Weekly Notices

Weekly Notices

This Sunday

5th February 2012

10.30am Revd Irena Byron

6pm Revd Irena Byron

Next Sunday

12th February 2012

10.30am David Taylor

4pm Revd Irena Byron

Messy Church

This Week at Zion

Monday

6th Feb

Tuesday

7th Feb

Wednesday

8th Feb

Thursday

9th Feb

Friday

10th Feb

Saturday

11th Feb

2pm

Needlecraft

2pm to 4.30pm

Short Mat bowls

5.30pm

Junior Badminton

7.15pm

Badminton

9.30am to 11.30am

Drop-in coffee morning

(including short service at 10am)

2.30pm

Westside House Group

7.30pm

Eastside House Group

10am

Action for Children

coffee morning

at Kirton

PRAYERS

Please pray for the Street Pastors and all those they will meet and support this week on Friday and Saturday.

10th February Street Pastors – Sheila and Ian

Prayer Pastors – Robin and Mary

11th February Street Pastors – Sheila, Steve and Kat

Prayer Pastors – Robin and Nicholas

Please continue to pray for the retail chaplain team for Boston and for our local community, particularly Boston West.

Please pray for youth work within the church, in particular the new youth club which will be starting on Friday

Other Notices

Earring

A small earring was found near the lectern.

Please contact one of the stewards

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Action For Children Coffee Morning

Coffee morning and stalls

Kirton Methodist Church

raising funds for

Action For Children

Saturday 11th February

10am til 12 noon

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Zion Family Quiz

Saturday 3rd March

starting at 7pm

Entry fee £5 per person, including supper.

Teams of 4.

Details from Stephen or Irene.

More details to follow…

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Loot in the Loft auction

Saturday 24th March

6.30pm for 7pm.

Please consider donating items for the ‘Loot in the Loft’ auction

No electrical items please.

Thank you!

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Keep Parliament Talking About Persecution

‘Open Doors’ have been encouraging people to write to their local MP to raise awareness of persecution, particularly in Algeria and Nigeria . This has been very successful so far – in the first two weeks of Parliament this year, Christian persecution was raised in two debates and multiple parliamentary questions.

In October 2011, ‘Open Doors’ were contacted by a political correspondent who wanted to report on the public briefing, Religious Freedom in Algeria. He has since put forward an e-petition asking the Government to take action on the persecution of Christians. E-petitions are a great way for the public to indicate their concerns to the UK Government. If they get at least 100,000 signatures the subject of the e-petition will be eligible for debate in the House of Commons: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27673

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EASTER EGGS

For the prizes of the Art Competition at the Christmas Fayre, Lesley bought Christmas decorations from the Real Meaningful Chocolate company. She is now ordering some of their Easter Eggs for the Holiday Club that is being run at Easter.

If anyone would like any for friends and family please can they sign up on the board by the door, or let Lesley know.

The aim is to get the order through to the company at the beginning of February toget free postage.

They are £3.99 each and contain a chocolate egg and the Easter Story in an 8 page booklet.

Read the poster on the notice board to find out more...

THE REAL EASTER EGG

It’s an astonishing fact that over 80 million chocolate Easter eggs are sold each year in the UK.

Even more astonishing is the fact that not one of them mentions Jesus on the box.

The Real Easter Egg is the UK’s first and only Fairtrade Easter egg to explain the Christian understanding of Easter on the pack and it gives a sizeable donation from profits to charitable projects.

The Real Easter Egg in 2012 has had a make-over.

- Brighter colours

- The three crosses on the front are bigger

- The Easter story is a colourful visual story board as opposed to last year’s text only version

- If you open the lid, you will see ‘Happy Easter’

- Under the lid, and for the first time ever on an Easter Egg, there is a quote from the Bible – the resurrection text from Mark’s Gospel

- Inside the box is a copy of the Easter story in booklet form for children to keep and parents to share

END OF ORDERING: 12TH FEBRUARY 2012

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Christian Aid Week

13th to 19th May 2012

Join the thousands to collect in Christian Aid week. Let’s give the tools to help people in poverty out of poverty.

To volunteer to collect, please contact Brian

Every May, thousands of amazing volunteers go into their community to collect door to door.

In 2011, house-to-house collections raised more than two-thirds of Christian Aid Week’s fantastic

£12.5m total. This money has helped to transform lives around the world, empowering poor

communities to work their way out of poverty.

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Alpha

An Introductory Evening for the next Alpha course will be held on Wednesday 29th February at 7.30pm. Please come along on that evening, without obligation, to find out more about the course. There will be a DVD presentation and time for discussion. The course proper will start on the following Wednesday (7 th March) at the earlier time of 6.30pm, and we will start off with a two course meal!

Please also consider whether there is anyone else (inside or outside the church) who you would like

to invite onto the course. Please speak to Stuart, Maureen, Robin or Elle who can give further

information (and explanatory leaflets).

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Action For Children…

Forthcoming Vacancy!

Jill needs to find a replacement for herself as Zion Church’s Action for Children representative.

See her for details of 'the not too demanding but important role' in the church. Especially important in February/March is a link with all A.F.C. collecting box holders in dealing with the annual emptying and counting. Passing on to the congregation forthcoming fundraising events and keeping them informed about what the Methodist charity is doing throughout the country is also vital to keep us all involved.

Dates For Your Diary

ZION EVENTS

Monday 6th February 5.30pm Junior Badminton 5.30pm to 7pm for 10 to 15 year olds - £1.50

Sunday 12th February 4pm Messy Church - fun for all ages 0 to 100 - a new style of worship

Bring your families and friends - share crafts, fellowship and food

Donations can be given towards crafts and food

Friday 17th February 7pm Zion Youth Club including table tennis, snooker and pool

Saturday 3rd March 7pm Zion Family Quiz (see above)

Saturday 24th March 6.30pm Loot in the Loft auction – (see above)

CIRCUIT / DISTRICT / CTiB EVENTS

Saturday 11th February 10am Coffee morning and stalls at Kirton Methodist Church

Raising funds for Action for Children; 10am til 12 noon

Wednesday 22nd February 7pm Ash Wednesday Communion Circuit Service at Zion

Saturday 25th February 10am Evangelism training at Zion 10am to 3pm

7.30pm Concert at Gainsborough Methodist Church

British Methodist Youth Choir

Free admission - suggested donation towards expenses £5

Sunday 26th February 10.30am Morning worship at Gainsborough Methodist Church

Tuesday 28th February 7.30pm CTIB open evening held at New Life Fellowship

Speaker: Pete Atkins

Thursday 1st March 7.30pm Lent studies at Zion

Wednesday 7th March 7.30pm Zion monthly meeting for men and ladies

formerly ‘Man to Man’ Wesley Singers in concert

Saturday 5th May 2012 Lincoln & Grimsby Big District Day Rev Bruce Thompson

THE LINCOLN & GRIMSBY BIG DISTRICT DAY

5th MAY 2012

A day for everyone across the Lincoln & Grimsby District

A chance to worship

A chance to talk

A chance to learn

A chance to hear what’s happening across the Connexion

A chance to be together

The day will feature Rev Bruce Thompson - our own Chair

Workshops – led by all sorts of experts including some home-grown ones

Worship & Prayer

We have not fixed a venue yet but we’re sure it will be central to the District (Lincoln most likely of course )

Pop the date in your diary for now and watch this space for full venue and booking details in the New Year

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