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Harvest Festival

It was lovely to have so many with us for our Harvest Festival family service. We were particularly grateful to Caring for Life , our chosen charity for harvest cash collections, who came and spoke to us and showed us a DVD of their work. Thank you so much to everyone who brought harvest gifts for the Blenheim project . All our gifts were deeply appreciated and a demonstration of our Christian love. Our youngsters enjoyed dancing during the hymns.

Celebrating our Community

At the beginning of October we had a coffee morning to celebrate our community and invited the groups that meet on our premises to provide a display. Thank you so much to all those who did. Although we've not managed to capture them all, here is a selection: Young wives Monday Mums Fair Trade Ladies' Wednesday Group Glen Singers Monday Mums Jigsaw

Quick update

Prayer Mission - During July we are praying for our Guides. Loving Lord, We ask your blessing on the leaders, members, families and neighbours of our Guide company. You know their situations; their joys and sorrows; their hopes and fears; their needs and their concerns. May they know that they are in our thoughts and that we care for them. Help us to respond in love to the needs and pressures our modern world places upon them and show us ways in which we can serve and strengthen our community. Amen. Family services: July sees the end of the Methodist year and August is traditionally our holiday period, so there is no family service or Junior Church during August. However, our children's corner is always available, so families are more than welcome. Our next family service is on 7 September 2008. Circuit service: Our Worship Leaders are leading the Circuit United Service at Thackley at 6.30 pm on Sunday 7 September 2008. All are welcome.

Buy at Thackley Methodists

Do you buy things online? Of course you do! Do you want to help raise funds for Thackley Methodist Church and Community Centre, to improve our premises and help in our activities and mission? Of course you do! Well now you can help raise pots of cash for us, without costing you a penny, simply by accessing all the online retailers you love to use via our buy.at. website. Simpy go to www.buy.at/thackleymethodists and you will be able, by one click, to go to various national retailers (john Lewis, Argos, M & S, you name it!), and every purchase you then make on those retail sites earns us commission. Simple and effective. It is not just shopping. You can subscribe to Sky, check out various providers of car and home insurance, compare supliers of electricity and gas and all manner of other online activities, and whatever you do if it involves a purchase, we get paid. Please give it a try next time you want to shop online.

Raise Money For Us When Online Shopping!

At Last we have created a shopping website. You can access this website by going to www.buy.at/thackleymethodists and you will be able to visit any number of online retailers, including major brands like M & S, Tesco, John Lewis etc. Every time you buy at these sites, provided you have accessed them via our site, they pay us commission. No cost to you and it could generate a useful revenue stream for our church. Check it out!

Worship leaders course with Rev Richard Atkinson

Richard outlined to us what worship is and what aspects of worship we would be concerned with. We became aware of structures and formulations that generally underpin a Sunday service, but we worship because we are called to worship. Mark 12:30 (New International Version) Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Worship should be heartfelt, spiritual and mindful; it should involve the whole service, the whole congregation and our whole lives. We looked at different types and forms of prayer. For example we considered prayers of confession and atonement (types) and at various ways of arriving at suitable prayers for a given occasion. We talked about where to track down existing prayers, about writing our own, either from scratch or modifying existing prayers, and about extemporising our own prayers. For all of us this involved exploring in areas we had never visited before. We thought about how hymns might b

Lent Services

12 February, Tuesday, 10.00 am, Lent Circuit Communion Service at Thackley, "What is it all about?" Rev Nick Blundell. Setting the scene - about developing confidence in faith-sharing, and redicovering a church shaped for mission. 19 February, Tuesday, 10.00 am, Lent Circuit Communion Service at Thackley, "What is this thing called Faith?" Rev Keith Knight. Before we look at getting it out to share, let's see what this "faith" thing is anyway ... Key text Ephesians 1:15-23 26 February, Tuesday, 10.00 am, Lent Circuit Communion Service at Thackley, "Whose faith is it anyway?" Rev Keith Hunt. Before we look at getting it out to share, let's see who we are to share it anyway ... Key text 2 Corinthians 4:5-11 4 March, Tuesday, 10.00 am Lent Circuit Communion Service at Thackley Methodist Church, "Who wants to know?" Jackie Marshall. Before we look at getting it out to share, let's see who we might share it with anyway .. Key tex

Lent Challenges

Our Monday Mums have taken up the " Buy Less, Live More " challenge - a resource to encourage people to change their patterns of behaviour - becoming less 'consumerist' and more generous and fulfilled. Each day there are two challenges around the theme of Buy Less, Live More, together with a daily prayer. Once again, our church members, Boys Brigade, Rainbows, Brownies and Guides are contributing to the Water Aid Lent Appeal Jars of Change for Jars of Water .