The Methodist Church

Burley-in-Wharfedale

Minister: Rev. Tim Perkins

01943 864187

Church website: www.burleyinwharfedalemethodistchurch.org.uk

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Please note: We have a loop system installed in church. Users of a hearing aid should switch it to the ‘T’ position and for best results, sit in the main body of the church.

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Sunday 13th November 2016 (33rd Sunday in ordinary time)

10.45am – United Service of Remembrance

led by Rev Alastair Kirk

Reflection: Rev Tim Perkins

When the minister and steward enter the church, please stand as the Bible is brought to the lectern by the steward.

Steward: The Lord is here!

All: God’s Spirit is with us!

A short time of quiet preparation for worship

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Coffee and orange juice will be served in the Fellowship Area today. Everyone is welcome to join us.

Newsnotes: If you know of anyone unable to be present at worship today, who would appreciate receiving a copy of these Newsnotes, please take a copy with you and push it through their door!

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This afternoon at 4.00pm – Bell Ringing

Please note that the time and the day for the bell ringing has changed to Sundays at 4.00pm. Sylvia Robinson

Tonight

There is no evening service here this week

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This Week:

Monday: 10.30am – Music & Movement Group

Tuesday: 10.00am – Coffee served in the Fellowship Area

2.30pm – Tuesday Meeting: Mr John Burland; “West End”

Wednesday: 9.00am – Ecumenical morning prayers at St Mary’s

2.00pm – Three Cs Group in the Fellowship Area

2.00pm – Table Tennis Group in the Hall

Thursday: Newsnotes to Dorothy Hardstaffe by noon as usual

3.30pm – 5.00pm – Cyber Café (years 5-6)

7.30pm – 9.00pm – Cyber Café (years 7-11)

8.00pm – Choir Practice in Church

Friday: 2.00pm – Bridge Club

Saturday: 10.00am – Circuit Local Preachers’ Training Day at Yeadon

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Next Sunday 20th November 2016 – (34th Sunday in ordinary time)

10.30 am – Morning Worship & Holy Communion led by Rev Rob Hilton

(Communion Stewards: Tessa Moran, Chris Price & Angus MacIntosh)

There is no evening service here next week, but …

6.00pm – Circuit Service at Bramhope Methodist Church

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Coming up

*Burley/Téréli Friendship Trust

Once again our annual fund raising calendar is on sale. Inside you will find information and updates about recent projects together with photographs taken in Burley and Téréli.

Calendars cost £6.00 and are available from Mary Wood – (864404). Mary Wood

*Jam!

Graham Lake is making lots of plum and other seasonal jam and would like you to donate jam jars for when it’s made. The proceeds for the sale of this delicious jam will go to our Church Charity– War Child. Dorothy Hardstaffe

*Simeon’s Watch

We are really excited that Riding Lights Theatre Company are bringing their wonderful new show, “Simeon’s Watch” to church on 29th November and we want to make sure the church is FULL.

So What is it all about?

Simeon’s Watch tells the story of a farming family who find hope in all the messiness of life. Rina, a teenage daughter is growing up fast and is ready to race ahead. By contrast, her much loved grandad, Simeon, is slowing down and despite his increasing struggle with dementia, he’s waiting for something important, that no-one can understand. Somewhere in the middle is his daughter, Leah, trying to hold it all together for her dad and her daughter.

It’s a touching story and some of it’s sad but it’s also funny and uplifting.

Riding Lights are very well known for taking a good look at the big challenges of our lives and finding the cracks where the light gets in. They have spent two years researching this story. Mixed in with the sense of loss that many people feel, Riding Lights has heard notes of love and intimacy that are there too. You’ll find them threaded through this lovely story.

So get your ticket from Val Lamond and bring your friends. Who do you know who really needs to be with us when Riding Lights come? Perhaps you could buy a ticket for a friend. This could be just the thing for them. Let’s have some fun and fill up this space for a special evening together.

Tickets are £10 (£8 concessions) and is suitable for children aged 12 and over. Rev Tim

*Menston Methodist Drama Group presents

“Advent – ure into Christmas”

This will be a concert for the Advent Season and will be held on Saturday 26th November at 2.00pm in the church. This will be followed by Afternoon Tea in the Church Hall.

Tickets: £6 adults, £3 children. Booking – Jane Hughes 875999.

All proceeds to support Martin House

*Newsnotes

Please be aware of the following dates:

Newsnotes for next week, 20th November, should be sent to me, Dorothy Hardstaffe, by next Thursday, as usual.

Newsnotes for 27th November should be sent to Gillian MacIntosh by the previous Thursday.

