Service Projects:

[On-going Service Project]

We will be handing out a slip regarding collecting for a local food bank. We will have a box every Sunday for any of your donations. This is a good way of giving in our community.

[Fundraising for the Youth]

We will be putting on two Fundraisers for the Youth. The first is a Carwash & Breakfast. The Relief Society will be cooking breakfast, while the youth wash cars and organise games and face painting etc. This will be on Sat 23^rd May:10am-12pm. Any Volunteers or donations of food etc.. are much appreciated.

The Second Fundraiser we will be putting on, will be an American Themed BBQ on Sat 4^th July 2-4pm. This should be lots of fun. We hope to organise stalls , music, dancing and games (All with your help and support) If you can contribute at all please contact a member of the R.S. Presidency, we are eager for volunteers!

Dates For your Diary May/June 2015:

Sun 10^th May:                 Fast Sunday & Choir 1.45 – 2.15pm

Fri 15^{th –} Sat 16^th May:   Aaronic Priesthood Camp

Sun 17^th May:                 Choir 1.45 – 2.15pm &

                                        Stake Youth Fireside @ Littleborough 7.30pm

Wed 20 May:                 Stake Youth Activity @ Littleborough 7.30pm

Sat 23^rd May:                 Relief Society FSY Fundraiser – ‘Car Wash & Breakfast’ 10am-12pm

Sun 24th May:               Institute Graduation @ YSA Building 7.30pm

Sun 31^st May:                Choir 1.45 – 2.15pm

Fri 5^th June:                   Ward Temple Night 7.30pm & Dance 14+ @ Manchester 7.30pm

Sat 6^th June:                  Stake Dance Festival 7pm @ Ashton

Sun 7^th June:                 Stake Conference Broadcast & Seminary Graduation 7.30pm

Sat 13^th June:               Beehive & Deacon Activity

Sun 14^th June:              Fast Sunday & Choir 1.45 – 2.15pm

Tue 16^th – 20^th June:   [Stake Temple Week]

Tue 16^th June:             Stake Youth Baptisms 6.30pm @ Temple

Thu 18^th June:             New & Returning Members Baptisms

Sun 21^st June:              Fathers Day & Choir 1.45 – 2.15pm

Wed 24th June:           Stake Youth Activity @ Ashton 7.30pm

Thu 25^th June:             R.S Mid-Week Activity –‘Spring Walk & Supper’ 7.30pm        

Sat 27^th June:             Stake Netball/ Football

Sun 28^th June:            YSA Devotional @ YSA Building 7.30pm

Fri 3^rd July:                 Chorley Dance 14+ 7pm & Ward Temple Night 7.30pm Session

Sat 4^th July:                Relief Society FSY Fundraiser – American BBQ 2-4pm

 

Lesson Schedule: May & June 2015

10^th May: Chapter 9: The Book of Mormon – Keystone of our religion [Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson Manual]

17^th May: Chapter 10: Flooding the Earth and our lives with the Book of Mormon [Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson Manual]

24th May:   Which way do you face? By Elder Robbins: [Pg 9, Nov 2014 Ensign]

31^st May:     Joint R.S./Priesthood

7^th June:      Stake Conference Broadcast

14^th June: Chapter 11: Following the Living Prophet [Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson Manual]

21^st June: Chapter 12: Seek the spirit in all you do [Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson Manual]

28^th June:    Lord is it I? By President Uchtdorf: [Pg 56, Nov Ensign]

Visiting Teaching Spiritual Thought {From Newsletter}

“Visiting teaching gives women the opportunity to watch over, strengthen, and teach one another. Through visiting teaching, the Relief Society president helps the bishop identify and resolve short-term and long-term needs of the sisters and their families”. (Handbook 2, 9.5).

Don’t forget to report your Visiting Teaching. Report cards are now available to post through the Visiting Teaching post box making it a doddle to let us know how you are getting on, otherwise please report visits / contacts to your Visiting Teaching Co-ordinator – Sister Christine Knott.

[Contact your Sister by the 5th, make an appointment by the 10th, Visit by the 15th and report by the 20th]

Relief Society News: [From Newsletter]

We would like to give an official welcome to 2 new sisters in the ward: Sister Kristie Hita &  Sister Hannah Corrigan. We hope that you will make them feel welcome and get to know them better.

We are starting to collect for Rachel’s Baby Basket, if there is anything you feel you can contribute to this, it would be very much appreciated. Baby Knight is due August, exciting!

 

Book Of Mormon Testimonial Memes From our Lesson last Sunday

 

Spiritual Thought for the day : Keep Anchored in the Saviour

Stake Conference Weekend Details:

Photos Taken at our St Georges Day Celebration

April 2015 Visiting Teaching Message

The Attributes of Jesus Christ: Without Guile or Hypocrisy

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Prayerfully study this material and seek to know what to share. How will understanding the life and roles of the Savior increase your faith in Him and bless those you watch over through visiting teaching? For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org.

This is part of a series of Visiting Teaching Messages featuring attributes of the Savior.

Understanding that Jesus Christ is without guile and hypocrisy will help us faithfully strive to follow His example. Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin (1917–2008) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said: “To beguile is to deceive or lead astray. … A person without guile is a person of innocence, honest intent, and pure motives, whose life reflects the simple practice of conforming his [or her] daily actions to principles of integrity. … I believe the necessity for the members of the Church to be without guile may be more urgent now than at other times because many in the world apparently do not understand the importance of this virtue.”¹

Of hypocrisy, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, said: “None of us is quite as Christlike as we know we should be. But we earnestly desire to overcome our faults and the tendency to sin. With our heart and soul we yearn to become better with the help of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.”²

We know “we will be judged according to our actions, the desires of our hearts, and the kind of people we have become.”³ Yet as we strive to repent, we will become more pure—and “blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

Additional Scriptures

Psalm 32:2; James 3:17; 1 Peter 2:1–2, 22

From the Scriptures

Little children are without guile. Jesus Christ said: “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. … And he took [the children] up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them” (Mark 10:14, 16).

Christ also ministered to the children in the Americas after His Crucifixion. He commanded that the people bring their little children to Him and “set them down upon the ground round about him, and Jesus stood in the midst; …

“… [And] he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them. …

“And as they looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and … they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, … and the angels did minister unto them” (3 Nephi 17:12, 21, 24).

Consider This

What can we learn about being without guile from little children? (See Guide to the Scriptures, “Guile.”)