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Faiths, Health & Wellbeing Seminar
Main Topic – End of Life Care
When: 24 May 2017 - 09:00 to 15:30
Where: Postgraduate Centre, QE Hospital (opposite hospital main entrance)
This is a free event for members of faith communities, voluntary & community services, chaplains, educationists, health & care workers, patients & individuals interested in faith, health & wellbeing.
Please bring your own packed lunch.
There is a pay multistorey car park nearby, Trains to the University station, and buses from several routes.
Contact: Book your place with Dr Peter Rookes at pjrookes@gmail.com, phone 477 2282 or 077 033 360 88
Free Churches and Further Education
Dr John Wise - chair of the Free Church Further Education working group
A Working Group was commissioned in 2015 by the Directors of the Free Churches Group to produce a report on the current and potential future engagement of the Free Churches with Further Education (FE). The Working Group is chaired by Dr John Wise.
This Report has been shared with the Directors and the Free Church Education Committee during Autumn 2016 and has gained an enthusiastic response, commending work going forward on this important issue.
This report is now available for you to read and share in your denominations and churches.
The report can be downloaded here.
'Serving from the Margins': The Free Churches and Further Education
Watch this space for further guidance and support materials for your congregations to use.
These will help you locally to enhance the links and build up the awareness and potential of your churches to engage with local further education providers.
Sara Iles, FCG Education Assistant
A Message To All This Easter
Easter is one of those special times during the year, when despite the confusion in our world and the complexities of life, we remember Jesus Christ and His perfect sacrifice with a sense of purpose and hope. We celebrate with hearts of thankfulness the offer of forgiveness and reconciliation, to those who believe in him.
There are many challenges facing our world but the preaching of the Gospel remains, and forever will be, the answer to the needs of humanity. We must never shy away from that truth. Luke reminds us that “...the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” (St Luke 19:10)
Jesus' mission is to save the lost and that is the message of hope we preach to a world desperately seeking answers to the hatred and divisions that plague nations and communities. The Church must remain committed to Jesus' ministry of reconciliation. It is possible through Christ for humanity to be reconciled to God and each other.
2 Corinthians 5:17-19 speaks directly to the Church about this ministry to which we must be engaged. Verse 19 reads, “that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.”
Let’s share that good news with confidence and may the peace of God fill your hearts this Easter season.
Every blessings,
Revd Paul Rochester.
(General Secretary of the Free Churches Group)
Pray for Schools fortnight
Colossians 4 v 2-3 'Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ…’
CTE Presidents respond to Westminster terrorist attack
The Presidents of Churches Together in England express sincere condolences to the bereaved families and friends of those who lost their lives in the terrorist attack that was perpetrated in Westminster yesterday, Wednesday 22 March 2017.
The Presidents pray for the healing of those injured, and for the wellbeing of our society in which all seek after and promote the common good in a spirit of love for our fellow human beings.
They pray too for Parliament, the police and the emergency services who responded with such bravery, professionalism and compassion, and who continue to support all those affected by this terrible attack.