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GROUPS MEETING AT SINFIN MOOR CHURCH

Group Contact Telephone No. Asian Men - Over 60’s Group Mr Pabla 763977 Meet Monday to Friday in the Meeting Room from 1.00 ~ 5.00 pm

Cubs (Nelson Pack) Janet Smith 772321 Meet Tuesday in the Back Bay from 6.30 ~ 8.00 pm

Footlights Dancing Group Faye Elliott 07779 665181 Anne George 721108 Meet for various types of dancing classes, for all ages and abilities in the Middle and Back Bays, all day on Saturday and on Tuesday /Friday evenings.

Men’s Club Keith Jennison 764517 Meet on alternate Tuesday evenings at 8.00 pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Meeting Room

Sinfin Live at Home Group Eve Middleton 07519 863035 Meet on Wednesday afternoon in the Middle Bay from 1.45 ~ 4.00 pm

Brownies Helen Campbell 07763 852278 Meet on Wednesday in the Back Bay from 6.00 ~ 7.30 pm

Guides Amanda Jenkins 754770 Meet on Wednesday in the Middle Bay from 7.00 ~ 8.30 pm

Parent and Toddler Group Karen Bailey 762585 Meet on a Thursday in the Back and Middle Bays from 1.15 ~ 2.45 pm

Beavers Lesley Holmes 768581 Meet on a Thursday in the Back Bay from 5.30 ~ 6.45 pm

Sinfin Moor Church Music Group Melanie Sant 721927 Meet on Thursday in the Front Bay from 6.45 ~ 7.45 pm

Live at Home Lunch Club Eve Middleton 07519 863035 Meet on Tuesday in the Middle Bay from 10.30 am ~ 1.30 pm

Please advise the Editor if there are any changes to the above.

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10.00 am Our Morning Communion Service today is led by Rev’d Susan McIvor who is Minister at this Church.

Readings: Isaiah 35 v 4 - 7a and Mark 7 v 34 - 37.

Bibles are available in the Foyer to follow the readings.

The Church building is fitted with an inductive loop system. Hearing aid users should switch to the ‘T’ position.

We will be celebrating Holy Communion and we have an open table and invite all those who love the Lord Jesus Christ to take the bread and wine with us. If you wish to receive a blessing only, please come for-ward when asked to do so and tell the Minister that is what you require.

We extend a warm welcome to anyone who is worshipping with us for the first time or visiting. If you are new or visiting:

Please join us for complimentary refreshments and a chat in the Back Bay or Coffee Bar at the end of the Service.

If you are a tax payer and want to Gift Aid your offering, yellow envelopes are available in the Foyer.

Come and join us this evening for our Monthly Evening Service with Rev’d Susan McIvor.

See Page 5 for more details.

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SINFIN MOOR CHURCH MISSION STATEMENT “We are a Christian Fellowship (including Anglican, Methodist and United Reformed ministries) committed to serving God and sharing the Good News of Jesus with everyone.”

CHURCH MINISTER AND CONTACT DETAILS 2015/16

Minister* Rev’d Susan McIvor (01332 765933) Secretary* Julie Froggatt (01332 761388) Stewards* Julie Froggatt Lauren Froggatt Margaret Platt Michael Prince Melanie Sant Melvin Worton Church Council John Archer Colin Attenborough David Dockray** Eve Dudden Amanda Jenkins Keith Jennison Vincent Martin SMC Safeguarding Officer The Stewards Room Bookings Melanie Sant (721927) Webmaster Vincent Martin (728295) denotes members of the Church Council along with the Treasurer. ** denotes co-opted member.

The Editors are always happy to receive contributions for the Monthly and Weekly. However, they reserve the right to edit all contributions and this includes, in some cases, not using the material at all. All articles used are representing the writer’s own personal view and they do not necessarily represent the views of the Church.

PATTERN OF CHURCH WORSHIP AT SMC 10.00 am Morning Worship (Communion 1st and 5th Sunday)

Evening Services are held on the 1st Sunday of the month from May until September.

