ROSEMARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Sunday 11^th December 2005, 11.00am

Rev Dr Gordon Gray

(Senior Minister of First Lisburn)

WELCOME AND CALL TO WORSHIP

IPH 304 ‘Your kingdom come! On bended knee’

Prayer

Reading Isaiah 11: 1-10 (Page 755)

Lighting the Third Advent Candle

Children’s Address

IPH 338 ‘The wise may bring their learning’

HERE AND NOW

Notices

(Sunday School and Bible Class leave)

Anthem ‘Come to the manger’ Soloist: Wilfie Crowe

Prayer

IPH 298 ‘O bless the God of Israel’

THE WORD OF GOD

Reading Romans 15: 4-13 (Page 217)

Sermon ‘Things old and new – on reading the Bible today’

Offering (including the World Development Appeal)

Doxology IPH 125 verse 1 ‘Lord for the years’

IPH 329 ‘Of the Father’s love begotten’

BENEDICTION

> W E L C O M E:

A very warm welcome is extended to Gordon Gray and Joe Dallas, and to all who have joined us for worship 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 11^th December 2005

Committee Members collect 2006 FWO envelopes from the porch.

2.30pm Kirk Session Meeting

6.00pm Prayer Meeting

6.30pm Rev Joe Dallas (Senior Minister, Whiteabbey)

8.00pm Youth Fellowship Christmas Celebration

Live Music and Guest Speaker!

Other Youth Fellowships attending. Everyone Welcome.

> VACANCY

During the vacancy if you require the services of a Minister, please contact either Rev John Seawright (9085 4572) or Wilbert Bennett (9077 6266).

> PRAYER FOCUS FOR THE WEEK

We will remember in our prayers our Church Organist and members of the Church Choir.

> PRAYER FOCUS: KENYA Pray for preparations for the youth camps which run from 12^th to 22^nd December. Paul and Elizabeth Davis, who are on a three-week visit to Tuum, will be taking part and Norman and Pauline Kennedy will also be there at this time. In addition, a YWAM team from near Lake Victoria will be coming to Tuum in mid-December for a one month of outreach and will be involved in the senior youth camp. Pray also that the building work on the new school will continue to go well during December. A team has arrived to make bricks and share skills on brick making. Their target is to produce 5,000 bricks in a 24-hour period!

D E C E M B E R C H U R C H S E R V I C E S

Sunday

18^th 11.00am.. All Age/Guest Service: Rosemary Praise Group …

Rev Michael Anderson (Assistant Minister, Newtowbreda)

6.30pm.. Carol Service: Rev Joe Dallas

25^th 10.00am.. Christmas Day Service (Carols at 6.00am!)

No Evening Service

> FREEWILL OFFERING

This year Christmas Day is the last Sunday of 2005. As we only take a retiring offering on that morning for the Shankill Road Mission it means that only monies received by SUNDAY 18^TH DECEMBER can be included in the Annual Report for 2005.

· (Please ensure when preparing your freewill offering envelope each Sunday to mark the amount clearly on the outside of the envelope, this is very important and greatly assists the FWO teams counting the collection each Sunday!)

> ANNUAL REPORT: The Rev Fred Vincent has taken over the duties of Editor of the Annual Report from Jimmy Paul and he would ask leaders of organisations to ensure that their reports for inclusion in the Annual Report reach him on or before tomorrow Monday 12^th December!

Phone: 9077 3676. Email: fredvincent@fsmail.net

> PCI WORLD DEVELOPMENT APPEAL ‘HORIZONS OF HOPE’

During the month of December we will be taking contributions to World Development. This is a Presbyterian Church programme and it supports projects in every continent and channels its resources through Christian Aid and Tearfund. Projects highlighted this year are in Malawi, Burundi, the Indian state of Bihar, and Israel/the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Envelopes are available in the pews, please put your contributions on the offering plate. Thank-you.

> Tuesday 13 December, 7.00pm Finance / 8.00pm Committee Meetings

> B.B. INVITATION BIBLE CLASS AND BREAKFAST

Sunday 18^th December, 10.00am in the Minor Hall

Officers and boys invite the friends of the Company and their families to join them for breakfast and Christmas Bible Class in the Minor Hall.

> ADDITIONAL CROCHET CLASS: WEDNESDAY MORNINGS

Cavehill Methodist Church 10.00am – 12 Noon

Everyone welcome, for more details see Margaret Sterrett.

> Presentation Envelopes available in the pews to collect donations in respect of a presentation to Pauline Haggan to mark her retirement from the leadership of our Brownie Pack. Pauline has been part of the Brownies for over 27 years and has been Brown Owl since 2000, she has loved her time in Brownies and it is with great regret that she has now had to step aside.

> FIVE CHURCHES CAROL WALK: TODAY, SUNDAY 11TH DECEMBER

Starts at Fortwilliam Park/McCrory Memorial Church at Fortwilliam Park at 2.30pm. Walking to St Peter’s Antrim Road, Rosemary Presbyterian Church, Cavehill Methodist and finishing at the Church of the Resurrection Cavehill Road with a cup of tea at approximately 4.30pm.

Walk with us or join us in one of the churches – and bring a friend!

> ULSTER OPERATIC PANTOMIME ‘CINDERELLA’ (In Rosemary Halls)

Thursday 29^th December 7.00pm (Tickets £7)

Friday 30^th December 3.30pm (Tickets £5); 7.00pm (Tickets £7)

Tickets available from Olive Melville, organisation leaders, or Wilson’s Newsagents Henderson Avenue.

> TOOLS FOR SOLIDARITY

Camphill Mourne Grange is assisting in this scheme particularly in refurbishing sewing machines, and assembling complete sewing kits so that small workshops can be set up in Uganda and Tanzania. If any ladies have items of sewing equipment surplus to their current needs and would like to help this project; which in the long term promotes a better standard of life in poor countries; please contact Heather Semple (Tel. 9085 1210).

> BERRY STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CAROL SERVICE

Friday 16^th December, 7.30pm : Offering for “Independent Age”

Car parking in Castle Court. Warm welcome extended to all.

> GLENWHERRY SINGS FOR LAOS

Laos, in South East Asia, is a country of contrasts. The lush landscape belies the spiritual poverty of it’s 5 million communist controlled people. Glenwherry Presbyterian Church plans to send a team to help bring the good news of Jesus to them next summer. To help fund this trip, the church choir and praise group have recorded a CD which contains a mixture of modern and traditional pieces including ‘When I survey the wondrous cross, Before the world began, Amazing Grace, See what a morning, and many more’. The CD will be available in early December at a cost of £10.00 and would make an ideal Christmas gift. All proceeds will go to help fund the trip to Laos. Margaret Sterrett has copies of the CD – please purchase one and help a worthy cause.