A GOOD NUMBER gathered together to celebrate Pentecost. The meeting explored being ON FIRE, and how Pentecost set fire to many aspects of life, bringing a complete new birth to the church and for disciples as individuals. During the meeting, Barbara Jackson was welcomed as the church's new discipleship officer. Barbara will work with our leaders to ensure we as a church are supporting each other in our disciple walk. The meeting also included the dedication to God of Nigel Boye, which Ian conducted, followed by the welcoming into membership of his mum, Susie. It was indeed a great celebration - with songs including: Come on and Celebrate, Send the Fire, Lord the Light of Your love is shining, May the God of Hope, O Thou who camst from above, Spirit of the Living God, Send a new touch of Power, Holy Spirit rain down. Several people responded for prayer at the end of the meeting.

The planned church BBQ AND LIGHT LUNCH was not able to happen, but instead we held a buffet in the time permitted us at the school. It was good to be family together.

Sunday 24th May
In the absense of our leaders, David Coles - Community Officer led Sunday Worship

To celebrate the end of our first half term for KIDS ALIVE at 5pm, we held a Cool Dudes party with lots of fun and food of course!

You are invited to join us for worship for Ascension day on Thursday at 7.30pm at 23 Newlands Woods.

Thursday House Group will be starting to look at this material this week. You will find a warm welcome and a good discussion!

our leaders will be away next week, and in our absence, David Coles, will be leading worship

A Faithful God was explored this morning, through teaching by Susan from Joshua Chapter 3. During our Sunday Challenge, Susan encouraged us to consider the faithfulness of God in the past and to record them on stones. We then collated these to make a memorial of celebration from the Past. The Presence and Power of God was celebrated in the present too, as Susan asked us to see God in our today and recognise that He is able.... In concluding prayers, we were encouraged to reach out and see an able God right among us. Songs today included:- Great is Thy Faithfulnness; We're gonna celebrate; Your love is amazing; Great is Your Faithfulness, You never change; Faithful God; As I Gaze Upon Your Face; He is able

The Summer Challenge was launched today!!!! From now until the end of June, everyone is challenged to raise money in whatever way, to contribute towards supporting this years annual appeal, held in September. The Annual Appeal supports the social and community work, services, centres and programmes of The Salvation Army in the UK and Republic of Ireland - which is the largest provision of such after the government. This is an really important opportunity for us to unite together to seek to show God's Glory through our love and care for others - loving one another as God has commanded us. Various events have been planned to help towards this, and members and friends have been encouraged to raise money through outreach and seeing the opportunities to use it for such.

To help launch this, Majors Christine and Paul Kingscott launched the challenge, and helped us understand a little about those who benefit from the annual appeal, through their own work and experiences in Salvation Army Social Work. It was a very help insight and helped us to consider about the needs of so many others around us. Songs used today included:- I will enter His Gates; Joyful, Joyful we adore You; If I were a butterfly; King of kings; There is a Redeemer.

THE EVENT for May, took us to a BEACH PARTY and through this we linked it to what the Bible teaches us through 'stories' at the beach. We were reminded that Christ has called us to leave everything, to taste and see that the Lord is good, to know that we are in the right place and follow His leadings, and finally to know that we never walk this Life with Him alone. Games, challenges and more helped explore this and bring this to life.