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 …
An Update Regarding Physically-Gathered Services During Lockdown Read More »
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 …
As we begin a new year, I thought it might be a good moment to report on the work of the Weston Favell Centre Foodbank, the Foodbank which we operate with partners and which has had an exponential growth in both demand and operation over the last few years. In 2019, Weston Favell Centre Foodbank …
It takes time to embed values and vision. I’d love it if you could read the letter below and pray about what you think God is saying, where He is leading, and which area outlined below you would like to play a part in during 2021. Dear Members of the Emmanuel Family, I’m writing this …
A note from our previous Team Rector re: Vision : A Letter to All In Our Church Family Read More »
Christmas is coming. We’d love for you to celebrate it with us. Here is a list of what we have coming up. On Christmas Eve we will have Boothville at 4PM – Mary Langley and her team are arranging this service Online Nativity at 4PM – this will be on our Facebook page. Yvonne and …
We are developing our partnership with Carl Beech and the team at Edge Ministries, beginning with the launching of an Edge Centre with our Money Support Service launching through Paul Foster and his team in January. As you’ll see from this video, there’s so much more that could follow. Do watch Carl’s video. I think …
The December to January edition of BERT, our bi-monthly Church magazine, is now available. As usual, it features lots of information and updates about what our Church, Café Emm and Weston Favell Centre Foodbank are doing. You can download a copy from the link below. Thanks again to Liz Bateman for compiling it and to …
The December 2020 and January 2021 edition of BERT is now online! Read More »
Would you like to make a difference this Advent? Our God is a hospitable God and welcomes all people. He loves us completely and unconditionally, as Christians we are called to do the same. Hospitality is an attitude that warms the heart, an action of love and a way of living. We all know that …
Who can quite believe that Advent is around the corner? I certainly can’t. On the last Sunday before Advent begins, the Church Calendar brings us to a day called Christ the King. What a great thing to celebrate before we move in to a period of waiting and preparation, both for Christmas as we remember …
