October 2014
Those who’ve been rescued from sin are best
able to help in the rescue of others.
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www.cadoxton.org.uk
Church Council
The date of our next Church Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday
4 November at 7.30pm in the Lower Hall meeting Room.
Refreshments will be available in the Chapel from 7.15pm
Rolling Calendar of Events
Wed
1 Monthly Communion
Sun
5 Raise the Praise
Wed
8 Dicipleship Explored @ Church Fellowship
Wed
15 Christian Aid Lunch
Sat
18 Men’s Breakfast
Sun
19 Raise the Praise
Tues
21 Leaders & Stewards Prayer Meeting
Wed
22 Dicipleship Explored @ Church Fellowship
Mon
27 Giggles
Sun
26 Chapel Anniversary Lunch
10.30am
5.30pm
7.30pm
12.15pm
8.30am
5.30pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
12.00noon
November
Tues
4 Church Council
7.30pm
Wed
5 Monthly Communion
10.30am
Wed
12 Dicipleship Explored @ Church Fellowship 7.30pm
Sat
15 Men’s Breakfast
8.30am
Sat
15 Coffee Morning for Shoe Boxes
10.30am
Sun
16 Shoe Box Sunday
9.45am
Tues
21 Leaders & Stewards Prayer Meeting
7.30pm
Wed
19 Christian Aid Lunch
12.15pm
Sun
23 Annual BB & GB Enrolment Service
9.45am
Mon
24 Giggles
7.30pm
Wed
26 Dicipleship Explored @ Church Fellowship 7.30pm
Raise the Praise
Everyone is invited to this more informal time of
praise, prayer and learning together on;
Sundays 5 and 19 October
We will be continuing with our teaching from
Jonathan Lamb on the Book of Ruth
.
Mission in Britain Fund
Many thanks once again to all friends at Cadoxton for their generous
giving to Mission in Britain (Home Missions).
Boxes
Donations
Poor Fund offering
Total
£170.32
£ 17.00
£126.95
£314.27
This was a great help towards a Circuit total of £996.72
Thanks again, Jean.
Cleaning Rota
No, it’s much more than that as we said last month to
our small team who clean the Chapel each week. They
do this so that we can enjoy worship in surrounding that
are honouring.
It can be a real joy to serve in this way and sincere
thanks are extended to those who do this regularly. We invite you to
join their ranks to spread the load. In the meantime:
5 Oct
19 Oct
2 Nov
Steve & Tracey
Jean Chucas
Meriel Jones
12 Oct
26 Oct
Team Alexander
Julie whitchurch
Greetings Cards
We have a stock of greetings and pastoral cards on sale on the Library,
so please take some time to look at these. They are competitively
priced and sending a Christian greetings card is such a positive and
encouraging witness.
Please serve yourselves and place your money in the cash box. You
are allowed to take change without having a guilty conscience.
Flower Rota
5 Oct
Ray Rogers
12 Oct
Tracey Evans
19 Oct
26 Oct
Chris Lacey
2 Nov
9 Nov
16 Nov
23 Nov
30 Nov
Nona Haines
Sue Evans
June Bosley
Jean Chucas
Please let Tracey or Sue know if you can fill any of the gaps above
In your prayers please remember:
Gert and Bill Summerfield, Bert Preece, Rita James, Lena Western,
Betty Rogers, Alison Ryan, Mary Maund, Jean Nipper and Alun Symes.
Boys’ Brigade and Girls’ Brigade as they seek to recruit new members
over the nexr few weeks and their Leaders as they commit to work with
the youngsters each week.
Discipleship Explored in the Wednesday Church Fellowship group
Our new ministers, Revds Philip and Carole Challis as they settle into
life at Cadoxton and try to remember all our names.
Balancing the Books
Thanks to those Departmental Treasurers who have already submitted
their accounts for audit. Please could I have your audited schedules
back by 5 October at the very latest so they can be consolidated in time
for the Autumn Church Council.
Once again we are very grateful to Louise for taking on the role as
internal auditor – a thankless task but one which protects everyone who
is involved with handling cash.
Chris
152nd Chapel Anniversary Celebrations – Sunday 26 October 2014
We want to make this a special day again this year, as we celebrate the
years of worship, witness and work based in and from this building.
During these times God has been faithful even when we have been
faithless and found the going tough. Please come and join in the
following on Sunday 26 October:
Everyone Worships Together
9.45am
Your choice Songs of Praise
11.30am
Bring and share Lunch
12.00noon
We’ll be getting some slips out to enable you to choose a favourite
hymn and we’ll try and include as many as we can.
There will be a list out to sign up for lunch and to indicate what
savouries you can bring for the table. In addition we’ll be asking
specific individuals to prepare desserts for us to enjoy before our final
cuppa
Please put the date in your diaries and plan to come along.
Girls in God Growing Loving Eating Sharing
We got the new ‘Giggles’ year off to a really good start with a
Scrabble and Chip Supper on Monday 22 September. It certainly
got those grey cells working and also gave us lots of laughs at the
same time. It was especially nice to have Revd Carole Challis join in
with evening.
We are hoping that Carole will be a speaker at our next Giggles
evening on Monday 27th October at 7.30pm in the Coffee Bar.
Shoe Box Appeal
Operation Christmas Child at Cadoxton for 2014 formally gets
underway at our Creation Celebration on Sunday 28 September. We
are hoping that we can send even more boxes away this year.
If you would like to take a box to fill, these are available from Sunday
and there’s more news about this in the service. If you missed out on
the service please speak to Frances who will be delighted to tell you
more.
In addition Frances and her team would be glad of your continued
support for the boxes that we fill centrally. We also need any standard
size shoe boxes so please pass these to her as soon as possible.
