Week commencing 18 August 2019

AT A GLANCE

Sunday: Morning Worship @ 10.30am.  Evening worship @6pm                             

Monday: 

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

Wednesday: 

Thursday: Spark After School Club @ 4pm; Fuel/Diesel youth clubs @ 7pm

Friday:  Seniors @ACF,  10.30am

IN MORE DETAIL

Sunday

Sunday worship at 10.30am. Communion; Aaron Harvey speaking; worship led by Matthew Smith.

Children’s Church @ ACF. CC will be in holiday mode until 25th August, meaning all the children will be together in the coffee hall. Usual Sunday morning activities for children are held from 11am – 12 noon and comprise: 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: Closed for the holidays, resuming 25 August. This group usually meets from 11am-12 noon: P7-S2’s meet in the youth room at the front of the main hall. For more information contact Nikki Baggaley.

Sunday Evening worship @ 6pm: Craig Smith will lead the service, Calum MacKenzie will be speaking and Brian Boyd will give his testimony.

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: Resumes 26 August

Tuesday

Prayer Meeting: 7.00pm. Led by  Val Ashton.

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

Thursday

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. Closed for the holidays, resuming 29 August.

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. Weekly Youth Cafes will merge for the autumn term when the groups return on 22 August. For more information contact Kevin and Siobhan Johnston.

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 25 August at 10.30am.  Pastor Vijay Pillai speaking; worship led by Elaine Henderson

Men’s Fellowship will next meet on Wednesday 4 September.

Future events outwith ACF

Cast Your Cares: Banchory Christian Fellowship Church is hosting a conference on Saturday 21 September 2019 when Helen Thorne and Dominic Smart will take an in-depth look at what the Bible says on the subject of anxiety and how we might apply its guidance in practice. For  further information and tickets, please go to  https://www.bcfchurch.org.uk/

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

News

Please remember that Gillian MacKenzie, our Youth Pastor, is on Sabbatical meantime, returning on 20 October. For Gillian this is a time for rest, reflection, renewal and refreshing, so it would be helpful for us to respect her time away from us at ACF, whilst remembering her in prayer.

Vijay, Nikki, Siobhan and Kevin will be picking up the leadership roles in Yags, Ignite, Fuel and Diesel (See above)  

CFINE Emergency Foodbank.

To ease the burden on families in need, some children are provided breakfast and lunch at schools. Local Impact considers it appropriate for us at ACF to help support meantime by  collecting for the CFINE Foodbank which will distribute foodstuffs where need is identified. Please consider supporting this initiative by adding a couple of items to your shopping, and placing them in the yellow receptacle at the church entrance.

Foods: Tinned meals (macaroni, mince, desserts etc) rice, pasta, soup, cooking sauce, beans, sugar, cereal, tinned fruit, snacks, biscuits.

Non Foods: Toiletries, toilet rolls, nappies, toys.

Thank you.

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.