Sunday 17th March 2024, 10.30am
Morning Worship Led by the Revd Lucy Brierley
Training for Transformation: Spiritual Disciplines for 21st Century People.
Church: Choosing to walk together
This Service, broadcast live from the Church can be found via the Church’s website – www.wokingurc.org.uk our YouTube Channel or via our Facebook page. There is an archive of service recordings, including this one, on our website which can be viewed at home. If you would like some help to access any of them please email – office@wokingurc.org.uk or telephone us on 01483 763078. If you would like a recording of this Service, and any other, they are available in various formats by request. Please contact the Church Office.
ORDER OF SERVICE
Welcome and Notices
Call to Worship
Hymns – Come People Of The Risen King
Building A House (Isn’t It Good)
Prayers and The Lord’s Prayer
Family Time
Hymn – Build Your Kingdom Here (Come Set)
Children & Young People continue in groups
Bible Readings –
1 Corinthians 12 v12-26 Read by Jenny Kember
Ephesians 2 v15-22 Read by John West
Hymn – Summoned By The God Who Made Us
Sermon
Hymn – Brother, Sister, Let Me Serve You (R&S 474)
Prayers for Others & Offering Prayer
Hymn – Thy Hand, O God, Has Guided (R&S 567)
Blessing & The Grace
NEWS AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Easter greetings card to the neighbourhood. These cards with details of the Holy Week and Easter Services are available for distribution this week to the roads in the vicinity of the Church. Please see Nick Brook in the foyer to take a bundle to deliver. There are spare cards for you to give to your friends and relatives who do not live close to the Church.
You are invited to stay for refreshments after the Service. They will be served in the Forum and in the Sanctuary. Please do stay if you can to enjoy a time to meet and talk with each other.
Heathside Car Park. Free Sunday morning (up until 1 pm) parking for those attending this Church. Please key in your registration number on a device in the Forum in the Church each time you are here. This can be on arrival or as you leave. The barrier will rise to let you out of the car park because your number will be recognised.
If you would like to donate to the work of the Church this can be done in a variety of ways as described on the “Giving to the Church” page of the website. For one-off gifts, there is a direct link to the Dona online page from the “Give Online” button on the Home page, and the contactless device in the Forum is also available. There is a plate at the back of the Church and an offering bag under the Dona device in the Forum for anyone wishing to make a cash donation.
WaterAid Lent Appeal – the ways to donate are listed in the February Church Magazine. These include the card machine in the Forum this morning and via the Church website – www.wokingurc.org.uk.
Care4Creation – Please take a look at the display boards in the Forum which are related to the ongoing work of the Green Team and the Church’s environmental commitments. You may contribute to this funding through the card machine in the Forum or via the Church’s website.
Leading Worship elsewhere. Vivien Gerhold is at The United Church of Egham this morning.
Churches Together Good Friday Act of Worship and Witness in Jubilee Square. Volunteers needed to help set up the Square with equipment and props, and clear away and also to act as stewards – please see John Sinclair or Miriam Chapman.
Wednesday 10th to Friday 12th April – Easter Holiday Fun. Three mornings from 9.30 to 12.30 for children in Reception to Year 5. Please use this QR code for booking. For further queries email chidren@wokingurc.org.uk.
Collection point for the York Road Project and Your Sanctuary every Sunday. Items which would be appreciated by the York Road Project are: Sugar sachets, coffee sachets, jars of coffee, tea; pasta, rice; squash (orange or blackcurrant), bottled or cans of water; pot noodles; fresh fruit and vegetables; individually wrapped biscuits or other snacks, individual chocolate bars, tinned goods; boxer shorts (new) – men’s small and medium. Your Sanctuary would particularly be grateful for breakfast cereals, squash, ketchup, mayonnaise, meals in a can and dried herbs & spices. Also toiletries, and new or nearly new unwanted items which may be sold on Ebay. All the donations are very much appreciated.
| WEEKLY | CALENDAR |
| TODAY | Easter Singing Group. Rehearsals for both the adult and children’s (under 11 years) singing groups after the service. 5.30 pm Youth Group |
| MONDAY | 7.00 am Early morning Community Coffee for passers-by the Church. Boys’ and Girls’ Brigades groups: Anchors and Explorers (ages 4/5 – school year 3) 5.30 to 6.30 pm. Junior Section Boys and Girls (school years 4-6) 5.30 to 7.00 pm. Company, Senior and Brigader Sections (school years 7-13) 7.15 to 9.15 pm. 8.00 pm Green Team meeting. |
| TUESDAY | 9.30 am Prayers for Children and Young People (Youth Room). 11.00 am Bible Study (Youth Room). |
| WEDNESDAY | 10.00 am Baby & Toddler Group. 10.30 am Toddler Group Easter Service – all welcome. 8.00 pm Recharge – monthly mid-week worship. |
| THURSDAY | 10.00 am Refill – Bible Study and Discussion Group (mainly for parents) 11.00 am Monthly mid-week Communion Service in person and by Zoom, followed by coffee and social time. Zoom link: https://Zoom.us/j/95986431118 Meeting ID – 959-8643-1118 12.30 pm Lunch Club. 7.30 pm Live simply – food and farming talk at St Dunstan’s Church, Shaftesbury Road. – see poster in foyer. |
| FRIDAY | Copy for the April Magazine should reach the Editor – magazine@wokingurc.org.uk |
| SATURDAY | 11.00 am Woking Debates – What can be done about the water industry? (meeting at Woking URC). 3.00 pm Induction Service for the Revd Dr Michael Hopkins as Moderator of the Wessex Synod, at London Street URC, Basingstoke. |
| NEXT SUNDAY | Palm Sunday 10.00 am Prayers in the Vestry. 10.30 am Morning Worship led by the Minister, beginning outside with the arrival of Jesus on a donkey. Collection point for food and other items for the York Road Project and Your Sanctuary open every Sunday – please see list on previous page. 3.00 pm T@3 – Teddy Bears Picnic – please tell David Tuson, Church & Community Worker if you (and your teddy bear!) would like to come. |
| UPCOMING | Maundy Thursday, 28th March – 8 pm Communion Service (refreshments from 7.30 pm). Good Friday, 29th March – 10 am Service at the Church. 11 am Churches Together Act of Worship and Witness. Procession starting outside Boots, Commercial Way and walking to Jubilee Square. Easter Day, 31st March – 9 am Easter Breakfast – sign up sheet in the Forum today to eat and to help. 10.30 am Communion Service |