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If you are a visitor to Sleat, or the south end of Skye, and looking for a church you are welcome to worship with us. We are all about the Gospel, but are also reformed, evangelical, bible-believing, presbyterian and, above all, Christian.
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20th November 2011
Today
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Breaking the Commandment – what then?
5:00pm @ Broadford – Ask. Outreach – The cost of following Jesus (John 3:30)
Wednesday
7:00pm @ Sleat – Congregational Meeting
Next Sunday
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Jonah 1 – The Call of God
6:00pm @ Kyleakin – Joint Service with the Church of Scotland
News and Coming Events (D.V.)
Kyleakin Church Out of Use
The church at Kyleakin will remain out of use for the time being, due to the electricity being off until a tree is safely removed. All mid-week and Sunday meetings will be in Sleat.
David Robertson
David’s health was improved a little this last week. He has had a tracheotomy and is not longer under sedation, but is struggling to talk, and is distressed. His family are amazed by the Lord’s help, and the answers they are seeing to prayer, but remind us that he is still in a critical condition.
Teens Group
Teens Group meets tonight at the manse, from 7:00-8-30pm.
Congregational Meeting
There will a Congregational Meeting on Wednesday 23rd November, at 7:00pm in the Sleat Church. This meeting is to approve the congregational accounts for 2010, re-appoint the finance committee, and approve a number of other financial and administrative matters.
Monthly Special Collections
Over the last few months the notices sheet has not carried reminders about the monthly collections for International Missions (1st Sunday) and the Fabric Fund (3rd Sunday). Please remember these special collections if you are able.
Kirk Session
The Kirk session are reminded of the meeting with Susan Maclean tomorrow night at 6:00pm.
Dornoch Induction
Please remember Duncan Macleod, who will be inducted as minister of the Dornoch congregation this Friday.
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6th November 2011
Today
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – False Witness
5:00pm @ Broadford Village Hall – What does Jesus say about celebration?
Wednesday
7:00pm @ Sleat – Weekly Bible Study
Next Sunday
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Coveting
5:00pm @ Sleat – Galatians 4:1-7 – Sons and Heirs
Visitors: If you are a visitor we are glad you have chosen to worship with us today. In our worship, we stand to sing, for the first prayer and the Benediction.
News and Coming Events (D.V.)
Kyleakin Church Out of Use
The church at Kyleakin will remain out of use for the time being, due to the electricity being off until a tree is safely removed. All mid-week and Sunday meetings will be in Sleat.
Songs of Hope and Faith
This evening, at 6:00pm, there will be a fund raising recital (featuring various types of Christian praise) in aid of the Hope and Faith School in Zambia. This will take place in Kyleakin Church of Scotland. To enable people to attend without rushing, there will be no tea served after the Broadford meeting tonight.
Finance Committee
There will be a brief meeting of the Finance Committee on Monday evening at 7:30pm. Apologies for the short notice but Committee Members are urged to attend. One item of business must be conducted in time for the paperwork for the Church’s Board of Trustees to go out later in the week; the other item (there are only 2) is setting a date for the congregational AGM.
Teens Group
Teens Group meets next Sunday night at the manse, at 7:00pm.
Service Times
As people will have noticed, there is regularly a delay in starting the morning service. This is mainly to accommodate the Sunday School. Our aim is allow the kids to leave after the second singing, to minimise disruption – but this has to be coordinated to coincide with the Church of Scotland folks who come up by mini-bus for classes at the manse. It is easier for us to start a bit later than for them to get here earlier. I have been loath to speak to the Kirk Session to formally change the service time to 11:05am, because some weeks there might be longer notices to give, or a longer kids’ address. I apologise for not giving an explanation for this before, and promise that the service will always be underway by 11:05. We are also trying to ensure that the kids do not re-enter the congregation until the final singing to limit disruption during the sermon.
These are some of the concessions we have to make to operate a joint Sunday School. The only alternative to that is to not bother with the joint Sunday School and try to go it alone again (provided we could find sufficient teachers), or to have the Sunday School meeting at a totally different time (which would still entail a crèche of some sort during the service). As neither of these are workable alternatives, your forbearance is really appreciated.
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2nd October 2011
Today
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Exodus 20:14 – Adultery
5:00pm @ Broadford – Ask. – Meeting Jesus
Wednesday
7:00pm @ Kyleakin – Weekly Bible Study
Next Sunday
11:00am @ Sleat – Thanksgiving & Communion
5:00pm @ Kyleakin & 6:30pm @ Sleat – Evening worship – Galatians 3:6-14 – Saved by faith
News and Coming Events (D.V.)
