THE EVENT - FEBRUARY

THE EVENT - FEBRUARY was a great occasion with over 100 people sharing together. Our vision for this 'event' for sometime has been that 'different' people would come to church, and for this occasion we sent out a great number of invitations, and a great number of people attended that we do not normally have the opportunity to share with. The focus for this month was What's Love got to do with it? and throughout the event looked at this through a number of ways. This included really thoughtful and challenging talks from Rachel Whitewood, Ruth Wadsworth, Carol Monk and Ellie Durston. They helped us understand what difference God's Love have made to them. 'Game Show' was also featured asking couples, friends and siblings to answer questions about what they know (or do not know) about each other. The winners were the couple - Lyn and George. Tina Turner sang (by CD) What's Love Got to do with it, which was followed by a clip from Love Actually, which answered clearly - everything! Captain Sue sang Love changes everything and reminded us clearly that it does, but its God's Love that does it all. While all this happened the Kingdom Kids had lots of challenges to complete, which included love letters to God, a banner on how we can share love, and cards to give to everyone reminding them that love matters and we love them! Captain Ian concluded the event by reminding us simply three words - GOD IS LOVE - and how the Cross speaks of that so powerfully. Love changes everything in us, through us and we can indeed help people realise that Love has got everything to do with life because of THE CROSS. 'Written in Red' - a beautiful pieace of music followed in which people prayed.

THE FAMILY CELEBRATION MEAL gave us opportunity to celebrate Envoy Val's 60th birthday after which she cut her birthday cake, and as Captain Sue let us in some songs about love, we eat. Songs included Its' love that makes the world go round, Jesus' love is very wonderful, Yes Jesus loves me, Your love is amazing. We thank God again for this opportunity of providing a healthy growing Christian Community - faith in action, and sharing our love and trust in God, through sharing as the early church did in providing, eating, praying, worshipping and so much more.