Ken Clark has written four short studies on why the Jesus is the greatest priest of all. We’d encourage you to spend time with these in the coming days. We hope that God will encourage you as you read, pray and reflect. If you want to explore more about this, do read Hebrews!
This year has been a tough and challenging time for all as we find ourselves having to have put down things that boost our wellbeing. Seeing family and friends, exercise, hobbies, holidays and all the extra small treat in between. We often use Lent and other times in the calendar to restrict or beat ourselves up …
The Chair of Trustees for Emmanuel Group of Churches, Rachel Tighe, is taking maternity leave from her role. Rachel will remain the named Chair but David Bell will take on the role as Deputy Chair of Trustees and will cover Rachel’s role while she is on maternity leave. To assist David in this role Maureen Luke …
In today’s service, we’re looking at the Transfiguration. On a day which many people associate with romantic love (Valentine’s Day) we’ll be exploring how the love that we are given freely by God is the love which truly frees and sustains us. We’ll again be meeting on Facebook at 10.30. Click on this paragraph to …
It seems hard to believe but Lent is just around the corner. This year, this strangest of all years for many of us, it feels especially important to take the time in Lent to pause, to pray, to reflect and to (re)turn once again to God. Whether we’re full of joy, sorrow or something in …
The latest edition of BERT, our bi-monthly Church magazine, is now available. As usual, it features lots of information, updates and reflections. You can download a copy from the link below. Thanks again to Liz Bateman for compiling it and to all who contributed to this edition.
Today marks the beginning of the annual Week of Prayer For Christian Unity. Jesus prayed that his followers ‘would be one, Father, as you and I are one’ and it is incredibly important for our life and work as Christians to work together with other Christians and Christian Churches as much as we possibly can. …
Welcome to the page for this week’s Sunday Service. Whether the past week has been good, tough or indifferent for you, we’re glad that you’re joining with us as we worship God today. We’re thinking about what it means to trust and follow God this week. Maybe that’s a choice you made long ago, or …
January 6th 2021 Dear Emmanuel Family Following the announcement of the new lockdown, the Re-Opening Team met on Tuesday morning (January 5th). This is myself, John Weaver, Linda Withers,, Rachel Tighe and Mike Maddocks. Following this meeting I have contacted the rest of our Trustees and sought their prayers and support for the direction we …
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Early in January in most years it is the practice of many Christians to renew their commitment to God, their faith and to their Church family through the Covenant Prayer. We said this prayer together for this year as a Church in our service of January 3rd. Following from that service, here are some questions …
