Sunday 25th October

We will be sharing in communion at the end, 

You may want to get things ready.

Father of creation, 

Jesus Saviour and healer of the world 

Holy Spirit helper and counsellor,

we ask You to come and inhabit the time 

spent with You,

as we listen and focus on the words 

and music presented to us.

We ask this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Giving

Thank you for all your support of Wrington Chapel and its work in the past.

We realise that many people are hard-pressed at the moment, and church may be the last thing on your mind. However, we are looking to the future when we can reopen and support each other in our usual way. Unfortunately, being closed does not mean our expenses are substantially less. If you already have a standing order set up, then thank you. But if you haven't, please consider getting in touch with Steve Osman and setting one up. If that is impossible, please continue to save up your collection money, and we will collect it all together when we reopen. Please note that the rules do not allow us to claim any Gift Aid on collections that are not taken up in church. So do NOT drop collection money off at Steve's house. Simply take out a standing order, or save it up for that great and glorious reopening day.

Our prayer focus this week is Tearfund. 

Click/Tap on the image above to find out more. 

Shared Treasure 

Today we look at treasure, 

and see how God wants us to benefit from our relationship with him. 

It's not all sacrifice. It's the joy of becoming who God made you to be. 

It's worth getting excited. 

Click the microphone above to go to this weeks recording.

 2nd Corinthians 8 verses 1 to 15 

The collection for the Lord's people

8 And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. 2 In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. 3 For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, 4 they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord's people. 5 And they exceeded our expectations: they gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us. 6 So we urged Titus, just as he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. 7 But since you excel in everything - in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you - see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

8 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

10 And here is my judgment about what is best for you in this matter. Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. 11 Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. 12 For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.

13 Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. 14 At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, 15 as it is written: 'The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.'

'We have shared in this mystery. 

Yet it is made clear to those of faith. 

This is the truth of God's love for this world. 

Let us live out this truth, 

in joy, 

to those we meet, 

through word and deed. 

Always. 

Amen.'