Maundy Thursday Service on April 1st
will be a Pastorate Service at Cathedral
Road Presbyterian Church for 7.00 p.m.

Good Friday Service on April 2nd will be
in our Church at 11.00 a.m followed by
Coffee and Hot Cross Buns

Pastorate Social Evening

The cancelled Social evening in January
has now been arranged for Saturday
20th March commencing at 7.00p.m. This
will be a time to welcome Geoffrey and
Marilyn Barrington, to meet with Church
friends informally and will be followed
by a Barn Dance.

This is a family occasion and all ages
welcome, if you cannot dance come along
and listen to the music.

Church Family….

If you know of a member of our Church
Family who is ill or in need of support in
any way please let Audrey Boase, our
visitation co-ordinator, know.

Communicants & Church Membership.

If you are interested in attending
Communicants Classes, which will
commence shortly, please see Shirley
Morgan.

Annual General Meeting

The Church Annual General Meeting will
be held in the hall at 7.00 p.m. on
Tuesday 27th April, 2010 and all
members are invited to attend.

If any member wishes to put forward an
issue under Any Other Business, this
must be submitted, in writing, to the
Church Secretary 14 days before the
meeting.

May Day Weekend

30th April to 2nd May

During the above bank holiday young
people from IGNITE Youth Group will
be working in the community in various
areas of Cardiff. One group may be
coming to Fairwater and Steven has
asked if they do so, could we at
Fairwater Church ‘host’ the young
people during the day. They will bring
along lunch, but have asked Churches
to provide a meal at 5.00 p.m.

This can only be done if we have enough
helpers. Two of the evenings have been
covered, but we need 2 or 3 people for
either Friday or Sunday to cook and
serve a meal. The menu has been
worked out and food will be bought, and
it will be easy meals. Please see Jenny
or Audrey for more information or if
you can help on either of these nights.

Coffee Morning & Book Sale

Thank you to everyone who supported
the February Coffee Morning and Book
Sale when over £230 was raised for
Church Funds, a further £95 was raised
by Ladies Circle towards this year’s
charity supporting Steven Harris and
Open Air Campaigners

Criminal Record Bureau Checks.

If you are working or thinking about
working with children and/or
Vulnerable Adults within the Church
you will need to be CRB checked.
Checks will be taking place in February.
If you need or wish to be checked please
see Jenny Barnes as soon as possible.

As you know, the Church gives annually
to each of 5 charities. This year it is
slightly different and listed below:-

£50 Aplastic Anaemia

£50 Andy Webb’s soup run

£150 Haiti Appeal.

This makes the amount of £850 we
collected in the retiring collections up to
£1,000.

Coming Soon

Fairwater Presbyterians have got Talent

We are looking for willing (or unwilling)
volunteers to take part at a fund raising
and social evening on Saturday 8th May.
Talents needed however big or small, and
by all ages, so if you can play an
instrument, sing, tell jokes, dance, read a
poem, or perform in any way, please see
Claire.

The evening is being held at the start of
Christian Aid Week and a collection will
be taken for Christian Aid. The Church
will not be participating in the annual
house to house collection this year, so
please support this event.

Churches together in Fairwater & Pentrebane

A Lenten Taize Service will be held at St.
Peter’s Church on Monday 15th March, at
7.00 p.m.

Church Kitchen Area

During the next few weeks there will be
some changes in the kitchen area. This
is to comply with Health & Safety and to
ensure the kitchen is easy to clean.

First Aid Boxes

Would organisation leaders and members please note that first aid boxes are situated:

On the wall in the Choir room (in front of the Vestry)

A portable box is situated on the window shelf at t he rear of the Hall

A portable box is situated in the Church Foyer

A telephone, for emergency use, is placed on the wall in the vestry.

Sausage & Chip Supper

Helpers are needed for the Church ‘Spring
Clean’ to take place on Wednesday, 2nd
April. Please arrive between 6.30 and 7.00
p.m All cleaning materials will be
supplied. The more support we get the easier the job
will be and at 8.30 we will finish with a
Sausage & Chip supper (an alternative to
sausage will be available). Please put your name on the notice board
in the Church foyer if you are coming to
help to enable us to provide enough
suppers. Also advise Jenny Barnes if you
have a dietary issue.

Congratulations to Des Thomas who
celebrates his 90th birthday on 15th April.

Belated congratulations to Sylvia
Bowering who also recently celebrated her
90th birthday

To All Leaders of Organisations

Can you please update the information for the magazine and
website, either by email or by sending a written note

Thanks

Terry Harris

Prayer List for April

Shirley Morgan (The Crescent) remains in Llandough Hospital and is far from well.

Our thoughts are with Bernice and Dave Burt in the loss of a very good friend.

Pat Wilding is not able to join with us at present because of leg problems and her daughter Andrea has recently been in hospital for an operation but is at home recovering now and we wish them a speedy recovery.

Please remember all these friends in your prayers.

As always the following friends need our ongoing prayer support:-

Alma Silver, Ron Walters, David Ellis, Cliff and Min Harris, Ron and Ted Ellis,

Julie Milligan, Enid Reardon, Mrs Fairchild, Val Williams, Tom Baldwin and family, Andrea Charles (Jenny Dawkins’ sister) and Sandra Plageman (Marilyn Barrington’s sister)

Maybe some of the people on this list are unknown to us personally, whilst others have for some time been out of our sight, nevertheless they need not be out of our minds when we pray.

Believing that all our prayers are heard and listened to by God, praying for others can only be of benefit to them.

When we pray, let us thank God for prayers that have been answered, also asking Him to grant us patience whilst we wait for his answers.

“I love the Lord because He hears me; He listens to my prayers. He listens every time
I call to Him”.

Psalm 116 verses 1 and 2