CALL to WORSHIP (From Isaiah 35)

CALL TO WORSHIP (from Isaiah 35) Minister: Be strong, do not fear; your God will come to save you. ALL: Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Minister: Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way. Walk in the Way of Holiness. ALL: And the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Amen. SCRIPTURE SONG: Paraphrase of Isaiah 53:2-6,9-10a God’s Servant, like a tender plant, Grew up from dry, parched ground; With wicked men God’s Lamb was slain, But we had no desire for Him, In rich man’s grave was laid; No beauty in Him found. Though innocent in word and deed, The price of sin He paid. Rejected and despised by men, To grief and sorrow born, The LORD’s will was to bruise Him so, A Man on whom, with faces hid, He put His soul to grief, We heaped disgrace and scorn. For, as an offering for sin, He brings our souls relief. But truly He has borne our griefs, Our sorrows He sustained, Like thoughtless sheep we went astray, Though we esteemed Him cursed by God, And turned to selfish paths, Afflicted, pierced and maimed. But God has laid our sins on Him To bring us home at last. Yet, for our sins He was condemned, For our transgressions bruised, Composed by Rev Colin Rogerson. His scourging brought God’s peace to us, Tune: Contemplation (CM) St Columba Free Church. Our healing from His wounds. CCLI Licence for copyright words: 1203197

Morning Praise Evening Praise 113:1-9* (p. 151) 27:1-5* (p. 31) 23:1-6* (p. 28) 126:1-6* (p. 171) Scripture Song (see above) 27:7-14* (p. 32) 116:7-16* (p. 154) (* = Sing Psalms version)

SERVING ONE ANOTHER Welcome Team: Malcolm Fraser, Finlay MacKenzie, Isabel McQuarrie and Julia Reid. Crèche: 4th- Kathleen Sutherland, Jessie MacIntosh. 11th- Joan Lees, Heather MacMillan. 18th - Anna Stirling & Connie Garraway. Bus Drivers: 4th– M Forbes (864010). 11th – M MacArthur (861250). 18th – A Stirling (865324). 25th – D MacRae (865998). 1st August – J MacAskill (863410). Nursing Homes: Wyvis at 4 pm, 4th July, Rev A MacRae. Fodderty House at 1.45 pm, 4th July, D MacRae. 18th July – To be arranged. To Contact the Minister – Rev Angus MacRae: Free Church Manse, Firth View, Dingwall.  01349 862183. (Email: [email protected]). CD / Tape Orders:  Sina (01349 865998) or Fred (01349 864297) Youth Work Contacts: James & Vickie Ross:  01349 866546. 13 Tulloch Square, Dingwall. ([email protected]). Disabled Access is via a ramp and internal lift at the back door of the church. Website: Sermons and newsletters are available at www.deep-river.co.uk.

Dingwall & Strathpeffer Free Church is a Designated Scottish Charity: SC011143 welcome to DINGWALL & STRATHPEFFER free church God calls us to delight in Christ and to share His Hope. www.deep-river.co.uk Sunday 4th July 2010 “Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation…” Psalm 62:5-6

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 together for worship today in Dingwall at 11.00 am and 6 pm. Our minister, Rev Angus MacRae, will lead both services, teaching from Luke 23 and in the evening from the Book of Jude. This morning Jonathan Warde will speak to the children.

Sunday School is on holiday but a crèche is available each Sunday morning – held in the church hall. Children leave for the crèche after the second singing.

The General Assembly edition of The Record magazine is available. From the Frontiers, the annual missionary magazine is also available (£2).

Please return any donation boxes for the annual Christian Aid appeal as soon as possible.

YOUTH CAMPS HOODIES This year the Free Church Youth Camps are offering hooded sweatshirts in a range of colours and sizes, to commemorate 50 years of summer camps. Details and an order form are on the main Free Church website: www.freechurch.org (priced £20).

HIGHLAND YOUTH WEEKEND A weekend of fellowship and teaching for young folk in Age Group S3 – S6 is planned for 27th – 29th August. The event is at Cairngorm Christian Centre, Kincraig. Speaker: Calum “Honda” MacMillan from Rosskeen. Cost: £75, which includes all food, accommodation and activities, including water sports, games, BBQ etc. Please book right away if you want a place. Contact: Susan MacLean – [email protected]

YOUTH CAMPS – SPACES STILL AVAILABLE! A limited number of spaces are available at Blaithwaite (mixed activity), Johnshaven (boys football) and Oswestry Junior mixed camp. Several camps start this week. Contact Laura MacLeod at the Free Church Offices, on 0131 226 5286 for details.

