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Rebecca Catford: February 2019
We are living out Our Calling through Service by:
- Engage with our local communities through specific projects
Food Banks + Holiday Clubs + Make Lunch + Holiday @ Home + Gardening Project (Living Garden — education) + MAX + Charity Shop + Hospitality Services- Cafes + Soup kitchen + Oldies youth club + Luncheon Clubs + Children's activities + Youth groups + Toddler Time + Fairtrade + Silver screening of classic films + Men's Supper Club + Open the Book + Night Light and Redcar Beacons + Good Neighbours — shopping, hospital visiting + Chaplaincy
- Using the resources and skills we have
Hosting groups in buildings + Providing safe space + Rites of passage + Transport + Fellowship + Pastoral Visitors + Flower Ministry + Prayer Blankets + Christmas Post + Pastoral Visitors + Donations to charities + Befriending — coffee mornings, craft sessions, community lunches, memory cafe + Computer training
- Making connections
Schools work + Meeting in the community where people are + Community engagement + Links with Kenya + Funerals, weddings, baptisms + Alpha + Parenting Groups
Passages of Scripture
| Christian community sharing resources | Acts 2:42-47 |
| Appointment of deacons | 1 Timothy 3 |
| Ascension | Ephesians 4:7-16 |
| Be alive in Christ | Ephesians 2:1-5 |
| Feeding of various thousands | Mark 8:1-13 |
| Great Commission | Matthew 28 |
| Faith with action | James 5 |
| Jesus comforts his disciples | John 14:1-6 |
| Love one another | John 15:17 |
| Parable of the Good Samaritan | Luke 10:25-37 |
| Prodigal Son (serving family that is estranged) | Luke 15:11-32 |
| Sheep and goats | Matthew 25 |
| Washing the disciples' feet | John 13 |
Hymns and songs
| Hymn/song | Singing the Faith | Hymns and Psalms | Songs of Fellowship |
| All praise to our redeeming Lord | 608 | 753 | - |
| Amazing Grace | 440 | 215 | 19 |
| And can it be | 345 | 216 | 21 |
| Brother, sister let me serve you | 611 | - | 54 |
| Here I am, wholly available | - | - | 167 |
| I will offer up my life | 446 | - | 851 |
| I, the Lord of sea and sky | 663 | - | 830 |
| Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love | 249 | 145 | - |
| Lord, you call us to your service | 664 | - | - |
| O Jesus I have promised to serve thee | 563 | 704 | 418 |
| Servant King (from heaven you came) | 272 | - | 120 |
| When the music fades | 437 | - | 1113 |
| Will you come and follow me? | 673 | - | 1120 |
| Ye servants of God | 340 | 278 | 620 |
These responses were from Spring Synod on 12 May 2018, when we met together as a district. During the course of the day we looked at how we live out our faith. We were asked to give examples from our local churches and write them on four pieces of paper titled: + Evangelism + Worship + Learning and Caring + Service
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