Wednesday 22 December 2010

Pub and Happy Christmas

Tonight the pub carol service will go ahead, hopefully most people will know about it, then after that we're going to chill out and enjoy our family Christmas, we hope you have a great family time and thanks for following and praying for us this year.

rich

Sunday 19 December 2010

snowed off

Hi all, saddly our Pub carol service was snowed off last night, but we're back on, on wednesday, so please pray it takes place and that it's a great time.

Monday 13 December 2010

What a great (and tiring week)

So must churches have a busy week and at 123 we're the same.
Today Alison is putting up two interactive Christmas boards in 2 childrens centres.
Tomorrow I'm taking the funeral of a lovely man, doing an assembly at the secondary school and doing the last session on dads course. Wednesday for our team meeting we're going around to some families we know to do carol singing. Thursday am Alison and steve are leading last delight ( self esteem) on thursday night we' re having our church gathering for families, really excited about this. Fri- prep for sat which is the pub carol service. Again what an opportunity. Sun steve and I are both preaching at different church Monday we collapse !!

( and we've got 20 plants to take around to families of funerals I've taken over the year!!)

Please pray because these are all exciting opportunities to love people and to communicate Jesus!

R.



Tuesday 7 December 2010

Community survey results.

These are the result from the community survey, sadly the only why i could upload them was to save each page as a picture, i hope you are able to open them.
r.




Feed back from our first event about what our friends think about church.

These questions were asked by Steve and Alison on the 4th Nov 2010 at our first gathering, time was short, but people spoke freely and it was a good time.

What type of community do you want to be a part of?

Doing stuff for the Homeless, elderly, foster care Etc

Care for others

Outings

Parent and Toddler groups

Sunday school

Celebrating time in year which bring people together ( Christmas, Easter)

CRB’s- a community in which kids are safe.

Meeting people where they are

A range of generations (Adopt a granny)

Mixture of time with and with Kids.

What does ‘church’ look like? (the answers given where based either on peoples hopes of what church could be like and on negative experience people have had)

A community Cold Families

Warmth Kids groups Like it to be fun instead of boring

Friendly Sunday School Boy bridage

Group of people Lecturing Is belonging just about believing in God

Doing stuff

When would like church gatherings to be ?

Saturday

Thursday or Friday evening

Friday 3 December 2010

Let it snow let sn...... Actually let it stop

Ok So I like a snow ball fight as much as the next man who still thinks he's a kid!! But honestly kids of school for three and a half days most of my meetings and times to hook up with people put of enough!! However the snow has meant I've had to move around a little slower!! Which means you notice more about the houses and people around you, as I dash around at high speed normally slowing down has helped me see more.

R.