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CHURCH DIARY DATES SEPTEMBER Saturday 12 2.00 pm Produce Show (See page 13) Monday 14 7.30 pm Church Council Meeting Saturday 19 10.00 am Coffee Morning at St Stephens Church Sunday 20 10.00 pm Church Anniversary and Gift Day Launch Saturday 26 9.30 am Monthly Coffee Morning (See page 12)

Normal Weekly Meetings: Monday 1.00 - 5.00 pm Asian Men Meeting Tuesday 10.30 am - 1.30 pm Live at Home Lunch Club 1.00 - 5.00 pm Asian Men Meeting 6.30 - 8.00 pm Cubs 8.00 - 10.00 pm Men’s Club (fortnightly) 8.30 - 9.30 pm Footlights Dance School Adult Fun Tap Class Wednesday 1.00 – 5.00 pm Asian Men Meeting 1.45 - 4.00 pm Sinfin Live at Home Scheme 6.00 - 7.30 pm Brownies (Term Time) 7.00 - 8.30 pm Guides (Term time) Thursday 1.00 - 5.00 pm Asian Men Meeting 1.15 - 2.45 pm Parent and Toddler Group (Term time) 5.15 - 6.45 pm Beavers (Term time) 6.45 - 7.45 pm Church Music Group Practice Friday 1.00 - 5.00 pm Asian Men Meeting 7.30 - 8.30 pm Footlights Dance School - Ballet Saturday 9.00 - 2.00 pm Footlights Dance School (various classes)

For details of contacts, see the back page.

OUR NORMAL WEEKLY SERVICES FOR JULY 6th 10.00 am Morning Communion Rev’d Susan McIvor 5.00 pm Evening Service Rev’d Susan McIvor 13th 10.00 am Morning Service Brenda Gossling 20st 10.00 am Morning Worship Rev’d Susan McIvor 27th 10.00 am Morning Worship David Bower

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DURING THE WEEK PLEASE PRAY FOR: . Maureen Stilet who is still unable to come to Church. Joy Kingston - who needs your prayers of support at this

time. Jill Lomas (niece of Ivan and Barbara Vickerstaff) who is

now home but her condition is unchanged; also her husband, Michael and all the family at this time.

Fiona (friend of Amanda Jenkins) who is doing well on her treatment and is back at work.

All those in our Church family especially those who are unwell and can-not get to Church to be with us.

PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR: Jonathan Baker (Ashbourne)

Brian Voce and his wife Lyn (Rev’d Mair Bradley’s friends) Jill Clark (Gill Priestley’s friend)

Louise Kinsley (friend of Vincent Martin) Richard Dockray

Barry Davis Julie Froggatt

Dora Snow Mark De Villiers (Michelle Sant’s Father) The SMC Renovation and Renewal Group

(please advise any changes)

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The Monthly Message from Rev’d Susan McIvor Dear Friends,

I remember when I was growing up that our front garden was full of Michaelmas daisies. Tall, proud purple flowers with bright yellow centres these flowers somehow symbolised for me the re-turn to school for the Autumn term. Sometimes I would even take in a bunch of those flowers for my teacher, along with an apple for me in a paper bag with my name on.

Michaelmas, or the Feast of Michael and All Angels, is celebrat-ed on the 29th of September every year. As it falls near the equinox, the day is associated with the beginning of autumn and the shortening of days; in England, it is one of the “quarter days”. There are traditionally four “quarter days” in a year (Lady Day (25th March), Midsummer (24th June), Michaelmas (29th September) and Christmas (25th December)). It used to be said that harvest had to be completed by Michaelmas, almost like the marking of the end of the productive season and the beginning of the new cycle of farming. It was the time at which new servants were hired or land was exchanged and debts were paid. The term is still used today for the time of electing magistrates.

As Michaelmas is the time that the darker nights and colder days begin - the edge into winter - the celebration of Michael-mas is associated with encouraging protection during these dark months. It was believed that negative forces were stronger in darkness and so families would require stronger defences during the later months of the year. Michaelmas is the feast of St Mi-chael. St Michael is the protector against the dark of the night and traditionally the Archangel who fought against Satan and his evil angels.

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The Michaelmas daisy flowers late, usually between the end of Au-gust and early October and stands bright and proud in in the gar-den when the vast majority of other flowers are coming to an end. It is probably associated with the celebration of Michaelmas be-cause as St Michael is the protector from darkness and evil, so the daisy fights off the advancing darker nights and shorter days of Autumn and Winter.

The Autumn term is upon us and for many people work resumes its routines after the lazier, brighter Summer months. We think of our local schools; for children starting new schools or new classes; of teachers and especially those who are embarking on new ca-reers. We think of other school support staff adjusting to the fa-miliar pattern once again. Of young people moving from school to college or into the world of work; and of those who have yet to find their way. We pray for children and young people in our com-munity that they may be protected from darkness and evil. And we pray for people who, in the Autumn term of their lives, often fear the loneliness and isolation that dark nights bring. For those of us who count ourselves neither amongst the young nor the old let us stand like the Michaelmas daisies, bright, proud protectors from darkness and evil as we witness to God’s love in Christ.

