December 13th

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Advent Calendar 2025 and Prayer Diary

Families
Ruth answered,
“Please don’t tell me to leave you and return home!
I will go where you go, I will live where you live;
your people will be my people,
your God will be my God.
I will die where you die and be buried beside you.
May the LORD punish me if we are ever separated,
even by death!” Ruth 1 v16-17.

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Lo, He comes, with clouds descending.

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December 7th to 14th is Family Week in the Methodist Church.

Daily Prayer: Let’s pray today for those members of our family for whom ‘it is complicated’. Finished school and don’t yet have something to do next? Not yet found a life partner? No career or steady work yet? Struggling with finding a role to play in the church community? Can’t see what the future might hold?

Lord God who loves us, we don’t know what the future holds, but we know You hold the future and you have good plans for us. Help us to trust in you, dedicating ourselves to serve you wherever we are.

Pray also today for the success of the New Believers/New Members Welcome for Hillside Society at 2pm today.

Please send prayer requests and suggestions to be included in the Prayer Diary by using the contact form below.

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[Tap here] Daily Bible reading: Ruth 1 v12-21

Daily Bible reading: Ruth 1 v12-21

12 You must go back home, because I am too old to marry again. Even if I got married tonight and later had more sons, 13 would you wait for them to become old enough to marry? No, my daughters! Life is harder for me than it is for you, because the LORD has turned against me.”
14 They cried again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye, but Ruth held on to her. 15 Naomi then said to Ruth, “Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and to her gods! Why don’t you go with her?”
16 Ruth answered,
“Please don’t tell me to leave you and return home!
I will go where you go, I will live where you live;
your people will be my people,
your God will be my God.
17 I will die where you die and be buried beside you.
May the LORD punish me if we are ever separated,
even by death!”
18 When Naomi saw that Ruth had made up her mind to go with her, she stopped urging her to go back.
19 They reached Bethlehem, and the whole town was excited to see them. The women who lived there asked, “Can this really be Naomi?”
20 Then she told them, “Don’t call me Naomi any longer! Call me Mara, because God has made my life bitter. 21 I had everything when I left, but the LORD has brought me back with nothing. How can you still call me Naomi, when God has turned against me and made my life so hard?”

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All-Age Activity: Can you read this story that Jesus told?
(Answers will be given tomorrow – Dec 14th)

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Answers to yesterday’s (Dec 12th) activity:

1 ONE SIM > SIMEON	8 SEMI PRO > PROMISE
2 GAIN WIT > WAITING	9 ON SAINT > NATIONS
3 NAAN > ANNA	10 PURR SIDES > SURPRISED
4 PELMET > TEMPLE	11 WING RAN > WARNING
5 JAMES RULE > JERUSALEM	12 BEST BAD > STABBED
6 DESPAIR > PRAISED	13 DUG HEART > DAUGHTER
7 PRY GAIN > PRAYING	14 THE PROP > PROPHET

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