13 July 2014 News Sheet 1 4
Growing in GRACE
Welcome to Highfield
Sunday 13 July 2014
A beloved child of God first and foremost
8am Holy Communion - Order One Mike Archer
We have had another epic summer of sport and the world cup final is tonight. The bible uses the analogy of sport a lot and of course, for good reason. 1 Corinthians 9:25 talks of athletes … ‘they do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.’ We are in the marathon of life. At the start of Jesus’ ministry life, the Father’s words over his Son were ‘This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy’. In one sense Jesus had not started what He came to do and yet the Father’s words over Him were those of love and affirmation. What we do for God and how we use the gifts, talents and resources He gives us are all important. But let us be like Jesus and work from a place of ‘being’. First and foremost we are a child of God and we are loved by Him. Out of that place let us run the race and win a crown that will Helen Godwin last forever.
9.15am Morning Service HEBREWS 12:1-13
Neil Hopkins Encouraged by a cloud of witnesses 11am Morning Prayer HEBREWS 12:1-13
Peter May Encouraged by a cloud of witnesses 6.30pm Informal Worship 2 CORINTHIANS 11:1-33
Mike Archer No other Jesus With Coffeeand…. before and after If you are new and would like to know more about what goes on at Highfield do fill in a welcome card and give it to a member of the welcome team (wearing badges).
Engaging University, Embracing Portswood, Loving Southampton
Finance Update Praise the Lord for Gift Day generosity! Money received, plus pledges and tax, amounts to £66,000 for the roof and another £6,000 has been given for general funds. Thank you so much for your gifts! This means we have more than enough money to repair the roof and so we are now pressing ahead with the work and you should soon see scaffolding being erected around the spire. This week an insurance claim has been agreed. So the costs to the PCC should be £163,000 after deducting the insurance claim. There is the possibility of a grant, which would enable us to meet any contingencies. Thank you if you reviewed your regular giving! Changes are vital in growing regular income for our general funds and it's not too late if you haven't got round to it yet, but please don't delay. If you would like to talk to anyone about this please contact David Roberts at [email protected] Together we thank God for this money, and pray that it will be spent wisely in God's service. Praise the Lord for providing the resources needed!
Pastoral Team
Letter From Bishop Tim
Rosemary Corfe has recently retired from co-ordinating our pastoral team, and we thank her for all she has done. If you have any pastoral needs or know someone who would value a visit from one of the team do contact Frances Tyson.
This can be found on the members page of our website or there are a few copies at the back of church.
Staff Changes We congratulate Will Fairbairn, our Student Pastor, who has been accepted for ordination training. He will be leaving us at the end of August to start his course and Neil Hopkins will be overseeing our student and University work from September.
New Wine 2014 If you are attending this year please let the church office know by Tuesday, as we would like to liaise with you.
Summer International Café For newly arrived international students, 7.30pm-9.30pm, hosted at Portswood Church on 28 July, 4 August, 18 August & 1 September. We need volunteers from Highfield Church to help run the cafe, welcoming, serving teas, chatting . For more info see Carol Damant or Rachel Wadhawan or [email protected]
Persecuted Christians Come and pray for the persecuted church and write letters to support persecuted Christians around the world. Tuesday 15 July, 7.45 - 9.30pm. For more details contact Ali Elliott 8023 0036 or [email protected]
Highfield Year 6 Leavers Service The service will be on Thursday 17 July at 2.30pm in church.
Remote Controlled Planes If you can fly a remote controlled plan/ helicopter (without it crashing) and are around at 9.15 on the 27 July please talk to Sammy!
Sprinkles Comes To Shine Parents, we are having a “Sprinkles” event on the last Sunday of term (20th) in the Shine groups and having ice creams with various toppings. Please let us know if there are any allergies we should be aware of. It will be a nut free event. Thank you.
Roof Works The work on the roof will soon be starting and the scaffolding will be erected later this month. Access to the south churchyard will be restricted during these works for safety reasons, but access will still be possible round the other side of the church. We will keep you updated.
Magaluf Mission Trip This year a team of 16 students will be going out again to Magaluf to take Jesus to the resort. Please be praying in the lead up and whilst they are away. Contact Will Fairbairn for more information.
SoulSpace Monday Club It has been a great year for the Youth Sport and drama/craft/ cooking club. To finish our fab year we are off to Sprinkles for our final night for this academic year. It is the usual time of 5.30-7pm., just bring some money to buy what you would like and let’s celebrate & eat ice cream!!! SoulSpace – Friday 18 July, 8-10pm For our finale we will be having a Party!!! Come along as usual and bring some food or drink to share. We will dance the night away (send in your requests via Facebook), have some games, the usual mayhem and send off our leavers with a bang! SoulSpace Beach Day – Saturday 19 July Although we will be finishing for the year on Friday night we wanted to end the year with a treat of heading to Bournemouth for the day. Make sure you pick up a form with all the details, get it signed and return it to us. SoulSpace – Soul Survivor – Week C 17-21 August Please get booking ASAP, it will be utterly amazing - check out their website. Helen & Reedy will be the leaders going. If you want to go you will need a booking reference to book in with, so please contact Jo Ladkin in the office. We will pass you all the details you will need. Please note, team are not able to transport youth there or back, so please sort amongst families.
