ROSEMARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

SUNDAY 4^th JUNE 2006, 11.00AM

Children’s Day & Cradle Roll Service

Rev Michael Anderson

WELCOME AND NOTICES

CALL TO WORSHIP

HYMN: JP 5 ‘All over the world’

Prayer

Bible reading: Acts 2, v 1-21 (Page 159)

Talk

Cradle Roll

HYMN: JP 139 ‘Jesus’ love is very wonderful’

Quiz

League of Church Loyalty

HYMN: LP 37 ‘For I’m building a people of power’

Offering

Doxology: Hymn 479 v 1 ‘The Spirit came as promised’

HYMN: 556 ‘Father I place into Your hands’

BENEDICTION

… W E L C O M E

A very warm welcome is extended to all who have joined us today. Visitors are asked to sign the Visitor’s Book in the porch and introduce themselves to the Ministers or any of the Elders after the service. Anyone who wishes to join the congregation is requested to fill in a yellow card which can be found in the church pews and return it to one of the Ministers.

… TODAY, SUNDAY 4^th June 2006

Copies of Presbyterian Herald and ‘Reach Out’ magazines available from the church porch.

6.00pm Prayer Meeting

6.30pm Evening Service: Rev Fred Vincent

… During the vacancy if you require the services of a Minister please contact: (Vacancy Convenor) Rev John Seawright 9085 4572

(Clerk of Session) Mr Wilbert Bennett 9077 6266

… WEDNESDAY PRAYER MEETING

Please note there will be no Wednesday Prayer Meeting this week (7^th) due to the General Assembly.

… PRAYER FOCUS FOR THE WEEK

We will remember in our prayers our Pastoral Assistant, Terry McMullan, his wife Joyce and their family.

… PRAYER FOCUS: JAVA, INDONESIA

Pray for all the people caught up in the recent earthquake, may they feel God’s love and guidance at this painful, difficult and dangerous time in their lives.

… J U N E S U N D A Y S E R V I C E S

11^th 11.00am Rev Fred Vincent

6.30pm Rev Joe Dallas

18^th 11.00am Rev Dr Terry McMullan (Communion)

6.30pm Rev Dr Terry McMullan

25^th 11.00am Rev Dr Terry McMullan (Summer Club Service)

6.30pm Rev Dr Terry McMullan

… SUMMER CHURCH 2006

Could anyone who may be free and able to help supervise the children (aged 3 to 7 up to and including P3) attending Summer Church during Sunday mornings in July, August and the first week of September please contact Sandra Cousins (9028 7476). This is a great opportunity to meet with and enjoy the company of the next generation.

… JUNE

Sunday 11^th 2.30pm Kirk Session Meeting

Monday 12^th 7.00pm Organisations’ Meeting in Room A

(At least one representative from each organisation should plan to attend this meeting!)

Tuesday 13^th 7/8 pm Finance and Committee Meetings

… ROSEMARY SUMMER CLUB: “PYRAMID ROCK”

Monday 19^th to Friday 23^rd June

If you can help, please speak to Nicola McWhirter or Trevor Long.

… Have you any memoirs of ‘yesteryear’ or the ‘good old days’ that you would like to share with the congregation – or interesting stories from the not so distant past? If so, the editor would like to publish them in the church magazine. Should there be sufficient interest we would also like to put them together in booklet form for posterity, along with some stories that have already appeared in Insight. If you wish your name to be remembered down through the years this is your chance. Interested? Contact Noel McGuiggan 028 9085 3965.

… GENERAL ASSEMBLY WEEK: Monday 5^TH to Friday 9^TH JUNE 2006

· Monday 5^th June 7.00pm – Opening Service of Worship and election of Moderator. (Broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster).

The Assembly will be addressed by outgoing Moderator Dr Harry Uprichard and incoming Moderator Dr David Clarke.

· Tuesday’s Communion Service at 12 noon in the Assembly Hall is open to all communicants.

· Daily public worship held on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 12.15pm.

· The Moderator’s Rally on Wednesday at 7.45pm – guest speaker:

Rev Hugh Palmer from All Souls, London.

… SECOND GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER

Today, Pentecost Sunday 4^th June 2006. Transformations Ireland will be hosting this event in the grounds of Stormont Estate from 3.00pm to 5.30pm. Last year 12,000 people from many different churches gathered in Stormont Estate, joining with an estimated 200 million people from 156 nations around the world. Background and vision for the Global Day of Prayer can be found at www.globaldayofprayercom.

Transformations Ireland, PO Box 865, Belfast BT5 5WY: 07841096571

info@transformations-ireland.org

www.transformations-ireland.org

… MOURNE INTERNATIONAL WALKING FESTIVAL 2006

The Mourne International Walking Festival is an annual event held within the Mourne Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, an area hotly tipped to become the first National Park in Northern Ireland. Now into its ninth year the event will be based in the Percy French, Newcastle, Co Down and offers routes between 10-40km. The event is affiliated to the IVV and attracts a wide range of participants.

For more information: contact - Ryan McQuillan 4176 9965

www.mournewalking.co.uk