Christine Sheasby’s latest book of prayers has just been published by Methodist Publishing House. It contains prayers that are intended to be used to open meetings, but can also be used in worship or personal devotions. They include prayers for special days throughout the year and for things that happen in the world and the life of the church family. The book costs £9.99. If you are interested in seeing a copy, please ask Christine.

You can buy the book, while also donating to Building Together, from Amazon.

The evening with Lizzie Jones was a fantastic success! It was very well supported with folk from some of the Churches Together and friends various. We had a super supper and Lizzie was amazing as usual. We raised the magnificent sum of £631 and our thanks go to Joyce Rae for arranging it all, to the providers of the supper and the kitchen team, both before and after, to Cath and Stuart and Sam on the door and running the raffle and to those who provided the prizes and to the men who put up and took down the stage and to Peter for his assistance to Neal with the audiovisuals.

Forthcoming Events

Thornton Cleveleys Band Concert

This will be held in Church on Saturday, 27th November at 7.30pm. Tickets, priced £5 to include light refreshments, are on sale after morning service and from Barbara Hothersall 01772 716203.

Thanks Luke for setting this up,
I’m no good at keeping a diary so I have never contemplated a Blog!
But it could be useful for passing information.

Others please Blog on,

God Bless, Peter

Welcome to the Fulwood Methodist Church news area. It is hoped that various members of the church will be able to post here, thus making the content more relevant and up to date.

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At the outset of this venture I said from the pulpit that I couldn’t do this job on my own, but with God’s help, and with your prayers, I could. Well don’t stop now! The hard work is just beginning. There are a total of 500 calendars to sell.

Just a couple of days prior to the launch, I had a phone call from our ace saleswoman, you know the one I mean, don’t you? She sits near the front, pulpit side with her son and daughter-in-law. This lady could sell fridges to Eskimos if asked to and if it was for church funds she would sell double anyone else’s target. A lot of you already know who I am talking about, but for those of you new to the church her name is Cath Rae. That day she rang to say that she had sold £100 worth of calendars and that was selling an unseen calendar. Wasn’t that showing love and support? I will not tell you the age of Cath, but I bet she is older than you are.

These last few weeks I’ve been unwell and unable to come and talk to people, but I trust that you are all still ‘thinking calendar’. None of my friends get out of the house without buying a calendar! I’m a very reluctant salesperson usually. This calendar bug has bitten me well and truly and when I get nervous and reluctant to ask people to buy, I think of Cath and try to emulate how she would go about things. Barbara Hothersall and I both had to harden ourselves when asking people from small businesses for sponsorship. We were nervous and afraid, but the feelings of success were quite remarkable when we got a new sponsor and because we shared the job, we supported each other when there was a refusal and we both had a fun day together. We raised £700 in sponsorship. You see it is possible to do the impossible sometimes.

Now comes your bit. I know the calendar will not mean as much to you as it does to me and my family, we have lived and breathed it for months, but it is your calendar too and you too could copy Cath Rae, Barbara and me and just try to sell a copy to a friend explaining that we are raising £1.7 million and that the calendar really has come from warm spiritual values and is sheer fun in places as well as being a good working organizer. Also, it’s a snip at £5. Every copy of the calendar you sell is £5 profit— it’s that simple. You can do it, believe me. I’m being joyfully persistent as ever, and you can make it happen!

You won’t know you can sell calendars until you try. If everyone reading this sold just one calendar just imagine the profit we would make.

Chris Hoban