Author: Anthony McKernan

Let 8217 s face it a lot of historic church buildings are old and in need of some attention There isn t much warmth colour or comfort available and yet we want to ensure a warm welcome for everyone to our venues especially on a Sunday Churches that have taken over industrial units former office blocks or hire hellip

In Stoke on Trent a Civic Prayer Breakfast is held each year in the impressive Kings Hall with over 300 people attending For a prayer event I was interested to observe that the Christians were possibly outnumbered Who are the other attendees of this Prayer Breakfast The police health authorities councillors teachers and many others whose work hellip

or think of your church to be more precise Do they think of a building A problem noise parking Or do they think of a group of faithful friends How would you like your neighbourhood to think of your church community Here in Dagenham and Redbridge the neighbourhood tends to know us as the LifeLine hellip

If someone wants to join your church do you ever say No Let 8217 s say they live locally love Jesus desire the Holy Spirit and are ready to serve Would you ever say No We are currently running our Foundation Course which enables new people to review the basis of faith in Jesus and also the hellip

The reason I joined this church is because I got a free Sunday lunch each week All visiting students were offered the opportunity to eat and spend Sunday afternoon with a church family With this matching up of host families with students it didn t take long to feel like we belonged Today it 8217 s normal for hellip