05/09/2026
THE WEEK AHEAD
📌Sunday 6 September
✝10.15-11.15am: Cladymore Morning Worship Service.
👉10.30am: Rock Solid (Years 8-10), Lecture Hall (room on right).
👉10.30am: Bible Class (Years 11+), Lecture Hall (room on left).
🙏11.00am: Prayer Meeting, Minister’s Room, Upper Meeting House.
👉11.15am: Creche in the Session Room opens.
✝11.30am: Morning Worship, Upper Meeting House.
👉Sunday Club starts half way through the Service.
☕️Tea and coffee served after the service.
👉6.00-7.30pm: Youth Fellowship, Small Memorial Hall (for all young people Yr8+).
📌Tuesday 8 September
👉6.00-7.00pm: GB Explorers (Age 4-P4), Small Memorial Hall (enter through front doors).
👉7.00-8.15pm: GB Company Section (P5- Age 18) Juniors, Seniors and Brigaders, Small Memorial Hall (enter via the door behind the kitchen into the back room).
📌Wednesday 9 September
📖8.00pm: Midweek Bible Study and Prayer Meeting, Cladymore Church Hall & Zoom. Overviewing the Book of Nehemiah. (Contact Norman to be added to the weekly link email).
📌Friday 11 September
📖 10.30am: Morning Bible Study, back room of the Small Memorial Hall. A 6-week study in the book of Micah. Tea, coffee, & toys for children.
👉6.30-7.30pm: Friday Bible Club, Small Memorial Hall. Children from age 4 to P7 welcome. Please complete the FBC registration form for each child by clicking the link: https://forms.gle/VS46f7FZeQkkv5sG8
📌Saturday 12 September
👉7.30pm-9.30pm: Fuse Youth Club, Small Memorial Hall. The format and equipment have had a big refresh so we encourage all young people Yr8+ to come along and see for themselves! To register your child for the year ahead, please click the link: https://forms.gle/GDpGnY2riohedPai7
📌Sunday 13 September
✝10.15-11.15am: Cladymore Morning Worship Service.
👉10.30am: Rock Solid (Years 8-10), Lecture Hall (room on right).
👉10.30am: Bible Class (Years 11+), Lecture Hall (room on left).
🙏11.00am: Prayer Meeting, Minister’s Room, Upper Meeting House.
👉11.15am: Creche in the Session Room opens.
✝11.30am: Morning Worship, Upper Meeting House.
👉Sunday Club starts half way through the Service.
☕️Tea and coffee served after the service.
✝7.00pm: Evening Service, Lower Meeting House.
LOOKING AHEAD
📌Opportunity to serve: We are recruiting for the media team who manage the screens and stream during our church services. If you are available to serve on a rota basis, please contact Norman. Training will be provided.
📌AsiaLink Trip: Trevor and Norman are travelling with AsiaLink to south-east Asia in October on a self-funded trip. Should you feel led to make a contribute towards the projects that will be visited and supported on the trip, you can do so using one of the blank envelopes in your FWO pack or any blank envelope. Just write AsiaLink on the front and place donations on the collection plate during September. The trip commences on Sat 3rd Oct. A prayer diary for the trip will be provided shortly.
📌Crosslands Pastoral Care Course beginning Mon 14th Sep at 7.30pm in the Lecture Hall. The Crosslands Training/BCUK Foundation Course in Pastoral Care is a flexible, accessible, online course that introduces the basics of loving, listening, and speaking within the local congregation. Over 9 sessions the course uses a mix of written material, video, Bible study, discussion, and personal reflection to help you grow. We plan to meet to follow the course together on Monday nights at 7.30pm though if you miss a night you will be able to complete it at home online. The dates are: 14th, 21st & 28th Sep, 5th Oct, 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th Nov. Speak to Norman for more information. An online registration must be completed for each participant – email [email protected] to receive the link to join our group booking.
📌Craft ‘n’ Craic resumes on Tue 15th Sep, meeting each Tuesday from 10.00am to 12.00pm in the Lecture Hall. New members are most welcome.
