CALDER VALE METHODIST CHAPEL Our Sunday morning Services are continuing at 10:45am with our ministers or visiting preachers leading the worship. On Sun 4th July it will be a family service led by Mrs Shirley Townley. We await guidance updates with regards to singing and refreshments. Recently Rachael has been singing for us. It is good to just listen to and concentrate on the words. The Zoom services continue and I can let you have the links. There is a morning service and an evening one. Also available written material for each week. Our take-away lunches continue. Please give me a ring to book one by Wednesday evening. Tony usually delivers just after 1:00pm every Friday. By this time there is lots of parking room in the Mill Square. We are holding another pop-up cake stall. This time it is on Fri 2nd July from 12 noon to 1:30pm. There will be lots to choose from. It will be donations only and these will go to help Isaac (a Calder Vale teenager) reach his target for the local scout trip to Malawi next year. It should have been last year but, as you can imagine, fundraising for the group has been very difficult. We want to do well for Isaac and to encourage him in this exciting venture of a lifetime. If you can donate cakes etc. please do get in touch and we can arrange delivery/collection. For the second year we are missing our summer songs of praise. We look forward to happier times when in methodist tradition we can sing together again. One of our favourite hymns at songs of praise is ‘Be Still for the Presence of the Lord’. This song was written by Dave Evans and speaks about the God who is encountered by Jacob and by Moses and by Elijah, about the God who walks with Peter and James and John, being with us – here – now – as real to us as he was to them. Be still for the power of
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