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Re-imagining Mission Engagement - Dreaming

Over the weekend of 24th & 25th October 2009, Chris Neal spoke on our theme of Touching Heaven, Changing Earth, and we began to reflect upon and try out something of what that might mean.

As a church we’ve been doing this for some time, but Chris gave us a different way of looking at things. The talks and activities that weekend challenged us afresh and we tried out some familiar and unfamiliar ways of putting things into practice in our community.

What God did was part of what he’s already begun, and he’s not finished with us yet!

This recording is from the second session subtitled Re-imagining Mission Engagement - Dreaming. It contains Chris' wrapping up comments on the previous group discussions.

A piece of music was used in this session that can not be reproduced for copywrite purposes. For information, the music was the Agnus Dei, by Karl Jenkins, taken from The Armed Man, A Mass For Peace.

Re-imagining Mission Engagement - Dreaming, part 1

Over the weekend of 24th & 25th October 2009, Chris Neal spoke on our theme of Touching Heaven, Changing Earth, and we began to reflect upon and try out something of what that might mean.

As a church we’ve been doing this for some time, but Chris gave us a different way of looking at things. The talks and activities that weekend challenged us afresh and we tried out some familiar and unfamiliar ways of putting things into practice in our community.

What God did was part of what he’s already begun, and he’s not finished with us yet!

This is from the second session subtitled Re-imagining Mission Engagement - Dreaming. In fact this is the first part of that talk, the second part containing a summary of the message follows.

Re-imagining Mission Engagement - Discovery, part 2 Over the weekend of 24th & 25th October 2009, Chris Neal spoke on our theme of Touching Heaven, Changing Earth, and we began to reflect upon and try out something of what that might mean.

As a church we’ve been doing this for some time, but Chris gave us a different way of looking at things. The talks and activities that weekend challenged us afresh and we tried out some familiar and unfamiliar ways of putting things into practice in our community. What God did was part of what he’s already begun, and he’s not finished with us yet!

This is from the first session subtitled Re-imagining Mission Engagement - Discovery. This is the second part of the session, and contains feedback from group discussions.

Re-imagining Mission Engagement - Discovery, part 1

Over the weekend of 24th & 25th October 2009, Chris Neal spoke on our theme of Touching Heaven, Changing Earth, and we began to reflect upon and try out something of what that might mean. As a church we’ve been doing this for some time, but Chris gave us a different way of looking at things. The talks and activities that weekend challenged us afresh and we tried out some familiar and unfamiliar ways of putting things into practice in our community. What God did was part of what he’s already begun, and he’s not finished with us yet!

This is the first of a series of recordings taken that weekend. This is from the first session subtitled Re-imagining Mission Engagement - Discovery. In fact this is the first part of that talk, the second part containing feedback from group discussion follows.

Friends of Chernobyl’s Children is a charity where once again we see the love of God for his people illustrated by His people.

In the third of our discussions about direct action, our Vision and the Harvest, this is a recording of a presentation given to us on Sunday 27th Sept. FOCC bring kids impacted by the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl reactor to the UK and other countries in an effort to help them live a fuller and longer life.

It is a fact that in the region where they live, life expectancy is 32 years.
It is also a fact that for every month these kids spend away from the region, their life expectancy increases by 2 years.

This is a factual, funny and moving presentation. It shows us that direct action is what our Lord wants from us – not to talk about doing things, but to actually do them.

Show His love – don’t talk about it.

The second and third postings in this series of three are taken from this years Harvest festival service held on 27th September.

In this sermon, David Gale talks about the relevance of the harvest to us today. Let’s face it, we don’t rely on it being a great growing season for our food each day. We simply go to Sainsbury’s, Tesco’s or any other outlet to get hold of seasonal goods from all over the world. So why celebrate harvest?

Drawing on Genesis 2:4-15 and James 5:1-6, David looks at the Him, Me and Us of the harvest.

The next three postings are slightly out of order in that they are not from consequative weeks, however it is important to listen to the three together.

The first was recorded at the start of September, when Rev Nick Grew restated the vision we have for our parish – combining his description with the real life encounters of folk in our parish. In particular, John Durrant of Outside Light shared his experiences meeting young people where they are. Outside Light work on the streets where the people are and do not move them into the familiar (for us at least) surroundings of a church or youth club. They take risks, and are rewarded for that risk. They do not pontificate from a distance, but actually go to where those who need the risen Christ are, and bring that joy to them.

This is a theme you will pick up on in our the following two postings. SB

Drawing on 2Kings 2:19-22, 4:38-41, 6:1-7, Rev Nick Grew draws together our teaching on 2 Kings illistrating the relevence of what we have learnt to our everyday lives.

Continuing with our 2 Kings series, Rev Peter Thompson uses 2 Kings 6:24 - 7:20 to show how God delivers us from evil and provides for our needs.

Continuing with our 2 Kings series, Rev Nick Grew uses 2 Kings 6:8-23 to show how God protects us and builds our confidence in Him.

Continuing our series on 2 Kings. Taking 2 Kings 4:8-37 as his text, Jeremy Watson shows us how God restores us. Something we all need more and more.

Continuing our series on 2 Kings. David Gale uses 2 Kings 4:1-7 to illustrate how God provides for us and how we can count in His generosity, if only we pluck up courage to ask.

This is the first in our summer series on 2 Kings. This week the Rev Nick Grew studies 2 Kings 2:1-18 and explores how we are called by God.

....and our final sermon on 1 Thessalonians.

Rev, Nick Grew concludes this excellent series.

Posted today are the final two sermons from our series on Thessalonians.

Chapter 5 has so much content that it is broken into to sermons, verse 1-11 and 12-28.

In this talk, Jeremy Watson tackels verse 1-11.

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