Tuesday, 14 June 2016

A community care resource project

A few years ago we presented some website which could give those in need some help. Hoop tot leven  and its Facebook page (Hope to live) tried to show those with problems to the right place.

Christadelphians believing in the Bible-based Gospel - the return of Jesus Christ to the earth to set up God’s Kingdom, know that we have to live for the moment in this world with all its problems. Not everybody has it always easy. With all sorts of people, those on their own but also families, each person has to carry his own cross.While we wait for Jesus his return, we have to face many temptations and often also many problems. as followers of rabbi Jeshua, Jesus Christ the Messiah, we do believe it is important to help, where we can, make people’s lives more productive and comfortable, and to share our hope for the future.

Everyone has hard times during their life. Many people have different ways of coping. 

Christadelphians find that one of the most effective ways to cope is through developing and using their spirituality. This is Christ-centred in that we recognise the immense hardships Jesus faced. He showed us the most effective way to rise above his difficulties.

www.adelphicare.org contains resources that would be useful to those wanting to become more skilled and informed about care in the ecclesia but also to help others around them and/or for their own personal development.

www.bibletruth.info has considerable material on fundamental matters. As well as this, the latter site contains a section of hymn recordings, accessible via the Bible and Song section of the home page. These recordings have been made over a number of years and feature either live pipe organ performances on two large organs, or electronically compiled performances from some quite magnificent organs.  Laurence Lepherd of the Toowoomba Ecclesia started to orchestrate some hymns using electronic samples.
Orchestrations available at the moment are the meditative *We shall be like him* (388) and *And the peace of God* (373), and the full orchestral and organ version of *All people* (50). The recording format is mp3.  

Preparing for the Kingdom, from within the Ecclesia

The members of Coventry East ecclesia would like to invite you to our Study and 
serve day to be held on Saturday 16th July Dv in our own hall, in Longfellow Court,(off Longfellow Rd) 
Stoke, Coventry, CV2 5HP.

The Subject for the days Study is *Preparing for the Kingdom, from within the Ecclesia*

Speaker Bro Simon Sheppard (Kettering)

Commencing at 11am (10.30am for coffee,) please bring your own lunch (drinks 
provided) there will be two talks through out the day, hymn singing and tea 
(provided) along with Billing for a summer club in August, dv,hopefully leading 
onto establishing a new Sunday School in September, the day will conclude with 
a thought for the day at approximately 8 pm.

Please park in the surrounding Roads as we have very limited parking at the 
Hall.

For more information please contact bro Dave Whitelock at david.
whitelock@tiscali.co.uk or 'phone 07737843963

2000 years of Christianity What remains of Bible Truth?

week 18th/ 19th June: Camborne Ecclesial arrangements
 
Saturday 18th 7.00 pm Bible Class Bro Jon Day Coventry West *Revelation 18 18*
Sunday 19th Memorial Seervice at 10.45 (as normal) followed by ecclesial lunch 

Lecture to start at earlier time of 3.00 PM Bro Jon Day *2000 years of Christianity What remains of Bible Truth?* 
 
There will be no Bible class on Tuesday 21st June. 

Preaching in the 21st century: Workshop at the UK Harper Adams Bible School in early August

Harper Adams University
Harper Adams University (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Gordon Dawes will be leading a workshop at the UK Harper Adams Bible School in early August (DV). He is  researching across the Christadelphian community internationally for modern preaching ideas which have been shown to work.

Please email him at 

gordon.dawes@talk21.com 

with your experiences. 
 
He would be grateful for any information. There is no immediate rush but he would like to have his thoughts and presentation ready by mid July!

For reference, the basis of the workshop is 

Preaching in the 21st century
 
How best to continue to spread the good news of the Gospel in today's busy, 'enabled' world is a subject testing many in our community. A lot of effort still goes into Sunday evening 'lectures', special efforts and campaigns, but are these still the best - the only - way to connect with people today?

This group will share and discuss the needs and fears, experiences of what works, what does not work, in different situations, and give examples of what some are doing to try to attract attention and share the principles of our faith in a vibrant and faithful way.
 
+++ 

New postal address for donations and correspondence to Christadelphian Meal a Day

Please will all Ecclesial Treasurers and Meal a Day donors kindly note a new postal address for donations and correspondence to Christadelphian Meal a Day UK

PO Box 17124, Tamworth, B77 9NU

This replaces our Bristol PO Box address with immediate effect.

The change comes as sis Cheryl Gentle (Mendip) retires from a long stint dealing with the Financial administration. We thank her for her trusteeship since 2007 and covering the busy and demanding Finance role since 2010.

The new Financial Administrator is sis Esther Hemmings (Tamworth) who has recently joined the Trustees.
 
+++