What Are Your Eyes Focused On?

Services next Sunday 10th May 2015 11 O’clock English service On creche Carol and Marina 3.30 pm Sunday school at Church hall 6 PM English service David and Rebecca Morton Copies of the latest prayer letter from David and Rebecca Morton , Nkhoma Hospital Malawi are on the table at the door. 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. ALL those involved with Sunday School, Crèche, Rock Solid, YF or many other church activities will have to attend this training. For Your Diaries • • • • • • • • 13th May Deacons’ Court meeting after prayer meeting . 17th May 10.50am Kirk Session & Deacon’s Court meet at Church hall. 17th May 11 am Ordination of new Office Bearers. 18th May 8pm Holiday Club planning meeting at the Church hall. 22nd May Safeguarding Training for Office Bearers 23rd May Safeguarding Training for Volunteers and Coordinators 24th May 11 am Communion Service 30th May Soup & Pudding Fundraising lunch for this years Holiday Club at Comunn Eachdraidh . If anyone is free to help out with this in any way by either preparing soups or puddings, or are prepared to help out by serving or in the kitchen then please speak to Baba at the Comunn Eachdraidh at 810 377 Cross Ness Church of Scotland is a registered Scottish Charity No. SC000991 Monday 7.30 pm Monthly Meeting at the Church hall . Tuesday No Early Morning prayer meeting this week. No Women’s Bible Study this week. • 8pm John Birnie Slavic Gospel Association. Tonight we host a joint meeting with Free Church ( in our church hall). and welcome back once again Pastor John Birnie Director of Field Ministries with the Slavic Gospel Association. Everyone is warmly welcome to come along to this meeting. The Slavic Gospel Association is committed to working in partnership with local churches across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, helping them to address the particular challenges of building the Church of Jesus Christ in former Communist lands. More info at http://sga.org.uk. Wednesday 7.30pm Prayer Meeting We meet for prayer in the church hall. This will be followed at 9 pm by a meeting of the Kirk Session . Minister’s Contact details Rev Ian Murdo Macdonald Tel. 810375 e-mail crosschurch@mac.com The Week Ahead 3rd May 2015 Welcome to Church this Sunday. A very warm welcome to our services of worship today. Today we welcome back as our guest preacher the Rev Iain Alastair Macleod of Glasgow/ Lionel and look forward to his ministry to us once again. 7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him. (Psalms 28:7 NIV) 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 Hazel and Eileen 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 Rev I A Macleod Hymn 1 ‘ Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty’ No Sunday School Today Prayer Young Peoples talk Bible Reading Isaiah 6 : 1-8 (NIV) Isaiah’s Commission 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings:With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me. Hymn 12 ‘Immortal Invisible God Only Wise ‘ Sermon ‘ What are your eyes focused on ? Hymn 512 Take my Life and let it be’ 6 PM English Rev I A Macleod Bible Reading Ezekiel 47 : 1-12 Theme What are you thirsting for? “ Key Verse: I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground. Isaiah 44:3 Tonight’s praise Psalm 63 ‘ Lord thee my God I’ll early seek ‘ Psalm 84 v 1-6 ‘ How lovely is thy dwelling place ‘ Psalm 46 v 4-5, 8-11 ‘ A River is whose streams do glad ‘ Paraphrase 26 : 7-12 ’ Seek ye the Lord while yet his ear ‘ As we are all aware the country of Nepal has been devastated by a large earthquake last Saturday. Among the many places badly damaged was the Leprosy Mission hospital at Anadaban, where Murdo and Rachel Macdonald served for many years. Details can be found at http://www.tlmscotland.org.uk/nepalsos/ index.php The leprosy Mission Scotland have launched an appeal to raise funds for this relief effort. It is hoped then that we can contribute towards this by means of a retiring offering next Sunday 10th May in aid of TLM Scotland’s Nepal .Earthquake Appeal.