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MCC will be electing new elders on Sunday November 20th. The two people put forward for elder election are John Mullany and Ann Campbell. MCC Members will take a vote on these candidates in an event after the Sunday service on that day. We will have lunch together and then we will take some time to conduct the vote. Please prayerfully consider this over the next couple of weeks as the vote approaches. 

No Exploring Discipleship this week. We continue next Wednesday 9th November at 8-9:30pm in the MCC Resource Centre. Talk to Keith for more information.

The MCC Mission partnership process is starting again for the next calendar year. If you have an organisation or a particular individual missionary that you think  MCC might be able to partner with, please do email Kevin to get the forms.

We are excited to say that on November 13th MCC will holding an election of Elders. The first phase of this process is to establish our ‘voters list’ and this must be agreed before we can move on to nominations. In our tradition, the ‘voters list’ consists of those who have been received as members in our congregation and who have contributed financially to the costs of the congregation over the past year in a way that can be identified by our treasurer.  Only those who appear on the finalised ‘voter’s list’ may nominate, be nominated or vote in the elder election process.

The voting list can be found here and if you expected to find your name on it but it isn't there, please do contact Keith so that we can correct the mistake.

There will be no meeting on Monday, 31st due to bank holiday. On 7 November we will continue our study on the Old Testament Book of Ruth at 10am in the Resource Centre. You are very welcome. Please join us. If you have any questions please contact the office (01) 5054990 or office@maynoothcc.org.

 Paul's letters were just that- letters. We sometimes forget that they were written to a specific people at a particular time for distinct purposes. They are not abstract theological statements telling us random things about the Deity. Rather they are letters written with care to people he cared about that are meant to be read that way. Upon receipt of such a letter, a congregation would gather as one big group to hear the letter being read aloud all in one go. As we start a new sermon series on Romans, we want to do the same! So we invite you to come a little early on Sunday September 11th at 9am to n the Maynooth Post Primary school to join with us as we hear the whole letter being read out loud in one go.Then we'll gather to worship with these transformative words reverberating in our minds! All are welcome. Tea and coffee will be provided. 

FORUM is MCC's disucssion event, a place where we meet to explore where our faith meets our lived lives. It starts again for this year on Sunday September 18th at 7.30pm in the MCC Resource Centre. We'll be doing something slightly different this week since Kevin Hargaden will be delivering a paper he wrote earlier in the year for a theology conference called "Facebook, Loneliness and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 'Life Together'" but we'll be using the talk to launch into a broader conversation about what it means to suffer loneliness. All are welcome to come and join us.

MCC has a tradition of trying new things in the summer. For the next five weeks the Mission Team are writing the sermons as a group effort. Kevin will be delivering them. Their goal will be to look at the role of the Holy Spirit in sharing our faith. To do this they are looking at five remarkable scenes of evangelism in the Book of Acts. Each Sunday we will have the sermon, followed by a tea and coffee time and then gather back again for a Questions and Answers session on what we've just heard. This is continuting the pattern that we followed last summer.

Each Wednesday the mission team will then augment our sermon with a mid week, a sort of informal summer homegroup cluster in the MCC Resource Centre. The topic will be a hands-on and helpful guide to implementing the things we are talking about on Sundays. The pattern for this sermon series is laid out below:

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The Presbyterian Church in Ireland is launching an exciting new scheme called the "Accredited Preachers Course". Trust us to take something so cool and give it such a lame name. Recognising that the shape of ministry has to adapt to the kind of mission we are called to, the PCI is creating a course that will help people who have a teaching gift, a passionate loving faith and a heart for mission, to develop their potential. It is a course that is set up in response to the reality that many of our most gifted preachers are not called to full time ministry or to ordination. They are just as likely housewives and businessmen, retired people or immigrants who one day hope to return to their country of origin. At the end of an applied course in the foundations of preaching, these accredited preachers will form a phalanx of gifted and willing servants who would help lead worship and preaching in mission contexts, when churches are without ministers and in other situations that will emerge where the old model of simply having ordained ministers will be increasingly stretched.

Anyone over the age of 18 can be considered for these courses and there are no academic entry requirements. There will be a course running in Dublin in January 2012, covering all aspects of leading worship from the chosing of hymns and praise songs, the writing of kids talks and a major focus on preaching, especially how to correctly handle a text and deliver it well. If this course and program gets you excited, you should contact the elders (elders@maynoothcc.org). The deadline for applications is September 30th. For more information, visit the accredited preachers webpage.