Worship, Sun 25 Oct: 'Songs of Praise' - style service

 WELCOME/

Welcome to worship! 
This time of worship presents a wee change of pace...
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been exploring Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, and in our last time of worship, we reached the end of our series.
Given the joyful theme running throughout that letter, and Paul’s encouragement to the Philippians and now, to us, to rejoice in the Lord always, I thought that we could do just that this time in worship with  an online 'Songs of Praise' style service.
So, over this time together in worship, with some great, well-known favourites to sing along to, I trust that you'll be encouraged, that it puts a spring in your step on these colder autumnal days, and helps you to give our God thanks and praise.

CHURCH NOTICES/
Electrical works -
Kirk Session will be meeting online this week to approve the electrical work needing done before we can open the building. We are going to have to draw upon our depleting resources for the invoice: the quote for works is just under £2 700 plus VAT. A bit of a shock!
Nevertheless, hopefully, we can get that work underway when our electrician is free, and subject to presbytery approval and the ever-fluid government regulations, we inch closer to opening those church doors.

Remembrance Sunday worship and observance update/
Given the restrictions, Remembrance Sunday worship and commemorations around the parish mean that we are not able to have an event outdoors to mark this.
So, Plan B -
I will be putting together a service online ... and am hoping to get around to the four villages that have memorials and take some pictures to incorporate into that service.
I’ll also be extra readers, so, those of you who are on the reading list... be prepared.
Another way of marking Remembrance Sunday that’s been talked about is to do something along the lines of what we were doing to celebrate and support our NHS earlier in the year with the rainbows in window...
Perhaps in the lead up to Remembrance Sunday, you could mark it by putting a poppy, or even making a display of poppies, in your windows. And for those of you with smaller members of the household, there are some great poppy making activities on the internet, and I’ll make sure to get some up onto the blog and also have the links placed under some of the youtube clips.

Guild/
If you’ve not already picked up a quiz from the Guild, you can still do so -
quiz sheets are selling for a £1, at the Abington Store, or you can get in touch with Heather Watt or Mary Hamilton to get one. All proceeds go to support the ongoing projects that the Church of Scotland Guild have chosen as their particular charities of choice this year.

Donate online/
Also, don’t forget, if you’d like to continue to support the work of Upper Clyde, you can donate online and the link for that is HERE
And many thanks to those of you have been able to make your donations that way.

Worship link/ To access the service click on this WORSHIP LINK and it will take you where you need to go. 

Enjoy your time of worship and may God bless you.