God Calls Us to Delight in Christ and to Share His Hope

welcome to DINGWALL & STRATHPEFFER free church God calls us to delight in Christ and to share His Hope. www.deep-river.co.uk th Sunday 20 February 2011 The Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. John 3:14-15

Led by God, we join together in joyful and reverent worship, seeking unity and maturity in Christ, preparing every believer to share and show God’s Hope as revealed in His Word.

Welcome! We meet for worship today in Dingwall at 11.00 am and 6 pm. Bible teaching in the morning is part of a study on Advancing God’s Kingdom. This Sunday evening including a DVD on 2 Peter 3, in preparation for the Home Groups which are meeting this Wednesday. Tea and coffee is served after morning service.

Sunday School and Bible Class resume today. A crèche is available in the hall. To be added or removed from the crèche rota please contact Laura Fraser (861543).

Mini Marvels toddler group meets on Fridays from 10.00 to 11.30 am. Details from Erin Maston, Anna Stirling or Ishbel MacArthur.

We thank all those who showed hospitality to Slava during his recent visit to HTC.

Our Women for Mission group have produced a Missionary Calendar to encourage prayer and regular contact with missionaries. See Sandra MacDonald for a copy.

Congratulations to Donald MacRae who will be 70 tomorrow.

Free Church Missions Projects 2011: Leaflets are available with details of the special projects being supported by the church this year. These include envelopes, for return to the Church Offices, with details of how to support these projects.

EVENTS THIS WEEK Praise Group: We hold a Praise Practice twice each month. The group will meet next at the Manse, Firthview, Dingwall this Tuesday 22nd February from 7 pm. Next month the group is on Thursday 10th and Tuesday 22nd March. Please come along if you enjoy singing and are interested in helping to develop our congregational praise. Group members are invited to Kiltarlity Free Church next Sunday afternoon at 2 pm to sing at a baptism service.

Home Groups: Copies of the study guide for the February home group are available today. Groups meet in various locations this Wednesday 23rd February. The venues are: Conon Bridge (at the Fraser’s home, Aslan, 64 Braes of Conon, tel 01349 861543); Dingwall Tulloch (at the Mackay’s home, 29 Bayne Drive, tel: 864067); Dingwall North (at the MacKenzie’s home, Langabhat, Kinnairdie Avenue, tel. 01349 864123); Dingwall South (at the MacMaster’s home, Rose Villa, 2 Hill Terrace, tel. 861052); Strathpeffer (at the MacKenzie’s home, Drumpellier, 31 Ulladale Crescent, tel. 01997 420177); and Pelaig (at the MacArthur’s home, The Lodge, Pelaig, tel: 861250). Lunch and Chat: A new monthly Lunch and Chat group is starting in the church hall this Thursday 24th February at 12.30 pm. Details from Cora MacKenzie (01997 420177). If you are free to join us please pop along and invite your friends.

Road to Recovery: A support group is available in the church hall for folk living with addiction. The group meets every Thursday from 7.30 pm. Deacons’ Court: Meets this Thursday at 7.30 pm in the small hall to approve the accounts for 2010 and plan for 2011. Roots is on at Inshes Church this Friday. A bus leave the church at 6.30 pm.

MINIBUS DRIVERS We are keen to recruit several more minibus drivers (aged 21 to 70) to join the rota providing lifts to Church. If you can help or want to know more please see Fred Lees (864297) or Donnie MacRae (865998).

ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS A Youth Fellowship is planned for next Sunday 27th Feb. Claire Ireland will speak. Women’s Bible Study: a Bible study on The Sermon on the Mount is held at Rhoda MacDonald’s home, 1 Eastbank (862473) next at 10.30 am on Tuesday 1st March.

Please see the rotas for TEAS and for CHURCH CLEANING at the tea-bar. Help is required for some months later in the year.

March Home Groups will meet on Wed. 30th March. Home groups are a good way to grow in faith and confidence as we study the Bible and get to know one another. Christianity Explored: A short course introducing Jesus and the Christian faith starts on Monday 7th March. We hope to run this in the Loft rooms at the Greenhouse on Dingwall High Street. Please contact the minister if you would like to help with the course or would like to sign up for the course. Graham Kendrick in Concert: On Wednesday 16th March, at 7.30 pm in Culduthel Christian Centre. Tickets: £10, U16: £6 from the Inverness Christian Bookshops. Elder & Deacon Training: Tuesday 1st March (Please read Leadership, chapter 8). March Communion: Saturday and Sunday 12th - 13th March, with Rev Iver Martin. CLC: The CLC Christian bookshop in Inverness is moving to 23 Castle Street (to the former Wesley Owen / Living Oasis premesis).

