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posted by Rach @ 12:40 AM
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posted by Rach @ 11:39 PM
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posted by Rach @ 12:31 AM
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posted by Rach @ 10:58 PM
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posted by Rach @ 9:53 PM
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At the moment the community centre is only used for a lunch club for the elderly and other than continuing that service (and we can change it a little – loosening the restrictions on who can attend) we have no real constraints. We can use the building however we need.
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At the moment I think the vision for the building would be to use it for student, international and elderly outreach. Students could use it as a drop-in area to meet friends and the student bible studies could be based there (at the moment they are either cut very short or held in a cramped area because the current church building is needed so much).
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We could also use it as a base for reaching out to the growing number of international families living in our community. And it would obviously help us link up to elderly people in the area.
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It would not be cost free – while the council will finance some of it they realise we’re getting a building out of the deal. And we would need to hire a full-time staff member to oversee the building.
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We would also need a whole boatload of volunteer hours. And it’s not the most glamorous of jobs – serving food, living life, giving of time with potentially little tangible results.
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Initially it would be a three year contract with a three-month notice for either side if they felt it wasn’t working and they needed out.
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But I can’t help but think this could be amazing. We would be better equipped to serve our local community from a pretty good building (our current church building is completely maxed out). It would be a less scary place for people to be invited to. And we would be practically serving people, meeting them where they’re at and in providing for their needs (whatever they may be) we would be showing them Jesus.
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The church is still in the consulting process. And it’s a huge decision – one the whole church needs to be behind before it would work. It would be amazing if this really was a God idea, not simply a good idea. It would be great if we could show Jesus more fully in our community. It would be great if we could better live Him out so people can see Him.
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Labels: advent, daily December, Highfields
posted by Rach @ 10:50 AM
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posted by Rach @ 4:45 PM
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One of my favourite things about winter and Christmas is the increasing availability of gingerbread syrup to add in my occasional coffee!
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I adore coffee and tea. Although I’m increasingly becoming a ground-coffee-only girl (mainly because I don’t feel the affects of caffeine so I only drink coffee for the taste… so it should be a good one). This isn’t the hugest problem in the world as I live with several people who… appreciate good coffee (or are coffee snobs) – so cafetieres are in abundance and there is usually a ground cup of coffee within reach if required.
There’s something so lovely about curling around a cup of tea after a long day or sitting down over a leisurely coffee and putting the world to rights (£75,000 of a banker’s bonus?! The socialist in me wants to take over the world and sort this out tomorrow.)
But I suck at making tea and coffee for other people. I’ve realised over the past few weeks and batting my eyelashes at certain housemates that I rarely, if ever, am the one making the tea or coffee. And that is just one of the many symptoms of me putting myself before others.
And in advent I just can’t get my head around the fact that GOD became Immanuel. That He was born of a teenage girl, visited by the far from A-list shepherds. The great verse for this is found in Philippians 2: “Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped”
And not only that… but it was planned. As I look through Scripture I cannot believe the sheer number of references to Christ – His birth, His death and His life. God planned that His Son would humble Himself to come to earth to rescue me. He humbled Himself so much to love me.
Maybe I need to switch the kettle on a bit more often.
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posted by Rach @ 11:39 PM
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