05/06/2026
THE WEEK AHEAD
📌Sunday 7 June
✝10.15-11.15am: Cladymore Morning Worship Service.
👉10.30am: Rock Solid (Years 8+), Lecture Hall (last one this term, returns September dv).
🎵11.00am: Choir practice in the Upper.
🙏11.00am: Prayer Meeting, Minister’s Room, Upper Meeting House.
✝Children’s Day Service, Upper Meeting House. (No creche this Sunday as we welcome all children to be part of the service).
☕️Tea and coffee served after the service.
📌Tuesday 9 June
👉10.00am: General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland opens with worship (follow online by typing presbyterianireland.org into your browser and follow the link on the homepage).
📌Wednesday 10 June
👉4.30pm: Installation of Moderator (available to follow online).
🙏8.30pm: Event and Outreach Prayer Meeting, CPC Hall.
📌Friday 12 June
👉12.15pm: Communion Service closing the General Assembly (broadcast online).
👉8.00pm: Message at the Mart, ‘Living Life for Jesus’, Markethill Livestock Market. Speaker – Sam Scott.
📌Saturday 13 June
👉9.00-5.00pm: Armagh Show Outreach. If you are able to help in any way, please visit the sheet in the porch or follow the link to see how or when you may be able to help:
https://forms.gle/2mxHvbmPLJtaVzjn6
📌Sunday 14 June
✝10.15-11.15am: Cladymore Morning Worship Service.
🎵11.00am: Choir practice in the Upper.
🙏11.00am: Prayer Meeting, Minister’s Room, Upper Meeting House.
👉11.15am: Creche in the Session Room opens.
✝11.30am: Morning Worship Service, Upper Meeting House.
☕️Tea and coffee served after the service.
👉6.00-7.30pm: Youth Fellowship (year 8+), Small Memorial Hall. Pudding, smores, games, and teaching. P7’s are welcome to get a taster for YF ahead of the next term commencing in September.
LOOKING AHEAD
📌Event and Outreach Prayer Meeting – Wed 17th June, Lecture Hall. Starting at the later time of 8.30pm.
📌Flower Festival – The Fund-Raising Committee are organising a Flower Festival which will take place in the Upper Church from Fri 19th June – Sun 21st June.
The festival will be open;
• Fri 19th June: 2pm - 8pm
• Sat 20th June: 10am - 8pm
• Sun 21st June: 2pm - 7pm
This will be a major event, which has been widely advertised and, we expect, will attract a large number of visitors from a wide geographical area. It also has the potential to raise a significant amount of money towards our new halls project.
Given the size of this event we will require support from the vast majority of the congregation and are therefore launching an appeal for assistance in a number of areas.
Up to 7 large church groups are discussing attending and there is a requirement for hot meals or tea/coffee. Sit down meals will be available for these groups at specified times in the Small Memorial Hall and tea, coffee, scones, and traybakes will be available throughout the event in the Lecture Hall. In order to cater for this, we intend to organise a number of catering teams on a rota throughout the 3 days. If you are available at any stage over this period and are prepared to help or can supply tea, coffee, scones, traybakes etc, please leave your details on the sheets in the porch.
Stewards will be required throughout the event for the inside of the church, the church grounds, to control parking on the road outside the Upper Church, the Small Memorial Hall, and in our new halls site. Again, if you are available, please leave your details on the sheet in the hall.
Finally, we have received quite generous sponsorship from business owners in our own congregation and in the local community and this will go some way to offset the costs of running this event. If you feel able to assist in this regard by making a financial contribution to the event, please speak to Mr Ronnie Totten, our church Treasurer.
Fliers for the Flower Festival are available in the porch to use to invite friends.
