Our Calling: Service

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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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