13 July 2025

Sunday 13th July 2025 

Preacher 10:30:  Stephen Colling

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Steward: Kathryn Bridges.  Organist: Stephen Knowles

Welcome Steward: Marian Heap / Lucy Bridges

The flowers this week are donated by Julia Kitchin and arranged by Julia Kitchin

Dates for your diary w/c Sunday 13th July 2025

Sun.  July 13th.       Gift Day service and afternoon

Mon July 14th          09:00-11:00 Parents and Carers

                                13:15-15:15 Taiji Qigong

                                18:15-19:45 Rainbows,Brownies & Guides       

Tue July 15th           09:00-09:30 Sch.Worship. Margaret

                                10.00 – 14.30 Child Minders ??

Wed July 16th         10.00 – 13.00 Child Minders ??

                                14:00  Afternoon Tea & Film

Dates for your diary w/c Sunday 20th July 2025

Mon July 21st       09:00-11:00 Parents and Carers

    13:15-15:15 Taiji Qigong

                             18:15-19:45 Rainbows,Brownies & Guides             

Tue July 22nd     10:00 – 2:30 Child Minders ??

Wed. July 23rd     10:00 – 2:30.Child Minders ??

Pattern of notices over the Summer

13th July:  Notices printed and distributed as normal.
20th July, 27th July, 3rd Aug:   Combined notices.
10th Aug, 17th Aug, 24th Aug: Combined notices.
31st Aug:   Notices printed and distributed as normal.

News of friends

I would like to say thank you to everyone who has enquired about Rod’s health. His operation went well and he has returned home and is now convalescing and doing well.  Many Thanks!   Sharon & Rod.

Gift Day    Sunday 13th July 2-4pm at The Church.

Julia and Ian Kitchin will celebrate their Diamond wedding on 17th July and in recognising this, they will be providing the refreshments at the Rishton Gift Day (Sunday 13th July: 2pm-4pm) and looking forward to seeing you all there. 

They were married on the Saturday of the 'July Holidays' 1965 and, after honeymooning in Wales, moved into temporary rented property next to the Greyhound Track in Blackburn.

Their first encounter with Rishton Methodist Church was attending the evening service on 1st August when Annie Butler was the preacher.  Here, they were made welcome and soon integrated into the society.  The Methodist Church became their main interest and they served the church at local, circuit, and district levels for over 50 years 'til old age and infirmity overtook them.

They were blessed with three children whose upbringing in the church is reflected in that one is now Anglican, one Methodist and one Baptist!

Table Top Sale

The Table Top sale has raised £395.11 it was nice to see new people attending, we would like to say thank you to everyone who helped to make this a successful event.The Finance & Property Team

Preacher for Sunday 20th July

Our preacher on Sunday 20th July at 10:30 will be Rev Dr Mark Jason.  Steward: Derek Rostron

AND FINALLY ..( From " The Wimbledon Net " ).

Cedric Lett, a Strawberry server at this year’s Championships was sacked from his job with the Lawn Tennis Association. He took them to a tribunal and they settled out of court!

Afternoon Tea & Film.

Rishton Methodist Church.

   Wednesday 16th July 2025 at 2pm.

“The Bucket List”.

The Bucket List is a 2007 American buddy comedy-drama film directed and produced by Rob Reiner, written by Justin Zackham, and starring Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman.

Zackham coined the expression "bucket list" after he wrote his own "List of Things to do Before I Kick the Bucket" and shortened it to "Justin's Bucket List". The first item on his list was to "get a film made at a major studio". This list gave him the idea for the screenplay, and The Bucket List became his first studio film. 

Billionaire Edward Cole and car mechanic Carter Chambers are complete strangers, until fate lands them in the same hospital room. The men find they have two things in common: a need to come to terms with who they are and what they have done with their lives, and a desire to complete a list of things they want to see and do before they die. Against their doctor's advice, the men leave the hospital and set out on the adventure of a lifetime. 

 The film starts at 2pm and afternoon tea served about 3.45pm.Come for both or just for tea!

No charge just donations towards the cost of afternoon tea.

 Poem/ Lectionary Reflection: Amos

Was he a professional prophet?

No, he wasn’t.

Was he the son of a prophet? 

No. he wasn’t.

Did he earn money from preaching?

No, he didn’t.

Amos had been a shepherd.

Amos had worked as a farmer. 

Amos had been called from the fields and sent out into other fields by the God who had granted him visionary powers.

Amos had no personal axe to grind.

Amos did not condemn people on his own account. Amos simply told people what God showed him. Yet his prophecies live on and the imagery of his visions remains and his words are written for all to see,

even now.

It just goes to show

what God can do

with the most unexceptional people

in the most extraordinary circumstances.

Always providing

that those people are prepared

to listen to God’s call

and act on it.

©Marjorie Dobson.  Copyright arranged through “The Worship Cloud”