Worship, Sun 11 Oct: 'Dual Citizenship'

WELCOME:

Hello and welcome to worship with Upper Clyde Parish.

In our time of worship, we continue exploring Paul’s Letter to the Philippians – and we’re now onto chapter three.
Last time, as we looked at chapter two, we thought about Paul’s encouragement that, as we lived out our lives walking in the faith, that we try to be imitators of Jesus – Jesus as our role-model...
As we explore chapter three, Paul talks of continuing on in the Christian life, - reaching for the goal, which is to be more like Christ and, that not only are we citizens of earth, but citizens of heaven.
how might being a citizen of heaven affect the way we live our lives in the here and now, I wonder?

CHURCH NOTICES:

First: in case you havn't heard, both Tom Hamilton and Drew Somerville have, sadly, passed away.
Tom’s funeral will be held on Monday afternoon at South Lanarkshire Crematorium
and Drew’s will be a graveside committal at Crawfordjohn Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon.
Please do be aware that due to the COVID-19 regulations, only 20 people will be able to attend these funerals - and given the numbers, that will mostly be family members.
However, I’m sure our thoughts are very much with both Margaret and Sheena and their families at this time - and I know many of you have already sent messages of support.

In other parish news:
just to note that a GUILD QUIZ is about to be unleashed upon the parish –
Isobel Taylor has once again done a cracking job putting the quiz together.
Copies will be availble for a £1, at the Abington Store, or get in touch with Heather Watt or Mary Hamilton...
All proceeds go to the ongoing projects that the Church of Scotland Guild supports, and in the meantime, we get to have a little bit of fun as we support that work.– so thanks to our Guild folks for organising this and keeping all our brains nice and active...

For those of you with younger members in your household: don’t forget to make use of the link to access all-age worship resources ...
ALL-AGE WORSHIP MATERIAL LINK

And for those of you who would like to spend more time reflecting on our scripture passage –
follow the link to take you to material to help your study and reflection... 
LINK TO STUDY MATERIALS

Also, don’t forget, if you’d like to continue to support the work of Upper Clyde, you can now donate online and the link for that is also on the blog, below this clip and sitting just below me even now, as I speak. And many thanks to those of you have been able to make your donations that way:
CLICK TO DONATE

And now, as we move into our time of worship, I hope that this set aside time refreshes your soul, and, having just mentioned the Guild, helps remind you of whose you are, and who you serve... which is also the Guild motto.
To get to our YouTube channel for worship, please click on the following link:
WORSHIP LINK