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If you are a visitor or newcomer to Long Furlong, a warm welcome to you. Please speak to the service leader and pick up a Welcome to Long Furlong leaflet and a term programme for more information.

Safety advice: we love having your children with us, but please remember that your children's safety is your responsibility whilst on the school premises and they must not be left unsupervised at any time, especially after the services.

While you're on the school premises ... The school has kindly given us permission to use the main hall, nursery, music room, the central outdoor play area (with adult supervision only), the toilets opposite the photocopier, and the corridors needed to get at them. However, please note that all other areas, especially classrooms, are out of bounds. For security reasons, no external doors or windows should be opened except by an adult, who must ensure that they are closed and locked afterwards

PRAYER AFTER THE SERVICE
If anyone would like someone to pray with them on any occasion, or after the service on Sunday, please ask whoever is leading the service, and we will direct you to an appropriate person.

PASTORAL TEAM 
If you or anyone you know needs to be visited or would appreciate prayer, please contact Alison Summers (535102), Wendy Crocker (524096) or Cathy Walker (528134).  If you are interested in getting involved in visiting, please speak to one of the team.

THIS EVENING AT NORTHCOURT ROAD
Evening Worship, 6.30pm
Jesus – Heartfelt Anger
Mark 3: 1-7
Jit Patel

NEXT SUNDAY, 18h July
Morning Worship, 10.00am
Momentous worship
Nehemiah 12:27-43
Colin Wood

WELCOME TO JITESH PATEL
Jit was ordained last weekend and has now joined the staff. Our congratulations to him. We shall be interviewing him today at all the services on both sites and he will be preaching at Northcourt Road tonight. Thanks to everyone for your prayers and practical gifts as he has set up home in Mattock Way.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Please note the following dates and arrangements for saying farewell to:
Andy and Emma Murray and family: Sunday 18th July - Bring and share tea 4.30 pm at Northcourt Road followed by SPACE service at 6.30 pm. Everyone is welcome. Drinks will be provided but please bring food (savoury or sweet) to share. Please sign the list on the Welcome Table in the entrance hall if you are coming so that we have an idea of numbers.
Emily Thomson (Careforce Youth Assistant 2009 - 2010): Sunday 18th July - Thanks and farewell in services at Northcourt Road
Ron and Ruth Bushyager and family: Sunday 29th August - Bring and share lunch at Long Furlong School from 12:15pm on Sunday 29th August. Everyone is welcome, but please sign the list on the Welcome Table in the entrance hall if you are coming so that we have an idea of numbers. Soft drinks will be provided, but please bring food (savoury or sweet) to share.
At 6.30pm that evening at Northcourt Road, it will be Ron’s final service where he will be preaching.
Janet Taft: In September we will have the opportunity to pray for Janet as she starts her new job and to give thanks for her ministry amongst us.
If you would like to contribute to a farewell gift for Andy, please put it in an envelope marked "Andy" either via the collection plate or via the church office by Friday 16th July at the latest. Also if you have a special memory that you would like to include in the book being compiled by Beth Palmer, please get this to her by 11th July.
If you would like to contribute to a farewell gift for Ron, then please put it in an envelope marked "Ron" either via the collection plate or to the church office by 22nd August at the latest. Also if you have a special memory that you would like to include in the book being compiled by Julie Kemp-Harper, please get this to her by 22nd August.
Card inserts are available to sign in the entrance hall

UNSTOPPABLE – NEW WINE 2010
MEETING NEXT SATURDAY
We now have over 170 people booked on to New Wine which is now only 3 weeks away. We'd like to invite anyone who is coming, particularly for the first time, to join us for afternoon tea, on Saturday 17th July, 3.30pm, in the lounge at Northcourt Road. This will give us the opportunity to meet, discuss some of the basics of surviving New Wine camping, and you can tell us any preferences you have for who you camp by. You should have heard/soon hear your camp site - we are expecting this to be red 1 & 2, so please check and let us know if there are any problems.
It’s not too late to book on. Half week tickets are available if you can’t join us for the whole week, or even a day pass (see www.new-wine.org to book).
Karen and Paul Brombley 529659, pbrombley@hotmail.com

TABITHA JORDEN GOING TO EAST ASIA
Tabitha has been working with Agape in Oxford the last 2 years, and this August will be going to East Asia with an Agape team for 1 year. She will be studying language part-time, and aiming to build friendships with students and share God's love with them, as well as encouraging local believers in their faith. Please pray for her as she prepares to go and is raising financial support. If you'd like more info or to be on her prayer list, please contact tabby1987@hotmail.com.

THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
is a leading children's charity committed to making childhood better for all children in the UK. Thank you once again to those of you who have a box in your home and support the society by giving in this way. Abingdon Parish have sent up £625 this year. Throughout the country £2 million is raised in this way each year - small change can make a difference. If you don't yet have a box and would like one please contact me on 01235 201070. Alternatively if you'd like to learn more about the Children's Society including other fundraising activities i.e. Christingle, Walk & Explore, The Big Stitch....please go to www.childrenssociety.org.uk. Many thanks. Trish Howkins, Abingdon Box Secretary

LARGE TRAILER REQUIRED FOR NEW WINE
We need a large trailer to take the Youth Mess Tents, Cooking Equipment and Tables to New Wine this year. It is required from Sat 31st July until Sun 8th Aug. If you are able to help with this or know someone who might have a trailer please contact Andy Dent urgently on 200332 or andy.dent@ntlworld.com. Thank you. (Note you don't have to take or load the trailer!)

CAMPING WEEKEND
If you are joining us on the camping weekend, please could I have your deposit of £12 per family? Thank you. Anne Taylor

GODZKIDZ
We are very short of leaders for the children's work: especially for the 7 to 11 age range. Please talk to Diana Bingham if you feel you would enjoy doing this important ministry.

JULY WALK
This month’s walk will be at Shotover on Thursday 15th July and we will be taking our own picnic. All abilities welcome as people can walk for whatever length suits you or you can just have the picnic. Meet at Church at 10am and bring something to sit on. Ring 527673 for cancellation. Maggie and Ian Snowball

STARSHIP DISCOVERY HOLIDAY CLUB – 24th to 28th AUGUST
A big thank you to everyone who has already offered to help with Holiday Club - if you are planning on helping but haven’t put your form in yet it would be great to hear from you soon. If you are not sure about leading a group of children why not help in the crèche during the week or organise the crafts or refreshments? See Val Challis for more details.
Holiday Club Crafts: We need empty 2L fizzy drink bottles & kitchen roll cardboard tubes for holiday club this year – it would be great if you could help! There is a box in the entrance hall for them. Thanks, Val.

COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday 20th July from 10.15 am at Shirley’s, 111 Alexander Close

NEWS FROM TOM HUNNINGS
“In July Chris Brotherton and I (along with others) are raising money for two charities that I have been heavily involved with in the last 3-4 years. They are The Catalyst Trust (who endeavour to rehabilitate gang members in London and Oxford) and RainEdge Orphanage and School in Nakuru, Kenya. To understand the relationship between the two charities please take a look at www.catalysttrust.org. We are kayaking around the Cornish coastline from Plymouth around Land’s End and finishing in Bude which is approximately 225 miles. We are hoping to complete this in eight days which is about 25 miles per day at a top speed of 4.5 miles per hour. We will be camping on beaches and the odd campsite and if you would like to know a detailed account of what we are doing and why we are raising the money please look at the below justgiving website. I would really value your support in any way you feel possible. I can be sponsored on www.justgiving.com/tom-hunnings or by a cheque payable to Catalyst Trust and sent to our work address: Penn Tree Services, Watercroft, Church Road, Penn HP10 8NX.”

GATEWAY MONEY TIP
Use the 48 hour rule! Take two days to think about any purchase - ask yourself 'do you really need it' and 'how many hours will you need to work to pay for it'? Give yourself a chance of staying within your budget.

INSPIRED BY CREATION
"A little patch of earth. A quiet spot to reflect. A view that stops you in your tracks. Where do you encounter God through creation?" In September, Oxford Diocese plans a competition. It is to share, using photographs or poetry, ways in which creation inspires you. Could you make it something to think about and look out for during holiday time? More on www.earthingfaith.org/inspired/ Richard Riggs

PRIMETIME ACTIVITY WEEK 10th – 13th August
Only 1 week left to get your application in and to ask a friend!

LOOKING FOR A HOST FAMILY IN ABINGDON
Kurt and Claudia Igler write:
“We are a family of 6 (1 daughter, 3 sons) living in Vienna and working full time with Agape Austria (Campus Crusade) in an evangelistic and apologetic university student's ministry. We are members of a local Baptist church. Our oldest son Johannes, age 15, would like to spend one year at an English school, and we have applied at two schools in Abingdon. It looks quite promising that he will be accepted. Johannes is now in a school with an emphasis on arts, he plays the guitar, but he also loves sports. Now we are looking for a host family (preferably with boy(s) of the same age) in Abingdon who could provide room and board for Johannes from school start in September to summer next year. Of course we are ready to bear the costs for that. We would prefer if this could be a Christian family from a church in Abingdon and have heard good things of your church.”
Please contact the Iglers direct (kurt.igler@gmail.com) or me in the office if you are able to help. Thank you. Christine (539172)

PERSONAL
Do you need a Black & Decker circular saw 5½” blade; wooden extending ladder 5’ to 12’ 6”; Black & Decker Workmate bench folding – no longer needed. Free. Ring Jacque Travis on 524826.
I have an adult ticket for New Wine, for the whole week, to resell half price or less or free. Please check first with the village host Karen and Paul Brombley for availability of space on site. Please contact Sandar Wade on 01235 210796 (evenings) if interested.

If you have any items for the newsletter or for prayers, please contact Anne Taylor (528505).