Thursday Prayers The prayer meeting normally held on Thursday mornings at 107 Highfield Lane (David and Lavinia's) has been cancelled on 17 July, but will be held as normal from 24 July onwards. All are welcome.
50 Fantastic Flip Flops! Thank you to everyone who has donated and helped Explorers to reach their target of 50 pairs of flip flops for Streetpastors to mark the 50th birthday of our city and they will be presenting them to Streetpastors in the next few weeks in an Explorers session.
Tea Club Thank you Everyone! Assistant, Chauffeurs, Leaders. U Brighten Thursdays! Chris Sinclair.
Basics Bank Many thanks for all your generous donations of food and clothes. We are particularly in need of tins of meat, tuna, pulses, tomatoes and rice pudding, tea & coffee, and jars of sauces at the present time. We have enough Baked Beans to sink a ship and would happily exchange a tin for any of these other items! There is now a collection point in Sainsbury's, please draw this to the attention of any friends or family who shop there.
Prayer at Highfield 9am Prayers Monday - Friday 9am Weds Holy Communion 7am Thursday Prayers, 107 Highfield Lane 8.15pm Friday Prayer Hour Sunday 20 July 8am Holy Communion 9.15am Morning Service 11am Holy Communion 6.30pm Holy Communion For regular activities during the week, please check information in the Welcome area. Small Groups We have many small groups meeting each week. If you would like to know more or want to join one please contact Tony & Maxine at [email protected]
Contact us… Vicar: Mike Archer 023 8122 8151 [email protected] Associate Minister: Chris Halls 023 8178 4846 [email protected] Church Wardens: John Zealander & Tim Billington [email protected] Pastoral Needs: Frances Tyson 023 8077 7921 [email protected] Gift Aid Secretary: David Roberts 023 8055 7757 [email protected] Office Open: Monday-Friday 9.30am-noon Office Manager: Jo Ladkin 023 8055 8234 [email protected] Operations Manager: Kelly Worthington 023 8055 8234 [email protected] Facilities Manager: Jeannie Thistle 023 8057 7839 [email protected]
New to Highfield? Like to know more about what goes on at Highfield? Do fill in a welcome card and give it to a member of the welcome team. You can also check out our website www.highfield.org.uk and our members page log in is username: church, password: dailybread. You can also find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/highfield.church.
Welcome to Highfield
Sunday 13 July 2014
A beloved child of God first and foremost
8am Holy Communion - Order One Mike Archer
We have had another epic summer of sport and the world cup final is tonight. The bible uses the analogy of sport a lot and of course, for good reason. 1 Corinthians 9:25 talks of athletes … ‘they do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.’ We are in the marathon of life. At the start of Jesus’ ministry life, the Father’s words over his Son were ‘This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy’. In one sense Jesus had not started what He came to do and yet the Father’s words over Him were those of love and affirmation. What we do for God and how we use the gifts, talents and resources He gives us are all important. But let us be like Jesus and work from a place of ‘being’. First and foremost we are a child of God and we are loved by Him. Out of that place let us run the race and win a crown that will Helen Godwin last forever.
9.15am Morning Service HEBREWS 12:1-13
Neil Hopkins Encouraged by a cloud of witnesses 11am Morning Prayer HEBREWS 12:1-13
Peter May Encouraged by a cloud of witnesses 6.30pm Informal Worship 2 CORINTHIANS 11:1-33
Mike Archer No other Jesus With Coffeeand…. before and after If you are new and would like to know more about what goes on at Highfield do fill in a welcome card and give it to a member of the welcome team (wearing badges).
Engaging University, Embracing Portswood, Loving Southampton
Finance Update Praise the Lord for Gift Day generosity! Money received, plus pledges and tax, amounts to £66,000 for the roof and another £6,000 has been given for general funds. Thank you so much for your gifts! This means we have more than enough money to repair the roof and so we are now pressing ahead with the work and you should soon see scaffolding being erected around the spire. This week an insurance claim has been agreed. So the costs to the PCC should be £163,000 after deducting the insurance claim. There is the possibility of a grant, which would enable us to meet any contingencies. Thank you if you reviewed your regular giving! Changes are vital in growing regular income for our general funds and it's not too late if you haven't got round to it yet, but please don't delay. If you would like to talk to anyone about this please contact David Roberts at [email protected] Together we thank God for this money, and pray that it will be spent wisely in God's service. Praise the Lord for providing the resources needed!
Pastoral Team
Letter From Bishop Tim
Rosemary Corfe has recently retired from co-ordinating our pastoral team, and we thank her for all she has done. If you have any pastoral needs or know someone who would value a visit from one of the team do contact Frances Tyson.
This can be found on the members page of our website or there are a few copies at the back of church.
