Intimations

Welcome to our very busy worship service. This morning we celebrate our Sunday Kids and give them gifts to help in their Christian life, we gather in flowers and send them out to the ill and housebound and we recognise the service given by members of our congregation to the life and witness of our congregation.

• Welcome
• CH4 198 Let us build a house where love can dwell (3 verses)
• Prayer
• CH4 279 Make way, make way for Christ the King
• 'Welcome' words by Sunday Kids
• BBC 303 Lord of all hopefulness
• Presentation of Sunday Kids gifts
• BBC 231 If I were a butterfly
• Bible reading Matthew 10: 40 - 42 (RSV p 790, GN p16) read by Marie Martin
• Focus 1: Welcoming
• Prayer
• Our God is a great big God - Sunday Kids
• Focus 2: Spot the difference
• CH4 204 I am the church! You are the church!
• Presentation of certificates and gifts
• Prayer
• BBC 323 Colours of day dawn into the mind
• Blessing and sending

1. Please ensure that all mobile phones are switched off prior to the service beginning.
2. After the service you are very welcome to join us in the hall across the road for refreshments.
3. Next Sunday, July 6, is the first of our seven-week summer all-age worship series when we will be exploring our Mission Promise. Please come along and take part. Services will be in the hall at 9.30am with tea and coffee served afterwards.
4. Members of the worship team can uplift mural paper from the vestibule near the dovecots.
5. Yesterday was the celebration of the golden wedding of Les and Margaret Charters, married in St Andrews Church, Helensburgh, by the Rev John Henry Dutch.
6. The 'Buzz' meeting is tomorrow, Monday June 30, at 2pm in the small hall and is a members' day. Everyone is welcome.
7. The July coffee morning (proceeds in aid of church funds) is on Saturday July 5, 10am to 12noon in the hall, usual stalls - sales table, £1, books and CDs etc. Your donatons for the stalls and baking for the tables would be greatly appreciated, also help for setting up, serving and washing up etc would be welcomed. The hall will be open from 6pm to 7pm on Friday evening for setting up and to receive donations. Contact Freda Hunter on 262088 or Janet McSherry on 264973.
8. Remember that the barbecue is at Mabie Forest on Friday July 11 from 6.30pm. Please note that if the weather is inclement we shall adjourn to the hall instead.
9. Blythswood Care 'Buckets of Love': Buckets for those who signed for one are available. Please note that the additional buckets will become available - leaflets, however, are now here. Please return filled buckets on Sunday July 13 if possible - any not returned by that date must be ready for August 10. Queries - please speak to Anne Twiname.
10. Intimations for next Sunday to Anne Twiname on 263241 by noon on Thursday.

Prayer request for today is for Dalbeattie Church from Rev N Hutcheson. Remember our brothers and sisters of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Transylvania as they face new difficulties following changes in central Europe.