Turn to Me and be Saved

and support each other and talk about matters of the faith with the Bible, artwork, poetry and personal testimony EVERYONE is welcome to come along , we meet on Wednesday afternoon starting this Wednesday at the Church hall at 2pm. • 7.30pm Prayer Meeting We meet for prayer in the church hall. followed at 9 pm by a meeting of the Deacon’s Court . This will be Services next Sunday 17th May 2015 10.50am Kirk Session & Deacon’s Court meet at Church hall. 11 O’clock English service ( in the Church) Ordination of new Office Bearers during the service. On creche Christine M and Anne 3.30 pm Sunday school at Church hall 6 PM English service 8.30pm Testimony Evening Clan Macquarrie Borve . Andy Cumming Knock Free Church. The Kirk Session decided at the meeting of 6th May that the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper would be celebrated on Sunday morning 24th May. It was also decided that an invitation would be given to any wishing to profess faith for the first time to do so at this service. More details next week. 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 • • • • • 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 ( In the Church) 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 Wednesday Heart and Soul and Voice A new group meeting once a month, to share Minister’s Contact details Rev Ian Murdo Macdonald Tel. 810375 e-mail crosschurch@mac.com The Week Ahead Tuesday No Early Morning prayer meeting this week. 10.15 am Women’s Bible Study this week at Christine Macleod’s house Glenview 3 Cross and all women very welcome . 10th May 2015 Welcome to Church this Sunday. A very warm welcome to our services of worship today. We hope you will know God’s blessing as you worship here today. 1 The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. 3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice (Proverbs 21:1-3 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 Carol and Marina 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 3.30 pm Sunday School in the Church hall Psalm 63: 1-8 ' Lord, Thee my God, I’ll early seek ' Prayer Young Peoples talk Bible Reading 2 Chron 34: 5- 14 ( NIV) Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty- one years. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left. In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols. Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles and the idols. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and so he purged Judah and Jerusalem. In the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them, he tore down the altars and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem. In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, to purify the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the ruler of the city, with Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the temple of the Lord his God. Chorus Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God ( On Screen) Key Verse ‘ Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people. (Proverbs 14:34 NIV) The contrasting lives of two Kings of Judah show how only God can make a difference in the life of an individual, the Church, the nation or the world. Hymn 110 ‘And can it be ’ 6 PM English Bible Reading Isaiah 45 Text “ Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. (Isaiah 45:22 ESV) Tonight’s praise Psalm 27:1- 5 ‘ The Lord’s my light & saving health ‘ Psalm 85 v 1-8 ‘ O Lord thou hast been favourable ‘ Para 26: 5-10 Behold he comes your leader comes !” Hymn 457 ‘ O for a Closer Walk with God ‘ Retiring Offering in aid of Nepal Earthquake Appeal & Anandaban Mission Hospital Nepal. As was intimated last week, there is a retiring offering at both services today to help the Leprosy Mission Scotland’s Nepal Earthquake appeal. Among the many places badly damaged was the Leprosy Mission hospital at Anadaban, where Murdo and Rachel Macdonald served for many years. . Contributions to this collection can be made at the door , and any donations in envelopes can be marked Nepal Earthquake appeal.