Staff Changes We congratulate Will Fairbairn, our Student Pastor, who has been accepted for ordination training. He will be leaving us at the end of August to start his course and Neil Hopkins will be overseeing our student and University work from September.
New Wine 2014 If you are attending this year please let the church office know by Tuesday, as we would like to liaise with you.
Summer International Café For newly arrived international students, 7.30pm-9.30pm, hosted at Portswood Church on 28 July, 4 August, 18 August & 1 September. We need volunteers from Highfield Church to help run the cafe, welcoming, serving teas, chatting . For more info see Carol Damant or Rachel Wadhawan or [email protected]
Persecuted Christians Come and pray for the persecuted church and write letters to support persecuted Christians around the world. Tuesday 15 July, 7.45 - 9.30pm. For more details contact Ali Elliott 8023 0036 or [email protected]
Highfield Year 6 Leavers Service The service will be on Thursday 17 July at 2.30pm in church.
Remote Controlled Planes If you can fly a remote controlled plan/ helicopter (without it crashing) and are around at 9.15 on the 27 July please talk to Sammy!
Sprinkles Comes To Shine Parents, we are having a “Sprinkles” event on the last Sunday of term (20th) in the Shine groups and having ice creams with various toppings. Please let us know if there are any allergies we should be aware of. It will be a nut free event. Thank you.
Roof Works The work on the roof will soon be starting and the scaffolding will be erected later this month. Access to the south churchyard will be restricted during these works for safety reasons, but access will still be possible round the other side of the church. We will keep you updated.
Magaluf Mission Trip This year a team of 16 students will be going out again to Magaluf to take Jesus to the resort. Please be praying in the lead up and whilst they are away. Contact Will Fairbairn for more information.
SoulSpace Monday Club It has been a great year for the Youth Sport and drama/craft/ cooking club. To finish our fab year we are off to Sprinkles for our final night for this academic year. It is the usual time of 5.30-7pm., just bring some money to buy what you would like and let’s celebrate & eat ice cream!!! SoulSpace – Friday 18 July, 8-10pm For our finale we will be having a Party!!! Come along as usual and bring some food or drink to share. We will dance the night away (send in your requests via Facebook), have some games, the usual mayhem and send off our leavers with a bang! SoulSpace Beach Day – Saturday 19 July Although we will be finishing for the year on Friday night we wanted to end the year with a treat of heading to Bournemouth for the day. Make sure you pick up a form with all the details, get it signed and return it to us. SoulSpace – Soul Survivor – Week C 17-21 August Please get booking ASAP, it will be utterly amazing - check out their website. Helen & Reedy will be the leaders going. If you want to go you will need a booking reference to book in with, so please contact Jo Ladkin in the office. We will pass you all the details you will need. Please note, team are not able to transport youth there or back, so please sort amongst families.
Thursday Prayers The prayer meeting normally held on Thursday mornings at 107 Highfield Lane (David and Lavinia's) has been cancelled on 17 July, but will be held as normal from 24 July onwards. All are welcome.
50 Fantastic Flip Flops! Thank you to everyone who has donated and helped Explorers to reach their target of 50 pairs of flip flops for Streetpastors to mark the 50th birthday of our city and they will be presenting them to Streetpastors in the next few weeks in an Explorers session.
Tea Club Thank you Everyone! Assistant, Chauffeurs, Leaders. U Brighten Thursdays! Chris Sinclair.
Basics Bank Many thanks for all your generous donations of food and clothes. We are particularly in need of tins of meat, tuna, pulses, tomatoes and rice pudding, tea & coffee, and jars of sauces at the present time. We have enough Baked Beans to sink a ship and would happily exchange a tin for any of these other items! There is now a collection point in Sainsbury's, please draw this to the attention of any friends or family who shop there.
Prayer at Highfield 9am Prayers Monday - Friday 9am Weds Holy Communion 7am Thursday Prayers, 107 Highfield Lane 8.15pm Friday Prayer Hour Sunday 20 July 8am Holy Communion 9.15am Morning Service 11am Holy Communion 6.30pm Holy Communion For regular activities during the week, please check information in the Welcome area. Small Groups We have many small groups meeting each week. If you would like to know more or want to join one please contact Tony & Maxine at [email protected]
Contact us… Vicar: Mike Archer 023 8122 8151 [email protected] Associate Minister: Chris Halls 023 8178 4846 [email protected] Church Wardens: John Zealander & Tim Billington [email protected] Pastoral Needs: Frances Tyson 023 8077 7921 [email protected] Gift Aid Secretary: David Roberts 023 8055 7757 [email protected] Office Open: Monday-Friday 9.30am-noon Office Manager: Jo Ladkin 023 8055 8234 [email protected] Operations Manager: Kelly Worthington 023 8055 8234 [email protected] Facilities Manager: Jeannie Thistle 023 8057 7839 [email protected]
New to Highfield? Like to know more about what goes on at Highfield? Do fill in a welcome card and give it to a member of the welcome team. You can also check out our website www.highfield.org.uk and our members page log in is username: church, password: dailybread. You can also find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/highfield.church.
