pentecost 17+

We welcome everyone to our services this week. Rev Colin will take the service at Yetholm at 10am and the Harvest service at Linton at 3pm. Note the later time! Please stay for refreshments after the service at Yetholm. We remind visitors to sign the Visitors’ Book.

• Craft Group meets at Yetholm Kirk on Mondays from 2pm. All welcome.
• Coffee and chat at Yetholm Kirk on Tuesdays from 10.30 -12 noon. All welcome.
• Prayer Service is on Tuesdays at 12 noon in Yetholm
• The first meeting of the Cheviot Churches Guild will be on Thursday 9th October at 2pm in Morebattle Institute. Rev Colin will speak on the theme ‘Living Stones’. All are welcome
• The funeral of Joanne Gray will be held at Morebattle Kirk on Friday 10th October at 11.30am. Burial in cemetery thereafter.
• Colin successful completed his walk to Santiago. Any sponsorship money should be handed in asap.
• The Crossreach catalogue is now available for perusal in the Morebattle and Yetholm churches. If you wish to order Christmas cards or calendars    please use the order form provided by 10th October.
• Morebattle Harvest Service next week. Flowers, fruit & veg and tinned/packaged goods for the Harvest service can be left at the back of the church before Saturday 11th October when the church will be decorated. All tinned and packaged items will be donated to Kelso Foodbank.
  
• The wedding of Ben Moffat and Victoria Stewart will take place on Friday 17th October at Morebattle Kirk.
• Thanks to all who donate to the Foodbank. It is short of the following: tins of meat, vegetables (tin) Potatoes (tin), jam, cereal, jars of pasta sauce, desserts.
• Advance notice of a concert by the Berwick Male Voice Choir at Yetholm Kirk on Saturday 18th October at 7pm.
• The annual Blythswood Shoe Box Appeal is underway, making a difference to someone living in poverty this Christmas. Please see posters. All boxes to be handed in by 19th October please.

 
Next Sunday we have our United Harvest communion at Morebattle at 10am, led by Rev Colin.

Orders of Service for Yetholm, followed by that for Linton:
Call to Worship
Be for us a companion on the Way
Be our guide at crossroads
Our breath in weariness
Our refuge on the Way
Our shade in heat
Our light in darkness 
Hymn 213 - Every new morning 
Prayer of Adoration/ Confession/ Lord’s Prayer
Short talk
Readings – Lamentation 3: 19-26 (Pg 826)
                        Luke 17: 5 – 10 (Pg 1051)
Hymn 153 - Great is thy faithfulness
Weekly Prayer
Heavenly Father, we thank you that because of your great love and your never-failing compassions we can join with those who have gone before, stating today, "Great is your faithfulness, O God". We pray that you will increase our faith as we join with those whose hope and trust is in you. Amen
Sermon
Hymn 349 - In our lives plant seeds of love
Dedication of Offering
Prayers of Thanksgiving & Intercession 
644 - O Jesus I have promised
Benediction
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Call to Worship
Be for us a companion on the Way
Be our guide at crossroads
Our breath in weariness
Our refuge on the Way
Our shade in heat
Our light in darkness 
Hymn 153 - Great is thy faithfulness
Prayer of Adoration/Confession/ Lord’s Prayer
Readings – Lamentation 3: 19-26 (Pg 826)
                        Luke 17: 5 – 10 (Pg 1051)
Hymn 230 - Praise God for the harvest
Weekly Prayer
Sermon
Hymn 213 - Every new morning (Uplifting of offering)
Dedication of Offering
Prayers of Thanksgiving & Intercession 
Hymn 229 - We plough the fields
Benediction