Colleagues of Frances in Bethel House at Hebron Hall have already
made a gift of £200 towards the cost of sending the boxes away. A real
encouragement and a great start to this year’s Shoe Box appeal.
Everyone Working Together
Our Autumn meeting was held on Wednesday 17 September and we
confirmed a calendar of activities for 2014 -2015. A copy of the minutes
is on the notice board and a calendar for the year is included with this
month’s Link.
www.cadoxto.org.uk
Thanks to Michael and Peter the Church website is being updated. It’s
always worth a visit to see the changes and to keep up with what’s
going on. It also includes downloads of men’s Breakfast and
Houseparty talks. Please encourage them with some feedback.
Men’s Breakfast
Our next Men’s Breakfast will be on Saturday 18 October in the Coffee
Bar from 8.30am to 10.00am. If you can, please sign the Breakfast list
on the library table in the church. Even if you haven’t been before, do
come along; the invitation is open to all men at Cadoxton. Why not
invite a non-church friend along too?
There is no charge, but there is an opportunity to give towards the cost
of the breakfast and other expenses.
Final breakfast for 2014:
Saturday 15 November 8.30am
Christmas Meal:
Wednesday 10 December 2014
Mid Week Communion
Wednesday 1 October at 10.30am
in the Chapel
Wednesday 5 November 10.30am
in the Lower Hall Meeting Room
Monthly Lunch
Christian Aid Lunch will be on Wednesday 15 October at 12.15pm in
the Coffee Bar. There’s home made soup, crusty bread and with a
cuppa to follow. There’s no charge but please would you be as
generous as you can in making a gift for Christian Aid.
It’s great help if you can book in advance with Jean (Tel 736722) by
Sunday 12 October. It’s a great time, with great company which
supports a great cause – Christian Aid.
Thanks to Jean Chucas, Chris Alexander, Kathryn Taylor and Chris
Lacey who do so much to make lunch happen and to those who help
with the washing up
Adding Up for Christian Aid
Thanks to your support, the following was raised for Christian Aid in the
2013- 2014 Connexional Year:
Monthly Soup Lunches
Sunday Poor Fund Offering
Church Sunday Soup Lunch
Giggles cream Tea
Total - a fantastic
£437.44
£124.90
£112.80
£ 70.00
£745.14
Church Lunch- 7 September 2014
What a great way to start the new Methodist Year, as we enjoyed a
Jacket Potato Lunch’ after the service on 7 September. Although it
wasn’t intended to be a fundraising event, through your generosity £208
was raised for the heating fund for the Upper Hall.
Thanks to everyone for their support and especially our catering team.
Like the Scottish Referendum, your votes have been counted and a
new Logo for Cadoxton Methodist Church, as shown above, has been
chosen. You’ll start to see this appearing on documents and
publications in due course. So you can see how it will look we’ve
produced this page of the Link in colour as a special treat.
The strap line “serving the community, serving Christ” is constant
reminder and challenge to us as to whose we are and what we are
about.
Annual Message from Energy Bill
Despite the lovely Autumn that we have enjoyed, the winter weather is
fast approaching. Please help us to manage our energy bills by
following the helpful hints below. These will help significantly in
controlling our costs and doing our bit for the environment.
1. Radiator thermostats have been set to achieve suitable
temperatures for most activities and should not be altered.
2. Please don’t let people stand and chat in an open doorway, the
heat will quickly disappear. Parents invariably do this, invite
them in instead.
3. If your group is not meeting on the premises, or your times
change, please let Jeff know so the clocks can be adjusted.
4. Please don’t use supplementary heating if you personally feel
cold. Wear a jumper or even a vest!!
5. If it gets warm turn the heating down – please don’t open the
windows - but please return it to its original setting afterwards.
6. Turn off unnecessary lights especially during the time in which
you are tidying up when your group has gone home.
7. Check ancillary rooms and toilets to ensure that the lights are
off as you leave.
8. Check that kitchen and toilet water heaters are off on leaving.
It’s also a great help if you could stack the chairs in piles of three
avoiding radiators and heaters at the end of your evening please.
Readers List
Reading the scriptures in a Sunday Morning service is a privilege and
special ministry which contributes enormously to our worship.
The list of volunteers willing to read in services needs to be updated. If
you are willing to read or are willing to continue as a reader, please sign
up on the list in the Coffee Area over the next two or three weeks.
Please use a black pen and write clearly so that the list can be
photocopied for the benefit of Worship Leaders
Discipleship Explored
Our new combined fellowship group which has taken over from the
previous Tuesday and Wednesday Home Groups has got off to a good
start. It meets each fortnight from 7.30pm to 9.00pm on the second and
Fourth Wednesdays of the month.
We start off with a cuppa and cake, followed by an ‘ice breaker’ activity
before reading the Bible and watching the Christianity Explored DVD
and sharing in some discussion afterwards.
Although we are following a series through Paul’s letter to the
Philippians each week stands alone so it’s never too late to start
attending. Dates in October are 8th and 22nd.
Hall to Hire
The Upper Hall is a great venue for activities and children’s parties. If
you know a suitable organization looking for a good home or of anyone
looking to use it for one off events please contact Jeff or Chris. There
are already some regular users but it would be great to see the hall
being busy with community and other activities during the week.
There are certain restrictions on use and we can always explain these
to potential users.
Food Bank Update
Many thanks for your ongoing support for the Foodbank. The following
items would especially be appreciated:
Toilet rolls
Fruit Juice
Squash
Rice
Coffee
Sugar
Smash
Savoury Rice
Shower Gel
Shampoo
Tins of mixed Vegetables
Packets of Pasta n Sauce
The November Link will be published on 2 November and any
items for this should be with Jeff, in writing, or by Sunday 26
October 2014 please.