New Laigh Kirk Season of Invitation - A Place to Belong
Welcome to Worship 19th November 2017 Visiting Minister: Rev. Jill Clancy Session Clerk: Derek I’Anson Organist: Martin C Sharp Student Assistant: David Hume
Welcome A very warm welcome to worship this morning from all at New Laigh Kirk to A New Season of Invitation. We are delighted you accepted our invitation to join us today and hope you enjoy worshipping with us. We especially welcome Rev Jill Clancy, Coordinating Chaplain HMP Barlinnie, formerly Minister at Annbank and Tarbolton Parish Churches. Please make yourself known to those sitting beside you and join us for tea and coffee served in the church immediately after the service.
New Laigh Kirk - a place to belong You will see that there are many people of all ages seeking to serve within New Laigh Kirk as well as the wider community. As part of the family of God and gifted with many and varying talents, we try to use these to deepen our faith, care for each other, and to spread into our town and parish the good news of God’s love for all. Whether you are a guest or regular attender we invite you to find your welcome place among us, a place to belong, to join in regular worship, to join in the life of our Kirk in whatever capacity and in your own appropriate way. May God richly Bless you in your worship today.
Order of Service Choir Introit:
Stand up and bless the Lord
Welcome and Intimations Call to Worship Hymn 204 Family Time
I am the Church!
Family Prayer and Lord’s Prayer Prisoners’ Week Prayer Lord, you offer freedom to all people. We pray for those who are held in prison. Break the bonds of fear and isolation that exist. Support with your love: prisoners, their families and friends, prison staff, chaplains and all who care. Heal those who have been wounded by the activities of others, especially the victims of crime. Help us to forgive one another, to act justly, to love mercy, and walk humbly together with Christ in his strength and in his Spirit, now and every day. Amen. Our God is a great big God Our God is a great big God Our God is a great big God And He holds us in His hands Our God is a great big God Our God is a great big God Our God is a great big God And He holds us in His hands He’s higher than a skyscraper He’s deeper than a submarine He's wider than the universe And beyond my wildest dreams He’s known me and He’s loved me Since before the world began How wonderful to be a part of God’s amazing plan Our God is a great big God Our God is a great big God Our God is a great big God And He holds us in His hands Our God is a great big God Our God is a great big God Our God is a great big God And He holds us in His hands And He holds us in His hands And He holds us in His hands
Children leave for Kingz Kidz and Trekkers Reading: Choir Anthem:
Matthew 11:1-5 page 976
Barbara Graham
I waited for the Lord
Reading:
Romans 12:1-8 page 1139
Janice Dey
Hymn 279
Make way, make way, for Christ the King
Focus Offering (Hymn 721
We lay our broken world)
Prayer of Thanksgiving/Intercession Hymn 396
And can it be
Benediction Congregation should remain seated and sing Hymn 786 May the God of peace
Intimations Worship on Sunday, 26th November will be conducted by the Minister beginning at 11.00am. Kingz Kidz and TrekkersNG should meet at 10.50am in church and sit together. There will be a crèche for children under three years of age. Tea and coffee will be served in the church immediately after the service.
Kingz Kidz are encouraging all who would like to help out with the children to come and be a leader on Sunday mornings. Whether you would like to help out just once, twice or more often, then please speak to Amy or Email: amy_bh@hotmail.co.uk to get involved! NLK are starting a children's choir for all children and young people aged between 8 to 14 on Sunday afternoons, 12.30pm to 2.00pm in the upper hall. We encourage the children to bring along a packed lunch for a short lunch break and then we will run through a Christmas programme for up and coming winter services. We hope to continue after the New Year. For more information, please contact Amy Hannah.
A few copies of the Order of Service in large print are available. Please speak to a member of the duty team if you require one. Heritors 820/100 Challenge Fund, Target £82,000. You have to date raised £12,500. Your donations should be left in the offering plate marked for Ken Stewart. Gift Aid tax reclaim will be made for members who pay income tax, this means that £100 becomes £125 at no cost or effort to members. If you have already signed a Gift Aid Form for your normal giving to New Laigh Kirk the Treasurer will automatically claim and there is no need to sign another form or do anything. Thank you for your generosity. We require volunteers to deliver a copy of the Christmas flyer to every household in our parish and to approach retail businesses in the town centre to ask if they would be willing to make them available to their customers. If you can assist with this, please contact Stephen Brown. Leaflets available on Sunday, 26th November. If you would like to be included in the rota for Bible Reading at Sunday worship for 2018, please give your name to Helen Colman. Both new and existing readers should add their names to the list. Highlights Klub will have some Arty Crafty Fun on Monday, 20th November at 8.00pm in upper hall. Tots Praise on Tuesday, 21st November at 10.15am in upper hall. Music and Movement on Tuesday, 21st November at 2.00pm in upper hall. Joint meeting of Kirk Session, Congregational Board and Trekkers on Tuesday, 21st November at 7.00pm in main hall, St John's Church, Onthank. Please note earlier time. Singers of New Laigh Kirk will meet on Wednesday, 22nd November from 7.30pm to 9.00pm in church. We are also running through a Christmas programme for the festive services. We encourage all who enjoy singing to come along and join in. As a celebration of Guild Week, Irvine and Kilmarnock Presbyterial Guild Council is joining with Ayr and Ardrossan Guild Councils to hold the Ayrshire Big Sing on Thursday, 23rd November at 2.00pm in the church. Choir Practice on Thursday, 23rd November from 7.30pm to 9.00pm in church. We are currently running through our Christmas programme so please come along and join us for some festive singing.
