This is the first Sunday of a new Methodist Year. Please pray for all those Ministers and the family’s starting life in a new circuit.
A new year message from the President of the Conference, the Revd Mark Slaney:“I invite you to contemplate deeply what solidarity you and the church to which you belong both practise, and might be called to practise, in local contexts and in relation to the cries for justice and mercy worldwide.”
Next Saturday (12th), Helen Shears is hosting a Coffee Morning at the usual time of 10:30am until midday. The profits will be in aid of the Shoebox Appeal.
The Kingswood Foodbank is in need of toothpaste, washing up liquid, toilet roil, tins of meat, spuds, fish & veg, shampoo custard, rice pudding and sugar. Thank you all very much.
Coming up on Saturdays:
Sept 12th – Coffee Morning
Oct 17th – BB Lunch (Luch only, no coffee morning)
Nov 14th – Coffee Moring and Mini Christmas Fayre
Dec 12th – KMC Christmas Lunch (Lunch only, no coffee morning)
A prayer for the start of the new School Year: O God of all knowledge, your world is a lamp to the scholars feet and a light to their paths. As the new school year begins, help them to know afresh your purpose for them and to commit all that they do to your glory; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who, as a child grew and was filled with wisdom. Amen.
Our Harvest Festival is on 27 September.
Flu and Covid vaccinations are now starting to be booked. Contact your GP if you have not yet heard from them.
Lectionary 6th to 12th September. Exodus 12:1-14; Psalm 149; Romans 13.8-14; Matthew 18.15-20. Get ready for God. God gives Moses specific instructions for the Israelites to prepare for the first Passover, protecting them from the plague that will kill every firstborn in Egypt. This is a day that they will remember and celebrate, forever. The Israelites had to get ready for God to pass over Egypt and for the escape they were about to make. Today, we explore what it means to get ready for God to move in our lives.
The purpose of Kingswood Methodist Church is to respond to God's Love in Christ and to live out that love in God's world