Worship Sun 31 Oct - 'Are we nearly there yet?'

WELCOME/

Good morning everyone, 

and welcome to worship. 

It’s good to gather once again, and praise the God 

who calls us here, and, 

who calls us to love.

A couple of notices –

thanks:
the first being a note of thanks to everyone who was able to help out in some way with our harvest thanksgiving service in the parish church – from decorators, to foodbank donators, to sandwich and baking making - for hungry climate change pilgrims, what a great effort – truly, well done, everyone.

Don’t forget, our Christmas newsletter is in process, and, if there’s an item that you’d like to submit, please do get in touch with Dee, our editor, or myself – and the deadline is after worship on Sunday the 14th of November – Remembrance Sunday. 

On the matter of Remembrance Sunday – 

which falls on the 14th of November this year –

the times of services are:

the usual here in the church at 10.30

then, 12pm at the memorial in Leadhills,

and then at 1pm at the memorial in Crawford.

These are all our notices.

The WORSHIP LINK IS HERE.
I hope you find this time of worship helpful, hopeful, and an encouragement.
May you know God's love wrapped close roundabout you this week,
God bless

Nikki

Worship Sun 24 Oct - Harvest Thanksgiving Service

Harvest pulpit poster

WELCOME/ 
Come ye thankful people come!
It's our Harvest Thanksgiving service today at UCPC, where we give thanks and celebrate the Lord of the harvest. We also finish our brief time with Job today and reflect on the harvest of his faithfulness.

A couple of notices:
Evening worship will be held tonight at Leadhills Village Hall at 5pm, and it will be a wee time of praise led by musician Peter Crockett.
Wordworks writing group meets on Thursday at the Colebrooke Arms in Crawfordjohn at 7pm. All are welcome to come along - share a piece of your own work, or bring a favourite  piece of prose or poetry to share.
Our Christmas newsletter is in process and if you'd like to contribute an item, please do get it into Dee by the end of worship Sun 14 Nov. at the latest, for inclusion. And thanks to those who've already sent in items.

THE WORSHIP LINK IS HERE

Worship Sun 17 Oct: 'Unexpected answers'

Hello and welcome to worship where we gather once more as God’s people to offer our praise and
thanks, and sing to God’s glory.

We’re moving further into the Book of Job in our time of worship, but before we do,some church notices.
Harvest Festival: First, next week will be Harvest-themed both online and in the church building.
For those of you who wish to help decorate the building for our Harvest service, please do come along on Saturday afternoon between 1.30-3.30 to make our pretty church building even prettier.

Communion: And on the Sunday morning along with celebrating the harvest,
we’ll also be celebrating communion in a new, more covid-compliant way.
The foodbank box will be available for those wishing to donate foodstuffs.

COP26 Pilgrimage: Along with that, walking through the parish that day will be a group of pilgrims, making the journey from London to Glasgow to meet up for COP26. Along the way, many many parishes have offered hospitality and support in different ways – and I can now confirm what we can do to help:
if possible, we’ve been requested to provide a very simple packed lunch –
a sandwich, maybe a piece of home baking, and a piece of fruit...
So I’m wondering if, on Sunday after the service, I could have a small team of volunteers to make 32 sandwiches. I’ll bring what we need for the sarnies and we can get set up with three different fillings to be made up in three different parts of the hall.
And in the meantime, those of you who bake, we’re after 32 bits of baking – it needs to be vegan if at all possible... so flapjacks I suspect. Please let me know if you’re willing to help make these, and if I could have them for the Sunday, or handed in to me on Saturday.
I’m hoping we have enough fruit from our harvest display that we can use.
Thanks in advance for you kindness!

Meantime, you can find the WORSHIP LINK HERE
Have a good week, and God bless
Nikki

Worship Sun 10 Oct: 'If I'm good, do I get a sticker?'

WELCOME/
Hello and welcome once again to our time of worship online.
We'll be delving into the Book of Job today, and for the next couple of weeks. What does Job have to teach us about how we view God - in all of life's circumstances?

Some church notices:
Thanks to Ursula B and Heather W for conducting worship in the church building last Sunday, so I could get away for a week's break - much appreciated!

Guild/ This week, on Wednesday at 2pm the Guild will be meeting in the church, and our speaker will be the Rev. Tim Tunley from the Mission to Seafarers. All are welcome.

Our Harvest Thanksgiving Service will be held on Sun 24 Oct and, at that service, we'll also be celebrating Communion - our first time since being back from lockdown, and in a new and covid-compliant way.
Also joining us will be some of the Christian Climate pilgrims who are walking from London to Glasgow for COP26. For those of you who are bakers in the parish, I'll be calling on your talents - if we can provide some home baking for each of our pilgrims to take with them as they head off on the next leg of the journey, that would be fab, and thanks in advance!
Those who would like to help with decorating the building for our Harvest service can drop in on Sat 23rd between 1.30-3.30pm. This year, we will be keeping things simple, as due to covid restrictions, distributing items from displays in our usual way will be very limited. 
A box will be available for items to donate to the foodbank.

The WORSHIP LINK IS HERE for today's service.
May you know God's presence with you through this week,

God bless,
Nikki