Romans 12

30th September 2018 A very warm welcome to our services of worship today. We pray that you will all know God’s blessing as we meet together. Worship this morning is led by Mr John Hebditch and this evening by Mr David Graham. Induction loops are fitted in both the Church and hall for the hard of hearing. Please set your hearing aid to position ‘T’. Recordings of all our services are available on our website www.crossnesschurch.com as free Podcasts. CD recordings are also made of the services and are made available free of charge to the housebound and elderly. Please ask one of the office bearers if you would like a copy. Crèche available by request. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/eaglaisnis or via Google by entering ‘@eaglaisnis’ for more information and audio content. If you would like information posted on the website, please contact Chris on 810113 or email the website www.crossnesschurch.com crossnesschurch@gmail.com Cross Ness Church of Scotland is a registered Scottish Charity No.SC000991 11 o’clock Service led by Mr John Hebditch. Praise: NEP: Hymn 81 NEP: Hymn 223 NEP: Hymn 96 Reading – 2 Kings 8: 1- 6 (NIV) Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the LORD has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years.” 2 The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years. 3 At the end of the seven years she came back from the land of the Philistines and went to appeal to the king for her house and land. 4 The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, “Tell me about all the great things Elisha has done.” 5 Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came to appeal to the king for her house and land. Gehazi said, “This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.” 6 The king asked the woman about it, and she told him. Then he assigned an official to her case and said to him, “Give back everything that belonged to her, including all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now.” Tea/Coffee will be served after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited. 6pm Service (Church Hall) – Mr David Graham. The Week Ahead Mon 1st October 7.30pm - Monthly Prayer Meeting. Wed 3rd October 10.45am - Women’s Bible Study at Willina Macleod’s house, Gateside, 18a North Dell. All women welcome. Wed 3rd October 7.30pm - Midweek Prayer Meeting. Services next Sunday 7 t h October 2018 11am – Church: Mr Chris Barrowman. 6pm – Church Hall: Communion Season As we look forward to our forthcoming Autumn Communion Season, we are pleased to announce that Rev Duncan Macaskill and the Rev John Murdo Nicolson will be leading our Communion Services. Communions start on Thursday the 11th October, and run to Monday the 15th. As always, the Kirk Session will be opened on Thursday night with the sole purpose of meeting with anyone who desires to profess their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and become communicant members of the Congregation. If anyone would like to discuss this matter privately and informally before the Communions, please get in touch with any of the Elders. More details and service times will be printed in next week’s intimations. Dates for your Diary 20th October 9am - There will be a Men’s Breakfast in Comunn Eachdraidh Nis. All men are welcome to come along for a roll and tea/coffee, quiz, praise and guest speaker. 4th November - Youth Alpha starts for all secondary school ages. 8th – 11th November - School Canteen The Faith Mission will be holding a series of meetings as a follow-up to their visit in May. More details will be announced closer to the time. 20th November 7pm – Church Hall CPR training is being offered by the local first responders to anyone in the congregation who wants to learn about using a defibrillator and CPR techniques. The nomination committee would value the congregation’s prayers at this time for Gods guidance, wisdom and discernment as they continue to search for a new minister.