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Let the light shine
Friday May 5th will see the launch of Let the Light Shine. This campaign is to encourage people to get on board with Thy Kingdom Come.
The aim is to get people to make their ‘Pledge2Pray’ – and let their friends know by posting a photo of themselves with a candle or other light, as we seek to light up the world with prayer. We’re encouraging everyone to take part, so be creative and have fun!
Once you pledge to pray on the website, you’ll be supported with daily prayers and videos throughout the eleven days of Thy Kingdom Come.
Share your own image of a light, and Pledge2Pray.
For more information, please click here.
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…’