{"id":1293,"date":"2011-05-10T21:16:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T21:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2011-05-10T21:17:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T21:17:26","slug":"sunday-bulletin-8th-may-2011-easter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Bulletin &#8211; 8th May 2011 &#8211; Easter 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The full Sunday Bulletin for\u00a08th May 2011 can be downloaded as a PDF file from<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SundayBulletin08-05-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">HERE<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Communion Sunday<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 You are invited to share in The Sacrament of Holy Communion next Sunday, 15th May at 11.00am.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ministers Vestry Hour<\/strong> 12 noon &#8211; 1.00 pm. Please contact the Minister for an appointment &#8211; phone 01592-758264 or E-mail <em>alex@arforsyth.com<\/em>\u00a0 In the event of hospitalisation, serious illness, family anxiety, bereavement or personal difficulty the Minister is readily available to visit. You have to let him know if he can be of help.<br \/>\n<strong>Coffee Mornings<\/strong> are held on Thursdays from 10.00am &#8211; 11.30am in the church hall. Come and join us for coffee and a chat. You are always welcome.<br \/>\n<strong>The Congregational Board<\/strong> will meeting at 7.15 p.m. on Monday 16th May.\u00a0Copies of the agenda and minute of the previous meeting are now\u00a0available in the Session House for those members who do not have e-mail facilities<br \/>\n<strong>Christian Aid<\/strong> &#8211; You will have been given a Christian Aid envelope as you entered the Church today as we at Markinch Parish Church support the work of Christian Aid. Supporting\u00a0Christian Aid this year will enable us to purchase Bamboo Shelters for\u00a0 Burmese refugees in Thailand.\u00a0More information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presentaid.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.presentaid.org<\/a> \u00a0 Please return any Christian Aid envelopes during 15th &#8211; 21st May to Tracy Thomson.<br \/>\n<strong>The Big Spring Clean<\/strong> On Saturday 21st May between 10am and 12 noon there will be a &#8216;Big Spring Clean&#8217; of our Church Hall. Everyone is invited to come along with their rubber gloves and a bucket to help\u00a0clean our hall.\u00a0 Please inform Tracy Thomson if you are able to come and help.<br \/>\n<strong>The Rotary Club of Glenrothes<\/strong>\u00a0 Come along and support the work of Rotary in Glenrothes area on Saturday 14th May in Markinch Parish Church Hall where they will be having a Fete.\u00a0The stalls include &#8211; tea &amp; coffee, cake &amp; candy, tombola, bottle stall, bric-a-brac and an ice cream factory.\u00a0Bring your family and friends along to the fun morning of events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fundraising for 2011<br \/>\n<\/strong>Strawberry Teas &#8211; Saturday 25th June<br \/>\nGarden Party &#8211; Sunday 24th July<br \/>\nFashion Show &#8211; September &#8211; Date to be confirmed<br \/>\nSale of Work &#8211; Saturday 29th October<br \/>\nHarvest Lunch &#8211; Date to be confirmed<br \/>\nHaggis Drive &#8211; Thursday 1st December<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christian Aid Fundraiser &#8211; Bodyshop Party<br \/>\n<\/strong>Markinch Parish Church Hall on Friday 20th May at 7.30pm\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Only \u00a32<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is happening in our Church Hall this week<br \/>\n<\/strong>Tuesday &#8211; Zumba Class 6.00pm &#8211; 6.55pm<br \/>\nWednesday &#8211; Community Choir 7.00pm &#8211; 9.00pm<br \/>\nThursday &#8211; Youth Club 6.30pm &#8211; 8.00pm<br \/>\nSaturday &#8211; Rotary Club Fete 10.00am &#8211; 12.00noon<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Re-scheduled Concert\u00a0by The East Fife Ladies Choir\u00a0\u00a0on behalf of Help for Heroes<br \/>\n<\/strong>Tuesday 17th May at 7.00pm in the Church.<br \/>\nPlease use your old ticket if you bought one previously.<br \/>\nTickets can now be purchased from the minister, priced \u00a35.00 or you can pay at the door.<br \/>\nDonations of prizes for the \u2018Help for Heroes\u2019 Lucky Tickets to Jean Forsyth please.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christian Aid Week 15th May &#8211; 22nd May<br \/>\n<\/strong>Following the success of our Christmas collection for a &#8216;Well for Kenya&#8217; we will again be purchasing a large item through Christian Aid.\u00a0 Events we have planned are :-<br \/>\nSunday 15th May &#8211; Soup following Sunday service<br \/>\nThursday 19th May &#8211; Thursday Teas<br \/>\nFriday 20th May &#8211; Bodyshop Party<br \/>\nSunday 22nd May &#8211; Sunday Teas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strawberry Teas<br \/>\n<\/strong>Saturday June 25th from 10am to 12noon<br \/>\nAll donations are gratefully received for the following stalls<br \/>\nTeas &#8211; strawberry scones, strawberry cakes, strawberry tarts from 9am onwards<br \/>\nBaking Stall &#8211; Scones, cakes, flans, tarts, trifles, meringues and pancakes all with strawberries &#8211; or any of the usual baking from 9am onwards<br \/>\nRaffle &#8211; Prizes for the raffle to Jean Forsyth<br \/>\nBottle Stall &#8211; Any bottles to Nan McRoberts for the bottle stall<br \/>\nPlant Stall &#8211; Any plants from 9am onwards<br \/>\nTickets on sale at \u00a32 each from Jean Forsyth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full Sunday Bulletin for\u00a08th May 2011 can be downloaded as a PDF file from\u00a0HERE Communion Sunday\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 You are invited to share in The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}