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We are sorry to have to Minister: Rev Norman Smith inform you that due to the [email protected] WEEKLY BULLETIN current pandemic and the 0131 551 2159 Sunday 3rd January 2021 impending move to Tier 4 Session Clerk: grantonchurch.org.uk the Kirk Session of Granton Dan Docwra Parish Church have decided all our services whilst in [email protected] 0131 467 4239 Tier 4should be online only. This was not an easy (oin this Sunday s service at 10.30am decision for us to take because we cherish the Parish Assistants: David Moodie By computer/smartphone - go to grantonchurch.org.uk and follow the link. chance to join with others Yet weighing the desire [email protected] to worship in person against guaranteeing the 0785 663 0956 By telephone - (ust follow these steps0 safety of those who a*end against Covid le+ us Sarah Smith [email protected] with no choice. Phone 1131 441 1154 Then enter the mee6ng ID 0 582 2448 2457 )ou are part of our community and we will do Then enter ; anything we can to make sure you are safe, even if Treasurer: Then enter the mee6ng password 0 515841 Alan Summers that means changing how we o-er worship for the [email protected] Then enter ; moment. e hope you understand and that you Communications )ou will now be able to hear the service and you will also be able to speak to are able to (oin with us online. Chas Macintosh everyone as well if you wish. chas @granton.org.uk 0779 532 3889 Remember, the church is not closed, we (ust can Worship Catch up on Sunday Services not meet in person due to Covid. If you need to Norman Smith [email protected] If you are not able to catch the service on Sunday mornings yet contact anyone from the church phone .orman or Outreach s6ll want to catch the service later, we broadcast the services on David Moodie any Elder. [email protected] Facebook Live. Check out the church website or go straight to our Nurture Facebook page. Linda Young [email protected] For more info about anything in the Bulle$n, Social People have been asking how they can support the ongoing work Sandra Cumming snap the %R [email protected] of the congrega6on. Go to the website and look at the top of the code or visit Property page where you will see a Dona6on bu*on. Click it, then either Neil MacDonald [email protected] donate via card or click on the Paypal bu*on. )our dona6on will help our church to keep grantonchurch.org.uk Pastoral Visit Team Lead making a posi6ve impact on our community and beyond. Gillian Macintosh [email protected] Safeguarding Linda Young [email protected] If you have access to the internet, check www.grantonchurch.org.uk and click SUBSCRIBE grantonchurch.org.uk Bright Hope to get Thought for the Day delivered every day. Climate & Re-Use Project grantongoesgreener.org.uk for If you don't have access to the internet and would like to receive this by post, or want to update your contact Tomorrow details please call Norman on 0131 551 2159 8 (Continued from page 6) of the ways that God works in the world. Thoughts for The Day (Weekly Digest) them from Lerod. Aoseph was simply and honourably obedient to God. Le listened Prayer0 Blessed Aesus, I o+en donCt know ,onday Dec 2./ Ian ,c0aughlan authorised version of the bible puts itE that when God spoke to him in dreams and why your word tells me to do certain through prayers, and he walked the road things. I freHuently argue, dig my heels in hen they had seen him, they spread the would be answered as she grew older and that God had set before him. Le or simply disobey. Please forgive me and word concerning what had been told them seeing the whole astounding picture wouldnCt have known what would come help me to remember the good example about this child, and all who heard it were unfold in front of her. of all these things God told him to do. Le of Aoseph, who helped to raise you. Lelp amazed at what the shepherds said to wasnCt blessed to see AesusC ministry, we me to trust you and obediently walk the them. But Mary treasured up all these Prayer0 Father, I like the way you used the assume heCd died before that as he isnCt path youCve set before me. Amen things and pondered them in her heart. ordinary people – the shepherds - to men6oned during AesusC adult life, but his The shepherds returned, glorifying and convey the extraordinary news of AesusCs straighOorward trust and obedience praising God for all the things they had birth as Saviour of the world. Lelp me too saved Christ as a child and set a Ac6on0 look at your day and week ahead, heard and seen, which were (ust as they Lord Aesus, as an ordinary person, to Bnd wonderful example before Aesus as he had been told. new ways to be excited by your birth and and o-er it to God in prayer, asking him grew up. Lis obedience reminds us that Luke 20 17 – 21 to ponder in my heart the gi+ of salva6on to show you what to do and how to react we donCt always get to know or that you so freely o-ered. Amen at work, with your family, in your studies, understand why God is asking us to do The shepherds visi6ng Aesus in the stable whatever comes along. things, but our trust and obedience is one block that very Brst Christmas were the Ac6on0 As we celebrate the days following Brst ordinary people to witness the good the birth of Christ perhaps in more news of the SaviourCs birth a+er the angel restricted ways this year, take 6me to had told them of this great event remember that nothing really has changed 2ur Church 3alues happening in Bethlehem. Imagine their since that Brst ChristmasN sense of awe and wonder Dand privilegeE Everything we do is rooted in (ES5S C6RIS1 as they le+ the stable singing praises to 1uesday Dec 2 / Ian ,oir God and to be the Brst to share the story .ow there was a man in Aerusalem called E%5A0I18 is based on who you are and not what you have with those all around them. Fisualise too – Simeon, who was righteous and devout. in your mindCs eye - all those who were Le was wai6ng for the consola6on of E3ER82NE is valued and everyone has gi+s that can be o-ered to God hearing this amazing news from the Israel, and the Loly Spirit was on him. It shepherds for the Brst 6me. had been revealed to him by the Loly C2,,5NI18 brings with it respect across the genera6ons and cultures Spirit that he would not die before he had )et, in the midst of all this excitement the seen the LordCs Messiah. Moved by the central Bgure of Mary, the mother of Spirit, he went into the temple courts. Aesus, was s6ll absorbing the enormity of hen the parents brought in the child what the shepherds had told her and Aesus to do for him what the custom of the wondered what lay ahead of her. e can Law reHuired, Simeon took him in his arms Coming Up Next only speculate the Hues6ons going and praised God, saying0 through her head at that crucial moment. JSovereign Lord, as you have promised, Throughout Aanuary we are going to study the book hy me Lord, why send these ordinary you may now dismiss your servant in of Ruth. shepherds to tell me of my sonCs des6ny, peace. For my eyes have seen your why, if ICm to be the mother of the salva6on, which you have prepared in Ruth was a remarkable young woman whose daring, courageous ac6on to Messiah, o-er a crude cradle for the birth the sight of all na6ons0 a light for support her mother in law has inspired men and women throughout the ages. of my precious baby. Iues6ons as she revela6on to the Gen6les, and the glory ho was she, what did she do, what can we learn from her and the other Jpondered them in her heartK Das the of your people Israel.K Luke 20 25 – 32 characters in her story. Stay tuned in Aanuary to Bnd out. Page 7 certainly werenCt three of them, they comfort zoneQ For centuries the Aews, as GodCs Schosen Prayer – .unc Dimmi6s would have had a re6nue with them – are we prepared to follow Aesus, peopleS, had been wai6ng for God to send JLord, now le*est thou thy servant depart servant, guards, etc. They were likely wherever that road might take his Anointed Rne. Many of them believed in peace according to thy word. from what is now IraH, and could have usQ that this person would be a soldier king, For mine eyes have seen thy salva6on, been Poroastrians. ThereCs a lot of will we devote ourselves to worshipQ like David, and lead them, in ba*le, to hich thou hast prepared before the face specula6on – some of it very well gain their righOul posi6on of dominance of all people, informed, some – not so much. But there Prayer0 Lord God, help us today to see in the world. There were, however, a are some things we do know.