25 April 2012

This coming Saturday and Sunday, (28-29 April), we shall be enjoying our ‘Home Weekend’ ~ two days of togetherness and teaching based at our own church building.

This year we shall be welcoming Rev Ian Coffey as our guest speaker. Ian is a Vice-Principal and the Director of Leadership Training at Moorlands College in Dorset.

Having led churches in suburban, city-centre and international contexts Ian and his wife, Ruth, are now involved in training a new generation for servant leadership. They have a passion to teach the Bible in language people can understand and do so at conferences across the world.

Ian’s subject for this weekend will be ‘Insight’  and is based on 1 Chronicles 12:32. His four talks all spring from passages in the Book of Acts and will explore what it means to be ‘missional church’ as opposed to ‘maintenance church’.

Ian writes: “It’s not hard to come up with good ideas about church. But what we need are ‘God-ideas’. The men of Issachar are praised in Scripture because they understood the times and could see what action was needed. Looking at some key passages in the book of Acts, we shall be thinking about what it takes to be Church engaged in God’s Mission.”

The programme for the weekend will be as follows…

Saturday 28th April

10.00  Session 1: ‘Missional Impetus’

11.00   Refreshments

11.30   Session 2: ‘Missional Ministry’

13.00  Lunch

18.00  ‘M.C.F.’s got Talent!’

Sunday 29th April

10.30  Morning Service (inc. Session 3: ‘Missional Vision’)

11.45   Refreshments

12.45  Bring & Share lunch

14.00  Session 4: ‘Missional People’ (inc. communion)

If you live in or around Martock, please come and join us for what promises to be an excellent weekend!

 

3 April 2012

Along with the rest of God’s people we are looking forward to celebrating the different days of Easter. On Thursday evening and Friday morning we shall be joining with the other churches in Martock for a Maundy Thursday service, a Good Friday March of Witness, and the united Good Friday service at the Parish Church.

So what’s ‘good’ about ‘Good Friday’? The fact that we can know our sins forgiven and peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. So with a sense of solemnity and heartfelt gratitude we will remember Christ’s death for us, whereby He “bore our sins in His own body on the Cross”.

Then, with exuberant joy and praise, we will celebrate Christ’s defeat of sin and death as we meet to remember His victorious resurrection! As Stuart Townend and Keith Getty have put it…

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain:
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave he rose again!
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me,
For I am His and He is mine -
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.

If you live in the Martock area and would like to join us for one of our Easter services, the times and places are as follows…

Good Friday at 10 a.m. in the Parish Church of All Saints

Easter Day at 10.30 a.m. in our own building

You can be sure of a warm welcome!

Have a blessed and happy Easter.

 

11 January, 2012

Wow! Where did the last six months go?! Suddenly we’re in 2012! A new year, with so many new opportunities and possibilities.

As a church we give thanks to God for His continuing goodness to us. We had some wonderful Christmas services and the New Year got off to a great start with a celebration of baptism.

Just a couple of months before Christmas we had the joy of commissioning our new Youth Pastor, Jamie Bruce, who came to us with his wife, Bec. Jamie is working with us full-time, with half of his time being used to support and reach young people who, as yet, are outside of the church.

Urgent work on ‘The George’ continues as we wait on the Lord to provide the funds we need for the next phase of the project. Please join us in thanking God for all He is doing!

 

28 August, 2011

Autumn seems to have started early here in South Somerset and it’s a sad reminder that the summer holidays are already all but over! So as we head into a new school year we remember our many children who will be heading back to school ~ and especially those who will be starting a new school.

As we look back at the fast-fading summer we give thanks for two great weeks of camp and some real blessings at New Wine and Soul Survivor for those who were able to get there. We also give thanks to God for the work of our puppet team as they have shared the good news at various events this summer.

And now we look to God for WISDOM as we shall be appointing a new youth pastor in the near future; for GENEROUS hearts as we approach a special ‘gift day’ for the George project; and for His STRENGTH and INSPIRATION as many of our ministries fire up again after the short summer break.

So why not join us this autumn as we continue to enjoy God’s presence with us. We look forward to welcoming you!

 

6 July, 2011

Hello! For those who may not have noticed, our audio sermons from Sunday mornings are now available to listen to online (not download). We have had three talks from our current series ‘A Handbook For A Growing Church’ taken from our series in 1 Timothy now. So go ahead and take a listen if you missed any of them or are visiting and want to hear a message from our Sunday morning services.

We had a great time together on Ham Hill last week sharing a picnic, celebrating Harry Coles’ dedication and watching the MCF Puppet Team do their thing! There may well be some pictures up here on the media page very soon!

Have a blessed week.