📌Tot’s Time resumes Wed 16th Sep, meeting weekly during school term time from 10.00-11.30am. All tot’s and their grown-ups welcome!
📌Bright Hour meets Wed 16th Sep at 2.30pm in the Lecture Hall. Do join us as we explore: What is a “Good Old Age”?
Meeting monthly on the 3rd Wed of the month. All welcome.
📌Men’s Fellowship resumes on Wed 16th Sep at 8pm in Cladymore Church Hall, meeting monthly on the 3rd Wed of each month, alternating between Cladymore Church Hall and the Lecture Hall. All men welcome.
📌Young Persons’ Bible Study meeting monthly this year on the 3rd Friday of the month and at the earlier time of 8pm in Cladymore Church Hall. First meeting: Fri 18th Sep.
📌Safeguarding Training, Small Memorial Hall on Wed 23rd Sep from 7.30 to 10.00pm. On-line booking is now full.
📌MPC Art recommences in the Lecture Hall from 7-9pm on the following dates: 24th Sep, 8th & 22nd Oct, 12th & 26th Nov, 10th Dec. Everyone welcome.
📌Youth Fellowship dates that remain this term: 20th Sep; 4th & 10th Oct; 8th & 22nd Nov; 6th Dec.
OTHER NOTICES
📌General Consent Form – Our general consent form covers all our organisations except Girls’ Brigade, Friday Bible Club and FUSE (which each have their own to be completed). Parents of children or young people (including those serving as helpers) up until the age of 18 attending Sunday Club, Rock Solid, Bible Class or Youth Fellowship must complete a form per child for attendance to be permitted. The form can be found by clicking the link: https://forms.gle/eg2Tstm6vwBEVMq49
📌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
• Sun 6th Sep: Please pray for the leaders of our Sunday Club, Rock Solid, Bible Class and Youth Fellowship as those ministries resume today. And pray for the preparation of the hearts of the children and young people to receive God’s Word and that young in life they may come to follow the Saviour.
• Mon 7th Sep: Continue to give thanks for God’s blessing on the work of our fundraising committee as they lead us in raising funds for the new halls. Ask for God’s wisdom for them as they meet tonight to make plans for the months ahead.
• Tuesday 8th Sep: Our Girls’ Brigade gets up and running again tonight. Please cover in prayer all our officers, sub-officers and helpers and pray that the girls who come will be blessed in this new year of Girls’ Brigade and that they may seek, serve and follow Jesus Christ.
• Wed 9th Sep: Give thanks for the Narnia camp run by our EMF partner church in Moldova in August. 76 young people came. Pray that God would continue to work in each of their hearts. Remember also Mihai’s wife Irina as she recovers from surgery.
• Thur 10th Sep: Remember in prayer our neighbouring congregations of Tullyallen and Mountnorris and their minister, the Rev Nigel Reid, as with the session and their leaders they enter a new church year of gospel ministry beside us. Especially mention in prayer their harvest mission that God would prepare the ground of people’s hearts for the Gospel.
• Fri 11th Sep: Please pray for the recommencement of our Friday Bible Club tonight. Pray for our new and returning leaders and children and ask our generous Father that this will be a powerful ministry for connecting with children from the wider community.
• Sat 12th Sep: Fuse Youth Club has its first regular night in the Small Memorial Hall tonight. Pray that the new launch will go well and that Fuse will quickly become the place to be on a Saturday night (on the nights when it is on) for secondary-age young people. Pray for the one who will be bringing an epilogue tonight that God would bless his Word to the young peoples’ lives.
• Sun 13th Sep: Ask God to prepare all our hearts to receive his Word on this, his day. Ask for a greater hunger in the hearts of all his people to worship him and to serve him. Pray for our evening service, the first of this year, that it will be well attended. And pray for those who will be taking part as we focus on some of our organisations as well as hear from God’s Word on the subject of prayer.
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:
Norman Smyth (minister) 028 3755 0087 / 07763883192 / [email protected]
Sam Scott (assistant minister) 07783 406500 / [email protected]
Peter Macmillan (assistant minister) 07774 033257 / [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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