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St Chads Romiley Notices 21st October 2012
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St Chad’s Notices Sunday21stOctober2012 Contact:of�[email protected]
Prayer at St Chad’s
Please pray ..
• For our current small groups,
that God would take
rela�onships to a deeper level
and help us to develop a
discipleship culture that
enables people to reach
maturity in Christ.
• For the Marriage Prepara�on
course star�ng in November
for all couples married at St
Chads in 2012 &2013
• For those who work in
business. For wisdom to
create jobs and men &
women of good character to
lead and manage well,
bringing blessing on those
they employ.
• For Richard & Nells and the
boys, as they begin their 2nd
year of ministry here in
Romiley.
• For our neighbouring Parish St
Mark's Bredbury & their
leaders Andy & Ruth Bull
• For David & Audrey Bomford
as they visit Maria's Care
School in Kamuli.
And ...
• Ask God to deepen your
desire to pray and faith that
your prayers have an impact.
Cut along the strip and s�ck our weekly diary and prayer points in your
bag/bible!
Valuing diversity
I realised having encouraged/challenged you all to read a book on prayer this term, that
I ought to do so myself! A1er researching a range of books to recommend I had a big
choice of new op�ons to go for. (If you haven’t guessed by now, I love books and I love
prayer, so this part of my job has been easy to priori�se.) Having asked God which one,
I sensed the Holy Spirit guiding me to ‘Sacred Pathways’ by Gary Thomas, and I haven’t
been disappointed. Its an easy read and the basic message of the book is one I’ve been
repea�ng this term, we’re all different and we’ll find different styles of prayer either
help us to connect with God, or leave us cold. The book defines 9 different ‘pathways’,
which are forms or styles of prayer and worship which help us engage with God.
Reading this book has highlighted to me clearly that there are some ‘pathways’ to God
which I don’t relate to at all and o1en I find it hard to understand those who argue or
push hard for them. Prayer and worship are typically areas where we believe ‘our way’
is the ‘right way’ and find it hard to understand why others can possibly want to sing
certain songs or meet with God in a certain style of service or pray in a par�cular way.
Its easy to become defensive about ‘my way’ of praying and a;ack the very things that
are treasured by another. This only leads to division, broken rela�onships or worse s�ll
fac�ons. Paul writes so brilliantly about this in 1 Corinthians 12 when he talks about
being one body with many parts.
The way forwards into being an Ephesians 4 community, ‘bearing with one another in
love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit’ comes through seeking to understand
and value one another’s God-given preferences in prayer and worship.
Three further reflec�ons on this:
First, all pathways are there to help us meet with God, and He remains our focus, rather
than becoming too focussed on the pathway. When we’re more interested in ‘the style
of prayer that makes me feel good’, then we are in real danger of becoming religious
rather than rela�ng to God. This can happen in all pathways in different ways and is
lethal to our spiritual life. The goal is to meet with God, not just have a comfortable
spirituality.
Second, how do we value all pathways in a church family? The simple answer is, by
having a depth of love for one another rather than a cri�cal heart. Not every service or
prayer event can express every pathway, but we’ll try together to explore new crea�ve
ideas. If you feel that a par�cular Sunday service or your small group or a prayer event
doesn’t bring you closer to God, then look at what is going on for you and look to be
part of the solu�on, rather than cri�cal of something that may have been wonderful for
others.
Thirdly, one really valuable point from Gary Thomas is that as we mature in faith, we
come to appreciate other pathways more and engage with God in a greater variety of
ways. That is of course helpful for us, but also really beneficial to the church family as
we can relate to one another’s spiritual journey more easily. So try out something new,
and above all set your heart to meet with God, he is a loving Father who always seeks
to meet with us.
Richard
Monday 22nd
3.30pm Fireworks
Tuesday 23rd
10.00am Li;le Lights
Wednesday 24th
10.00am Sparklers
11.00am Holy Communion
Thursday 25th
10.00am Stars
10.00am Prayers in the Upper Room
Sunday 28th
9.15am Parish Communion
11.00am Service
(Kids in groups)
Church Office
1-5 Stockport Road
Romiley, Stockport
SK6 4BN
phone (0161) 430 4652
email [email protected]
web www.stchadsromiley.co.uk
Tue - Fri 9 - 5pm
Jill Hookway
Monday - Wednesday
0161 430 1138.
