Church at Home Sunday 6Th December 2020
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Church at Home Sunday 6th December 2020 Sunday worship on is on The easiest way to find the link to the YouTube meeting each Sunday is to find the link on the Corps web page. Type www.salvationarmy.org.uk/ramsgate and select Church on YouTube You can also find us by searching on YouTube and on the Ramsgate Facebook page. But we want to still “meet together” and share our thoughts and prayers and testimonies. It will give a chance to share how God has spoken to us during the meeting – and allow us to encourage each other. Sunday 6h 10 am Ramsgate Church at Home (YouTube) Sunday 6th 11.15 am ZOOM fellowship Sunday 6th 12 noon ZOOM Youth Group Sunday 6th 4.30 pm Zoom Kids Club (up to 11 years) Tuesday 8th 7pm ZOOM Advent Bible Study Wednesday 9th 8pm ZOOM Quiz Ramsgate ZOOM 8651865167 1 | Page If you have no internet that we are providing each week’s service on a DVD which we will deliver to you. Please let us know if you do not want a DVD each week. Also tell us if you need help watching the DVDs we are sending. Message from our Territorial Leaders. You can find this on the Salvation Army YouTube channel https://youtu.be/r_hf3JqsJpE Commissioner Gill shares a quote from Queen Elizabeth II which says “Christmas reminds us that love begins small but always grows.” Songs of Praise Sunday 6th 1.15pm The Rev Kate Bottley presents the final of the very first joint Songs of Praise and Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year competition. As it is the second Sunday of Advent, six of the best girl and boy choristers in the UK perform their chosen Christmas carols or songs for judges John Rutter, Laura Wright and Carl Jackson before one is crowned 2020 champion. The programme includes a performance of O Holy Night by Aled Jones, Katherine Jenkins and all the finalists. There is a full day of activities on Fortress Radio. https://www.fortressradio.online/listen-now.html 2 | Page Maggie is available with the constant prayer line where you can call or text for prayer. You can contact her on 07840 753 603 Daily Hope offers music, prayers and reflections as well as full worship services from the Church of England at the end of a telephone line. Birthdays Natasha Atkins 8-December Sheila Parfitt 8-December Prayers please for For Al awaiting further surgery. Pray this will come soon. David also awaiting surgery, Paul, son of Hazel who continues his chemotherapy; Brenda Austin and Liz Harden. Val Read We thank God for returning heath for Mavis and remember her and Peter We continue to pray for Tom and Cherie following their bereavement Please continue to pray especially for Archie – and Lisa and Scott. Christmas Cards We will be producing a Ramsgate Corps Card and if you want to write a greeting then we would love to include as many as possible in the card. Please send to us by Tuesday 15th December. A donation of £1 for your message would be appreciated. They will be delivered 19th December We can also deliver any cards you would like to send personally to your friends at the corps. For a donation of £1 you can send as many cards as you like to members and friends of the corps. We must have these by Thursday 17th December – also for delivery Saturday 19th December 3 | Page Some thoughts from Major John Born a child and yet a King. I was watching one of the Advent meetings on YouTube from one of the Nottingham Corps, which commenced with the Advent song ‘Come thou long expected Jesus’ (104 SASB). The third verse reads… Born thy people to deliver, Born a child and yet a King, Born to reign in us for ever, Now thy gracious Kingdom bring. The second line, ‘Born a child and yet a King’ seemed to jump out at me and capture my imagination. It pinpoints one of the great mysteries and miracles of the Christian Faith. Peter Chrysologus wrote in the 5th Century words which also speak of the wonder… Heaven on earth, Earth in heaven, Humanity in God, God in humanity, one whom the world cannot contain now enclosed in a tiny body. One of our more contemporary hymn writers Graham Kendrick explores this theme in his song ’Meekness and majesty, manhood and Deity’ (383 SASB). Verse three and the chorus read… Wisdom unsearchable, God the invisible, Love indestructible in frailty appears. Lord of infinity, stooping so tenderly, Lifts our humanity to the heights of his throne. 