YOU ARE INVITED TO MLMC FAMILY AFTERNOON THE MESSENGER ON SATURDAY 8th JUNE 2013 at CHIGNAL ST JAMES VILLAGE HALL APRIL 2013 THE AFTERNOON WILL BE RUN BY GB AND BB IN AID OF CAMP FUNDS From the cross THERE WILL BE THE to the grave OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A GO AT ARCHERY! MORE DETAILS NEARER THE TME From the grave SAVE THE DATE……. to the sky. FOR AN AFTERNOON OF FUN, RELAXATION AND A CHANCE TO CATCH UP WITH FRIENDS OF THE CHURCH Lord we OR FANCY A GO AT THIS ??? lift your name on high! Incorporating news, views and information from Moulsham Lodge and Hall Street Methodist Churches Chelmsford www.moulshammethodist.org.uk 28 What goes on at MLMC during the week? From the Editor Monday Welcome to the Messenger with news, views and Friendship Club 2 - 4pm Weekly (over 60’s) information about the activities of our Section of local Ladies Club 8pm Alternate weeks Methodist churches. Games Club 8pm Alternate weeks Tuesday ♦ Easter already!! May the joy of the resurrection be yours for ever. Ladies Keep Fit 10am Weekly (for over 40’s) Bible Study 2pm See notice board ♦ Thank you for all your articles, items of news and things to do; there is a Girls Brigade 6 - 9.30pm Weekly lot going on in our section of churches, and outside …….. read all about Bible Study 7.45m See notice board it, there is something for everyone! Prayer Group 9.15pm Weekly ♦ Inside you will find more information about our three selected charities Wednesday this year, that is SYM, Send a Cow and the Chelmsford Foodbank. If Soaking Prayer 8pm 2nd & 4th Wednesdays you would like to get involved with any of these, just speak to Gillian, Thursday Jean or Clive respectively. Morning prayers 9.30 - 10.30am Weekly Coffee Shop 10.30 - noon Weekly ♦ As a group from MLMC set off to Spring Harvest on April 8th we pray Art Group 1.30 - 3.30pm Weekly that they will have a blessed and refreshing time and look forward to Men’s Club 7.15 - 9.30pm First Thursdays hearing all about it when they return. 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The deadline for the May edition is April 17th . 2 27 Moulsham Lodge Methodist Church From the Manse Lime Walk, CM2 9NJ Senior Steward Jenny Gowing 01245 259179 Dear Friends Rota for April All through Lent I have been looking for those glimpses of God’s glory which I’ve seen as the delicate snowdrops and Date Flowers Reader Door Stewards crocus’s bravely push their way through the cold hard earth March 29th Mrs Johnson yet stand so magnificently and in the smiles and kindly acts of March 31st people around these being just a couple of examples. 8.00am Mr & Mrs Piper Stewards But now in this next week over Easter we will be remembering not just 10.30am Mr Forbes Mr & Mrs Piper glimpses but the amazing glory of the cross and more 6.30 pm Mr & Mrs Hancock on Easter Sunday celebrating the joy of the risen Lord Prayer Road Edward Drive when all heaven declares His glory April 7th The reading from the gospel of John 20:1 to 9 tells us 9.30am Mr & Mrs Cooper Mrs Reynolds how Mary went early in the morning to the tomb, she 11.00am Mr Amundsen Mr & Mrs Edwards saw the stone had been removed and the tomb was 6.30 pm Mrs Cooper empty . The strips of linen were still lying there and Prayer Road Lime Walk the body of Jesus was nowhere to be found. April 14th I have been thinking of things that are empty and 10.30am Mrs Hobbs Mr Robb Mr & Mrs Whent have an effect on us at times. When we are hungry we 6.30 pm Mr Rook may feel our stomachs are empty and they may well Prayer Road Ash Grove & Holly Walk rumble to tell us much to our embarrassment when we April 21st are in company. (To be fair compared to the hunger in 9.15am Mr & Mrs Harris Mrs Tofts the world, we cannot fully appreciate real hunger and starvation). When driving 11.00am