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Sunday 14 November 2021
Remembrance Sunday

Today: 
10.30 am Morning Worship

 
Remembrance Sunday Tube Video - first screened in 2020

We pray for Peter Nunn and his pastoral group: John & Barbara Menmuir, Heather & Peter Smeaton, Chris & Faith Richards.
We ask God's healing for Mollie Brumfitt, Helen Collins, Alice Hill, Steve and Sherryl Jandrell, Kate Lomas, the Marsden family, Stephen & Pamela Matthews, Edna Morrell, Anne Samuel, Marylyn Whelan & Dennis Yeadon. 
Prayer requests can be submitted via email to the church office at prayer@eldwickchurch.org.uk

Richard had his operation as scheduled on Thursday and is making good progress.  I am hoping that he will be back home over the weekend.  Thank you for all your prayers and messages of support which have been very encouraging.  Please pray for his continuing recovery.  Sharron Arnold


Remembrance Sunday

We'll be starting our service in Church, then prior to 11.00 am those who are able will leave church and walk to the Eldwick War Memorial for a short Act of Worship and the 2 minute silence. 

If you prefer to remain inside, we have permission to show last year's BBC screening from the Cenotaph.  We can't show the live BBC feed for licensing reasons. 

The YouTube link is a repeat of last year's Remembrance Sunday service with some small alterations. 
There is a Hospitality Pillar meeting for all Café volunteers/ Messy Church kitchen team/ anyone who helps with anything to do with the kitchen, or would like to in the future! 
The meeting is on Tuesday 16 November at 12.30 pm in the Link. 
Eldwick Church Fellowship meets on Thursday 18th November at 7.00p.m for a Chocolate Demonstration by Andy Lloyd of Island Truffles and Treats.  We will also be tasting the chocolates he is making and there will be boxes of handmade chocolates to buy.  All are welcome.  There's a small charge of £2 for visitors.
The licensing service for our new minister Brian Greenfield will be held on Saturday November 20th at 10.00am in the Eldwick Church.

Due to the current Covid situation, we are having to manage numbers attending the service carefully and we have been in touch with everyone who has been allocated a place.   If you no longer wish to take up your place, please let the office know. 


We will be putting a recording of the service onto our YouTube Channel so you can view it from home.  The link to the service will be available nearer the time. 
Can you help?
We need to re-start the role of vestry steward, but with less tasks to do.
This is a very practical role:
  • preparing the church for Sunday worship (lighting candles, checking if wedding banns need to be read etc)
  • ensuring attendance statistics are counted and recorded
  • meeting visiting preachers, introducing them to the service leader 
  • ensuring they have both an opportunity to pray with the service team and some quiet time in the vestry before the service
  • you would not be required to introduce the service.

At the last AGM only 4 vestry stewards were elected.  To avoid a few people having to do this work too frequently we would be very grateful if some more people would volunteer, initially until our next AGM in April.
 
If we have 4 more volunteers, each person will only need to do one Sunday every two months.
 
Could you help out in this way, to ensure that our Sunday worship runs smoothly? 
For more information, and a complete list of duties (not onerous!) please speak to Anne Brown or Margaret Hartley.
 
And thank you for your support.
The trustees
The Tuesday Afternoon Bible House Group meets in The Eldwick Church.  Meetings are usually every fortnight, but the next two meetings will be on Tuesday 23rd November and Tuesday 30th November.  The group commence at  2.15 pm.  New members welcome, just arrive by the start time!
Action for Children Christmas Coffee Morning
at Eldwick Church
Saturday 4th December 10.00am - 12.00 noon
Christmas Tombola - Raffle and Stall
Admission by Donation.
There are some spaces for next year's flower rota. This provides some flowers for each Sunday over the year and to give to anyone who is unwell.   Please let June Mallinson know if you would like to be included for 2022. 
A small team has started work on an indoor Light Up Nativity, scheduled for Christmas Eve.  

Thank you to everyone who has generously come forward with spare artificial Christmas trees.  Sue now has a veritable forest in her garage. 

We still need lots of spare fairy lights!  Please contact the office or James techical@eldwickchurch.org.uk 

Nearer the time, we'll be asking for helpers to set up and man the event.  All the fun of last year, without the peril of freezing outside!
News from Rev Helen at Holme Wood

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!  Your generous gifts to the parish of Tong, Holme Wood and Laisterdyke have brought hope and light to many precious people. It has enabled us to keep our emergency food store stocked up with the essentials - milk, cereal, tea, coffee, sugar, tinned pies, meat, vegetables, dried pasta, rice, washing powder, toilet rolls and the sweet treats which always bring a smile.  Your gift has also enabled us to help those who are particularly struggling and enabled us to top up their electricity or gas meters.  
 
A story from this week which highlights how much I still have to learn (despite having lived in Holmewood for nearly 6 years) 
 
A friend of a friend from one of our congregations who knew we were having our Harvest, called to drop a bag of food off for our Harvest Festival.  It was still just inside the front door when the next caller of the morning came, and he spied the Rice Krispies in the bag  - I offered them to him – he was very grateful and especially pleased as they were Kellogg’s!
 
We usually give a bag that is made up ready – we have a stack of them under the desk in the study.  But as the Harvest bag had just arrived and he was so pleased with the Rice Krispies, I thought we’d see what else was in the bag. A bag of Pasta next, I offered it to him and he said no thanks, he’d not had electricity for 2 weeks so he couldn’t cook anything, he wouldn’t mind the tinned meat, he could eat that cold.  
 
We talked further and arranged for him to come back with his electricity card – together we walked over to the local corner shop and I was able (due to your generous gift) to put some money on his card.  He was so grateful; he went home and had a shower - he came back to show me he was clean shaven and feeling so much better.  
 
Sometimes we feel what we share is a drop in the ocean – but for those who have so very little, any drop given and shared can make a huge difference.
 
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you."
 
 

 

The Airedale Circuit News for November 2021 is available HERE

Contact the Church office at office@eldwickchurch.org.uk
or telephone 01274 442015

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