Faithful to the Promise

Wednesday 7.30pm Prayer Meeting We meet for prayer in the church hall. will be followed at 9 pm by a meeting of the Deacons’ Court This Services next Sunday 19th April 2015 11 O’clock English service On creche Alison and Sandra 3.30 - 4.30 pm Sunday School at the Church hall 6 PM English service Please note that due to illness the dates of the Safeguarding workshop have had to be changed. These have now been rescheduled for Friday 22nd May for Office bearers and Saturday 23rd May for all volunteers and coordinators For Your Diaries April 8 pm Holiday Club planning meeting at the Church hall. If you can help out with this years club which is called ‘ Adventure Cruise ‘, then please come along to this meeting. New team members very welcome. 21st April 8pm WEC International Joint meeting with the Free Church.( In Free Church) 22nd April Kirk Session Meets after the midweek prayer meeting. 28th April 8pm Eric & Joy Browning Society for distribution of Hebrew Scriptures joint meeting with free Church ( in our church hall). 29th April Deacons’ Court meets after the midweek prayer meeting. 5th May Slavic Gospel Association - John Birnie - Joint meeting with Free Church ( in our church hall). 22nd May Safeguarding Training for Office Bearers 23rd May Safeguarding Training for Volunteers and Coordinators 30th May Soup & Pudding Fundraising lunch for this years Holiday Club at Comunn Eachdraidh . 20th Cross Ness Church of Scotland is a registered Scottish Charity No. SC000991 Monday The Stated Annual Meeting ( AGM) of the Congregation will be held on Monday night 13th April at 7.30 pm. Copies of the accounts for 2014 are available at the door. On Monday night the Congregational Trustees will present the accounts for 2014. Everyone is encouraged to come along. Tuesday No Early Morning prayer meeting this week. Women’s Bible Study The Women’s Bible study rests until after the Easter holidays . Minister’s Contact details Rev Ian Murdo Macdonald Tel. 810375 e-mail crosschurch@mac.com The Week Ahead 12th April 2015 Welcome to Church this Sunday. A very warm welcome to our services of worship today. We hope that you will feel welcome here as we seek to worship God together today. 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. 24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him (Lamentations 3:22-24 ESV) Induction loops are fitted in both the Church and hall for the hard of hearing. Please set your hearing aid to position ‘T’ . Recordings of all our services are available on our website www.crossnesschurch.com as free Podcasts. CD recordings are also made of the services. On Creche Baba and Naomi Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/eaglaisnis find us via Google by entering @eaglaisnis www.crossnesschurch.com for more information and audio content. or 11 o’clock English Mr Iain Macmillan It is good to have Iain Macmillan back with us once again in Ness. Iain is a reader of the Church, and an elder in St Columba’s Stornoway. We welcome back Iain to Ness once again , and pray that God would bless his ministry here once again. Psalm 40 :1-5 ‘ I waited for the Lord my God ' Prayer Young Peoples talk 18 “This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days. 19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.” 20 Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand — 22 but he impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation. 23 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him. Hymn 477 ‘ Be Thou my Vision ‘ Sermon ‘ Faithful to the Promise ‘ Bible Reading Genesis 40 (NIV) Joseph in Prison 1 Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt. 2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, 3 and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined. 4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time, 5 each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. 6 When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected. 7 So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?” 8 “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.” 9 So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me, 10 and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes. 11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and put the cup in his hand.” 12 “This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days. 13 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer. 14 But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison. 15 I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.” 16 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream:On my head were three baskets of bread. 17 In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.” Joseph an innocent man languishes in prison. Yet his life shows how we must respond today when things don't turn out the way we expect or want. As he "waits" in prison Joseph remains faithful to the promise, is ready to act when the opportunity arises and is bold in the action he takes. hymn 564 ‘ Guide me O Thou great Jehovah ‘ 6 PM English Mr David Nicolson Tonight we welcome to Ness for the first time David Nicolson . David is a member in Martins Memorial in Stornoway and having successfully completed his process of discernment at Kinloch hopes to attend the Church of Scotland’s Selection conference for the ministry in June. Bible Reading Genesis 44 Sermon“ The Silver Cup & the law of God “ 1. GOD IS GOOD AND HIS LAW IS PERFECT 2. GOD USES THE PERFECT LAW TO DRAW SINNERS TO HIMSELF 3. CHRIST’S OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW SETS US FREE Tonight’s praise Psalm 19 v1-8 ‘ The heav’ns God’s glory do declare‘ Psalm 27 v1-5 ‘ The Lord’s my light and saving health ‘ Psalm 119 v9-15 ‘ By what means shall a young man learn ‘ Psalm 139 v1-10 ‘ O lord thou hast me searched and known’