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Our VisionIs to Aspire … to Inspire… a Desire… in JESUS! The Newsletter of the Bolsover and Staveley CircuitApril 2008 No 79Smiles Foundation Mission Trip – Opening of Tileagd Community Centre About 2 years ago Kevin Laming came to preach at Bolsover and brought Maureen from Brimington to talk about the Smiles charity and her recent mission trip to Romania. This was revelation in itself as our fellowship group had been praying that week for God to show us an international project/organisation we could support. Following that service our group has been awakened to the work of the Smiles Foundation and have supporting it for about a year. For those of you who don’t know, smiles is a charity who work in Tileagd Romania, providing housing, schools, medical facilities to a Gypsy Community who have absolutely nothing. So why am I writing about this now? Well, following a number of challenges by God, Lucy and I are going to embark on our own mission trip to Romania in June. The trip will witness the opening of a church and community centre and we will spend a week with the community we have been supporting. In the next few months we will be doing a number of things to raise both money and awareness and I thought you all might like to know about it. On Saturday April 26th there will be an event at Bolsover entitled I’m also selling some CD’s of an album called “Released 6” which is a compilation of a number of unsigned artists. My song “The Call” is on the CD. The CD’s are £10, every penny of which goes to Smiles Foundation. For tickets or CD’s (contact davidbuckley2@btinternet.com or call 07884 497623). To donate directly visit http://www.justgiving.com/davidbuckley David and Lucy Buckley SPECIAL CIRCUIT SERVICE On Sunday April 27th at 6:00pm at Brimington Hall Road. Don’t forget to come along and share with friends, old and new from around the Circuit in this service which is both thankful for the past and thoughtful and challenging for the future. There will be participation by many and will include times of praise with the band; special prayer time with butterflies! ; readings and stories to inspire us and a dance to watch and focus our thoughts. The service is entitled “Making a Difference-Transforming Lives” and is prepared by “Connexional Mission Education” along with Alison Judd, past President of Women’s Network. P.S. Please remember the Easter Offering gifts from your church and bring them forward, along with the general offertory, to be dedicated towards the end of the service. CIRCUIT LADIES’ LUNCH – BOOK THE DATE NOW!!! (This will comprise a 3 course light summer meal and drinks, costing £7.00 and prepared and served by Carlton Caterers). More details/posters will be available after the Circuit Service, and bookings will be taken from then. Please give your name and money to Jean Morton on or before Sunday June 15 – so that numbers can be passed onto the caterers. Following the lunch we are privileged to have Mrs. Jennifer Woolf as our speaker. So a very entertaining, interesting and encouraging time will be had by all. The occasion will end no later than 3:15pm. CIRCUIT WINTER QUIZ 2008 Thank you to all who bought copies of the Animal Quiz, enabling over £270 to be sent to the Sierra Leone Project. Thirty quiz sheets were returned and twenty-one of these scored over ninety points out of a possible one hundred. As before, a half point has been subtracted for each spelling mistake! The winners, with ninety-nine points, are Wendy and Bob Buxton of Sidcup in Kent. In second place, with ninety-eight points, is Barbara Elcock of Brimington. The joint third place is shared between Anne Cramp and Monica McIntyre of Inkersall. They each gained ninety-seven points. The correct answers to the quiz are:-
PRAYER FOR THE CIRCUIT The Bolsover Methodist Prayer Group meets weekly to pray for our churches and community. We believe that prayer is essential for growth. In the New Year the group would like to focus upon the individual churches in the circuit and their needs. Each church will be given their own week. The group would like to extend an invitation to the churches to join them during their week. Please look out for the letter addressed to your church. The dates are as follows: Staveley – 9th April The group meets at Bolsover Methodist Church in the Sykes Room, 8:00pm till 8:30pm. For more details contact Pam Cutts 824649 or Sue Wilson 476545. HEALING SERVICES Bolsover hosts the Healing Place on Tuesday 8th April starting at 7:30pm. Brimington has a Praise and Healing Service on Sunday 18th May starting at 7:30pm. PREACHING OFFER Gerald and Rita Sawyer have offered if they are able to fulfil some of the own arrangements shown on the Plan. If as a church, you have made no arrangements for these services then please contact them. Piano free to a good home We have a piano, which is looking for a good home. It was bought, for our youngest son, from Mastin Moor Church when it closed. At that time, it was virtually restrung and tuned, but less than six months later he stopped playing. This means the piano has not been played for about four years (so will probably need retuning). If anyone can use, or knows someone that can use, the piano it is available to them free of charge. Please contact John Hawkins 01246 811525 on a first come first served basis. CANDIDATING Thank you for your continuing prayers and support. All went well at my District interview and I have a date for my Connexional Committee which is over the two days of Tuesday and Wednesday 22nd and 23rd April. Nick CIRCUIT OFFICE The Circuit Office is usually open on Tuesdays (9:15am to 11:15am), Wednesdays (9:30am to 1:00pm) and Fridays (9:15am to 11:15am). Office Address : Staveley Methodist Church, Chesterfield Road, Staveley S43 3XD Circuit DIARY April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 © 2008 - Bolsover and Staveley Methodist Circuit |
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