EVENTS THIS WEEK The Dingwall Tulloch home fellowship group is holding a supper night this Tuesday at 6.30 pm, at the Mackay’s home, 29 Bayne Drive, tel 01349 864067). Join us in the church hall each Wednesday night at 7.30 pm for an hour of prayer and Bible study.

Soul is a seven-week course based on Christianity Explored offering an introduction to the Christian faith. The group meets for lunch in the church foyer from 12 noon to 1 pm on Thursdays. Please ask for further details or just come along if you would like to take part.

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. Those directly affected by addiction including carers and family members are all most welcome.

Mairi Nakahashi is the guest speaker at the OMF prayer group this Friday, from 10.30 am at Christine Craig’s home, Fourways, 8 Gladstone Avenue, Dingwall (Tel: 864511).

Youth events now on holiday: The Sunday School, Mini Marvels parent and toddler group and the Friday night youth club are all on holiday and will resume in August.

COMING EVENTS Ferintosh Burn: Open air worship will be held at the ‘Burn’ on Sunday 25th July at 4.30 pm, conducted by Rev Chris Smart.

The minister will be away on holiday at Keswick from 17th to 24th July. James Ross is preaching in Dingwall on Sunday 18th July. On Sunday 25th July, Rev John de la Haye will take the morning service here, while the minister is away preaching in Kiltarlity Free Church, and the minister will take the evening service here.

Vision and Planning: The Deacons and Elders are going away to Ullapool on Saturday 14 August for a day of prayer, seeking a clearer vision for the work of the church in the years to come, and for detailed planning for the coming months.

FOR PRAYER Pray for the Free Church and Scripture Union Youth Camps taking place in July and August. Several folk from our congregation are involved in camps starting this week and the following week.

Kenny Ross, formerly of Ivy Cottage, Heights of Brae, passed away suddenly last week while on a walking tour of Slovakia. Kenny was a tenor singer based in Germany. His relatives here are the MacDonald family, 20 Fraser Road.

Pray for the Dingwall Youth Café, as they run the Soul Course, and for the small group meeting in the Church on Thursdays doing the same course.

OMF Diaspora Ministry: Remember Sandra MacDonald and team working among the Thai people in Scotland. Pray for the second UK Thai camp, taking place from 20th to 23rd July. Pray that all who attend will hear God speaking to them. Rev. Yoel will bring the Bible readings and Sandra will be taking part. Two of the original Strathpeffer contacts are returning to the UK to study in London.

Sadly Robert (from Dingwall who was living in a North African country) was deported recently. Many Christians have been treated similarly in that country. Please pray that the situation would improve, particularly for the national believers facing persecution from the authorities.

Pray for Road to Recovery in the Highlands and Islands. Give thanks for new contacts, and a sense of God in the meetings. Pray for the outreach to Cambuslang by Glasgow City Free Church (St. Vincent St.) The Free Church is committed to try to start 4 new urban church plants this year in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Cambuslang.

Pray for Neil & Rachel Rae (Philippines). Ben is back in school. His birthday is this Thursday 8th July. Continue to pray for Ate Lily, the new Livelihood co-ordinator in Calapan, who started last month. Pray for good relationships with the workers (she leads a weekly Bible study with them and none as yet are believers). Pray that orders will continue to come in to provide employment. Pray for the team to get along well and for God to be at work. Give thanks for the six young people and one more mature believer who were baptised recently. The Rae’s give thanks that the recent ‘Sportsfest’ evangelism event went really well with 112 children attending.

OMF: The local prayer group meet on the second Friday of the month at 10.30 am at Christine Craig’s home, Fourways, 8 Gladstone Avenue, Dingwall (Tel: 864511).

Pray for the issue of worship to be discussed with wisdom and sensitivity in the decision making courts of the Free Church. A conference to explore Bible teaching on the issue is planned for 23rd and 24th August, with a special General Assembly in November.

Ishbel MacArthur (Callanish) remains in the ITU ward at Raigmore following her surgery. Remember the family in Lewis and Dingwall.

Pray for a number of congregations without pastors, and for ministers in Redevelopment and Church Planting situations.

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