Thanksgiving & Communion
Next Lord’s Day we will celebrate a Thanksgiving service. It seems fitting that remembering the Lord’s death would also fall the same day. With regard to the Thanksgiving aspect, we will take up a special food collection for the Blythswood Highland Food Bank. They have asked that we donate just Packets of Crackers, and tinned corned beef, tinned custard, tinned rice (pudding) and tinned potatoes. If anyone is seeking membership in the congregation, or wishes to sit at the Lord’s Table for the first time, you are welcome to contact Gordon, so that we can arrange to meet with the Kirk Session.
Congregational Lunch
The service next Lord’s day will be followed by a congregational lunch at the manse. All are invited. Please feel free to bring a dessert.
Sunday School
The Sunday school is closed for the next three weeks due to school holidays. However, there will still be crèche facilities for younger children, and we would be delighted if folks carried on attending as normal.
Membership Course
Over the last year or so, the Kirk Session has been looking at running a membership class for people considering membership in the congregation. This will be over three sessions, looking at:
What is a Church “member” anyway?
What privileges do members have?
What responsibilities do members have?
We do not yet have dates for this class, but would like to hear from anyone who thinks they would benefit from this. It would particularly benefit people thinking about professing faith, but is perhaps confused by some issues, like the connection between “profession” and “membership”.
We also want to point out that this isn’t obligatory for new members, it is entirely offered to help people who are thinking seriously about this. We appreciate that in Highland culture, “public profession” is already fraught with difficulties – the feeling that you need to be good enough, or that people will pass judgement on you, or that you might later not live up to this! We offer this class to help people overcome these difficulties.
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Today
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Exodus 20:13 – Don’t get angry? What, never?
6:00pm @ Kilmore – Joint Service with Church of Scotland (Communion)
Wednesday
7:00pm @ Sleat – Weekly Bible Study
Next Sunday
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Exodus 20:14 – Adultery
5:00pm @ Broadford – Ask. – Meeting Jesus
News and Coming Events (D.V.)
Communion
The first Sunday in October is scheduled for the Communion in Strath, but unfortunately the preacher we were hoping to come has had to pull out due to ill health. Please pray from Calum Macmillan (assistant minister at Rosskeen) who needs to learn, as all young ministers do, to pace himself. Gordon hopes to have a preacher arranged to come to the congregation for the first weekend in December, which would be our next communion date anyway.
Teens Group
Teens Group meets at the manse tonight after the Joint Service – so about 7:30pm. (Please not this is a bit later the usual time of 7:00pm.)
Sunday School
The Sunday school is closed for the next three weeks due to school holidays. However, there will still be crèche facilities for younger children, and we would be delighted if folks carried on attending as normal.
Membership Course
Over the last year or so, the Kirk Session has been looking at running a membership class for people considering membership in the congregation. This will be over three sessions, looking at:
We do not yet have dates for this class, but would like to hear from anyone who thinks they would benefit from this. It would particularly benefit people thinking about professing faith, but is perhaps confused by some issues, like the connection between “profession” and “membership”.
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4th September 2011
Today
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Exodus 20:7 – The Lord’s Name Misused and Abused
5:00pm @ Broadford – Evangelistic Outreach
Wednesday
7:00pm @ Kyleakin – Weekly Bible Study
Next Sunday
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Exodus 20:8-11 – The Sabbath: A Holiday?
5:00pm @ Kyleakin / 6:30pm @ Sleat – Evening Worship – Galatians 3:1-6 – A Bewitching Idea
News and Coming Events (D.V.)
Sale of Work
The Sale of Work raised just short of £700. Thank you to everyone who was involved.
Child Protection Training
Susan Maclean will be running a Child Protection training event in Kyle tomorrow evening, at the Free Church hall, at 7:00pm. (Sorry for the short notice in this, but the mail she sent arrived while we were on holiday, and I totally forgot about it afterwards!)
Sleat Evening Service
At a meeting before the summer holidays the Kirk Session discussed restarting an evening service in Sleat. We have decided to do so for a trial period, once a month for four months (through to Christmas). We already expect people from the Strath end of the congregation to travel to Sleat every Sunday morning. It is not right that we should expect any lesser commitment from people in the Sleat end to travel to Strath every Sunday too – this threatens the unity of the congregation. The only justification for splitting the fellowship is if there is a spiritual benefit that outweighs the threat – there must be an evangelistic goal in doing this. If the numbers attending the evening service in Sleat do not grow over this time (i.e. if no new people attend), it will be very hard to justify going on with splitting the fellowship of the congregation like this.
