Sunday 28st October 2012
Welcome If you are new or visiting, we hope you feel at home. If you require help, do speak to one of the Stewards in the foyer. Feel free to fill in a welcome card and pick up a guide from the welcome desk if you would like to get involved or join a Network.
Today’s Services 10.30am
Pick & Mix Lead: Mark Powley
3.00pm
Thanksgiving Service Lead: Joanna Pearson
6.30pm
Unexpected 2 Lead: Chris Sayburn Preach: Jonathan Clark
10.30am
Community Church Lead: Barry Smith Preach: Roy Foster
10.30am
Wrangthorn Preach: Joanna Pearson
EXPLORERS is the Children’s Network for 0-11s. Each week we begin in church before going to our groups in the Church Centre. Children need to be collected at 12.00 noon. ROOTS is our Network for 11-18s. We meet down in the Church Centre at 10.20am each Sunday morning and on Friday night from 7-9pm in the Church Centre. STUDENTS are an integral part of the community here and we run student networks during term time. See the network board in the foyer for details.
REFRESHMENTS are served after services in the Community Room. INDUCTION LOOP St George’s is fitted with an induction loop; please speak to a Steward for assistance. PASTORAL CARE We are seeking to be a community where everyone can be supported and cared for. We encourage you to ask for support, or get someone to ask on your behalf and we will respond as best we can.
GIVING There is an opportunity to give during the service. If you intend to give regularly, please pick up Standing Order and Gift Aid forms in the foyer. PRAYER MINISTRY is offered during and after services at the front of church. If you would like to pray about anything, please ask one of our trained prayer ministers. SERMONS are available online. Go to www.stgeorgesleeds.org.uk.
The donated items and shoeboxes will help to make a Romanian child from Hunedoara very happy this Christmas. Please pick up a leaflet in the foyer which tells you what to put in and who the appeal supports. Empty shoeboxes are also available from the foyer if needed. Why not host a shoebox making social with your small group and invite friends or colleagues to join in. Please bring your boxes back to church from now until the 11 November deadline. For more info contact:
lucy_adnett@hotmail.com
In addition to sending the shoeboxes to Romania this year we would love to be able to respond to a very real need the mission team saw this summer. The children in one of the orphanages we visited in Hunedoara only get one nappy a day. This is in part due to nappies being around four times as expensive as in the UK. If you would like to help please bring your nappy donations in by 11th November. For more info contact:
lucy_adnett@hotmail.com
9 Dec, St George’s Church Baptisms will be taking place at St George’s soon, Anyone wishing to be baptised should speak to a member of clergy.
7.15pm, 24 Nov, Church Centre The 50 + network is hosting a meal for members of the church family. Come and invite friends and family to a relaxed evening with live music. The CEO of Caring For Life, Peter Parkinson, will be speaking and showing a short video of their work. Tickets are £17.50 including a 2 course meal, glass of wine and tea/coffee. All profits will be donated to Caring For Life, Leeds. To buy tickets, please sign up in the foyer or contact Kath for info.
kathsailes@hotmail.com 50plus@stgeorgesleeds.org.uk. www.caringforlife.co.uk
2-4 Nov, Edale YHA Calling students, recent graduates and other young adults – we’re going to a venue in the Derbyshire Dales that can host over 100 people, gathering for great food, teaching, worship and other fun stuff. £65 up front. Contact Rebeca for info.
rebeca.brook@ stgeorgesleeds.org.uk
Are you able to help on Monday evening with the English Class for asylum seekers and other foreign nationals? We need volunteers to help with teaching, talking to students and also with serving refreshments and general set up. If you are interested please contact Paul Clegg Email:
paul.clegg@ stgeorgesleeds.org.uk
Sun 4 - Sun 11 Nov The theme of the week is praying for churches and the city as Christmas approaches. Everyone is invited to join in the various prayer events taking place during the week, which include St Georges’ Day of Prayer and Fasting on Tue 6th, with prayer meetings held here at 7.30am, 12.30pm and 7.30pm. From12 noon on the 10th there will also be 24hour prayer at Bridge Street Church. For more details of this and other events, visit our website.