SERVING ONE ANOTHER Welcome Team: P. MacIntosh, N. MacKenzie, Donnie MacRae, & Rhoda MacDonald. Nursing Homes: Fodderty Lodge, 1.45 pm, 27th – Angus Mackay. Crèche: 20th - Joan Stewart & Rhoda Urquhart. 27th - Julia Reid & Iona Forbes. Minibus: 20th – J Macaskill (863410); 27th – H Reid (863746). To Contact the Minister – Rev Angus MacRae: Free Church Manse, Firth View, Dingwall.  01349 862183. (Email: [email protected]). Website: Sermons and newsletters are available at www.deep-river.co.uk.

FOR PRAYER Remember Slava Viazovski and family as he returns home to Minsk.

Andrew Fraser is away today preaching in Lochinver.

Kiltarlity congregation is now reopening their building after a major refurbishment. Pray for them as a fellowship, for their elders and resident supply preacher Mr Joe Barnard, and for their outreach to the surrounding community.

The expanded new £1m church building at Smithton is due to be opened on Saturday 19th March, with special opening services on Sunday 20th March. All the pupils from local primary schools will be coming to the church in March for "The Easter Experience." Pray for God’s blessing on the pastor and congregation.

Kilmallie Church plan to expand and develop their building, to meet the needs of their growing congregation. A funding application is awaiting a decision this week.

Remember families in the congregation affected by accident, or illness of body and mind. Pray for God’s peace and for a good recovery.

Road to Recovery: Pray for good attendances and for the powerful blessing of God on many lives affected by addiction.

Pray for the local Youth Kafe, for their work among young folk, for sufficient volunteers and particularly as they make various funding applications.

Rosemary Harding (formely of OMF Thailand) plans to move to Dingwall in April. Pray for her as she leaves her church and makes all the arrangements.

OMF: Remember Sandra in her work among the Thai in Scotland, particularly with travel and attending cell groups, and pray for her mum and family in Dingwall. Remember the Raes in the Philippines as they prepare to come home in June.

Morning Praise Evening Praise 98:1-6* (p. 129) 96a:7-13* (p. 127) Speak, O Lord  48b:1-2,8-14* (p. 64) 22:25-29* (p. 27) Jesus, Alpha and Omega How shall they hear * = Sing Psalms version.  = with piano accompaniment.

The Lord’s Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. Speak, O Lord

Speak, O LORD, as we come to you Speak, O Lord, and fulfil in us To receive the food of Your holy word All Your purposes, for Your glory Take Your truth, plant it deep in us Shape and fashion us in Your likeness Teach us Lord full obedience That the light of Christ might be seen today Holy reverence, true humility In our acts of love and our deeds of faith Test our thoughts and our attitudes In the radiance of Your purity Truths unchanged from the dawn of time Cause our faith to rise That will echo down through eternity Cause our eyes to see And by grace we'll stand on Your promises Your majestic love and authority And by faith we'll walk as You walk with us Words of power that can never fail Speak, O Lord, 'til your church is built Let their truth prevail over unbelief And the earth is filled with Your glory

How Shall They Hear (Morning Service)

“How shall they hear”, who have not heard telling of one who died for all, news of a Lord who loved and came? to bring a lost world home again? Nor known his reconciling word nor learned to trust a Saviour's name? “Lord, here am I:” Your fire impart To this poor cold self-centred soul; “To all the world”, to every place, touch but my lips, my hands, my heart, neighbours and friends and far off lands, and make a world for Christ my goal. preach the good news of saving grace; go while the great commission stands. Spirit of love, within us move: Spirit of truth, in power come down! “Whom shall I send?” Who hears the call, So shall they hear and find and prove constant in prayer, through toil and pain, Christ is their life, their joy, their crown. LM © Timothy Dudley-Smith. CCL Licence No. 1203197

Jesus, Alpha and Omega (Evening Service)

Jesus, Alpha and Omega, soon we’ll see you face to face! God before the world began, first and last, beginning, ending, mighty Word and Son of Man, With the clouds return in glory; great Creator, Liberator! you have sworn it! Come to stay! Author of salvation’s plan! God who was and is and will be, strengthen us to watch and pray! You have loved us! You have freed us! Find us steady, faithful, ready! Made of us a chosen race, Hasten, Jesus! Speed that day! royal priesthood, holy nation, your own people born of grace! 87.87.87 Keith Landis © Hope Publishing Ever living King forgiving, CCL Licence No. 1203197