Weekly News - 21/02/2025

This Week

Lunch Together

In the God's Better Storyseries, we will be celebrating friendship and community, so what better way to live that out than to get together and share food?! On Sun 2nd March, we're having lunch together after the service. Please click here to see what food to bring.

Evening Session: Transgender and Pastoral Response

On Sun 2nd March, 7:30pm, we will be joined by guest speaker Jo Dowd, who will lead us through this interactive, workshop-style session. In this session, there will be lots of opportunity for thought and discussion as we are presented with various hypothetical scenarios. We will explore how we apply the principles to our own lives and how we support those around us on the issues of gender and sexuality.

Kids' Summer Camp

Last week to get booked in!
Summer Camp for children in Years 3-6! We invite our kids in those years to a Summer Camp: 11th - 14th Aug 2025.
This is a 1^st for us and Sam and others will be involved in the 4 days.
For more info email Sam or book in here - deposit £85 by end of Feb, full price £205.

Iris Global UK / The Send Conference

We are excited that Iris Global UK, in collaboration with The Send UK, are hosting their annual conference at our GodFirst building on Fri 14th - Sat 15th March. Heidi Baker will be speaking and will be staying on to speak at our Sunday Service. Get tickets whilst they're available; click here for all of the information.

Welcome Team

We love being a welcoming church. Do you love chatting with people and making them feel at home? If so, the welcome team would love to hear from you. Please email David Carter who can tell you more about being on the team.

RISE: Limitless Conference

This year's RISE: Limitless Ladies' Conference tickets are now LIVE! We will be looking at what it means for us, as women, to understand, know and experience God's limitless resources and power, also grasp the authority and limitless power we carry as daughters of the King! It's going to be great. Early-bird tickets available until 31st March. Click here for tickets and all information.

Bereavement Journey

Bereavement is a time when people's lives totally change, and they often have many questions and are open to ideas they haven’t previously considered, which can trigger an openness to faith.

We are running the Bereavement Journey course again for 7 weeks, starting Mon 3rd March, 7pm. Cost £10. The feedback we've had has been really encouraging. If you know people who have been bereaved recently, or some time ago, please consider inviting them to join this journey of equipping and small group sharing. Click here for more information or talk to Linda King.

International Mission

This week we hear updates from Health and Hope in Myanmar, as well as Cathy Bartam, who's just returned from a Wycliffe Bible Translators conference in Thailand - please read their updates at the bottom of the newsletter.

Book Tour

Andrew Whitman is currently on the second leg of his book tour, giving a colourfully illustrated revival talk about the Jesus People Movement he was saved through in 1973. he is very soon arriving in nearby Southampton: Sun 9th March, 7pm at the Kings Church Centre, 414 Coxford Rd, Southampton, SO16 5LL.
You'd be very welcome to come along, joining with Jesus-followers and churches from across the city. The event is free and you don't have to book in. Andrew hopes to see many fellow GodFirsters there!

International World Day of Prayer

The Christchurch Branch World Day of Prayer Services will be held on Fri 7th March at St Luke's Church, Burton, 10.30 am and 7pm. Everyone is invited to join in worship and stay for refreshments in the hall afterwards. World Day of Prayer services are celebrated annually in over 170 countries, planned centrally and led locally by women from all denominations and open to all.

Job Vacancy

The Greenhouse Christian Centre have a current job vacancy for a breakfast cook/chef. Click here for details.

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