Exeter corps bulletin 14092014

Corps Bulletin Sun 19th October is the day of Exeter's Great West Run. Exeter ICE are putting together a team to run and raise money for the Exeter ICE trust, our city's Christian schools work project. You are invited to join the ICE team to help them leave a positive footprint in Exeter's schools! Free ICE running shirt! You can sign up at http://www.icetrust.co.uk or email office@icetrust.co.uk for an application

Commanding officers:

Majors Alan and Carol Young

Sunday 14th September ‘The heart of renewal’

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Sunday 21st September – Harvest Celebrations led by Divisional Children’s Officer Yvonne West Exeter Salvation Army Corps Friars Gate Exeter EX2 4AZ The Salvation Army in Exeter exists to please God and make Jesus known

Followed by a Ploughman’s Lunch provided by our Guides. Your donations will go towards the cost of their visit to the Guides’ World Centre in Switzerland in 2015

Phone: 01392 216553 - Mobile: 07743 019407 Find out more about our Corps, view or download copies of our Bulletin at www.salvationarmy.org.uk/swe/Exeter_Temple We try to ensure the information in this bulletin is as accurate and up to date as possible. If you have something to promote for the autumn programme, please be sure to email these to SABulletin@aol.com by Tuesday 23rd September to ensure these are included Thank you CS Martyn Read has responsibility for our Corps Diary. To add or update events please speak to him or email: martyn.read@salvationarmy.org.uk Sermon notes & Vision meeting notes can be found on Major Carol’s Blog http://rehoboth-old-wells.blogspot.co.uk

Registered Charity Numbers: 215174 and 214779 (England and Wales); SC009359 and SC037691 (Scotland); and CHY6399 (Republic of Ireland)

Sunday Programme 9:40am Prayer meeting (open to all – please join us at any time) 10:30am Morning Worship Crèche facility for the under 3’s available You are invited to stay for refreshments & fellowship after worship

6pm Community meal - for those in need, served in our community hall

Flower Rota September 14th ~ Maurice & Ruth Hawker September 21st ~ Judith & Terry Trethewey September 28th ~ Police Choir If you would like to provide flowers to enhance our hall for Sunday worship please contact Majors Alan & Carol

Corps Diary September 6th – 20th September BIG Collection If you can help with either enveloping or collecting during this period please see Major Alan. We are also looking for teams to go out collecting on the Thursday evenings 11th & 18th – thank you Sun 21st ~ Response at Sandford 4pm Fri 26th ~ Macmillan coffee morning 10 – 12 noon held in our Community hall. Please bring your friends along to support this worthy cause th Sun 28 ~ ‘Life and health and peace’ Proverbs 4:20-27 Sun 28th ~ Messy Church 3:30pm

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~ Set up for Raise the Roof 7.30pm ~ ‘Raise the Roof’ 7.45pm in aid of the BIG collection & Warm LITTLE feet (Moldova) ~ Band / Collecting (Big Collection) at Crediton Farmers Market ~ Women’s Fellowship 2:45pm Cookery Demonstration Jane Williams ~ Corps Retreat ‘Rhythms of the Spirit’ led by Majors Richard & Caroline Mingay. Cost is just £12 per person. Book you place now ~ ‘Live on Sunday’ Divisional Celebration at Bridgwater Corps 3pm

25th / 26th October Corps Music Ministry weekend On Saturday afternoon, singers and instrumentalists from Exeter and surrounding corps are invited to afternoon workshops, followed by a fellowship tea and then a relaxed programme. Please speak to Nigel Crane or Peter Woolway to join in the music-making or come along at 6.30pm to enjoy the results of the music workshops.

Our Music Sections will lead our Sunday morning worship We thank Margaret Pope for making the arrangements for ‘The Big Collection’ held at Tesco; the collectors for giving their time and the general public for their generosity, raising over £900!

Issue 5 of our Corps magazine ‘Connection’ will be on sale at the beginning of October priced just 50p! Be sure to buy your copy

Prayer Focus For all the people contacted during the BIG Collection For continual guidance as we consider our personal responses to the new purpose teams For all those with long term illnesses; those in hospital or residential care; those recovering from surgery or undergoing treatment, and for all those who are caring for them For our young people returning to University and those students returning to Exeter to study Our Corps Prayer Diary is available in the foyer to give a daily focus on those connected to our fellowship and overseas projects An Ecumenical group meets on the second Saturday of the month to pray for our city. Venues vary so please speak to Major Carol for more details

‘Boundless’1st – 5th July 2015 (International Congress) For information about how you can get involved check out the following link

www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/ Boundless_2015

Weekday activities Monday 10am Craft Group in our coffee lounge 10am Little Treasures (Parent & Toddlers) – in community hall Tuesday 2.15pm Home League weekly fellowship & worship 7pm Songster (choir) rehearsal 8.15pm Band rehearsal Wednesday 10am Little Treasures community hall 2.45pm Women’s Fellowship (2nd Wednesday of the month) Friday Rainbows, Brownies and Guides 7.30pm Response rehearsal Saturday Soul Exeter (Ecumenical Youth Event open to all teenagers) normally 2nd Saturday of each month, but note no events in July or August.

Home groups are held in people’s homes at various times and venues throughout the month. Please speak to Corps Mission Secretary Andrew Cutler for full details

Sunday 21st September – Harvest Celebrations Ploughman’s Lunch provided by our Guides (either ham or cheese) Please reserve your meal by either calling 01392 216553 or write your name and choice on the list in the foyer