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The Nativity

From 20 December there will be a series of programmes on BBC1 about the Nativity. This is what one church leader has written about it.

Christmas Alive

In the video below, Mary Causer is interviewed on Channel M before last year’s Christmas Alive, and explains what Christmas Alive is. This year it will be bigger than ever, as we take it out from our church into Lightoaks Park!

Christmas Alive | Sunday 19th December | 4-6pm, Lightoaks Park

Christmas Alive – This Year It’s Bigger Than Ever!

Click here to download the Christmas Alive poster Experience the nativity come to life! Come along to meet & interact with characters in our live nativity, and follow the story all the way to the stable, and beyond… Live animals, live characters, live music!

Chairs

In this video, made for 20 Liters, Rob Bell uses chairs to share some basic facts about water, food & poverty. Watch it – it will make you think!

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Church Social: Saturday 6th November, 7.30pm Thanks to all of you who have said you are coming and bringing food, to those who cannot come we will miss you! Please bring your own refreshments for the evening, we want to make this as easy as possible for everyone involved in setting up, we will provide cups…
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A Voice For The Voiceless

An Opportunity To Hear Baroness Caroline Cox. ‘Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.’ Proverbs 31v8 Baroness Cox has deliberately chosen causes overlooked by the world at large. She has put her life at risk on a great many occasions in places as varied as…
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How To Start A Movement

I recently came across this short video from TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). Although it’s a talk from ‘secular’ society, I think it has a very powerful message for the church too. We need to work together as a body if we want to see a movement start up.

Advent Conspiracy

Advent Conspiracy

The story of Christ’s birth is a story of promise, hope, and a revolutionary love. So, what happened? What was once a time to celebrate the birth of a saviour has somehow turned into a season of stress, traffic jams, and shopping lists. And when it’s all over, many of us are left with presents to…
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Marriage Matters

Marriage Matters

Being held at Mount Chapel, and organised jointly by Salford Elim Church, Mount Chapel and Langworthy Community Church, Marriage Matters is a unique opportunity for couples to invest in their marital relationships. Led by Roger and Maggie Ellis the one night, one day event aims to build, enhance, strengthen and deepen the bonds of marriage in…
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Prayer

Over the next months we have a lot of new things taking shape; The Vine (new cafe), Christmas Alive (Lightoaks Park), First Sunday (inclusive service for ‘all’ to be invited to) and at Pendleton College the Konnekt To Life Project, which we have continued to develop, and are now in a really exciting phase of…
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Light Of The World

Light Of The World

This is an amazingly powerful stop-motion video set to the song In This World by Enter The Worship Circle. Watch it – I think you’ll like it…

‘Thanks A Lot’

On Sunday we spent some time thinking about the power of thankfulness – the way it gives us a bigger sense of who God is, the way it makes each of us feel more valued, and the way that ultimately being thanked and giving thanks brings wholeness to us. So when I read this today,…
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