www.stgeorgesleeds.org.uk
If you have an interest in the work of Tearfund you may have heard of their fairly traded gift range called Created. Here at St George’s, we are in need of someone to take on the role of promoting Created and acting as representative. If you might be able to help, please contact the office as soon as possible.
reception@stgeorgesleeds.org.uk
9-16 October, 2014 Jon Swales and David Kibble invite you to join them on the church's 2014 pilgrimage, 'In the Footsteps of Jesus.' The pilgrimage will enable your reading of the Bible to be done in 3D and in colour. The cost is £1,350. Jon and David have brochures: please ask us for one if you are interested or e mail David.
dg.kibble@hotmail.co.uk
7.30pm, Sun 25 Nov, Upper Edge Baptist Church, Brighouse, HD6 3QD Rock band Superhero are bringing the gospel message through their music to young people all over the world, and you are invited to part of their tour here in Yorkshire. For tickets priced at only £5, call the number below or visit the website.
01484 351843 www.christiantickets.co.uk
reception@ stgeorgesleeds.org.uk.
Outnumbered
28 Oct, Walk at Otley Chevin (Leeds City Museum if raining) Meet after the service today Bring a bite to eat Outnumbered/South Leeds/ Big Small Group
Fri 9 Nov Trip to see ‘Skyfall’ Please contact your Network leader for details Take Off
7.30pm, Church Centre Students! Learn how to budget effectively and keep your borrowings to a minimum using Christians Against Poverty’s proven system and techniques. The course comprises 3 evenings on Thursday 15th November, 29th November and 6th December with a follow-up meeting in January. To book a place, sign-up in the foyer or e-mail.
1pm-8pm, Sun 18 Nov, Judith and David’s house
Movember is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men's health. Register online, then grow a moustache in aid of prostate and testicular cancer programmes. You can register and also donate at the website below.
www.movember.com
Open house making Christmas hampers for Kidz Klub and sharing food. 50+
7.15pm, 24 Nov, Church Centre Celebration Meal See notice for details and sign up in foyer For more info about Networks and how to join one, visit
www.stgeorgesleeds.org.uk/ networks
For more info about events please contact the relevant network leaders or the office: 0113 243 8498
8pm, Monday 12 November, Church Centre Scott Shalkowski (Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds) will lead a seminar on some contemporary atheist thinking, but moving away from the common focus on Richard Dawkins. The first of three seminars, this one will focus on some recent work by Daniel Dennett, a prolific contemporary philosopher. The goal is to better appreciate the force and substance of anti-religious thinking, as well as to explore useful responses to it. All welcome.
Deadline for the notice sheet is 12 noon on Thursday
reception@ stgeorgesleeds.org.uk
Mon 29
2-4pm
Student Drop-In // Community Room
Tue 30
10-11.30am
Pray & Play Light Party // Church Centre
Wed 31
7-9pm
Alpha // Church Centre
Thu 1
7.30-8.30am
Prayer Morning // Church via Thoresby Place
Fri 2 - Sun 4 Sun 4
Student and Young Adult Weekend Away // Edale 10.30am 5.30pm 6.30pm
Morning Worship // Church Student Teas // Church Centre Evening Worship // Church
7.30am / 12.30pm / 7.30pm, Tuesday 6 November, St George’s Church We pray to build our relationships with God. We pray individually, and in groups. We pray to intercede for people we know, our city and the world. In 9 days time, we will be taking time out of our busy lives to pray as a whole church, throughout the day. In order to focus our prayers and to be reminded of the need to pray, we will also be fasting during daylight hours. We recommend you visit the website or read the information leaflet which will be available in the foyer from next Sunday to advise you on how to fast. If you have never fasted before, what better way to try it than with the support of your whole church? Please pray wherever you are on that Tuesday, and/or meet in church to pray together at one or more of the gatherings listed above. Please also take time to consider beforehand how best to make the most of your day.
The Church Office is open Monday to Friday between 9.30am & 4.00pm Church Centre St George’s Church Office, Great George Street, Leeds, LS1 3BR 0113 243 8498
A multi purpose venue for meetings, conferences and events. 0113 383 2140
reception@stgeorgesleeds.org.uk bookings@stgeorgesleeds.org.uk www.stgeorgesleeds.org.uk www.stgeorgescentreleeds.org.uk