📌Summer Bible Club Registration – Registration is now open for this year’s Summer Bible Club. Please follow the link to be taken to the online consent form. Summer Bible Club will be held in the Small Memorial Hall this year from Mon 22nd -Thurs 25th June from 6.45-7.45pm each night. All children P1-P7 welcome.
https://forms.gle/AtKH7KiajzzXQfSU8
📌Summer Bible Club Volunteers – Running this year from Mon 22nd to Thurs 25th June. If you are available to help in any way, please follow the link to view the options. A sheet will also be available in the porch on Sundays.
https://forms.gle/9XH2kqZWsFZb1kCu6
📌New Assistant Minister – We look forward to welcoming our new Assistant Minister Peter Macmillan and his family to Markethill in June. He is officially starting on Mon 22nd which means Sun 28th will be the first Sunday we will have the opportunity to introduce him to the congregation. He is married to Nicola and they have a baby girl called Evie.
📌Men’s Karting Night at Gosford Karting – from 6.45pm on Thursday 2nd July. Cost is £35/head. Contact Kenny Moffett to book (07870 150081).
OTHER NOTICES
📌Free Pianos – A choice of two old pianos are available for free to members of the congregation. Speak to Norman to view.
📌New Beginnings – Feeling alone? Looking for genuine Christian friendship? New Beginnings is a welcoming group for those who are single, separated, widowed or divorced. Enjoy outings, holidays, meals and fellowship. For more information contact Eleanor or David on 07902 231956.
📌Announcements on WhatsApp - Anyone who would like to receive the church announcements by WhatsApp can register by texting ‘Announcements’ to 07763883192.
📌Missionary Prayer WhatsApp Group – This is to encourage us as we pray for the mission organisations that we have links with, with weekly updates allowing you to pray for the up-to-date needs of the work of God. To join, send your name and number to either 07791869917 or 07763883192 to be added.
📌Armagh Foodbank - There is a box in the Upper Meeting House porch for any food contributions you may be able to make to the local foodbank.
PRAYER POINTS FOR THE WEEK
• Sun 7 June: Give thanks for all the teaching that our boys and girls have received throughout the year in Sunday Club and Rock Solid. Pray for our children as they lead worship in our Children’s Day service today.
• Mon 8 June: Please continue to pray for Mihai and Irina Chisari (EMF, Moldova) as Irina continues her cancer treatment. Surgery may be necessary after all but waiting on an MRI scan mid-July to determine this. Pray for God’s strength and healing.
• Tue 9 June: Pray for the Moderator, Rt Rev Dr Richard Murray, as he leads the first part of the General Assembly before stepping down from office. Give thanks for his dedication, resilience and leadership in what have been challenging times for the denomination. Pray for a period of rest and refreshment before he resumes his ministry full-time in the congregation of Drumreagh.
• Wed 10 June: Pray for the outworking of all decisions taken at General Assembly, that they might be implemented faithfully and wisely. Remember Rev Dr Richard Kerr as he is installed today and commences his year as Moderator, that he will know God’s guiding and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the year ahead.
• Thur 11 June: Pray for the Armagh Show organising committee and volunteers as they work very hard on final preparations for the show on Saturday.
• Fri 12 June: As the General Assembly closes with worship at noon today, pray for the outworking of all decisions taken through the week, that they might be implemented faithfully and wisely.
• Sat 13 June: Pray for our shared CPC and MPC outreach stand at the Armagh Show and all our volunteers that many gospel conversations may be enjoyed. Pray also for the work of the Rural Chaplaincy Team as they build relationships in the rural community for Jesus.
Email address for all safeguarding matters:
[email protected]
📞 If you have any inquiries or would like to arrange a pastoral visit, you can contact either:
Rev Norman Smyth (minister) 028 3755 0087 / 07763883192 / [email protected]
or Sam Scott (assistant minister) - 07783 406500 / [email protected]
❗Please inform Norman if anyone is admitted to or discharged from hospital, so that we may provide follow up pastoral care.
📢 Announcements from organization leaders and dates for breaks etc may be sent to [email protected] The deadline for inclusion in the weekend’s
announcements is 6pm the previous Wednesday.
🔴 Sunday morning services are broadcast live on our YouTube channel, Markethill Presbyterian Church.
https://www.youtube.com//streams
💻 Announcements and services can be viewed on Facebook and on our website at markethillpresbyterian.co.uk
🙏 All announcements are subject to the will of God.
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