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Ladies – breakfast?
Ladies Breakfast at Christ Church – 5th March 2011…. Continue Reading
Fair Havens Reflections for Lent: Week 4
FAIRHAVENS’ CHRISTIAN Hospice is on a journey of faith: to hopefully bigger, more-modern premises; and also on the journey that all believers go on – through life and death with God. As we enter Lent, and wait to acknowledge Jesus’ death and resurrection, please spend a moment in reflection, with one of their staff each week over the next five weeks.
Week four’s reflections are lead by Tony Cheek – Fair Havens Volunteer Continue Reading
Church From Scratch launch The Passion Experience
A great opportunity for Southend churches
Help your church to encounter the Easter story in a powerful new way, and help those on the fringe to experience the story for the first time. Continue Reading
Fair Havens Reflections for Lent: Week 3
FAIRHAVENS’ CHRISTIAN Hospice is on a journey of faith: to hopefully bigger, more-modern premises; and also on the journey that all believers go on – through life and death with God. As we enter Lent, and wait to acknowledge Jesus’ death and resurrection, please spend a moment in reflection, with one of their staff each week over the next five weeks.
Week three’s reflections are lead by Jane Guest – Fair Havens Chaplaincy Team Continue Reading
Fair Havens Reflections for Lent: Week 2
FAIRHAVENS’ CHRISTIAN Hospice is on a journey of faith: to hopefully bigger, more-modern premises; and also on the journey that all believers go on – through life and death with God. As we enter Lent, and wait to acknowledge Jesus’ death and resurrection, please spend a moment in reflection, with one of their staff each week over the next five weeks.
Week two’s reflections are lead by Bibi McPherson – Fair Havens Staff Nurse
• Praise God for the Fair Havens refurbishment in 2010, creating two extra beds helping us to help more people whilst we look to build a larger hospice Continue Reading
Two new churches under construction in Southend
THE RISE OF THE CHURCH: New churches are being built in both Leigh and Southchurch. Picture by Mark Cleveland Yellow Advertiser
By Karen Davis
IN THIS time of austerity, it is common to see businesses closing and buildings being left to decay.
It is also a popular belief that Christianity is dying, with churches closing all around the country.
Southend, however, seems to be bucking the trend in both cases with two new churches in the process of being built in the borough.
…at their service
MANY OF you welcomed home our troops, from Afghanistan, last year in Southend High Street…
…well, some Service personnel returned to the town in March, as Geoff Hayman of COLEMAN STREET CHAPEL reports:- Continue Reading
Fair Havens Reflections for Lent: Week 1
FAIRHAVENS’ CHRISTIAN Hospice is on a journey of faith: to hopefully bigger, more-modern premises; and also on the journey that all believers go on – through life and death with God. As we enter Lent, and wait to acknowledge Jesus’ death and resurrection, please spend a moment in reflection, with one of their staff each week over the next five weeks.
Week 1 begins with reflections lead by Catherine Wood – Head of Patient Services. Continue Reading
Dan rediscovers his faith watching Bruce Almighty
WHEN Dan Gracie gave up his faith aged 17 he isolated himself from his family, friends, and the church bands he played in.
He put down his guitar and got on with a life of atheism. But as he got older he began to wonder whether he’d made the right decision.
Now back in the fold of Leigh Road Baptist Church, he writes music for the church’s youth services, aimed at re-connecting young people with God and engaging them in church life, by making it relevant. Continue Reading