Weekly Activities

Sunday Family, all-age worship 10:30am (followed by Tea/Coffee and fellowship) Monday Caf 10:00am-2:00pm 3:15pm 6:30pm 11:30am 10:00am-2:00pm 1:45pm 6.30pm Good Companions club (over 55s) 1:45pm Silver tones choir practice Tuesday Songster (choir) and Band practice Wednesday Bible fellowship Thursday Caf Home League (ladies) fellowship House Fellowship (fortnightly) (See Alan & Val Hurd for details) Friday Mens Fellowship 3:00pm

The Seasider
Newsletter of the Rhyl Corps of The Salvation Army New Year Edition 2014

Prayer Day
Saturday 11th January 10am6pm At a recent corps council meeting it was suggested we have some special times of prayer, perhaps 40 hours in this 40th year of our corps at Rhyl. These will take place at intervals throughout the year, this Saturday being the first. The hall will be open for private prayer through the day with prayer stations to focus on should you wish. Please come along and use this opportunity to spend some special time in prayer with God, especially at the start of this new year.

Morning Worship Commitment Sunday

Sunday 12th January 10.30am A chance for us to renew our commitments to the Lord as we start this new year.

Friends and Heroes Childrens club 4:00pm

Corps Council / PCC meetings

Monday 20th January 6.15pmPCC Meeting 7.00pmCorps Council

Morning Worship
Sunday 26th January 10.30am Morning worship will be led by Majors Mark & Linda Billard (DHQ)

Charity Shop (Tel.: 01745 331646) Monday to Thursday 9:30am to 4:00pm Friday 9:00am to 1:00pm

Rhyl Corps Mission Statement

We will help people to know Jesus as a friend and Saviour; reaching out to meet their spiritual and practical needs.

To find out more contact us at.. The Salvation Army Halls, Windsor Street, Rhyl, Denbighshire, LL18 1BW. Tel.: 01745 334313
www.facebook.com/SalvationArmyRhyl

A New Year? It can be so much more

I expect most of you are back into your normal routine. Adults are back to work, children are preparing to go back to school, and life continues as it did before. The holiday season is now behind us. We always start a new year with fresh ideas and thoughts about what we are going to achieve during the next twelve months. Do you ever write down your new years resolutions, and then review them at the end of the year to see how you did? I think most peoples resolutions rarely see the month out and by the end of the year they cant even remember what they were! Perhaps we go about our resolutions the wrong way. Often we jump in at the deep end and try to make dramatic changes at once, which then we find impossible to keep up with, instead of trying to slowly introduce new habits. Apparently it takes a whole six weeks for a new habit to become part of your normal behaviour. What about spiritual resolutions? I think many people resolve that they will read the Bible every day, and start again on January 1st. Im sure many people also resolve to be better people and to help others. But why do we always leave these resolutions to the new year? Surely we can try to be a better Christian starting on any day we choose? Lets remember what Paul says: If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17) When you choose to follow Jesus you are part of the new creation! This means that we are part of Gods covenant of grace and forgiveness, and if we choose to walk towards Gods kingdom every day, we can start fresh every single day. We dont have to wait for the new year. So if you havent made any spiritual resolutions, you can do it today, or tomorrow, or next month it doesnt matter. Every step we take brings up closer to the kingdom. As for the next twelve months, why not make it the year that you finally make regular Bible reading a habit! May God bless you this year, whatever your spiritual resolutions may be. (taken from FindingGod.co.uk)

Christmas Carol Quiz

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) Silent Night Angels we have heard on high Away in a manger Joy to the World Deck the halls with boughs of holly O little town of Bethlehem God rest ye merry gentlemen O come all ye faithful Do you hear what I hear? Little drummer boy The first noel Hark the herald angels sing

How many did you get right? Some took a bit of thinking about!

Gods Cadets Happy New Year (Lt. Sian Radford)

As we start a new year there is much focus on change. People want to change their lifestyle, seek to start a new routine or ritual that will make them happier, healthier, and more fulfilled with life. There is of course nothing wrong with making positive choices to seek to change our circumstances, trying to better ourselves by learning a new skill, or taking up a new activity, or even deciding we want to trim our waistline (I write this as I reach for the Christmas chocolatesagain!) but it is not necessarily what is most important. As we start a new year we have a new beginning, a fresh start, an opportunity to begin again with God. The past is behind us, God knows and understands all that it has entailed and all that we have been through, and we can begin again and look forward to this New Year with hope and expectation because He is with us. And unlike things around us that may change, God does not, and will not; He does not change like shifting shadows (James 1:17) so great is His love and faithfulness towards each one of us. So whatever this New Year has in store for us we can face it with confidence and without fear for we know the One who holds the future in His hands and we know however hard it may seem at times, He will never fail us or let us down. May we as individuals and as a church family continue to hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is always faithful! (Hebrews 10:23) This coming Tuesday (7th) at 9pm on BBC4 a programme called Gods Cadets will be broadcast. It follows a group of cadets as they go through their training at the college in London. An inside view at their lives and their journey of faith with God.

Flowers
Thanks to all who will supply flowers for our holiness table this month.

Prayer Corner
Please remember to pray for :
All those people who continue to be affected in any way by the recent bad weather in our area. Those of our fellowship who have been in hospital recently or are unwell at the moment. Our church in Rhyl as we enter this new year. May we grow as individuals and as a family of Christians together.