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Visitors since 1/2/2005

Sunday Worship: 10.30 a.m.

Morning Worship with Junior Church and Créche available

1st Sunday Parade and Family Service

3rd Sunday Communion is part of the morning Service 

• The average attendance at morning service is increasing slowly and is now about 65.

• We use a traditional form of service usually with an organ and "Mission Praise" hymn books but from time to time we  have the music groups.

• The church has a loop system installed and tapes of the services are available.

• We have "Mission Praise" hymn books available for the blind or partially sighted.

• Special evening services are held from time to time

Latest News: April 2008

SPECIAL CHURCH MEETING

WEDNESDAY 7TH MAY 2008
CAREY HALL, NELSON STREET
7.30 P.M.
OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS AND
CONGREGATION AT CAREY!

The Church has two major issues to be discussed so the deacons have called a special church meeting to which we invite all members of the congregation. We will start at 7.00 p.m. with coffee and biscuits.

The issues we need to discuss are:

1. Anytime between now and the end of 2008 the agreement with Corby Baptist Church will come to an end. The church there has been awarded a Baptist Union Home Mission grant and are now in the process of selecting a minister. We have enough reserve funds to honour our agreement to employ Peter for two years after the end of the Corby agreement providing our expenditure does not increase above the budget. On present income and expenditure it is difficult to see how
Carey will be able to afford full time ministry after this period. This would mean either we employ a minister part time, whether that would be Peter or someone else, or we go into an agreement with another church along similar lines to those we have had with Aldwincle or Corby.

2. As I mentioned in last months newsletter, the state of repair of the building is giving the deacons great concern so we need to look at what maintenance, changes or improvements are
required to ensure Carey has a future in Kettering. The deacons have looked at some of the options for both and will put these to the meeting for discussion. All the views expressed are
important to us and everyone will get the chance discuss all the options.

As you are no doubt aware, ultimately only church Members can vote on any final proposals but we believe it is vitally important at this stage to have the valued thoughts of all who consider
themselves as part of our church family..

 

CONCERT AND SUPPER

The Kettering Operatic Society Concert Party have offered to perform a concert for the church. The Theme is going to be a wartime one with songs from the 40’s and 50’s. The catering committee are going to supply a supper before hand so please come along and make it a success. The cost will be £4 each with all the profits going to the church funds, which after May 7th we may need all the pennies we can get to support Peter and the buildings. Tickets will be available from Derek Neal and Dorothy Webb after 17th May 2008, we expect tickets to go fast so order yours now!!

 

THANK YOU

What a difference a lick of paint makes, thanks once again to Ron who has decorated the passage from the side entrance along to the door to the corridor to the hall. As you can see from the pictures below the new windows in the doors to the vestries has made the passage lighter.
Ron has done many jobs over many years but now he has decided that he must retire completely but we appreciate all the work he has done over those years, I am sure his advice still will be
needed. THANKS RON!!

Ted is affectionately known by many at Carey as “The Lord Scarf” and we were pleased he agreed to preach whilst Peter was away but I’m not sure Zoe will want him back.!! Ted and Avril have been worshipping with us for a few months now since returning from the wilderness of
Earls Barton. He was pleased to fill in one of two Sunday’s Peter was away, as we were pleased to see him in the pulpit. Phillip was seconded to preach the other vacant Sunday. If you see T.B.C. now in the newsletter it is read as “To Be Copperwheat”, perhaps one week it won’t be Philip! Thanks to both of them for helping out, we appreciate it.

The catering committee would like to thank everyone who supported us for the Easter Breakfast. It is so encouraging to see the numbers up on the previous years and especially that everyone turned out for their full English on a very snowy morning. We would like to thank our waitresses, Jade, Zoe Leah and Bethany, Zoe and Simon for getting the tables out and Cameron for helping set out the tables for us. Thanks also to Dilys and her team of helpers for the cards that depicted the bible on the tables. We hope you will continue to support us, the next one is our Harvest Festival in September.

 

CHANGE OF EMERGENCY CONTACT NUMBER

Please not that as from May 1st there is a new emergency Contact Number. 07777 637988
If you have a bookmark or calendar then please change the emergency number on it, this still will be available for the foreseeable future but the new one should be used if possible.

