Welcome to our morning service, as we are not able to meet together, we worship together in our separate homes, joined by our love for Jesus Christ.
At 11.30am (on Sunday) we are meeting together via zoom, to see each other and to spend time in small groups talking.
Members of the church who would like to be part of this should contact Margaret.


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The words of the Bible readings and hymns are at the bottom of the page.

HYMN Mission Praise 896 ‘My lips shall praise you’

Welcome, Opening Prayer, Introduction to Theme

How to do the Limbo Dance

Reading: Genesis 18:20-33 and Luke 11:1-10

HYMN Mission Praise 746 ‘What a friend we have in Jesus’

Sermon, Prayer and Blessing

Prayer bidding and response in bold
Blessed are the merciful:
MAY THEY OBTAIN YOUR MERCY, O LORD.

HYMN ‘Thuma mina’

Genesis 18:20-33

²⁰ Then the Lord said, ‘The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous ²¹ that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.’
²² The men turned away and went towards Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord. ²³ Then Abraham approached him and said: ‘Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? ²⁴ What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? ²⁵ Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?’
²⁶ The Lord said, ‘If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.’
²⁷ Then Abraham spoke up again: ‘Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, ²⁸ what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?’
‘If I find forty-five there,’ he said, ‘I will not destroy it.’
²⁹ Once again he spoke to him, ‘What if only forty are found there?’
He said, ‘For the sake of forty, I will not do it.’
³⁰ Then he said, ‘May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?’
He answered, ‘I will not do it if I find thirty there.’
³¹ Abraham said, ‘Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?’
He said, ‘For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.’
³² Then he said, ‘May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?’
He answered, ‘For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.’
³³ When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.

Luke 11:-10 Jesus’ teaching on prayer

11 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.’
² He said to them, ‘When you pray, say:
‘“Father,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.
³ Give us each day our daily bread.
⁴ Forgive us our sins,
    for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.
And lead us not into temptation.”’
⁵ Then Jesus said to them, ‘Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, “Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; ⁶ a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.” ⁷ And suppose the one inside answers, “Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.” ⁸ I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity^[e] he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
⁹ ‘So I say to you: ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

HYMN Mission Praise 896 ‘My lips shall praise you’

HYMN Mission Praise 746 ‘What a friend we have in Jesus’

HYMN ‘Thuma mina’