Please pray

Last night Rich Pyke had a major bleed in what was his good eye. You probably know that he has been having laser treatment to cauterise blood vessels and his eye-sight has been affected.

Please pray for him and Deni as they deal with this setback, and consider ways ahead.
xxx

red Community Cafe

The Community Cafe at Red is open again this week. Every day from 11 am - 4.00 pm.

Home-made soups and cakes,snacks and lunches including smiley meals for children.

A very child-friendly cafe with toys, space and free internet access for under 16s.

Call in and bring your friends!

Wired and more

Last weekend a group from Wired disappeared off to the Long Barn for a weekend of fun. More about that later on ...

This week we're delighted to welcome Steve Jenkins from Parklands as our guest speaker. Steve will be looking for lost sheep.

Next week, we have another visitor, this time from a bit further afield. Gareth Evans is coming all the way from Canada to be with us on the Global Day of Prayer.
We'll be joining with the church around the world as we pray for the 'healing of the nations'. As part of that we'd like to include prayers in whatever native tongues might be with us that day!

But before that ...
on Friday evening you are cordially invited to a Barbecue for Everyone! If you come to Bigfish, if you come to Wired, if you come to Linden, this barbecue is for you and your family. Come and enjoy a perfectly-flipped burger, perfectly flipped by your perfect burger flippers. Meet the children who come along to Bigfish, and their families; enjoy an evening of good food and company. Or Alun will be asking why not.

The Community Café will be open for the bank holiday weekend, May 26th - June 2nd, each day from 11.00 am to 4.00 pm. Come along and enjoy tasty baguettes, pesto pasta and home-made cakes. Tell all your friends about it and encourage them to call in!

Advance Notice

There will be clothing sales at Linden on the 9th and 23rd June between 10 am and 2 pm. We have lots of good-quality ladies’ clothing to sell - we might have some clothes suitable for ladies of lesser quality too - and they're all NEW! Come and grab yourself a bargain, and help us raise funds at the same time.

Tell your friends about it too.
If you have any rails and hangers we could borrow, please ring the church office on 01792 403777.

Wired!

A report back from Jessica Lewis

The wired weekend was great there is too many words too describe it with Alan, Chris, Dave and Heather taking there was nothing that could possibly go wrong!!!
We started off driving up for 1 hour and a half in the mini-bus or in Alan’s car. As I was in the mini-bus I heard that the car had a great journey but we had to stop at the services to find Alan to follow us up to Longbarn (as Alan got lost.)
We arrived in Longbarn unpacked had a talk, ate some tea and played sardines as it is a Longbarn tradition. We had a bedtime curfew at 11 every night.
The next morning we had to be up by 9 to have breakfast, after breakfast many of us played on the dance mat or played a game of pool and we had a group talk. Later after lunch which I must admit was very delicious we went into town to get some chocolate.
When we arrived back most of the girls were lying on the sofas watching ‘cool runnings’ in there sleeping bags with the curtains closed!!!
Later that night after tea we had another group meeting and many people got very upset as the talk was very upsetting. Once again we played sardines and had to go to sleep.
Next morning up at nine again for breakfast, playing on the dance mat, playing games of pool and having another group meeting, this time we had a competition and my group won! Some of the girls made a documentary which you might be delighted to see and to top up that, the girls made up a song called ‘lord lovers’ and our group name is ‘golden angel-z.’ We are hoping to make up another song very soon called ‘peaceful prayers’. Then unfortunately the weekend was about to end, so we had to pack and then as a last game for the weekend we had a hunt we had to look for the jelly babies wrapped in the foil scattered around Longbarn and then the group with the most amount won a galaxy bar.
Overall the weekend was superb I could even manage to write a whole list of amazing words starting with a all the way down to z.

Normal service is resumed

It's been a while since this blog was updated - apologies to our many readers!

We've started on a new teaching series covering the miracles of Jesus as related by Luke. This Sunday, Helen and Andy Hunter are looking at the Good Samaritan.

Next week we have a visiting speaker: Steve Jenkins from Parklands Church will be looking for lost sheep and coins.

Meanwhile big congratulations to Cath and Andre on the birth of Aaron (pronounced Aron and not Aeron thus depriving Alun of the opportunity to say, "Keep your 'air on!")

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The Community Café will be open at Red again for the bank holiday weekend, May 26th - June 2nd. Tell all your friends about it and encourage them to call in for paninis, cream teas and home-made cakes. Oh, and come yourself!