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To help you in your worship, you will find listed below the relevant NIV bible verses to follow and visual aids that Sam also references.

John 3:14-21

¹⁴ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^[a] 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.’^[b]

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. ¹⁹ This is the verdict: light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. ²¹ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

Luke 2:34-35

³⁴ Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: ‘This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, ³⁵ so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.’

Numbers 21:4-9

The bronze snake

⁴ They travelled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea,^[a] to go round Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; ⁵ they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, ‘Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!’

⁶ Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. ⁷ The people came to Moses and said, ‘We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.’ So Moses prayed for the people.

⁸ The Lord said to Moses, ‘Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.’ ⁹ So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

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The New Testament is very clear on the importance of The Body of Christ. We are taught that within The Body, His Church, each member has a specific and very relevant part to play. Indeed in various translations of 1 Corinthians 12: 28-31 the gift of Administrators, is one roll highlighted as being of the Holy Spirit. Therefore we see that Financial and Administration work in the Church can be another way of promoting His Kingdom, within local community and the world. 

This aspect of church life carries with it certain responsibilities, without someone to look after it in the church, to be Stewards of the money placed in their care, Christs work would simply not be done.

This is why at Mossley we have been incredibly fortunate with our continued succession of the roll of Treasurer. To name a few Robert Raj, Dorothy Reynolds and to date Adrian Borland. 

Adrian has been treasurer now since 2016, and excuse the pun, but we definitely got our moneys-worth out of him. Thankfully we are not losing him from our congregation. However it’s agreed that he has done his time, and paid his dues in doing a fantastic job for us. Plus Adrian will no doubt be a valued mentor to his successor Keith Speers.

Keith and Uli Speers have been members of our congregation now since November 2017. So it was with great pleasure and gratitude that the Church Council received Keiths acceptance to take on the mantel of Treasurer. 

As a congregation we thank you Keith and please know that our prayers and support are with you as you settle into this new calling within the work of our Church.

If you pay towards the running and projects associated to our church then please be aware that email and postal addresses have now been updated to Keith as point of contact.

These details along with a guide to help you choose a way of financially supporting the running of our church, can be found on the GIVING DURING COVID-19 page. All that is left to say is many thanks and blessings to everyone for your unwavering and continued support.

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John 2:13-22

Jesus clears the temple courts

¹³ When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. ¹⁵ So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ To those who sold doves he said, ‘Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!’ ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it is written: ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’^[a]

¹⁸ The Jews then responded to him, ‘What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?’

¹⁹ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.’

²⁰ They replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?’ ²¹ But the temple he had spoken of was his body. ²² After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

Matthew 21:13

¹³ ‘It is written,’ he said to them, ‘“My house will be called a house of prayer,”^[a] but you are making it “a den of robbers.”^[b]’

Psalm 68:9

⁹ You gave abundant showers, O God;
    you refreshed your weary inheritance.

Galatians 3:17-19

¹⁷ What I mean is this: the law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.

¹⁹ Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator.

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Welcome Saints, to our online Sunday Service of Worship. Just click on the window below to begin listening.

To aid you in your worship, you will find listed below the relevant NIV bible verses to follow.

Mark 8:27-38

Peter declares that Jesus is the Messiah

²⁷ Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, ‘Who do people say I am?’

²⁸ They replied, ‘Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.’

²⁹ ‘But what about you?’ he asked. ‘Who do you say I am?’

Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah.’

³⁰ Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.

Jesus predicts his death

³¹ He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. ³² He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

³³ But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. ‘Get behind me, Satan!’ he said. ‘You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.’

The way of the cross

³⁴ Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. ³⁵ For whoever wants to save their life^[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. ³⁶ What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? ³⁷ Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? ³⁸ If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.’

2 Corinthians 12:8-10

⁸ Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. ⁹ But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

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To aid you in your worship, you will find listed below the relevant NIV bible verses to follow.