4 | Page O what a mystery, Meekness and majesty. Bow down and worship, For this is your God. For many years I have enjoyed John Betjeman’s poem ‘Christmas 1955’, it ends in quite a thought-provoking way… ‘The time draws near the birth of Christ’. A present that cannot be priced Given two thousand years ago Yet if God had not given so He still would be a distant stranger And not the Baby in the manger. I conclude in response with a couplet from another carol... O may we keep and ponder in our mind God’s wondrous love in saving lost mankind! (103, verse 3 SASB) And as Graham Kendrick suggests, in the face of such a wonder, we simply must… Bow down and worship, For this is our God. CHRISTMAS DINNER We are still planning to offer Christmas dinner for those who would like one. We are limiting to 25 people on 24th and 25th December. If you have not returned your slip please do so this week. If it is not Covid safe then we will deliver your dinner – and sing on your doorstep! 5 | Page Time to Smile Three Salvation Army Officers were late for an Ecumenical Service. They crept in at the back, but there were no seats. On seeing them standing, the Bishop said to the Verger, ‘Get three chairs for the Salvation Army’, and the Verger stood up and said ‘Three cheers for The Salvation Army’. A motorist stops at a ford and asks an old yokel sitting nearby how deep the water is. ‘Couple of inches’ he replies. The motorist drives through the ford and disappears in a seething mass of bubbles. ‘That’s funny’ says the yokel. ‘It only goes halfway up on them there ducks.’ A traffic policeman pulls alongside a speeding motorist on the motorway. Glancing into the car, he’s astounded to see that the lady behind the wheel is knitting! The policeman winds down his window and shouts, ‘Pullover!’ ‘No!’ shouts back the woman, ‘a cardigan!’ What is worse than a giraffe with a sore throat? A centipede with chilblains! 1.Adam and Eve were the main characters in in which work by John Milton? 2.Which famous horse riding school is in Austria? 3.Which Copenhagen statue is a memorial to Hans Christian Andersen? 4.Which chess piece can only move diagonally? 5.At which Southwark inn did Chaucer’s Pilgrims meet? Winter Quiz 1.In the carol ‘In the bleak midwinter’ what is the second line? 2.Which word is used to mean flying away for winter, as with many birds? 3.Which winter sport uses skates, stones and brooms? 4.What is hit with sticks in ice hockey? 5.Which David Jason TV characters name is the personification of winter? 6 | Page Anagram What is the only English anagram of EXCITATION? INTOXICATE. The only English anagram of EXCITATION is is EXCITATION of anagram English only The Frost Jack 5. inds made moan 2. Migration 3. Curling 4. Puck Puck 4. Curling 3. Migration 2. moan made inds w 1.Frosty Quiz Winter Inn Tabard The 5. Bishop The 4. Mermaid 1.Paradise Lost 2. The Spanish Riding School 3. The Little Little The 3. School Riding Spanish The 2. Lost 1.Paradise Quiz Answers Memories Over the next few weeks we are going to ask you to share your memories for Christmas. We will have an opportunity on Sunday to preparation for this….be ready with your thoughts What makes Christmas Special for you? What Christmas traditions do you in your family? What are you favourite memories of Christmas? Here are some funky angels, made by Pauline at St Luke’s Church. Pauline has made these to raise money for our food bank and they are £5 each. As you can see Jacqueline needed four! 7 | Page The flags and bunting go up in Ramsgate to celebrate a Royal visit to the town. This was the colourful scene in High Street, St. Lawrence when the Prince of Wales travelled to Ramsgate to open the town's attractive new promenade on the West Cliff. The date: 1926. At St. Lawrence, which still retained much of its village atmosphere, High Street had not yet been transformed by road-widening schemes which swept away many old properties and brought a new look to the area. Thanks again to David Richards. 8 | Page The Absence by RS Thomas It is this great absence that is like a presence, that compels me to address it without hope of a reply. It is a room I enter from which someone has just gone, the vestibule for the arrival of one who has not yet come. I modernise the anachronism of my language, but he is no more here than before. Genes and molecules have no more power to call him up than the incense of the Hebrews at their altars. My equations fail as my words do.