This page contains the highlights  from our weekly notices.  If you want a copy of our notice sheet please contact the church office.

Church Meetings 2008

Our next church meeting is on Wednesday 9th July beginning sharp at 8:00. Please make these meetings a priority in your diary

HARVEST CELEBRATION

Next week is our Harvest Celebration. We would invite you to donate tinned goods which will be distributed to older folk in our community through the Live at Home Scheme.

The Church will be open on Saturday 11th October between 11am and 1pm to receive produce. As in the past, will Housegroups please be responsible for a window sill each.

We would also like to have a special collection for the Jonathan and Lupita Van appeal. If you have not already responded to this appeal, please would you prayerfully consider doing so next week.
 

A MESSAGE FROM JONATHAN AND LUPITA

Please pass on our thanks and sincere gratitude to all at the church. Your help and partnership is much valued and appreciated. The van is an 8 seater which will be easy for Lupita to drive and will enable her to develop our work with the immigrant population here in Indianapolis. The work will not only focus on helping them with many needs but also sharing Christ and getting them involved in local Christian fellowships. We will keep you informed.

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

Once again this year we are supporting this amazing and very worthwhile cause, in sending shoeboxes full of gifts to some of the poorest children in the world. In this weeks notice sheet you will find a leaflet telling you about Operation Christmas Child & what to put in your shoebox. If you want to send more than one shoebox more leaflets are available at the back of church. Please can all shoeboxes be returned to church or Caroline Fairburn by the 9th November. If you have any questions please see Caroline. Thank you.

RECYCLING

There still appears to lots of paper and card going into the normal bins. Please can everyone make sure they use the recycling bins as appropriate. Thank you.

CHURCH GARDEN WORKING PARTY

Weather permitting; there will be a working party on Saturday 11th October from 10.00am – 12 noon to tidy the garden for winter. There is a lot of cutting back to do, so hedge trimmers and pruning shears will be welcome. If you can not come but are willing to lend such tools, please let John Peebles know.

Delirious in Concert

Delirious are playing a concert in Leeds on 23rd October at the Carling Academy. For more information, please go to http://purashop.com.

Casting Crowns In Concert

Casting Crowns are playing in concert on Saturday 1st November at The Queens Theatre Stoke on Trent. Tickets are £16.00 for an adult and £12.00 for under 16s. Margaret has reserved a number of tickets so if you would like to go or you would like any more information please see Margaret.

Graham Kendrick

Graham Kendrick’s Dreaming of a Holy Night will be at Morley Town Hall on Friday 5th December at 7.30pm.
A local choir from the Leeds and Bradford area will join Graham Kendrick to perform songs from his recent Christmas album. Dreaming of a Holy Night explores the nativity in a fresh, creative and thought provoking way. The evening will provide an opportunity to invite friends and family to hear the Christmas story afresh. Tickets are £12.00 and can either be purchased from www.puratickets.com or by sending a cheque to Guisley Baptist Church c/o 17 Cairn Avenue, Guisley LS20 8QQ.

Stamps

Please continue to collect used postage stamps, leaving about an inch all around the stamp, and putting them in the box on the shelves at the back of church. Thank you to all who collected them over the Christmas period - they have been passed onto the Leprosy Mission.

EVENTS AT THE GROVE METHODIST CHURCH

On Saturday October 18th there will be a performance by The British Methodist Youth Choir.
Further details of this event can be found on the noticeboard

GREAT NORTH RUN

Jill Woodman is taking part in the Great North Run (13.1 miles) on Sunday October 5th on behalf of Asthma UK. Jill is doing this as a tribute to her Dad, who had asthma and whose birthday it would have been on the day of the race. If anyone would like to sponsor Jill please speak to her after the service

	Rotas   If you can help with coffee and doughnuts on a rota, please speak to Alison Cust as soon as possible.   The new tea and coffee rota is now on the notice board … and needs filling in. If you could help by volunteering to serve tea and coffee after a service, please sign up!

Notices
Please could any items for the church notices be sent via E-mail to the church office at  officelhbc@ntlworld.com by Thursday morning.

Gift Aid

If you are a tax payer and give regularly to Lister Hill, please would you consider using Gift Aid – which means that the church can reclaim the tax paid on the amount you give. For more information, please speak to Peter Gray.

X:site and CreaTe Children's Christian Outreach Activities.

Some of our children have been attending the Scripture Union X:site event in St. George's Church in Leeds. This is for children aged 7 to 11.

X:site is intended to give our young people a sense of the wider community of church, to make new friends, to encourage and strengthen their faith, and to have a suitable, age-appropriate fun time discovering Jesus. The next events are

• TBA

The next CreaTe event is 14th June for older children aged 11 to 15 in St. Richard's Church, Seacroft. CreaTe is a bimonthly Christian event that aims to teach young people creative arts skills that they can use in their local churches and communities. The workshops will be run by professionals on Saturday afternoons 3.00pm - 6.00pm and promise a variety of themes such as clowning, crafts, DJ-ing, Christian "magic", dance and much, much more.

The next events are:

• 18 October 2008
• 13 December 2008
• 28 February 2009
• 25 April 2009
• 20 June 2009

Anyone who is interested please see Clifford Parker for more details and application forms (X:Site forms available at www.xsite.uk.net, Create forms are available at www.createleeds.btik.com).