This Sunday is an All Age Service followed by a church lunch to which all are welcome. Our Fellowship Groups will be on as usual on Monday and Tuesday. Our monthly church prayer meeting will be on next Sunday 7.30pm. Our AGM is on Thurs 21st June at 7.30pm.

MISSIONS

Please pray for Prison Fellowship – our Mission of the Month, and for Dugald and Jonathan Grove’s trip to Malawi with Dochas. Also, please bring donations of non-perishable food for distribuition at the Lighthouse to our community.

HOLIDAY CLUB

We are hoping to run another holiday club in the summer( (on either the first or last week of July – to be decided depending when people are available) after the success of the one at Easter. To do this we need to have sufficient volunteers, so if you are interested (even if you’ve not been involved before), please email dave@the-mission.org.uk

We are starting a new series on 1 Corinthians, and we’ll continue to apply the teaching in further detail at our fellowship groups. The questions from this week’s sermon are available on the website, so even if you don’t come to one of the groups you can still reflect further on how the teaching applies to your life.

MISSION OF THE MONTH

Our Mission of the month for May is Prison Fellowship. On the website is a newly updated version of the mission of the month newsletter for May, June and July. We are also collecting food for distribution at the Lighthouse. The food needs to be non-perishable. Items which are needed most are: Instant Coffee, Sugar, Tins of fruit/rice pudding/custard and tins of mince/corned beef/ham

CHRISTIAN AID WEEK

St Machar Cathedral are involved in door-to-door collections for Christian Aid Week and have asked if we as a church would like to join them. . Please let me know if you’re interested and I will put you in touch with Bill Howie who is organising this.

Mon 7.30pm Fellowship Group at the Loudens (77 Westburn Drive)

Tues 7pm International Bible Study at The Mission

Tues 7.30pm Fellowship Group at the Lazonbys (8 Cairnfield Place)

Wed & Fri 3pm Sams Kids Club at Seaton and Cornhill Primary Schools

Thurs 2.30pm Open Door meeting for older folk at The Mission

Sun 10.30am Prayer Meeting in the office at The Mission

Sun 11am Worship Service – Hector will be continuing our series on 1 Corinthians, Anita will be sharing about her time working in the homeless shelters in Edinburgh and we’ll be sharing communion

Please do support these ministries in prayer, in giving (at least 10% of any of the money given to the mission will go to these charities) and have a look at the information on the ‘mission of the month’ notice boards.

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

UNITY

“to the church of God in Corinth… together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” 1 Cor 1:2

‘if we belong to God, we belong together’

1. How does it affect your understanding of yourself as part of The Mission to know that we can be referred to as ‘the Church of God’?

2. How does it impact you to know that we are also part of the wider church of God together with everyone everywhere who believes in Jesus?

3. Are there any parts of the wider church that you find it more difficult to identify yourself together with?

PURITY

“to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy” 1 Cor 1:2

‘Don’t dwell in guilt or live in sin but know that you have been made holy and start acting like it’

4.  Share about either:

a) A time in life where you have felt defeated by sin and overwhelmed by guilt and needed to know that you are sanctified in Christ?

b) A time when you had started to think that it doesn’t really matter how you live (i.e. to take forgiveness for granted) and you’ve need to be reminded that we are called to be holy?

SPIRITUALITY

“I always thank God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus” 1 Cor 1:4

‘Don’t write off spiritual gifts because of their misuse, but learn to use them properly’

5. Can you think of times when you have seen or heard about spiritual gifts being misused and which have put you off?

6. What do you think are the key dangers that need to be avoided in learning to use spiritual gifts properly?

Pray that we too will have this fresh passion that the Spirit would burn in our hearts and that the risen Christ would open our eyes to his presence.

THE MISSION

For the leadership. For more people to be drawn in under the sound of the
Gospel and for opportunities to take the word out to the people.

For those sick and laid aside and those of advanced years who are now unable to be with us on a Sunday.
We think especially of Margaret and Bill. A general thanks giving that the work is now largely complete.

CHILDREN’S WORK

For the work of Sams now taking place in the Schools and for the
leadership in Sams and for all the people dedicated to this work

INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDY

That they would be blessed with more
people coming along.

OPEN DOOR

For the open door starting up again soon –especially
prayer for  visitation which we will be
doing soon, that we would not only be able to encourage our regular people to
come back but also that we could encourage new people to come along .

CHRISTIAN UNION

For the C U and the work among the students
carried out here which I believe will now be on a Monday.

OUR CITY

For all our brothers and sisters in Christ especially those who are involved in
Christian work.  That the work of The Kingdom may be blessed and extended. Yes even for revival.   For all the various facilities ie
Police—NHS—Social workers—Fire services—Our local Council—-Prison services etc And perhaps above all pray for our children through out the city who may be in any danger.  Pray for protection from any evil that could touch them.

THE WORLD

C S W and the work they do around the world with persecuted Christians but they ask especially for prayer for Columbia all this week.

Christian Institute who I believe do a great work for what I would call persecuted Christians in this country.

F E B A Ask for Prayer for Iraq

Friends International

I V M  and the work of Suresh and Roja.

For family and friends and
ANY OTHER POINTS that God lays on your heart