Courageous Manchester—A day for
men who want to make a difference
Living Dangerously - Rejec�ng
Mediocrity will resource you with
everything you need to challenge those
around you, and will include equal
measures of learning, inspira�on,
encouragement and friendship.
Where: Audacious Church, Trinity Way,
Manchester, M3 7BB
When: Saturday 26 January 2013
(All day)
Cost: £18 Early bird book by 10.12.12
£20 Standard. To book please visit
http://www.new-wine.org/events/
courageous-manchester
Chris<an Relief Uganda
David and Audrey Bomford visit
Uganda October 16th to November
2nd
They ask for your prayers as they
prepare, travel and work
with the staff and children at Maria's
Care, Kamuli. A leaflet about their trip
with a Prayer of Blessing is on the
round table at the back of church.
If you feel you would like to support
this work please take a CRU
Newsle;er from the table,
or call them on 0161 427 5530.
Chadkirk Deanery Away Day
Saturday 17th November
At Chester Cathedral 10.30am-5.30pm
Open to all. For details contact
Jenny Kidd 01663 762063 or
Judith Shiel 0161 427 4155
The week ahead…. The Magnificat
A dance and movement workshop
centred on Luke 1: 46-55
Sat 3rd November 10.15-4pm
St Barnabas Parish Church.
No previous experience necessary
Cost £6.50 £4 concessions.
Further details contact
Sue derekandsuewhite@�scali.co.uk
Phone 07807491350 or
Chris at
Chris�[email protected]
Phone 07902460561
.
Prayer & warfare workshop
Don’t forget TODAY Richard will
follow up his morning teaching on
’Warrior Prayer’ with an interac�ve
workshop on Prayer and Spiritual
warfare. It will run TWICE at 4-5.30pm
and 6.30-8pm Guywood Centre—
hopefully enabling more to
a;end. Including both teaching and
prayer together, we encourage all of
St Chad's to come and join us. This is
a workshop Richard has taught a
number of �mes in different contexts
and we hope that it will be a really
significant evening for us moving
forwards together as a church.
November Barn Dance
Hopefully many of you will now have in
your diaries November 3rd 6.00 – 9.30
as the date for our ‘Barn Dance’ in the
Guywood Centre. There are no �ckets,
there is no charge and you do not have
to sign up in advance. We are star�ng
early to encourage young folk and
families to join in as our aim is to have a
cross sec�on of age groups – it is
definitely not just for the over 50’s! You
do not have to have folk dancing skills as
the caller will treat us all as beginners
with no previous experience. It is
perfectly fine if those with young
families wish to leave early or if some
may wish to join us part way through
the evening. We are not providing
refreshments but would encourage you
to bring along drinks for yourselves and
some nibbles to share with others.
We really want the evening to be a �me
when we can get to know other
members of the congrega�on and once
again have a really enjoyable �me
together. Please support the event and
help to make it a real success.
Thanks Ken Earith
Come and Help Defend Marriage
You are warmly invited to a
Coali�on for Marriage volunteers
mee�ng about how you can volunteer
to help C4M in your local area. At the
event you will find out more about how
you can help the Coali�on for Marriage
campaign in simple, prac�cal ways.
The mee�ng will start at 12.30pm and
finish at 1.30pm on Tuesday 23rd
October at Kenwood Hall, Kenwood
Road, Sheffield, S7 1NQ.Please feel free
to bring along fellow marriage
supporters. The event will include tea
and coffee.
We look forward to seeing you at this
important event so that you can get
involved in defending marriage.
Regards,
The Coali*on for Marriage team
Memorial Service
St Chads will be holding their annual
Memorial Service for the bereaved on
Sunday 18th November at 4pm. This is
open to all, so please do invite those
who you know who are grieving as this
is a wonderful opportunity for healing
and comfort.
Tech News!!!
Sermon podcasts are now available!
Subscribe to them at iTunes! Listen
again—or if you missed the service.