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Monday Bible Study We will be meeting again on 7th September to discuss what we would like to study leading up to Christmas. Drinks and cake will be served at the home of Chris and Julie. Please speak to them if you require more infor-mation etc. Thanks

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Sinfin Moor Church Arleston Lane, Sinfin, Derby DE24 3DH

27th Open Produce Show and

Photographic Competition

Saturday 12th September 2.00 pm

Admission: 20p Children: Free

EVERYONE WELCOME

Flowers, Fruit and Veg. Flower Arranging

Home-Made Produce Children’s Classes

(Entry on the day until 11.00 am) Tombola and Refreshments

For further details phone: 764517

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Monthly Coffee Morning

to be held at the Church on Saturday 26th September between

9.30 am until 12.00 noon Come and enjoy the usual relaxed friendly atmosphere.

Tea Coffee Books Raffle Fairtrade The ’girls and boys’ would love to see you

there. Money raised is for the Building Works

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After Morning Service May we take the opportunity to remind you that there is no one responsible for stacking the chairs after our Morning Service and so it is a collective responsibility. Verity and David Dock-ray often put the chairs away and we are grateful to them but please don’t rely on them to do it every week. On a similar subject, we would be very grateful if, those of you who use hymn books, could return them to Foyer and not leave to our ‘Welcomers’ as some are now find that task more diffi-cult as they get older. Your thoughtfulness and consideration will be very much appre-ciated. Thank you.

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Today’s Sunday Evening Service Our Evening Service TODAY is to be a little different and is focusing on creation – we are to meet at the Church at 4.00 pm and then walk down to the nature area where we will have a guided tour led by Colin. We will then re-turn to Church for 5.00 pm for a cup of tea before hav-ing a short time of worship which will end approximately 5.45 pm. We would like to make this accessible to all, if you would like to join us but will need transport can you please let Julie know, if on the other hand you don’t want to do the tour around the nature area, please feel free to join us at Church for the 5.00pm cup of tea, we are hoping to take some pictures to be projected during the service for those that cannot make the nature area.

27th Produce Show and Photographic Competition

This takes place NEXT Saturday 12th September at 2.00 pm. All the information and entry forms are now available.

Good News! Following our appeal last Sunday, we have now had offers from 5 folk in the Church to sponsor the Photographic Competition, there are 6 categories so we are looking for one more person to sponsor the final £10 prize, please speak to Keith Jennison.

We are also urgently looking for prizes for the Tombola so give them to the Froggatts.

Photographs for the Photographic Competition need to be with Keith Jennison by TODAY.

This is an important event in our Church calendar so we hope you will support it well with proceeds going in to one of our Church Funds.

See Page 13 for more details.

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Church Flowers The flowers in the Church today are provided by

Marian Bannister Our thanks to her.

R & R Group update. The good news is that the toilets are fin-ished and available for use from today. Even if you do not want to use the facili-ties, please do go and have a look at what has been done. Note particularly that the positions of the Ladies and Gentlemen’s have been reversed so please pay particular attention which one you go in to!!!!!!!! We think you will agree that it has been money well spent. As regards the other work, this is progressing ‘behind the scenes’ and we hope to give a full report at the Open Church Meeting on the 4th October.

Mike Prince on behalf of the R & R Group ED: Thanks to the R & R Group for getting the work done this far, they have overseen the work in the toilets and they have carried out the painting that has been done. Well done to them and we look forward to seeing what the next stage brings.

Harvest Festival You will see in our Diary Dates on page 11 that our Harvest Festival is to be on Sunday 18th October and that our produce will go to the Derby Refugee Centre. They have advised that they particularly need rice, pasta, tinned tuna, tinned tomatoes, cooking oil and tinned sweetcorn. Tins of fruit are also a good health boost. Whilst the date is a way off, we thought knowing this may help you.

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Alistair Mackenzie Thank you to everybody who has shown love and support-ed us during Alistair’s illness and those who attended his funeral. Thank you also for the help with refreshments on the day f his funeral, we are very grateful. £500 was donated to Macmillan Cancer Care who were very grateful.

