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Sacrista Prebend, Quiet day packages : Faith & Light : Faith and Light is a Christian organisation that provide worship and fellowship for people with learning difficulties and the friends and carers. It was founded by Jean Vanier and began life in the Roman Catholic Church but has now spread out to all denominations. You can find out more about the organisation on their website www.foietlumiere.org/site/english/117.html There are two communities in the Nottingham area. The Nottingham South community meets at West Bridgford Methodist Church and the North community at Bestwood Park Church. If you have people in your congregations who would benefit from what Faith & Light has to offer, they would be very welcome to join us. At Bestwood Park Church we meet on Sunday afternoons, once a month (usually the third Sunday). Please contact Richard Tanner on 0115 927 2611 or richardjtanner@aol.com for more details or check out our church website www.bestwood-park-church.co.uk . Richard could also give you details of the Nottingham South Community if that would be of interest to you. The Evangelical Alliance have a magazine, 'Idea' and the latest features an article about the Elections and the EA has an election website, click here,The article mentions three books published fairly recently. The address of The Evangelical Alliance is 186,Kennington Park Road/London SE11 4BT and their phone number is 02072072100. For a Deanery Parliamentary Constituencies list, click here For advice on hustings, click here St Mary's, Attenborough : Click here for details of their prayer walk programme Nottingham Arimathea Trust There are two new ways in which you can support us! Need a venue? : see this flyer for rooms in Attenborough Burst Pipes Prevention : Click here for some advice from Ecclesiastical about prevention of burst pipes and here for arson and malicious damage ...is a six session course for church councils or small groups. It has been put together by the Revd Robert Barlow, Agricultural and Rural Chaplain for the Diocese of Worcester. It is designed as a Lent course but could be used at another time. Robert says it is "designed to help churches to identify and rise to their own particular challenges. It is being put together with the needs of small rural churches to the fore." Session 1 : Buildings: Blessing or Burden? Robert has indicated to me that he is happy for parishes to use this material and "trial" it. If your parishes have study groups which might pilot this please do get in touch with me. It would be good then to have reactions afterwards. Derek Hollis has a copy of the course as a pdf file from Robert and can forward this to you on request. Robert Barlow can be contacted by email directly on rbarlow@cofe-worcester.org.uk . For those who are interested he has a blog at http://freerangevicar.blogspot.com/ Information from an energy advisor, offering his services to churches free of charge. Attached is the outline of his services and he would welcome a call from you. Sherwood Nottingham NG5 1HP Tel/Fax 0115 8453696
Energy : See the attached Times article about British Gas trying to bounce a village hall into a massive increase in their power prices at the renewal date and how just be ringing them up they immediately reduce the price. The increase wasn't even apparent from their letter. This is the experience one church had with EoN at St John's so it isn't just British Gas. Energy efficiency for gas and oil fired heating systems - information. We make no claims by advertising this information here but offer it as part of your research into reducing heating costs. Click for details. |
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Appeals : An Appeal from QMC & City Hospital Chaplaincy Dept. QMC and City hospitals are looking for volunteers. We need people to act as chapel escorts to push patients in wheelchairs to services in chapel at the two sites. Many churches already help us and have teams organised on a rota basis. This would not be any every Sunday commitment – arrangements can be made to suit individual needs. Large muscles are also not necessary, the floors are smooth and mostly on the level. Revd. Alison Brooks The Nottingham Arimathea Trust needs you! : We are looking for: From Revd Christopher Harrison : As the new chair of the Rainbow Project, I would like to encourage churches in the Deaneries to consider whether they can give the Rainbow Project some financial help towards the cost of a part time (16 hours a week) admin assistant. The total cost is expected to be around £15,000 a year. If we can raise the money for this post, it will make a huge difference to the ability of the current staff to devote adequate time to face to face work with asylum seekers, as well as to strategic and lobbying tasks. More details will soon be available, but I would like to take this opportunity to urge churches and individuals to consider making a contribution towards this vital work as part of their charitable giving. Hope for Broxtowe – an appeal :Imagine hope in the inner city. Twenty years ago the parish of St Martha Broxtowe, an area of severe deprivation, in partnership with the Diocese, the Church Urban Fund and others built the Hope Centre on the site of the original 1950s parish church. It was an ambitious project and lives and situations were transformed as the Centre became a beacon of hope in Christ and a centre of service to the community. Today the situation has changed. The large building needs essential works and funding and local partnership have dried up. Yet, under the leadership of Revd June Kirkham and a small number of lay leaders, lives are still being transformed. There is a thriving children’s and youth ministry, committed schools work, strong family support and invaluable ministry to those with mental health issues as well as survivors of domestic violence. The small congregation at Broxtowe is enthusiastic and committed but there is little money unless new resources can be found the Hope Centre faces closure in the next few weeks. We need to renew hope and imagination and do so we envisage a year’s breathing space to look again at the needs, difficulties and opportunities for mission through the Hope Centre. We need £5,000 over the next year to ensure that the building stays open. We are appealing to individuals and parishes in three ways. Please pray and please consider immediate financial support. Any offer of relevant skills from outside the parish would also be welcome. You may respond to this appeal with messages of support and promises of donations by e mailing hfb@southwell.anglican.org . If you would like further information please contact any of the appeal team below. Thanks for taking time to read and consider this.
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