Brookside
Methodist Church Gunthorpe Road Gunthorpe Peterborough PE4 7TG Phone (General): 01733-328192 Phone (Office): 01733-572911 Email: brooksidemc@surefish.co.uk Website: www.brooksidemc.org.uk Our Calling from God is to prayerfully live out our discipleship and mission through: hWorshiphLearning
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To All Preachers,
We look forward to seeing you at Brookside to lead us
in a service of worship.
One of our organists and pianists (or the all-age service
Band) will accompany the singing for that morning. One of our Stewards will
ring you in the previous week for the hymns and any readings you would like our
readers to do. When the Sunday Club is worshipping with the adults, our Worship
Leader, Joanna Parkin, is usually available to help with the service, and an
all-age drama group is getting off the ground.
We have facilities for multi-media presentation. If
you wish to use this we need your order of service by the Tuesday at the
latest. It would be great if you could use PowerPoint. We have copies of The
Source and Hymns and Psalms, and can project all of the songs in Songs of
Fellowship Volumes 1, 2, and 3. We also have a CD player, a number of New
International Version Bibles in the chairs and one copy of The Dramatised
Bible.
There is a book on the table in the entrance foyer
where people are invited to write down any requests for prayer for themselves
or for others. We would appreciate it if you could include these requests in
the prayers during the service.
In each month, the usual pattern of the 10:30am
morning worship is as follows:
On the 1st
Sunday the adults worship in a traditional style completely separately from the
Sunday Club who worship and meet together in their own way.
On the 2nd
Sunday all ages worship together for the whole of the service, which does not
have to last as long as the ,obligatory, hour. An All-Age
Band is usually available to play, and they would appreciate suggestions for
songs by Tuesday at the latest so that the songs can be agreed and music sheets
prepared in time for the band practice on Friday evening.
On the 3rd,
4th and 5th Sundays in each month, Sunday Club will be in
for the first 15minutes, so please would you remember this when preparing your
service, and pray for the children and leaders before they leave, usually after
the 2nd song (when the offertory may take place).
On the 4th
Sunday in each month the worship style is contemporary. That is, the structure,
style and substance of the service is not at all confined by traditional
constraints but by contemporary culture and modern Christian resources. A small
singing group may also be available.
To prepare ourselves for worship, the Steward will
light a candle and then the congregation will either sing, or listen to, a
worshipful song/hymn which has been chosen.
Evening worship begins at 6:30pm. The atmosphere of
worship is more intimate than in the morning as the number of our congregation
is much smaller and we meet in a circle near the organ and piano. The exception
to this pattern is the Youth / Celebration Service each third Sunday. In these
evenings adults join in worship that is prepared and lead by young people and
youth leaders. Common elements include video clips, FOOD and home made drama
(not the other way around!)
Please refer to the Preaching Plan to see which sort
of service you will be leading and if there are any other special circumstances
mentioned. The variety of worship that is lead by Local Preachers, Presbyteral
and Diaconal Ministers, guest Preachers and local arrangements, is widely
appreciated, so please do be creative if you feel drawn to do something that is
different. The congregation is getting used to (and growing in confidence in):
interacting with those leading worship
during sermons and prayers;
the extra variety and use of projected
sound and still or moving images;
experimenting with Cafe Worship and
bi-monthly prayer breakfasts; and
following up other ideas that came out
of a church in-reach weekend lead by a team from The Lay Witness Movement.
We pray you will find blessing in preparing and
leading the worship of God with us.
Yours in Christ Jesus,
On behalf of the Worship Consultation Group and
Church Stewards.