Churches Together - Charity Christmas Cards

Churches Together 
Burton Joyce, Bulcote & Stoke Bardolph

Charity Christmas Cards

We will not be holding a Churches Together coffee morning this Autumn but we can still support our regular charities by buying their Christmas cards. 

Here is a list with links to each charity.

Nottinghamshire Hospice

You can make a donation through the Facebook page

Or buy Christmas cards from the hospice shop in the village 

Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance Charitable Trust

You can make a donation on the ambucopter webpage

Or buy Christmas cards from their shop in Mapperley

Traidcraft

You can buy Christmas cards and more from the Traidcraft Online Shop

RSPB

You can buy Christmas cards from the RSPB Online Shop

RNLI - Lifeboats

You can buy Christmas cards and other gifts from the RNLI Online Shop

Donkey Sanctuaries

You can buy Christmas cards from the Donkey Sanctuary Online Shop

Or make a donation to the Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary

If I've missed anyone, please let me know

Harvest Thanksgiving

Harvest Thanksgiving

We celebrate Harvest Festival this year on Sunday 18th October 2020. 

Of course, we will not be in the church building but we can all create our own harvest table at home and we can all make donations to the charities we support. 

There is more information about the charities & making donations on the Monthly News page

The five charities we are supporting at harvest this year are:

Emmanuel House - Homeless support, Nottingham

The Friary - Homeless support, West Bridgford

Framework - Homeless, street support & housing, Nottingham

Water Aid - International development

All We Can - International development

 

Action for Children

It's Action for Children Sunday!

Action for Children is a charity that helps children, and their parents, enjoy life free from fear, pain, poverty, abuse and exploitation. Many Methodist churches up and down the country actively support Action for Children through fund raising and prayer and voluntary work

Action for Children: for safe, happy childhoods

For a special Action for Children Sunday service, you can tune in to this one from the Ceredigion Methodist Circuit and St Paul's, Aberystwyth, led by Dionne Sherwood

Ceredigion Methodist YouTube channel

Easter 6 - Christian Aid Sunday

Easter 6 - Christian Aid Sunday

Easter 6 - Sunday 10^th May 2020 

Burton Joyce Community Church

CHRISTIAN AID WEEK

Welcome to worship. 

We’ll begin by singing:

Break thou the bread of life (SoF* 50)

Let us pray:

God of all the Earth, be with us now as we share in worship. Teach us to love one another. Open our hearts to encompass people everywhere, in their need, in their joy, in their hopes and aspirations. We are all one in you, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Forgive us, loving Lord, for our doubts. Forgive us that we are slow to follow. Forgive us for denying your life in us and in others by the way we live. Forgive us - as we forgive one another. Live in us as we live in your grace. In the name of the risen Christ. Amen

Our Father ...

Hymn: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (SoF 470)

Reading: John 21, 1-14

Reflection:

Jesus meets them back where he first called them, in Galilee. It is a recommissioning. It is a new calling and a new sending.

Where did you first meet Jesus? What did he say to you then? What is he saying to you now? Let's go forward together in his name. Amen

Hymn: I heard the voice of Jesus say (SoF 215)

Prayer of lament and intercession:

God our refuge, we come with empty hands but wit hearts full of questions, bruised by loss, fearing the future, stunned by events. Draw near to us as we place our hopes in your hands.

God in your mercy, hear our prayer.

Hear the cry of our hearts for bereaved neighbours and those pained by absence; hold those who are hurting. Remind us that we all play our part and save lives by staing at home.

On Christian Aid Week Sunday, we pray with communities across the world, especially people with limited sanitation, unable to wash their hands and with little chance to self-isolate.

God in your mercy, hear our prayer.

We pray for Christian Aid partners providing vital supplies, communicating clear information, raising the voices of the vulnerable and ensuring they are kept as safe as possible.

We pray for wisdom amd resources for key workers but, as we clap them and as we praise you for your creation, we long for the first shoots of your kingdom to appear and grow.

God in your mercy, hear all our prayers. Amen

Please pray for others, as you wish to pray today.

Hymn: Love divine all loves excelling (SoF 377)

A Blessing:

May the presence of the Creator refresh you, may the comfort of the Son renew you, may the inspiration of the Spirit restore you to love in action, from a distance, in our neighbourhoods, near and far, this day and for evermore. Amen.

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*SoF = Songs of Fellowship

This service outline was developed using material provided by Rev Colin Bones [URC]. With thanks

Today's service is focused on Christian Aid Week. In normal times, this would have been a United service with all the churches in the village coming together as Churches Together in Burton Joyce, Bulcote and Stoke Bardolph. Donations will help respond to the Coronavirus emergency. 

Make a donation at: 

www.caweek.org/payin

or call 020 7523 2269 to donate by telephone.

Thank you