Bring and Buy Sale

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PENTECOST COURSE

Posted by Kath on Apr 26, 2013 in News | 0 comments

NEW! A two-week PENTECOST course.

Anthea Darlington and Kath Disley will teach it in St Paul’s Social Area on Wednesdays 8^th and 15^th May, 7.30pm

and repeat it on Thursday mornings, 9^th & 16^th May, 10.30am.

All welcome. Refreshments.

HAVE YOU JOINED A HOMEGROUP YET?

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Were you there? Flourish 2013

Posted by Kath on Mar 21, 2013 in News | 0 comments

Flourish 2013 was led by Neil Hudson,

the project director for ‘imagine’

 on Fri 3rd – Sat 4th May 2013 at

St Paul’s, Moor Lane, Kersal M7 3WX

 Neil Hudson asked us:

Do you remember being a child and long car journeys? 

Maybe you were the one asking:  ‘Where are we going?’

                                                                            ‘Is there anything to eat?’             

                                                                             ’I need to stop’        

                                                                             ’Are we nearly there yet?’

For Christians, life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God.  Our 4 ‘Flourish’ sessions explored this journey; they supplied a map, offered supplies for the long haul and provided hope for the final, brilliant destination.

Flourish in Christ

Posted by admin on Feb 9, 2012 in News | 1 comment

This annual event was led this year by Malcolm Duncan, director of  ’Church and Community ‘ and was held on Fri 11th – Sat 12th May  at St Paul’s, Moor Lane, Kersal M7 3QH

Malcolm, a regular speaker at Spring Harvest, is passionate about the need for Christians to be ‘good-news people’ and the importance of combining preaching, service, advocacy, prayer and partnership so that followers of Jesus can be effective in changing the world.

He regularly helps the government and other groups to understand the role of Church in society and encourages local churches and Christian groups to be the change that they want to see in their community. He is deeply committed to serving the poor and excluded.

Pilgrimage to Israel

Posted by admin on Nov 21, 2011 in News | 0 comments

To be a Pilgrim……

A personal view of the Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in December 2011

On Easter Sunday 2012 it was exactly four months since 19 weary travellers arrived back at Manchester after a most inspiring, challenging, educational, friendly and busy week in the Holy Land.

It is impossible to write about everything I experienced as it would be too much, so here are some of my highlights…………

On the first morning we travelled to the Mount of Olives. It overlooks Jerusalem and is the way Jesus would have travelled into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday with the crowds shouting ‘Hosanna!’ ‘Save Me!’ It was a beautiful sunny morning and the view of Jerusalem was wonderful.  Before I went to Israel I did not expect it to be anything more than interesting to see the places mentioned in the Bible and seen on the TV, after all ‘it’s 2000 years since Jesus lived on Earth and everything will have changed so much’.  But here I realised that I was in the place where all the things that I base my faith on happened. I felt so close to Jesus that I felt I only had to put out my hand and I would be able to touch his cloak and be healed. We followed in the footsteps of Jesus down the Mount of Olives and at the bottom of the hill is the Garden of Gethsemane. The rock where Jesus prayed before he was arrested is inside a Church with a beautiful ceiling painted like the night sky.

Brenda was our host for the trip; she looked after us and was always at the back making sure we did not get lost. If we lagged behind we were advised to ‘walk and talk’ and I am sure she was counting to nineteen her sleep for weeks afterwards!!