Sunday service for 1 June 2025, seventh Sunday of Easter

Sunday 1 June 2025, Seventh Sunday of Easter
Gourock St. John’s Church of Scotland
Service prepared by Rev. Teri Peterson
Manse: 632143 
Email: TPeterson (at) churchofscotland.org.uk
Email Charlene, Parish Assistant: CMitchell (at) churchofscotland.org.uk

No manuscript today — enjoy the video!

Announcements

* We worship in the sanctuary on Sundays at 11am, and Sunday worship is also online. All are welcome! Our whole church family worships together, including children, and our services are accessible for a variety of abilities, styles, and ages. Most Sundays include a sermon as well as readings, prayer, children’s time, and music led by the organ, praise band, and/or choir.

The first Sunday of the month at 11am is now an all-age service, with different ways of encountering God’s word without a traditional sermon. All people — young and old, different personalities and learning styles, are welcome! You’ll find a more informal service with a variety of music, a Bible story, prayer, and some more interactive elements. The online service for the first Sunday will therefore also be different — there will still be a reading, prayers, and music, but usually not a sermon.

* Starter Packs are in need of bathroom/kitchen cleaner, handwash, shampoo, deodorant, soap, teabags.
The FoodBank are in need of UHT milk, tins of soup, carrots, and tomatoes, as well as bottles of diluting juice.
You can bring donations to the church and place them into the boxes in the vestibule. Thank you!

* Bowl & Blether is on the first Monday of the month through the warmer months, our next one is TOMORROW Monday 2 June, doors open 11:30-1:30. If you’d like to volunteer please speak to Teri or Graham Bolster, and of course all are welcome for a bowl of soup and a toastie and some friendly chat!

* The Kirk Session will meet on Thursday 5 June at 7pm and the meeting will include discussion of the book “Finding Our Voice.” Elders should have a copy but there is one left in the church if anyone still needs to pick one up.

* Registration is now open for our Summer Exploratorium: Holy Histories! It’s a week for P1-P7 getting into the messy side of Bible stories and learning how God’s love is for us even when things get messy. It runs every day between 4-8 August, from 9am – 1pm, including lunch, and with an optional breakfast club from 8am. If you’d like to volunteer, or if you know any secondary-aged pupils who’d like to join our junior leader programme, please speak to Teri or Charlene ASAP.

* Did you know that the ministry we do at St John’s costs about £3000 per week? Everything we do is funded by your generous giving — all our support for young people, older people, bereavement care, community outreach, worship, study, spiritual growth, and community work is because of your offering. If you would like to set up a standing order in order to facilitate your spiritual discipline of giving, or if you would like to make an extra gift to support the ministry St. John’s does in our parish, you can give online by clicking here. If you would like to set up a standing order, please contact Teri and she can give you the treasurer’s details. You can also send your envelopes to the church or the manse by post and we will ensure they are received. 
It is also possible to donate to the work of the parish assistant, speak to Anne Love about how to go about directing new donations to that item in the budget.

* Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Youtube, and to sign up for our email newsletter! Midweek you can watch Wine and the Word on Youtube, pray with video devotions on Facebook, and consider a new angle on something with a devotional email. 

* Free period products are available in the church toilets for anyone who might need them, thanks to Hey Girls and Inverclyde Council.