Newsnotes after that should be sent to me as usual. Dorothy Hardstaffe

*Outlook

Items for the DECEMBER/JANUARY double issue of Outlook should be with Chris Price by THURSDAY 17th NOVEMBER. Email , telephone 01943 864445 or deliver to 10 St Michael’s Way. Many thanks! Chris Price

*Roberta’s Appointment

We are delighted to announce that Revd. Dr. Roberta Topham from Nidd Valley Methodist Circuit in Harrogate has accepted our invitation to the appointment of presbyter in pastoral charge in Christchurch, Ilkley, LEP and to join the Western Partnership in September 2017.

Roberta is well known to several of us in the Wharfedale & Aireborough Circuit and we feel that her gifts and experience will ensure that this promises to be an excellent ‘match’. We look forward with great joy to working with her in the exciting future of the Wharfedale and Aireborough Circuit.

We ask for your prayers for Revd. Rob Hilton, Revd. Roberta Topham and their families and for the Leadership Team at Christvhurch as they plan for the moves involved. The Circuit Stewards

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Unity in Prayer

When the darkness of this world is past, may Christ the Morning Star, bring to all God’s saints the promise of the light of life that opens into everlasting day. Amen. The Venerable Bede (c, 673 – 735)

Pray for the Sick and Housebound.

Please remember in your prayers those who grieve over the loss of a loved one.

Please pray for peace in all the places in the world where there is war and strife.

Pray for the countries where the people go hungry and for the aid agencies who are working to alleviate their need.

Please remember in your prayers all those you know who are in special need at the

moment.

Please pray for all members of the church family who are sick at home or in hospital.

Pray for those in residential homes; the housebound and the lonely.

Please tell one of the stewards if you know of anyone who should be included in the prayers of intercession, or who should be visited, or add their name to the Intercessions Book in the vestibule.

For your own devotions. “Privilege and Obedience” (33rd week in ordinary time)

Sunday 13 Luke 21: 5 – 19 StF: 696 Psalm: 98

Monday 14 Deuteronomy 4: 1 – 14 463 48

Tuesday 15 Deuteronomy 4: 32 – 40 19 49

Wednesday 16 Deuteronomy 6: 4 – 13 73 50: 1 – 15

Thursday 17 Deuteronomy 10: 12 – 22 300 51

Friday 18 Deuteronomy 26: 16 – 19 122 52

Saturday 19 Deuteronomy 30: 15 – 20 600 53

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Burley-in-Wharfedale

Remembrance Day United Service at the Methodist Church

13th November 2016 at 10.45 am

Call to worship: Psalm 121: 1 – 2

StF 545: Be thou my vision (during which the Standards are presented)

Prayer of Confession

Let us confess to God the sins and short-comings of the world; its pride, its selfishness, its greed; its evil divisions and hatreds. Let us confess our share in what is wrong and our failure to seek and establish that peace which God wills for his children.

Most merciful God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we confess that we have sinned in thought, word and deed. We have not loved you with our whole heart. We have not loved our neighbour as ourselves.

In your mercy forgive what we have been, help us to amend what we are, and direct what we shall be; that we may do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with you, our God. Amen.

Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, have mercy upon us, pardon and deliver us from all our sins, confirm and strengthen us in all goodness, and keep us in life eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Reading: Psalm 112

Remembering

The Laying of Wreaths

(Please stand)

The list of those to be remembered by name is read followed by these words:

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

We will remember them.

The Last Post is sounded

Silence

The Reveille is sounded

The Kohima Epitaph is said

Prayer

StF 131: By a monument of marble,

Readings: Exodus 6:1-8

Luke 1:68-79

Reflection

Prayers of Intercession

Bidding: May God give peace

Response: God give peace

The Lord’s Prayer

StF 707: Make me a channel of your peace

Litany of Reconciliation

All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

The hatred which divides nation from nation, race from race, class from class,

Father Forgive.

The covetous desires of people and nations to possess what is not their own,

Father Forgive.

The greed which exploits the work of human hands and lays waste the earth,

Father Forgive.

Our envy of the welfare and happiness of others,

Father Forgive.

Our indifference to the plight of the imprisoned, the homeless, the refugee,

Father Forgive.

The lust which dishonours the bodies of men, women and children,

Father Forgive.

The pride which leads us to trust in ourselves and not in God,

Father Forgive.

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

The Act of Commitment (all stand)

Let us commit ourselves to responsible living and faithful service.

Will you strive for all that makes for peace?

We will.

Will you seek to heal the wounds of war?

We will.

Will you work for a just future for all humanity?

We will.

Merciful God, we offer to you the fears in us that have not yet been cast out by love: may we accept the hope you have placed in the hearts of all people, and live lives of justice, courage and mercy; through Jesus Christ our risen Redeemer. Amen

StF 313: Thine be the glory (during which the offering is taken & the Standards are collected)

The National Anthem

God save our gracious Queen,

Long live our noble Queen,

God save the Queen.

Send her victorious,

Happy and glorious,

Long to reign over us:

God save the Queen.

The Blessing

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We Will Remember Them