Church weekly newsletter

1. Young people are invited to leave for their own activities
after approx. 30 minutes.
Please stay and join with us for refreshments after this service.
Grove Free Evangelical Church
‘Building a community of people who live out God’s purposes’
Sunday 31st
May 2015
Barbie Margetts leads our service this morning. Continuing the
series from the book of Colossians entitled ‘Living for Christ’;
Pastor Paul John speaks on ‘Relate to others with Christ-like
attitudes’ (Colossians 3:18-4:1).
The week ahead
Mon 1st
7:30 pm Prayer for ‘Our Nation’ at Maurice and Marthe’s
Tues 2nd
8:00 pm OMF prayer meeting at Margaret and Lesley’s
Wed 3rd
10:30 am CoffeePlus meet for ‘A morning with Bernice
White’ at Barbara’s
7:30 pm Oasis Housegroup meet
7:45 pm Safari Housegroup meet
8:00 pm Terry and Andrea’s Housegroup meet
Thu 4th
8:00 pm Gerald and Erika’s Housegroup meet
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for
the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will
receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord
Christ you are serving. Colossians 3: 23-24 (NIV)

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(before Wednesday evening for inclusion in the following Sunday’s newssheet)
The Cornerstone AGM will be held on Tuesday 16th
June,
7:30 pm for coffee and cake. The formal meeting will start
at 8:00 pm with presentations from the Board looking back
over last year, and forward to what is being planned for the
rest of this year.
GFEC’s Holiday Bible Club this year will be ‘Seaside
Rock’. We will be sharing some of the Bible stories of
Jesus and Peter and thinking about the two houses
built on the sand and on the rock. We will be
challenging the children to follow Jesus. This will all
be done with a ‘seaside‘ theme throughout. We would like to transform
the school hall at Millbrook into a seaside / beach. If you have any items
that we could borrow which you think would help us to achieve this please
let Erika or Debbie know. We would also like some empty jam jars please
for a craft activity. Please pray for this time of planning and preparation,
27th
July is not that far away!
NEXT WEEK
10:30 am: ‘Children at Risk’ Sunday. The service will led by the Missionary
Action Group and Brian Wilkinson from Viva will be speaking.
Youth Group meet.
2:30 pm: Pauline Selhi leads a service at the Wantage Nursing Home.
4:00 pm: All-age service at The Mission, East Challow. Andy Hooker leads
and concluding the mini-series from Jonah ‘A whale of a tale’; Ian Reynolds
speaks on ‘Jonah the moaner’ (Jonah 3 & 4).
Pastor Paul John can be contacted on 01235 210037 or email: pastor@gfec.org.uk
Thank you for your donations to Viva’s Nepal Earthquake
Appeal. GFEC has forwarded £390 to Viva. The
opportunity to give via GFEC is no longer available.
Please make any further donations direct to Viva.