We are holding this service the evening of the Kyleakin service because we feel the Broadford Outreach is one of the best opportunities we have of growing, and do not wish to put anything in the way of Sleat people supporting that. We would again urge the congregation in Sleat to show firm commitment to the Broadford Outreach, and to reaching the whole community in Sleat & Strath.
South Skye & Lochalsh Prayer Meeting
There will be a special prayer meeting for the Gospel in our community on Tuesday 13th September in Dornie or Inverinate (Venue TBC) at 7:30pm.
Discipleship in our Churches
There will be a special event held on Saturday 17th September, at 10:00am, in the Lighthouse Centre at Kyle, focused on discipleship, and encouraging ways we can work as churches to make better disciples. A flyer is available.
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Today
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Exodus 20:3 – Fidelity to God
5:00pm @ Kyleakin – Ask. – If Jesus was Jewish, why are we Christian?
Wednesday
7:00pm @ Kyleakin – Weekly Bible Study
Next Sunday
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Exodus 20:4-5 – Kill your Idols
6:00pm @ Sleat – Joint Service with the Church of Scotland
News and Coming Events (D.V.)
Standing to Sing
At their meeting last Wednesday, the Kirk Session agreed that from now on we will stand for all singings, as this is a better posture to help us make a joyful noise to the Lord. We will remain standing for the first prayer (which is normally quite short) and for the Benediction.
Teens Group
Teens Group meets tonight at the manse, 7:00pm – 8:30pm. Teens is open to all kids in P7 and high school.
Finance Committee
There will be a meeting of the Finance Committee tomorrow at 7:00pm, at the Sleat church.
Office Bearers Joint Prayer Meeting
There will be a prayer meeting for the state of the Church in our Presbytery area and nationally on Tuesday 23rd August, at 2:00pm, at Kyle Church of Scotland Hall. All office bearers in the Free Church and Church of Scotland are urged to attend if possible.
Communion
Due to an oversight on Gordon’s part, we were due to have had a communion this weekend – but obviously are not. The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be shared next Lord’s Day morning. Anyone wishing to profess their faith and join the congregation are invited to contact Gordon to arrange to meet with the Kirk Session prior to the service.
Joint Service with the Church of Scotland
Next Lord’s Day evening it is our turn to host the monthly joint service. This will be followed by a time for fellowship over tea and coffee after the service.
Sale of Work
The annual sale of work for the Fabric Fund will be held in Broadford village hall on 3rd September. Carol Macpherson will be organising of the baking stall, please contact her on 822419 if you have any questions, or need items picked up. The hall will be open from 11:00am for people to drop off donations. There will be a soup and sandwich lunch on offer – volunteers to staff the kitchen should discuss this among themselves after the service today.
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Click HERE to find that Piper post I referred to tonight.
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Today
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship – Genesis 1:26-28 – Being Human
5:00pm @ Broadford – Ask. – Does God really love everyone?
Wednesday
7:00pm @ Kyleakin – Weekly Bible Study
Next Sunday
11:00am @ Sleat – Sunday School Prize-Giving (TDC, at Sabhal Mor Ostaig)
6:00pm @ Kyleakin – Joint Service with Church of Scotland
News and Coming Events (D.V.)
American Team
The American team will be with us on Wednesday and Thursday. Along with helping out with the Mustard Seed Cafe again on Wednesday, they will be visiting door-to-door in some parts of Sleat. Please pray for their efforts this week – that God will open for them a door for the Gospel.
Mustard Seed Cafe Team Meeting
There will be a meeting of everyone involved in staffing the Mustard Seed Cafe on Thursday (23rd June) in Sleat Free Church. Please come along, even in you just occasionally help out or make soup. There are a number of decisions to be made about the future of the Cafe, and as much input as possible from the team would be appreciated.
Please also remember the Food Hygiene Course on Tuesday 28th June at 7:00pm.
Alec Stewart – Licensing
Alec is to be “licensed to preach” at a special service in Kyle FC on Friday (24th June) at 7:30pm. He has just finished 4 years at the FC College. Jeremy Ross will preach and preside.
Sunday School & Congregational BBQ, Teens Camping
Please see the extra handout with details of the plans for Saturday’s Sunday School Trip.
Next Lord’s Day
The services next Lord’s Day will both be held jointly with the Church of Scotland. The morning service will be the Sunday School Prize-giving, to be held in TDC, in the new building at Sabhal Mor Ostaig. The evening service will be the monthly joint service, hosted by the CofS congregation. That meeting will be followed by a special fellowship in support of HTC, and in memory of John Macrae.
