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Week of Prayer 21st-25th April 2025

Our next week of prayer is themed around Exodus 33v7-11: The Tent of Meeting

Bank Holiday Monday - 7:30pm Evening Launch
Tuesday’s Focus - A Place of Encounter
Wednesday’s Focus - A Place of Worship
Thursday’s Focus - A Place of Enquiry
Friday’s Focus - A Place of Dwelling

For more information see Week of Prayer
 

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Building Project Update

We have now submitted the Heritage Statement & Listed Building Applications to the council for approval.  We will be moving forward during March to prepare some initial “sketch” proposals for the new development work we want to do.  At this stage these will be a very simple concept that will be submitted to the council as a “pre-application” for discussion and negotiation to help us agree what we are allowed to do with the building.
 
To help us do this, we would like to hear your thoughts and ideas about what facilities we need for future ministry – what do we need for discipleship?  Youth? Children? Seniors?  Community Engagement? Pastoral Care?  Your ideas are important to us and will help us to prepare a list of requirements for our building consultant to use when drawing up concept plans, and so if you have not yet completed our consultation questionnaire please can we encourage you to do so over the next few days?  Hard copies are available upon request for anyone unable to complete the online version.  To access the questionnaire, please click here.
 

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Burton Elim Bible Week July 21st-24th

I am currently considering running a more in-depth Bible-Study / mini-Bible Week in the summer, and would be interested in gauging interest in this.  Running 7-9pm on Monday 21st, Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th July, this would look in depth at what the Bible teaches on a particular subject.  I am currently considering preparing a series spread over 3 evenings looking at The Coming King, and what the Bible has to say about the Second Coming of Jesus.  If this is something that would be of interest to you, please can you let me know so that I can gauge whether or not it is something worth running?

Pastor Chris

 

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Close Encounters: Current Sunday Morning Teaching Series

In Jesus’ ministry as recorded in Mark we see that He encountered a wide variety of people from many different walks of life, in many different situations. We also see that He responded in different ways to different people, and whilst the truth of the gospel message doesn’t change, the vehicle in which it is delivered needs to be relevant to the culture, and the person, to whom we are sharing it.  What can we learn from the life of Jesus and his encounters with people?  What did He say?  How did He say it?  How did He make the person feel? And what was their response?

We are called to reach the lost, to Go and make Disciples, and to be witnesses to Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit.  But in today’s world, how do we do that? It has been said that we fish in a messy pool, and that the fish don’t come ready filleted, but how do we preach the truth but offer grace?

As we seek to be a church of disciples who make disciples, how can we grow personally and reach others with the message of the cross?  And is our church culture one that welcomes people into a safe place where they can hear, and respond, to the invitation to repent and follow Jesus?

Week 1: Mark 1:40-44: Breaking the power of the past 
Week 2:  Mark 2:1-12: Chasing the miracle maker
Week 3:  Mark 5:1-17: Overcoming the darkness
Week 4: Mark 5: 21-24, 35-43:  At what cost?
Week 5:  Mark 5: 25-34: Restoring identity
Week 6:  Mark 7:1-23: Pride & prejudice
Week 7:  Mark 10:13-16:  Rediscovering our inner child
Week 8:  Mark 10:17-30:  Keeping up appearances 
Week 9:  Mark 10:46-52:  What do you see?
Week 10:  Mark 14:3-9: What’s that smell?
 

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Easter Sunday 20th April

Our next baptism service will be at our joint Easter Sunday morning service on the 20th April – if you would like to know more about baptism then please contact Pastor Chris

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Prayer Ministry Training

Prayer Minsitry Training 

We want to help equip the church to use the gifts God has given you, and as we see Holy Spirit at work within the church and begin to move into a new season, Pastor Chris and Lynette are running a prayer ministry training course.  This is designed to equip you to pray for others, and help us to raise up a prayer ministry team in both congregations who have been trained to minister to others.

The first session is designed as a basic introduction suitable for all believers to understand the foundations for how to pray with confidence for other people.

Session 1: Foundations for Prayer Ministry 

· Theology 101
· The Gifts of the Spirit 101
· Practical 101

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For those that then wish to go deeper, the following 3 sessions are designed to equip us to be able to minister to people at a deeper level.
 

Session 2:   Releasing the Prophetic Sunday 2nd March

· Ministering in the prophetic
· Repentance & recommitment - to be continued 3rd Nov?
· Baptism in the Holy Spirit - to be continued 3rd Nov?
 

Session 3:   Healing Prayer (July 2025 tbc)

· A theology around “laying on of hands”
· Physical healing
· Emotional (inner) healing
· Soul ties
 

Session 4:   Spiritual Warfare (April 2025 tbc)

· A theology around “principalities & powers”
· The occult
· Deliverance

 

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The Hub Friday March 14th 2025

 

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