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December 2009 Newsletter
Sunday Services
6
th
December 10:30amRev Matt Finch
Holy Communion
 13
th
December
 
10:30am Derek Rutherford20
th
December
 
10:30amRev Matt Finch andRuth Horton
FRIDAY25
th
December11amChristmas Day Service
at the Free Church, St Ives
 
27
th
December
 
10:30am Leonore Charlton3
rd
January 10:30am Rev Matt FinchA loop system is in use in this church.In order to use this please put your
hearing aid to the ‘T’ position
.St Ives Methodist Church27, The Waits,St Ives,Cambridgeshire.PE27 5BYMinister: Rev Matt FinchTel: 01480 462293Mobile: 07968 692390
Email: matt.finch@simc.co.uk
 
A warm welcome to anyone who is visitingSt Ives Methodist Church for the first time. Please stay fora
free
cup of tea or coffee in the church after the service.
Children’s corner
 
Activities are available at the back of church. Pleasefeel free to join us at any time during the service.
Church Meetings
St Ives Methodist Church (SIMC) run various groups that meet on
different days of the week. For more details of a specific group’s
events, please pick up a leaflet from the leaflet rack in thecorridor opposite the kitchen.Day Time MeetingMondays
(alternate weeks)
 
2-4 pm
House Group
Fellowship and BibleStudy
Tuesdays
9:30
 –
 10am
Morning Prayers /Communion
A special time of reflection
Tuesdays
10-11:30am
Toddlers Group
Meet other parents,have a chat
Tuesdays
10 -12noon
Open Door
Drop in for a cup of tea and a chat
Tuesdays
2 pm
AfternoonFellowship
Hymns, prayer,various speakers.
Thursdays
(1
st
and 3
rd
)
 
7:30 pm
Open Circle
Various speakers ontopics of interest
Sundays
7:30 pm
Phos
Young Adult group
 
A letter from the Minister...
Will your turkey taste like Delia’s? Will yourroast potatoes be a beautiful as Jamie’s? Will
your presents be wrapped as beautifully as
‘Good Housekeeping’? As much as we strive
for the perfect Christmas, I fear, many of us donot get there!If we look to the first Christmas it is not aboutperfection but God coming to the real worldwith all its struggles. Soon we will sing of the season of peace, goodwill,love for all and of giving. These are words of hope for a messycomplicated world that cries out for the love of God. A proper Christmasis not about the tree being just right but fathoming that God chooses tocome to our fragile world to heal and renew it.The Christmas story is not just well meaning words b
ut it is God’s action.
In the birth of the Jesus we see God not ignoring the world but becoming
one of us to change it. ‘God with us’ means more than an abstract
presence somewhere that we can feel if we think about it. It is the truththat Jesus knows what we are feeling because he experienced it. Justthink Jesus was born into an occupied territory, without a home to call hisown, born to a teenage mother, and lived as a refugee as he grew up!Jesus knows our world is not easy.At this festive time may you know the message of hope that comeswrapped up in cloths and laid in a manger. In the weakness of this childGod comes to challenge the way this world works and offer a way totransform it; a liberation to the captive; a love for the unlovable, a peaceto the distressed and wholeness to the broken.Whoever you are and whatever faces you may you know that the babyborn in a manger is born for you.Every blessing this Christmas and New Year,Matt finch
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