Kilmore Presbyterian Church

We give each of you a warm welcome to our Service, and pray that our time of worship and fellowship will be a blessing to us all.

Sermon: Mother's Day - A Tribute to Godly Mothers   
Scripture: Colossians 3:15-17

WE NEED YOUR HELP - please do what you can, thank you. There are spaces to fill on our Flower Rota, and Family Service Tea Rota, and Free Will Offering Rota - on the table in the hall.

R.J. Retires as Treasurer.
Mr Robert Patterson after 56 years as treasurer has now retired. He remains as  our much loved and valued Clerk of Session. We want Robert to know how much we appreciate all he has done for us.  We warmly and sincerely  thank  Robert for the great job he has done as treasurer  so faithfully for the past 56 years! (isn‘t that amazing?) Robert is a conscientious and tireless worker who has given glory to God through serving his Master and our church in such a wonderful way. We also want to thank his family for the loving support they give to  Robert in this work for God’s kingdom.

We are very pleased and grateful that our elder Mr David Kennedy has agreed to take on the work of treasurer. We know you will support Dai by writing your name into one or more of the spaces in the Weekly Offering Rota sheet on the vestibule table. This is a rota of persons who will open, count and record the Weekly Offerings after each morning service. We need three persons to count for each month so there are 36 spaces on the Rota sheet to fill. Thank you for your help.

CONGREGATIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE
We would like all families of the congregation to complete one of the Questionnaire forms, about the Christmas Dinner and Summer Barbeque. Please return the form to the box in the vestibule before the end of March 2010. Thank you for your help.

Please take your copy of the United Appeal BRIEFING spring 2010.

We want to encourage our congregation to support
Glasswater Primary School P.T.A. Fundraising Lunch March 26th from 12 Noon to 1-30pm to raise funds for electronic reading resources.

Advanced Notices of Services
Sunday 21st  at 11-30am - Jesus coming to Jerusalem
Sunday evening 21st You are invited to a BMI (Board of Mission in Ireland) service in Killinchy at 7-00pm. Guest speaker Rev J. Woodside.
Sunday 28th at 11-30am Palm Sunday

Advanced notice of Meetings
Thursday 25th Session 7-30pm, Committee 8-00pm.

CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED  at 7pm Minor hall
Sunday March       28th      Program  6    Jesus - His Resurrection

Announcements are put on our web site each week: www.kilmorepresbyterian.com

Church Cds
Services held in the Church are recorded onto CD and a copy is readily available upon request from Dermot Kelly.

To use the Church Induction Loop System move your hearing aid on off switch to the ‘T’ position.

The earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the world and all who live in it; for He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters. Psalm 24: 1 - 2

Hands that speak, eyes that hear!
On 30 January 2010, 1,200+ jubilant Deaf people Indians from all over India converged on Kochi, Kerala, to celebrate the launch of the first ever translation of the Scriptures in an Indian sign language.

Eight Deaf men and women, trained and equipped by Deaf Opportunity Out Reach (DOOR) and Wycliffe, worked for years to translate 32 carefully-selected foundational Bible passages, for publication in animated signed form (before the Avatar film!) on DVD.  Kerala Sign Language speakers are the first Deaf in India to be able to understand God’s word in their heart language.

Most Deaf people can't read. Some can but with great difficulty, since they've never heard the sounds that the written symbols represent, so they have to memorise each written word, like a phone number. Who would enjoy reading a page of phone numbers? Or memorising them!

Even where specialised educational support is available, the average Deaf adult only reaches the reading age of eight, and the Deaf literacy rate worldwide is a low 15%. As in other countries, Deaf Indians live in an information vacuum. They are bypassed by spoken and written communication, excluded from hearing society, not understanding their family’s religion, not knowing their siblings' aspirations, or even their parents’ names.

Christians use many creative ways to communicate the gospel —church activities, radio, TV, audio recordings, Bibles, tracts, songs, drama, films—but they fail to reach millions of the world's Deaf. So, starved of information about God, Christian and non-Christian Deaf Indians eagerly snatched these DVDs. Deaf translator Siji believes that the good news will spread rapidly amongst the 100,000 Deaf in Kerala. It's heartbreaking that it has taken this long for these marginalised people to have God’s word. With about 9 million Deaf in India, there is still much more work for Indian Christians pioneering in numerous sign languages to do.

Deaf people are the largest un-reached people group in the world. There could be 400 sign languages without the Scriptures. DOOR is involved in several translation projects in Africa and Asia; Wycliffe-SIL likewise in Europe and Latin America.

Wycliffe Bible Translators, Horsleys Green, High Wycombe HP14 3XL 
www.wycliffe.org.uk