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Preaching this morning…

Date: 3rd March 2024
Time: 11.30am
Venue: Velmore Church. Chandler’s Ford. SO53 3GY.
Speaker: Gordon Curley
Subject: ‘Water for a thirsty woman’
Bible Reading: John chapter 4 verses 1-42

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.REAL LIVES: ‘I questioned everything I had grown up believing’ – Graham Albans
(at the end of the interview a shgort talk by Gordon Curley – The Bible: 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 3-5)
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SATURDAY 24 February at 20:00.

Plase pray, I will be donig the short talk at the end of this interview!

Graham grew up in a Christian home, believed from an early age and went along to church. After university he joined the BBC and was married soon after. He soon found himself rising through the ranks, eventually became producer of the BBC2’s breakfast show working with Chris Evans and Zoe Ball. He loved the work but has moved on to other things now.

It was when expecting their first child that Graham hit a crisis in his life. He started to question everything that he had grown up believing.

Join Roger Carswell in conversation with Graham as he shares about growing up, life in the BBC and all that happened when he hit the crisis in his faith.

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Wow! What a great time at Hawthorne Court this morning. We had 8 residents (with only 1 asleep) and 2 members of staff, everyone really enetered into all that took place. The theme was Psalm 23 and I took along ‘Shaun the Sheep’ as a visual aid to help illustrate my talk. One of the residents came in with a stuffed dog, so we had some great banter between the two creatures and the listening to the talky bits was some of the best I have known at HC.

We also had some of the best singing from the residents that I can remember.

Hymn: The Lord is my Shepherd (traditional).
Sunday School song: Jesus love is very wonderful.
Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of mankind.

Please pray in the seed/word that was sown, may it bring to faith and comfort those who have faith in the Living God.

Monthly visit to Hawthorne Court nursing home. Southampton
It is good to be are able to hold a short Christian service for some of the patients. We enjoy a short catch-up time with our regulars who come along and also the members of staff who join in enthusiastically, especially when we teach an old Sunday School song.
Hawthorne Court specialises in dementia care.

Todays Theme: Palm 23

The highlight of the day was a good chat with a Moroccan Moslem who had genuine questions and asked for a Bible which we were able to pass on to him.

Evangelism at Speakers Corner.

“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Speakers Corner in London’s Hyde Park is the oldest free speech platform in the world. People won the right to speak in mass protests in the 1860s and early 1870s. Some people believe the tradition is connected to the right of the condemned to a last speech before being hung at the Tyburn gallows, a practice that stopped at the end of the 18th century. Every Sunday people from all sorts of convictions come to Hyde Park in the afternoon to spead their message or to have fun.

Preaching today…

Activity: All-Age Service (Holiday Club Finale)
Venue: Swanfield Chapel. Chichester PO19 6TD
Time: 10.30am
Subject: ‘A Big Story about a Little Man’
Bible Passage: Luke chapter 19 verses 1-10

Thanks for your prayers re: Holiday Club at Swanfield Chapel. Chichester.

Fun Theme – Explorers at the North/South Pole.
Teaching theme – Various New Testament characters.

*Expedition #1: Never too many mistakes: Simon Peter.
*Expedition #2: Never too ordinary: Stephen.
*Expedition #3: Never too bad: Saul of Tarsus.
*Expedition #4: Never too young: Timothy.

A smaller than number of chiuldren on day #1: Tuesday (20 kids) compared top previous years, but then the numbers increased with just over 30 children each day.
It wasa real encouragement to have contact with some new families, it would be great to see some of them on Sunday morning at the All-Age Service.