Sunday 3rd September 2023, 10.30am
led by the Elders
Preacher: John Sinclair
Communion led by the Revd David Netherwood
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 – Robin Gray
Hymn– Come on and celebrate
Prayers & The Lord’s Prayer – John Godsland
Family Time – Sue Loudon
Hymn – Give me joy in my heart—R&S 523
Children & Young People continue in groups
Bible readings: John 2, v 1-11 read by Catalina Brook
Corinthians 12, v 1-11 read by Mary Temple
Sermon – John Sinclair
Hymn – There’s a spirit in the air—R&S 329
Prayers for Others and Offering Prayer – John West
Hymn – Christ from whom all blessings flow—R&S 561
Communion – The Revd David Netherwood
Hymn— I the Lord of sea and sky
Blessing & The Grace
NEWS AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Heathside Car Park ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) has started and there is a new arrangement for free Sunday morning (up until 1 pm) parking for those attending this Church. Please key in your registration number on a device in the foyer in the Church each time you are here. This can be on arrival or as you leave, which will help with congestion. The barrier will rise to let you out of the car park because your number will be recognised. In these early weeks of the new system it is still advisable to display your permit on your windscreen, available from the Welcomers
Care4Creation – Please take a look at the display boards in the Forum which are related to the recent worship series, the ongoing work of the Green Team and the Church’s environmental commitments.
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
Nominations for forthcoming Election of Elders. There is a box for your completed nomination forms in the Forum, and also some spare printed forms.
Leading Worship elsewhere. Vivien Gerhold is at Wonersh URC and Alison Sage is at Cobham
United Church this morning.
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 tea, coffee, pasta, rice, tins of beans,
veg, soups etc. Also toiletries, and new or nearly new unwanted items which may be sold on Ebay
Named paper copies of the September Church Magazine will be available from tomorrow,
Monday. If you are coming into the Church during the week, please collect from the office. Otherwise, please collect next Sunday.
Church Premises Manager. John West commences on Wednesday 6th September. The office will
be open from 9 am to 1 pm each day, Monday to Friday. Email – premises@wokingurc.org.uk
Telephone – 01483 763078.
Harvest Lunch and Church Meeting on Sunday 24th September. Sign up sheets to book for lunch
or to offer to help are in the Forum today.