Category: Outreach

Family Service – 6th March 2011

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We had around fifty people at our first Family Service of the year.

The opening service of the year was chaired by Phil Bray (@PhilBray) and began with the singing of ‘Amazing Grace’.  This was followed by prayer and our second hymn, ‘What kind of love is this’.  The music was supplied by Kerry on piano and accompanied by Judith on guitar.

During the service we learned 2 Corithians 5:17 – If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.  Various people came up to the front to help.

We also sung a few choruses that the childen from Sunday Club normally have on a Sunday morning.

Finally, before Paul Cogger came to speak, we sung the hymn ‘Majesty’.

Paul took us through the story of Jesus changing water into wine based around the headings ‘Marriage‘, ‘Mother‘, ‘Moment‘, ‘Message‘ and ‘Miracle‘.  He finished with a clever demonstration by pouring water out of a bottle, which turned red in a glass.

The service finished with the final hymn ‘I stand amazed in the presence’ and prayer.

It was generally agreed the it had been a good opening to the Family Services and we’re looking forward to our Mother’s Day tea on April 3rd at 5pm.

Family Services in 2011

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During 2011 we will be trying a new venture at Parkside – that of monthly Family Services on the first Sunday of each month.

In the series, we’ll be be looking at some of Jesus’ miracles.  We begin, next Sunday with the miracle of Jesus turning water into wine, at a wedding in Cana.

The format of each Family Service will be largely the same each month.  We’ll begin with some singing, have a memory verse and choruses for the children and finish with a short talk about the subject for the month.

Our normal two family teas will be taking place as normal.  On these months, we won’t be having a morning Family Sevice, and the tea will take place at 5pm.  In addition, the July and September Family Services will be followed by a BBQ and games in the park.

Please come along and bring all the family and friends, whatever their age.  We look forward to seeing you.

The full list of dates for 2011 is below (all at 11.30am unless indicated):

March 6              John 2 – Water into wine
April 3                 Mother’s Day Tea – 5.00pm
May 1                  John 4 – Nobleman’s son
June 5                 John 5 – Pool of Bethesda
July 3                  John 6 – Feeding of 5000 – followed by BBQ lunch
August 7             John 9 – Blind man
September 4      John 11 – Lazarus – followed by BBQ lunch
October 2           Family Tea – 5.00pm
November 6      John 20 vs 24-31 – Thomas
December 24    Christmas Eve Carols by Candlelight – 5.00pm

Snowy Times

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David emerges from the snow!

Our plans for the outreach in the High Street this morning were somewhat scuppered by the five inches of snow that fell during the morning.

The original idea was to spend 45 minutes in the High Street giving out invitations to the Candlelit Carol Service, as well as two or three giving a short word about Christmas.  In addition, we had prepared some wordsearches and bubbles to give away to the children.

Following a short time of prayer, we decided to head through the snow into the High St and split our resources to have people at every entrance to the Nicholson’s Centre. 

Maidenhead High Street in the snow

The snow was falling heavily and we decided to focus on handing out invitations to the Carol Service rather than anything else.

We were able to give away over 250 tracts and invitations to the Carol Service altogether, and although our original plans weren’t able to be completed, we felt that it was still a worthwhile exercise to have carried out and pray that there may be those who will come along tomorrow as a result.

Afterwards, we gathered in Costa Coffee to thaw out and review the exercise before heading back to Parkside to retrieve our cars buried in the snowy car park.