The Boys’ Brigade - Keith Mitchell

After raising money with coffee morning’s and quizes we were able to get the “Olive Room” Rejuvenated. We are extremely grateful to Jane’s Dad, Bill for all his work decorating the room. Thanks to the church for getting the roof repaired so the rain does not ruin his hard work. Bill has been down the church regularly over the past few weeks painting and now with the new carpet laid, new blinds are fitted and two nice notice boards for us and the junior church so it is already for the official opening. The toilet has be spruced up as well with a coat of paint and the excess carpet used. The next phase is to get a skip and dispose of all the rubbish which came out of it and all the other rubbish around the place but that will have to wait until we finish clearing the hut.
Thanks once again to Mr Copperwheat who came and talked to the boys about his wartime aeroplane models (below). Another interesting evening which the boys enjoyed, as well as all
the officers. During the school holidays recently we tried a new experiment, we met on the two Fridays and ran it as a youth club type activity. All the groups joined together and we supplied a meal and drink for all the boys, helpers and officers and we charged £2 each night for the
refreshments. Thank to the staff and helpers who gave up their weeks off during the holiday for the boys and I believe it was a great success, hopefully a service we can provide again during the holiday weeks.

Date for you Diary
Quiz Evening - Saturday May 17th 2008
Please note this time it is a Saturday, make a date in your diary. and come and support us.

 

The Girls Brigade - Jeanette Mitchell

On Monday, 26th May, 14 members of our Girls’ Brigade Company will be joining with others from Kettering, Burton Latimer and Rothwell at our Bi-Annual Camp. This year we will be going to the Sir John Lowther Scout Centre at Glendon, near Kettering, again. We will be going on two day trips during the week and taking part in various other activities during the 5 days we are at camp.
We would be grateful for any donations of tins of food, packets of biscuits or crisps, or home-made cakes, etc. for the girls to enjoy whilst at camp. If you have any donations please see Jeanette, Alison or Rita, or bring them to church on Sunday, 25th May. Many thanks in anticipation of your help. The Juniors have been thinking recently about people with special needs. To help them realise what life would be like if they lost their sight they were set a challenge of making a sandwich and a drink whilst blindfolded. The sandwiches looked interesting but the girls enjoyed eating them all the same. Well done to Zoe who attended the Officers training course at
Glendon during March. She must now wait for the Heather Davis (formerly Northants Commissioner) to visit her on a Monday evening when she has to take the evening including the devotions, games and badgework. She will also visit another GB Company to see how it is run to enable her to compare ideas and bring new games, etc. back to us at Carey. We can then promote Zoe to a lieutenant later in the year, watch this space. Our officers and helpers were involved in the weekend, we went over and prepared, cooked and washed up after the meals for the officers and girls at training .

 

JUNIOR CHURCH NEWS

On the April parade Sunday the youngsters all wrote their thoughts about what they talk about on
Sundays on sticky labels. When we went into Church they stuck them onto the helium balloons that Peter had tied to the rails on the rostrum. After the service we all went outside into King Street and let them go, to send the message that we should spread the word to all people, that Jesus died for us and rose from the dead. We should tell everyone that he loves us all!

We were wondering if any of the gentlemen, or ladies, in the church have a pot of paint in their workshop left from their decorating. If so and they would like to fetch one (or more) of our little chairs from the hall as they are all beginning to look a bit sad. As they are now over 100 years old we would like them to have a face lift. Thank you very much to Jane’s Dad (Bill Chambers) for cleaning and painting the Olive Room and toilet. It looks really lovely now and we hope everyone that uses it will treat it very well and keep it clean and tidy as they would like to find it. There is a “Henry” cleaner in there so please use it.

Anne Mitchell
Junior Church Secretary

Prayer Request

If you would like us to pray for you or someone you know, please feel free to ask by sending us an e-mail, any request will be in the strictest confidence.

Jesus said, "Ask, and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you".  Matthew 7:7

prayers@careybaptist.co.uk

 

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