Holiday Club
This year, the Holiday Club is being held earlier, on the 11th – 16th July. For craft activities, we are in particular need of jam jars (we need about 30!) and kitchen roll tubes. Any donations of these items are greatly appreciated, and can be dropped off at the manse.
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Wednesday
7:00pm @ Sleat – Weekly Bible Study
Next Sunday
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship -
5:00pm @ Broadford – Ask.
News and Coming Events (D.V.)
Joint Prayer Meeting for the Area
There will be a joint prayer meeting for the area in Kyleakin Church of Scotland on Wednesday evening at 7:30pm. This is being held in in place of our own Bible Study, and will probably go on past 10:00pm (feel free to leave earlier!), so please be encouraged to join with those praying there.
American Team
This week, the A-Team will be with us on Tuesday and Wednesday for door-to-door work in the Broadford area. They will be focusing on inviting people to our Sunday evening meetings in Broadford Village Hall. They will also be helping out with the Mustard Seed Cafe again on Wednesday, and working with our teens’ group. Please pray for their efforts this week – that God will open for them a door for the Gospel.
John Blanchard – Is God past his sell-by date?
John Blanchard, author of Does God Believe in Atheists? will be speaking at an event in Kyleakin Village Hall on Friday 17th June, an 7:30pm. This event is geared towards responding to the challenges of unbelief in our society, and would be suitable to bring non-Christian family or friends along to. John Blanchard is a challenging speaker, and will deal with questions from the public.
Mustard Seed Cafe Team Meeting
There will be a meeting of everyone involved in staffing the Mustard Seed Cafe a week on Thursday (23rd June) in Sleat Free Church. Please come along, even in you just occasionally help out or make soup. There are a number of decisions to be made about the future of the Cafe, and as much input as possible from the team would be appreciated. Please pass news of this meeting to all others involved from the Church of Scotland as well.
Sunday School & Congregational BBQ
Because of the John Blanchard meeting, and trying to juggle the commitments of the American Team, we want to push the date of the barbeque back a week to the 25th June, and plan to hold the Sunday School prize giving at a special service the following day (26th June).
Sale of Work – Date for the Diary
The annual sale of work for the Fabric Fund will be held in Broadford village hall on 3rd September.
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6th June 2011
Today(Retiring collection: International Missions)
11:00am @ Sleat – Family Service
5:00pm @ Broadford – ASK Meeting – What does it mean to repent?
Wednesday
7:30pm @ Broadford – Commissioning Service for MTW Team
Next Sunday
11:00am @ Sleat – Morning Worship -
5:00pm @ Sleat – Evening Worship (Michael Novak) (Kyleakin church is still without power!)
News and Coming Events (D.V.)
Teen Challenge Bus Ministry
The long anticipated bus work under Stevie Boyle’s leadership is about to begin. We hope to have a bus deployed within weeks, and are now at the stage of putting together a staffing rota for taking the bus out at the weekends. There will be a meeting this evening, at about 7:45pm, in Kyleakin CofS just after their weekly fellowship, to discuss plans in more detail. Please try to make it to this meeting if the Lord has at all laid this work on your heart, even if you will only be committed to praying for the work.
Joint Prayer Meeting
The mid-week meeting on Wednesday will be a joint meeting with the Kyle congregation. This is to introduce the American team, and sort of commission them for working in our area. This meeting will be in the Broadford Village Hall, at 7:30pm. We hope to follow this meeting with a “cup of tea”, and a chance to meet the team informally.
John Blanchard – Is God past his sell-by date?
John Blanchard, author of Does God Believe in Atheists? will be speaking at an event in Kyleakin Village Hall on Friday 17th June, and 7:30pm. This event is geared towards responding to the challenges of unbelief in our society, and would be very suitable to bring non-Christian family or friends along to. John Blanchard is a challenging speaker, and will deal with questions from the public.
Sunday School & Congregational BBQ
Because of the John Blanchard meeting, and trying to juggle the commitments of the American Team, we want to push the date of the barbeque back a week to the 25th June, and plan to hold the Sunday School prize giving at a special service the following day (26th June). Could those helping with different aspects of this please meet after the mid-week meeting on Wednesday.
Sale of Work – Date for the Diary
After hearing from a couple of people, it was decided the annual sale of work for the Church Fabric Fund will be held in Broadford village hall on 3rd September.
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