Home Groups. These will be a DVD based teaching and a great time to have group discussions, share experiences and grow in faith together. Times are as follows: Monday, 20th November at 7.00pm, meeting fortnightly. 12 Glasgow Road, contact Derek I’Anson 01563 521445. Tuesday, 28th November at 3.30pm. Please note change of time for one week only. The following meeting will be Tuesday, 12th December at 7.00pm at 15 Peace Avenue, contact Janice Grant 07581 722331. Friendship Group/Pastoral Care Coffee Morning will be held on Saturday, 25th November from 10.00am to 12noon in Central Evangelical Church Hall. Donations of bottles, baking and Christmas items would be greatly appreciated. Tickets costing £2 available after the service or at the door. Contact Margaret Paterson, Tel: 551288. The next Fellowship of Kilmarnock Churches meeting will be held in New Laigh Kirk. As the Church of Scotland National Day of Prayer is on Saturday, 25th November, there will be the opportunity to come and visit prayer stations in New Laigh Kirk organised by New Laigh Kirk Prayer Group and the Fellowship of Kilmarnock churches between 12noon and 2.00pm. There will be the opportunity to gather for collective prayers at around 1.30pm. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served. Presbytery of Irvine and Kilmarnock will be holding a Youth Presbytery for people aged 13 to 18 years on Saturday, 25th November from 4.30pm to 6.30pm in Kay Park Parish Church. Keynote speaker will be Rev Grant Barclay on “What should the Church of Scotland be doing now?” Please visit tiny.cc/yp/17 for further information and registration. Nativity Street Party, as part of Kilmarnock Christmas Lights Switch On, Sunday, 26th November 2.00pm to 5.00pm. This will be an adult nativity play starting on the hour and the half hour, moving into a street party with tea and cakes served in the street outside the church. We’re looking for some helpers, namely actors, set makers, scenery, and those to help source costumes at the moment. Please speak to Bethany or email bethanymccaw@icloud.com to offer help. We are looking to borrow 4 gazebos from church members for 26th November – if you have a gazebo you’d be willing to lend, please offer it. Please speak to Amy, Email: amy_bh@hotmail.co.uk or Bethany. Guild on Monday, 27th November at 7.15pm in church. Christmas Decorations with Margaret Paterson. Ladies are asked to pay tonight for Christmas Dinner at Fenwick Hotel on Monday, 11th December. Cost is £20 including tips. Guild of Friendship on Thursday, 30th November at 2.00pm in church. Come and hear about the work of a ranger in Dean Country Park.
Friendship Group. There are still tickets available for the pantomime - Dick Whittington - for the young and young at heart (over 60s) on Saturday, 2nd December at 1.00pm. Tickets cost £12 for members and £14 for non-members. Please contact Margaret Paterson, Tel: 551288 or complete form in November magazine. There is also a Christmas Tea after the pantomime in the Howard Centre. Please contact Margaret Paterson, Betty Johnstone, Tel: 542448 or Roberta Sinclair, Tel: 542884 if you wish to attend the tea. Ayrshire Hospice – join the Ayrshire Hospice for a Christmas Concert celebration and an opportunity to light a light in memory of loved ones. The concert takes place on Sunday, 26th November at 7.00pm in the Grand Hall. Tickets are £10 (adult) and £6 (under 16s). For more information on Light up a Life or to buy tickets for the Light up a Life Christmas Concert please contact Lyn Bateman, Tel: 01292 288488 or Email: community@ayrshirehospice.org. Welcome Group will be selling quiz sheets, the proceeds of which will go to Heritors Challenge Fund. Cost is £1 per sheet and winner will receive £20 M&S voucher. Quiz sheets available from Margaret Brown or any member of Welcome Group. Copies of World Mission News October/November 2017 are available. Church Open and Welcome on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 12noon to 2.00pm. We urgently require a pool of volunteers, especially men, to welcome the visitors on a rota basis. Please speak to Helen Colman. Remember that the more volunteers there are, the less often you will be on duty! The church will be open mid day during Advent and volunteers are required. If you are able to help cover the period of opening, in whole or in part, from 12noon to 2.00pm, please give your name to Helen Colman to enable our celebrations to be shared as widely as possible. Open Doors. New Laigh Kirk will be opening its doors to all this week on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 12noon to 2.00pm. The Church will be open for those who want to come for a period of solitude or reflection; to see the newly restored stained glass windows from the inside; or to find out some of the history of the church and town. New Laigh Kirk Volunteers - Needing help with shopping, DIY, gardening or a lift to medical appointments? Looking for help with official forms or job applications? Is reading difficult with failing eyesight? Ring our volunteers' helpline, Tel: 07935 852000. If you can assist with driving, or if you know of anyone who may be interested in helping, please contact Alan Gregor, Tel: 537155, Email: gregor_alan@hotmail.com.
Intimations to be included in Sunday’s Order of Service and the Standard should be with Helen Colman (helenmcolman@gmail.com) by Wednesday of this week.
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