Margaret Mackenzie and Family

Building Works Fund We are still ahead of out target at the half way stage of 2015 having raised £6,235 towards our target of £8.000 for the year. This is excellent news and every pound we can raise now reduces whatever shortfall we will have in our funding once we know the final costs. In the mean-time, thank you all who give in any way towards this appeal. An important way of supporting this fund is to give using our weekly envelope scheme. Those of you who give using these should have collected the new envelopes, if not, the should be available on the Back Bay table this morning. The R & R Group are continuing to work on you behalf (see the re-port elsewhere in this issue) and they need your support. We have spent some of our hard-earned money on the toilets but we will need a great deal more if we are to achieve our goals on the re-mainder of the building. Please continue to be prayerful on this and particularly the issue of fund raising and grant applications.

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Coffee Morning - Saturday 29th August What a brilliant idea Amanda and Katriona along with Fiona had when they said lets try selling bacon or sausage cobs. They just couldn't keep up with the demand. They even had to fetch more bacon. Well done and thank you!

Could do with more Bric a Brac as it's getting quite short now but it did raise £73.10. Coffee and Tea £40.80,Cobs and cake £34.70 and Raffle £60.00.

Thank you Mary and Murial for your apple pie and scones.

A total of £208.60 has been passed into the Church Rebuilding Fund.

It got quite busy for saying it was Bank Holiday Saturday with one person telling me there was over 80 people looking around mid morning

My thanks to all the team and to everyone who came along to sup-port us.

Next Coffee Morning is on Saturday 26th September between 9.30 am and 12.00 noon.

Raffle prizes are needed urgently. please

Colin Attenborough

Church Weekend 2016 Following the success of this year’s Church Weekend and because the number of available dates is limited for next year, we have booked the dates 12th - 14th August 2016. Booking forms for this are available from Julie Froggatt today. If you want to go and wish to spread the cost over the year, then you can pay regularly, just have a word with Ian Sant.

Julie Froggatt

Deadline for the next Newsletter:6.00 pm Thursday 10th September

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Spring Harvest 2016 - Katriona (Amanda's Jenkins daughter) is organ-ising a trip to Spring Harvest next April (6th -10th), all are welcome to join for some amazing teaching, reflection and fun. It is held at Butlins in Minehead and has both a children's and adult programme plus the usu-al Butlins facilities, please see www.springharvest.org for more infor-mation on the programme. prices start at £139 and there are a few grants available for families that can't afford to go but would like to; it is hoped to organise a bus to take us there. If you want any more infor-mation or want to join us please speak to Katriona or Amanda Jenkins

Creating Safer Space Foundation Training Module (Pastoral, Childrens work, Vulnerable Adults work) There are more dates for training fixed now as follows: Wednesday 30th September 2015 7.00 pm at Alvaston Methodist Church Friday 20th November 2015 10.00 am at Littleover Methodist Church (we have 5 people attending this venue from Sinfin if you would like a lift) Saturday 12th March 2016 in the morning venue to be confirmed Wednesday 15th June 2016 in the evening venue to be confirmed Please let Julie Froggatt know so she can let Circuit know that you are attending.

Prayer after the Morning Service Please be aware that private prayer in the Meeting Room is available after the service should you require it; please see either Brenda Gossling, Mary Davis or Verity Dockray who will be happy to pray with you.

Coffee Morning at St Stephen’s This is being held on Saturday 19th September between 10.00 am and 12.00 noon at St Stephens Church on Sin-fin Lane.

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Diary Dates Here are a few dates for your diary, more details will follow:-

20th September Church Anniversary and Gift Day Launch

3rd October Messy Church (see page 10)

4th October Open Church Meeting after Morning Service to bring you up-to-date with what’s happening.

18th October Harvest Festival - Shared Lunch after the Morn-ing Service and our collection of food will be for the Derby Refuge Centre.

Men’s Club - Autumn Programme

The above is now virtually in place so we thought we would publish the programme. We do continue to invite all men in the Church join us for our evening and you can bring along a guest as well. Members who attend pay a modest £1 and this includes refreshments.

15th September Pine Lakes Visit (to be confirmed)

29th September Keith Blood – Subject to be confirmed

13th October Janet Jackson - ‘Life in Books’

27th October Geoffrey Hopkin - ‘Reminiscences of an Army Bandsman’.

10th November Peter Nelson – ‘A walk round Darley Abbey’

24th November Michael Cooke - ‘WW1 and WW2 Sites’

8th December Christmas Meal

We are pleased to say that we have received a small grant from the Neighbourhood Board. So that will help us to pay expenses to some of the speakers that come. We are also this time inviting men from both St Stephen’s Church and also the Catholic Church in an attempt to boost number and be of more available to others in our community.