Haiti Hospital Appeal // Weekly News 4th August

As a church, one of the charities we support is the Haiti Hospital Appeal. This Christian charity was founded in 2006 by members of Coney Hill Baptist Church, including Carwyn Hill who has worked for the charity in Haiti, with his wife Reninca, since December 2008.

The Haiti Hospital Appeal is dedicated to loving and serving a community, who have been without even the most basic healthcare, by providing a quality health care system that is not restricted to the few but a right for all, without any form of regional, religious, or economic discrimination.

Helping to run one of the leading hospitals in North Haiti, they specialise in community health care, maternity, paediatric, and neonatal care, and rehabilitation services for adults and children.

A number of people from West Wickham are involved and some have even been to Haiti to support and work on the various projects. The charity greatly values all the support they are given by individuals and organisations through donations, fundraising, partnerships, prayer and voluntary work. To find out more about their work and how you can get involved visit www.haitihospitalappeal.org.

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Swing your partner // Weekly News 28th July

As part of our Harvest Celebrations this year we are going to be having a Barn Dance and Supper.

It will be open to all ages and the great thing about a Barn Dance is that a lack of natural rhythm isn’t a bar to having a fun time. If your mobility is limited, there will be plenty of food and drink, as well as some seating from which you can laugh at people tripping over themselves.

Date:               21 September

Time:               6pm

Venue:             Assembly Rooms

We will confirm costs shortly, but tickets will be available from mid-August, with concessions for under 14s, and family tickets available.

Invite friends along to what should be an entertaining evening. For further details, see the new website in the coming weeks.

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New website // News Sheet - 21st July

UP AND RUNNING!

As of today, our new website goes live.

See what you think about the new look and content. It is a fully working site, but it is not the finished article. One of the great advantages of this new platform is the ease with which it can be modified. This is our starting point, but we intend to continue tinkering with the feel of it and so welcome any feedback from you.

In reality, the idea is that the website will rarely be static, but changing regularly to communicate all sorts of information. The hope is that you visit it regularly to see what’s going on in the life of the church and find out about forthcoming events  – you could even set it as your homepage.

You’ll have also noticed a change to our weekly news sheet. This reflects the style of the website and we will roll out this appearance across other areas of our publicity, such as noticeboards, welcome cards, etc.

You can also download this weeks news sheet below.

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Beacon Centre Questionnaire

It’s not too late to grab a questionnaire about possible developments for the Beacon Center. There are copies at the back of church and it is available to download below. If you have any questions, then please ask Lorna Carey. [box icon="down"]

Beacon Centre - Church Family Questionnaire

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Liberated living… // News Sheet - 14 July

We will soon be into the full swing of Summer when people head off on hols and some of our usual Sunday patterns shift a little. This weekend is our last Sunday Club until the Autumn. From next week, we will take a break from our journey through 1 Corinthians and run a series looking at some of the heroes and heroines of the Old Testament. This week we will be focusing on the topic of giving and exploring what it means to be generous people. We delve specifically into this subject once a year, recognizing that Jesus had a lot to say about the use of money and what it says about our spiritual state.

We haven’t tied this to any specific request for money. We simply encourage you to review how much you give away and prayerfully consider whether it is appropriate for you to increase or reduce your current level of giving.

Money is often a sensitive area, but I hope we can discover together some of the correspondence Jesus makes between generosity and a worry-free life.  At its best, the call to have a light hold on our income is an invitation to trust and find freedom.

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Baptism Service - 23rd June

We are really excited to announce that on Sunday 23rd we will have some of young people being baptised as part of our 10am service.

It is going to be a brilliant morning hearing about their journey to faith and we cannot wait to celebrate as a church family!

Come along a be blessed..