Building4Life team interview prospective architects! Great news! There are three teams of architects who will be interviewed with a view to being appointed for our Church re-ordering project. Please do pray for these candidates and the Building4Life team who will be conducting interviews on Thursday 26 January at 7pm and Friday 27 January at 4pm […]
This week the people of Downend have been offered a glimpse of heaven. Unlimited FaceTime, unlimited data. Our church has been open day and night, 24 hours for the whole week, with anyone and everyone invited to come in and sit with God. The night time hours have been filled up on a rota, […]
Feeding scheme news, appeal for child sponsors, special educational needs and sports facility provision news and more. Here is the Newsletter No. 23 June 2018 for the Dihlabeng Christian School in Clarens, South Africa. Here is the update on the Feeding Scheme Newsletter June 2018 . Click Sponsor Needs 2018 to find out more about the […]
As Jesus taught them he said, is it not written, “My house shall be a house of prayer for all nations?” (Mark 11: 17) It’s 5.30 on Monday morning and I have just returned from 2 hours in the stillness of church, and the prayer wall already has those words on it. They seem to […]
We have been called to be the generation that realises God’s purposes for the church which we have inherited from those who have gone before. And we have been called to realise the vision of a re-ordered Parish church that is a sacred space where community, creativity and Christian Spirituality can flourish- shaping an environment […]
“How to devote yourself to prayer? Begin to hear the voice that makes all things new.” I was sitting listening to Peter Misselbrook preaching at the 6.30 service in November. It was the end of the series on Paul’s letter to the Colossians, and one verse hit me so hard that I have not been […]
In solitude, we come to know the Spirit who has already been given to us. The pains and the struggles we encounter in our solitude thus become the way to hope, because our hope is not based on something that will happen after our sufferings are over, but on the real presence of God’s healing […]
Intuitively, we know that it is important to spend time in solitude. We even start looking forward to this strange period of uselessness. This desire for solitude is often the first sign of prayer, the first indication that the presence of God’s Spirit no longer remains unnoticed. As we empty ourselves of our many worries, […]
It is clear that what matters is faithfulness to the discipline. In the beginning, solitude seems so contrary to our desires that we are constantly tempted to run away from it. One way of running away is daydreaming or simply falling asleep. But when we stick to our discipline, in the conviction that God is […]
Once we have committed ourselves to spending time in solitude, we develop an attentiveness to God’s voice in us. In the beginning, during the first days, weeks, or even months, we have the feeling that we are simply wasting our time. Time in solitude may at first seem little more than a time in which […]