1 Peter 3:18-22

¹⁸ For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. ¹⁹ After being made alive,^[a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits – ²⁰ to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, ²¹ and this water symbolises baptism that now saves you also – not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience towards God.^[b] It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²² who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand – with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

1 Peter 2:21

²¹ To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

Genesis 6:2

² the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

Jude 6-7

⁶ And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling – these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. ⁷ In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

John 16:7

⁷ But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

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To aid you in your worship, you will find listed below the relevant NIV bible verses to follow.

2 Kings 2:1-15

Elijah taken up to heaven

2 When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. ² Elijah said to Elisha, ‘Stay here; the Lord has sent me to Bethel.’

But Elisha said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.’ So they went down to Bethel.

³ The company of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked, ‘Do you know that the Lord is going to take your master from you today?’

‘Yes, I know,’ Elisha replied, ‘so be quiet.’

⁴ Then Elijah said to him, ‘Stay here, Elisha; the Lord has sent me to Jericho.’

And he replied, ‘As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.’ So they went to Jericho.

⁵ The company of the prophets at Jericho went up to Elisha and asked him, ‘Do you know that the Lord is going to take your master from you today?’

‘Yes, I know,’ he replied, ‘so be quiet.’

⁶ Then Elijah said to him, ‘Stay here; the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.’

And he replied, ‘As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.’ So the two of them walked on.

⁷ Fifty men from the company of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing the place where Elijah and Elisha had stopped at the Jordan. ⁸ Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

⁹ When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, ‘Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?’

‘Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,’ Elisha replied.

¹⁰ ‘You have asked a difficult thing,’ Elijah said, ‘yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours – otherwise, it will not.’

¹¹ As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. ¹² Elisha saw this and cried out, ‘My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!’ And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.

¹³ Elisha then picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. ¹⁴ He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. ‘Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?’ he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.

¹⁵ The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, ‘The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha.’ And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

Matthew 16:24

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

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To aid you in your worship, you will find listed below the relevant NIV bible verses to follow.

Isaiah 40:21-31

²¹ Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
    Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
²² He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
    and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
²³ He brings princes to naught
    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
²⁴ No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

²⁵ ‘To whom will you compare me?
    Or who is my equal?’ says the Holy One.
²⁶ Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
    who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
    not one of them is missing.

²⁷ Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
‘My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God’?
²⁸ Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
    the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
    and his understanding no one can fathom.
²⁹ He gives strength to the weary
    and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰ Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men stumble and fall;
³¹ but those who hope in the Lord
    will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.

Psalm 22:3-8

³ Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
    you are the one Israel praises.^[a]
4 In you our ancestors put their trust;
    they trusted and you delivered them.
⁵ To you they cried out and were saved;
    in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

⁶ But I am a worm and not a man,
    scorned by everyone, despised by the people.
⁷ All who see me mock me;
    they hurl insults, shaking their heads.
⁸ ‘He trusts in the Lord,’ they say,
    ‘let the Lord rescue him.
Let him deliver him,
    since he delights in him.’

Psalm 19

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God;
    the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

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It won’t be long before we are marking a full year of lockdown. There is still some distance to go. However thankfully the hope given to us in the incredible turnaround of a vaccine, certainly is an answer to prayer.

Throughout this time many of us have hit milestones that we haven’t been able to address in the usual or expected manner. Birthdays, births and sadly deaths. Our annual traditions have had to be scaled down, shelved or put on hold.

This February in Mossley sees another tradition being put on hold. I’m not talking about Valentine’s Day – although it might be an idea to get in there early and support your local florist. No, I am referring to the tradition of the Annual Mossley Methodist Church Dinner. It’s hard to believe that this time last year we were all together eating, laughing and even hugging one another. This week would have seen Christine and Colin creating themed table displays, organising seating plans, fine tuning rounds for after dinner games and of course choosing as Hosts what their fancy dress outfits would be.

I know it’s a cliche, but it really is amazing how much you appreciate something when you can’t have it anymore.

