Week Commencing 13 October 2019

AT A GLANCE

Sunday: Morning Worship @ 10.30am:                          

Monday: 

Tuesday: Prayer Meeting @7pm; Young Adults Group @8.30pm

Wednesday: 

Thursday: 

Friday:  Seniors @ACF,  10.30am

IN MORE DETAIL

Sunday

Sunday worship at 10.30am.  Communion: Pastor Vijay Pillai will be speaking, and the worship will be led by Elaine Henderson.

Children’s Church @ ACF. Usual activities are suspended for school holidays; children all meet in coffee hall. Sunday morning activities for children are held from 11am – 12 noon. These are: New born to age 3 – Creche in the Rainbow room; Age 3 to P2’s in the DJ Team room (by the crèche); P3 to P6 in the Cube room. For more information contact our Children’s Pastor, David Young.

Ignite: This P7-S2 group meet in the youth room at the front of the main hall. For more information contact Nikki Baggaley.

Home Groups:  Meet on various evenings throughout the city. Please speak with Pete Henderson or contact the church office for more information.

Monday

Ladies Bible Study: Every week from 9.30 -11.15 am, Suspended for school holidays. Please join us whenever you can for a friendly, informal Bible study, followed by a time of prayer. A creche will be available if needed. Ladies from other churches (or no church at all!) are very welcome to join us.

Our study this term is called Longing. We long to be happy and whole, for intimacy and purpose. God made us this way…Longing is awoken in us when we experience the brokenness of a fallen world… This study invites us to turn to God to satisfy our deepest longings.

Please contact Annabel Turner belle@belleturner.com or Isabel McHardy imchardy@btinternet.com if you have any questions. Or just turn up!

Tuesday

Prayer Meeting: 7.00pm. Led by Craig Smith

Young Adults Group (YAGS) .  Yags is for those S6/17 years old, students and young people. We meet 8.30pm-10.00pm for hot chocolate, a catch up and Bible study. For further information contact our Pastor Vijay Pillai.

Thursday

All Thursday activities suspended for school holidays.

Mainly Music: 10.00-11.30am.  A pre-school, faith based singing group for children and their carers, followed by coffee and free play session. If you are interested in coming along, please e-mail Pamela at maclure13@gmail.com. .

Spark: An after-school group for Nursery & P1-7’s that meets every Thursday during term-time from 4-6pm. We have crafts, games, Bible stories, songs, and more, and we even end each session with some dinner! Spark costs £3/family to attend. We’ll also have monthly ‘Spark Sundays’ where we’ll gather to present something in our morning worship service.

Diesel (S3-S6) and Fuel (P7-S3) 7pm-9pm. These weekly Youth Cafes will merge for the autumn term. For more information contact Kevin and Siobhan Johnston or the church office.

Friday

Seniors@ACF: 10.30am to 12 noon. Food, quizzes, teas, coffees and laughter. Speak to Rona Boyd for further information or contact the church office.

Future Events at ACF:

Sunday worship on 20 October at 10.30am. No Communion: Derek McHardy will be speaking. Matthew Smith will lead worship

Sunday Evening worship @ 6pm: This (monthly) service will next be held on 20 October. Led by Craig Smith, we will hear a couple of testimonies during this service.

Cakes, Bakes and Faith: An evening of fun, food and faith with TV bakers Martha Collison and Will Torrent. Under the banner of Tearfund, Cakes Bakes and Faith will be visiting ACF on Wednesday 23 October 2019 at 7.30pm, doors open at 7pm. Tickets cost £5, and are available from Cheri Young and Rona Boyd, or from Tearfund at www.tearfund.org/scotlandcakes.

Men’s Fellowship: 7pm -9pm. Will next meet on Wednesday  6 November for an evening entitled ‘The Beach Boys’, which is nothing more grand than a trip to the beach for ten pin bowling. If you wish to attend please contact Phil Smith, Mattie Smith or Len Milne, or the church office, as numbers have to be determined allowing lanes to be booked in advance.

Future events outwith ACF

Baptist Union of Scotland Assembly 2019. Celebrating the Assembly’s 150th Anniversary at Motherwell Concert Hall on 1st and 2nd November. Speakers are Elaine Duncan, Chief Executive of the Scottish Bible Society, and Martin Clarke, Lead Pastor at Hillview Community Church, Cults. Sung worship lead by Celtic Worship. Gala Dinner on the evening of the 1st: Live Streams Saturday with activities for all ages: Young Leaders – Conference for those aged 14-21.

Early Bird rate of £100 to 30 June. Thereafter £120. Information and registration: www.scottishbaptist.com/assembly/

Young Leaders Conference registration www.scottishbaptist.co./busyounger

Really Advanced Notice!!

The next Glorious Ladies Conference in Aberdeen will be held on 21 March 2020 in the Music Hall. More information will follow, but ladies, get it in your diaries now, and guys, you do the same, as you can volunteer to serve at it, or look after the children (if applicable). Talk about a rock and a hard place.

News

Please remember the Shoe Box Appeal, which runs to the end of October. This year we will be supporting Vision Romania, and the appeal is for clothing, toiletries, stationery, scarves, gloves etc. Donations should be for children of all ages only. Shoe Boxes, and labels to be attached thereto, are available in the coffee hall.

Please check out our website, www.aberdeencf.com,for news about our church plant, Portlethen Christian Fellowship and continue to pray for that new church.