Mr Edwards Mr & Mrs Piper the car and the fuel gauge reminds me I’m nearly on empty I think again about 6.30 pm Mrs Manson the continued increased in price of petrol. I’m sure we can all think of other Prayer Road Linden Close & Whitehorn Gardens instances where something that is ‘empty has a negative meaning to it. April 28th The great fact that on Easter Sunday the tomb was “empty” is not a bad, sad, 9.30am Girls Brigade Mrs Partner/Otts or dangerous thing. It is a wonderful event allowing us to celebrate not only on 11.00am Mrs Leach Mr & Mrs Rodwell Easter Sunday but every day of the year. The good news of the resurrection and 6.30 pm Mrs Marsh life of our Lord Jesus Christ is that death could not hold him. Jesus is alive – Prayer Road Donald Way & Yew Tree Gardens this breaking news spread through the women and the disciples to bring to them and to us joy and also a new sense of purpose to those whose hearts had May 5th been broken on Good Friday. 10.30am Mr & Mrs Edwards Brigades Mr & Mrs Griffin 6.30 pm Mrs Cooper The world-wide church of Christ has been spreading the good news of the Prayer Road Larch Grove & Cypress Drive ‘empty’ tomb – the “running on empty” for over 2,000 years as we try to bring this realisation to those who do not know or have yet to believe it, through our interaction with those outside and inside our churches in our words and deeds Prayer request and the way we live our lives. Please pray for the work of SYM, Send the Cow and the Because of the empty tomb, our hearts can be ‘ full ’- filled with joy, our homes Chelmsford Foodbank filled with faith and love and because of the empty tomb, …………………... 26 3 From the Manse cont…….. Moulsham Lodge Methodist Church Lime Walk, CM2 9NJ Senior Steward Jenny Gowing 01245 259179 …………… we know that the promise of eternal life is true Services for April We are God’s, ‘Resurrection People for, ‘ He is risen’ ! Hence we pray for the miracle of Easter to be at work in our lives as we live each day in expectant March 29th Good Friday 2.00pm Rev Stephanie Hibberd faith and in the many situations we pray for because the resurrection has the power to transform March 31st Easter Sunday 8.00am Rev Stephanie Hibberd (HC) 10.30am Rev Stephanie Hibberd This Easter, it’s my prayer that the resurrection will not only give you hope for 6.30pm Mr Bill Humm your tomorrows, but that it will give you hope for your today’s as well for everyday is an Easter day – ‘Praise the Lord! April 7th 9.30am Rev Stephanie Hibberd 11.00am Mr Andrew Mussell God Bless, 6.30pm Rev Stephanie Hibberd (HC) Stephanie April 14th 10.30am Mrs Francis Couch Service info…… 6.30pm Rev Guy Goodall SYM staff will be addressing both our morning April 21st SYM 9.15am Mr Jeff Hosking services at MLMC on Sunday 21 st April to tell SYM 11.00am Rev Stephanie Hibberd (HC) us more about their work. 6.30pm Rev Viv Gasteen Afternoon Tea April 28th 9.30am Mr Clive Pickett 11.00am Mr David Drewitt You are invited to take Afternoon Tea at the Manse Circuit Service 6.30pm Rev Stephanie Hibberd rd on Tuesday April 23 from 2.30 until 4.30 All are welcome, just come along and enjoy yourself May 5th Parade 10.30am Rev Stephanie Hibberd (HC) 6.30pm Rev Michael Powell Proceeds in support of our 2013 projects SYM and Send a Cow . Service info for MLMC 9.30am Contemporary Worship Celebrate Jesus! 10.30am Parade/Family Service 11am Traditional Service Just a reminder that the next Celebrate Jesus & Wesley 6.30pm Contemplative Service Celebrations will be at Trinity Methodist Church, Chelmsford on Friday 24th May. All are welcome to join us. The sermon chosen is Wesley’s ''The Almost Christian.'' by Rev. Viv. Gasteen. Do a deed of simple kindness Any queries please email [email protected] k or call 01245 Though its end you may not see 601478.