Every year Christine and Colin ended by thanking us and saying “…It wouldn’t be a success without you”. So this evening instead of heading over to Corrs Corner in a nice new outfit and a blow-dry, why don’t you enjoy some past memories (and antics) shared together, by looking back over the photos and links below.

Heres to laughs, heres to absent friends and heres to next year!

2017 Church Dinner VIEW HERE

2018 Church Dinner VIEW HERE

2019 Church Dinner VIEW HERE

2020 Church Dinner VIEW HERE

This Wednesday at 7:30pm via Zoom, The Rev Sam Campbell begins a joint Bible Study with both his parishes of Greencastle and Mossley. This Study looks at the book of Galatians.

Each week brings a video where Paul Blackham, Richard Bewes and guest Joni Eareckson Tada discuss a chapter from Galatians. After which we as a group will be guided by Sam to further discuss. Please do not feel in any way pressurised to speak up during this time, it is very much acceptable if you prefer to listen.

Topics that will be covered in the Book by Book episodes:
1. Paul, an Apostle of God’s Grace (Galatians 1:1-24)
2. Paul, an Apostle to the Jews (Galatians 2:1-21)
3. Abraham, the Main of Faith (Galatians 3:1-25)
4. Sarah, Mother of the Free (Galatians 3:26-4:31)
5. The Spirit, the Lord of the Free (Galatians 5:1-25)
6. The Family of Believers (Galatians 5:26-6.18)

To join simply contact your Society Stewards or Church Secretary and they will forward on your email address to be included in the Zoom invite link – You should expect this link before Lunchtime Wednesday. Also any ‘rookies’ to Zoom can request advice in setting up (see Set Up below).

Please note anyone who attended any of our previous Zoom mid weeks will automatically be included in the email. However it is your choice to choose to join in. You can also request to be removed from the Zoom invite list.

We welcome and look forward to seeing you.

Set up a free account and have online access to Zoom by following this link HERE. You can also download the Client App for smart phones etc links found on this page click HERE

If you require help with Zoom set-up please contact your Society Stewards / Church Secretaries as soon as possible, ideally prior to Wednesday, where they can put you in contact with Evelyn Humphreys who will happily talk you through set up and test it with you prior to the Bible Study.
NOTE: To run Zoom you will need a device that has a camera and audio. This could be a smart phone, a tablet or laptop. You will also need your email and create a password for sign in.

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ANNOUNCEMENT from the Rev Sam Campbell:

On Wednesday the 3rd of February I intend to start a new Zoom online Bible Study, based on the Book of Galatians. Apologies to those who do not have the technology to do so, but if you are interested in joining us please let either your Society Steward (Carole/Colin) or Church Secretary (Evelyn/Christine) know and they can put you in contact with Evelyn Humphreys from Mossley who can help you with set up and add your email to the Bible Study invite list. All you require is the Zoom App downloaded to a device that has a camera and mic (smart phone / tablet / laptop etc) and your email address.

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To aid you in your worship, you will find listed below the relevant NIV bible verses to follow.

Psalm 111

¹ Praise the Lord.

I will extol the Lord with all my heart
    in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

² Great are the works of the Lord;
    they are pondered by all who delight in them.
³ Glorious and majestic are his deeds,
    and his righteousness endures for ever.
⁴ He has caused his wonders to be remembered;
    the Lord is gracious and compassionate.
⁵ He provides food for those who fear him;
    he remembers his covenant for ever.

⁶ He has shown his people the power of his works,
    giving them the lands of other nations.
⁷ The works of his hands are faithful and just;
    all his precepts are trustworthy.
⁸ They are established for ever and ever,
    enacted in faithfulness and uprightness.
⁹ He provided redemption for his people;
    he ordained his covenant for ever –
    holy and awesome is his name.

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
    all who follow his precepts have good understanding.
    To him belongs eternal praise.

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