The Kingswood Foodbank is in need of tins of meat, spuds, fruit, fish and veg, jam, oil, crisps, soya milk and washing up liquid. Thank you all very much.
The weekend of 4th and 5th July, the Potterswood Flower Festival. On the theme of ‘Bible Stories’, it is open from 10 to 4 on the Saturday and 2 to 4pm on the Sunday. There is also a Songs of Praise at 6pm on the Sunday. Free entry to the festival (and tabletop sale & book sale).
Saturday 11th July is due to be a coffee morning but, again, it looks like it will not happen as there are no volunteers to host it.
The project to restore and enhance Kingswood Park is taking shape over the summer, as the next stage of the regeneration project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund gets underway. Work to remodel the amphitheatre to create more comfortable seating and a new toilet block close to the new play area will start at the end of June. The park's transformation will also include new accessible paths and a mobile café.
Following on last Saturdays Church AGM: 1) There will be no Christmas Fayre this year. Instead, there will be an enhanced Coffee Morning with stalls on Saturday 14th November, and 2) The Christmas Lunch will be on 12th December.
A Mathematically "Perfect" Day. June 28 (the 28th day of the 6th month) is celebrated by mathematicians because both the month and day correspond to the first two "perfect numbers" (6 and 28). A perfect number
is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its proper positive divisors (excluding the number itself).
World History. The date is famously etched into history as the day that sparked and officially ended World War I: The Spark - On June 28, 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo served as the catalyst for the outbreak of World War I. The End - Exactly five years later, on June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed, formally concluding the war.
Music in Kingswood Park this Sunday (28th), 3 to 5pm, the Bristol Show Choir.
Lectionary 28th June to 4th July. Genesis 22:1-14; Psalm 13; Romans 6.12-23; Matthew 10.40-42. Recognised. Jesus concludes his teaching on mission by stressing the close identification between Father God, Jesus himself, those who go in his name, and those who receive his followers in the right spirit. He sends his disciples out to preach in his name, and they are to assume that God will provide for them. How can we see the image of Christ in those around us and do we recognise ourselves as made in God’s image? This week we think about how we honour Jesus through the way that we love and serve others.
The purpose of Kingswood Methodist Church is to respond to God's Love in Christ and to live out that love in God's world.