME

Mon 15 February7.30pm

“A different sort of Christmas”

Margaret Crockett

Mon 1 March7.30pm

Friendly Meal at The Two Brewers

Mon 15 March7.30pm

“Life in the Mounted Police Branch in London”

Nick Pearce (in aid of Air Ambulance)

Mon 29 March7.30pm

Evening with Wednesday Wives from Street Methodist Church

Easter Bonnets/Quiz/Supper

Mon 12 April7.30pmTBC

Mon 26 April7.30pmAGM

Children

Our children are highly-valued and very much a part of the church. Most come, with their parents, from an early age. We have Sunday School for about 40 minutes on most Sundays; if it is the first Sunday in the month children join with the adults for Family Service.

We organise a Cradle Roll for children who have been baptised

at the church, and try to keep in touch with all.

Children are encouraged to contribute to church services, especially the family services, as they become old enough to help. This can be through activities like singing, drama and reading.

The Sunday School teachers use both material they have developed themselves and the Roots interdenominational course.

At Easter we held a party in the afternoon where the children made various crafts, Easter gardens, etc to decorate the church with.

In July we held a Summer Party for the children. They had great fun solving a treasure hunt and making lots of summer crafts.

In October we held an Autumn Party for all children and young at heart. Everyone had fun making ‘nuterpillars’, arranging autumn flowers, making mint creams and decorating them and making a flower with a photo of each child in the middle to decorate the church.

In December we held an Advent Party where the children helped decorate 2 christmas trees in the Church, they made edible Christmas decorations to take home and lanterns that they lit and walked around the church with at the end of the party.

Each party ends with a party tea for all!!

Starting February 2010

“Living the Questions”

A course led by Rev Tim Richards and Mrs Jo Morling.

This course is open to all who have an interest; you do not need to be a member of this or any church.

“Living the Questions” is a sort of super-theology course at the level of the ordinary man or woman in the pew (or for non-churchgoers with an interest in Christianity).

For nearly two hundred years theologians and biblical scholars of all mainstream churches have been taking giant steps forward, and there is a surprising amount of consensus between them! Churchgoers have reaped the benefits in the sermons we have heard for years and years, and that is certainly so at Street URC. Hence the general tendency through the twentieth century for many British churches to become more forward-looking, more flexible and tolerant in outlook, and often more socially and politically aware too.

Much of the moral teaching in Living the Questions will feel familiar to churchgoers, but how this links up with what we read in the Bible will be surprising and hopefully stimulating.

If you feel that a Church and its faith should be kindly, opened-hearted, broad-minded, and not out of touch with the world we live in, you will enjoy this course. Whether you are at the very beginning of a journey of faith, or a seasoned traveller, it should help you to move on!

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Contents of the course:

Living the Questions is an American product, divided into modules. Contributors include some much-respected theologians, writers and biblical scholars, including Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, John Shelby Spong and Walter Brueggemann, and the hymn writer John Bell (“Will you come and follow me?”) of the Iona Community.

Modules include –

  • Taking the Bibleseriously
  • Stories of Creation
  • Lives of Jesus
  • Paul
  • Out into the World: Challenges facingChristians
  • Evil, Suffering and A God of Love
  • Incarnation: Divinely Human
  • The Myth of Redemptive Violence
  • Prayer: Intimacy with God
  • Compassion: The Heart of Jesus’s Ministry
  • Practising Resurrection
  • Reclaiming the World
  • Social Justice: Realising God’s Vision
  • A Kingdom withoutWalls

Queries re the Church and its events to Church Secretary:

Miss E R Williams

Tel 01458 442927