NEWS

29 Mar 2012

Sunday 29th April - Appointing Elders - 4pm meeting

Sunday 29th April our meeting will be at 4pm (not 10:30am)

Goff Hope (pictured) leads Kings Community Church, Norwich one the biggest churches in Relational Mission and in Newfrontiers UK. Goff is an engaging, entertaining and inspiring speaker and he will appoint Ewan Kannegieter & Austin Chukwu as elders. It will be a Sunday not to miss.

23 Mar 2012

The Money Course starting Tuesday 17th April

The Bishop's Stortford Money Advice Service (BSMAS) is putting on The Money Course at 7-9.30pm on Tuesdays 17th April, 1st, 15th & 29th May at The Emmaus Centre, St James Church, Thorley. The course is free. For more information please click here

14 Mar 2012

Could you serve the church for a few hours a week?

One of the joys of having our own building is being able to see it used to bless the community - whether that is through our own groups, local organisations who use the building like the WI, Early Years Autism Support group, Child contact groups, East Herts council and staff meetings and lots more besides!

So as you can imagine it can get very busy here at the Charis Centre and so we are looking for some people who could give us a few hours each week to provide a warm welcome and help our visitors find everything they need.

This would be a real blessing to the users of the Charis Centre and to would serve the church staff tremendously as well.

If you think you have a few hours you could give each week then please speak to Maureen or Steven in the church office or email us at office@thecommunitychurch.org.uk

20 Dec 2011

Meetings over Christmas & New Year

Meetings over Christmas & New Year Sunday 25th December - 10:30am Sunday 1st January - NO MEETING Sunday 8th January - 10:30am

27 Nov 2011

New Members

On Sunday 27th November we welcomed Tom Campbell, Mark & Ffion Ling and Margaret Wright into membership

08 Nov 2011

Sermon for this week is not available

Unfortunately we had a problem recording on Sunday so the excellent sermon delivered by Oge Austin-Chukwu will not be available to download or on CD. Many apologies.

02 Nov 2011

Operation Christmas Child - the shoebox appeal

Fill a child's life with joy this Christmas by filling a shoebox with gifts which will be transported all over the world to underprivileged children. If you need a leaflet then pick one up from one of our information points. Shoeboxes may be dropped at the Charis Centre between 1st and 18th November.

24 Oct 2011

Daytime Prayer meeting

The new Daytime Prayer meeting has now been moved to Friday morning with tomorrow's being held at Brenda Ballendens house at 9.15am. The prayer meeting is open to anyone who wants to pray in Gods plans and purposes and so both men and women are welcome.

07 Oct 2011

Missed a preach?

If you want to catch up with last Sunday's message you can always pick up a CD from the Welcome Corner.

We charge £1 to cover the costs of production.

If you want to download the sermon go to http://thecommunitychurch.org.uk/resource/ to get links to all the sermons and how to register for a pocast.

05 Oct 2011

Alpha Course starts

Alpha course started on Tuesday 4th October and we had 15 guests on the course. It was an excellent evening and a great start to the course.

There is still space for more is someone wants to join just come along next Tuesday 10th October.

25 Sep 2011

Baptisms

Isaak Marshall and Tony & Jane Eastaugh were baptised on Sunday morning. It was great to hear their testimonies of God changing their lives.

07 Sep 2011

Lisa Castle joins the Community Church team

Lisa Castle who has been part of the Community Church for the past few years made the massive decision to give up her job and do a year working for the church and being trained up for the future.

She is doing FP Impact and also The School of Supernatural Ministry both based at Bedford and when she is not on training she will be helping with allsorts of ministries here at the church.

14 Aug 2011

Holiday Bible Week - it's all over

Another excellent year at Holiday Bible Week seeing hundres of children hear the gospel and encounter God.

Claire Pearce our children's worker was there and said, "It was lovely to see children move from saying they didnt believe in God (Monday) to worshipping him and wanting to go to KidzKlub! Awesome :)"

07 Aug 2011

Baptisms

John Lloyd & Margaret Wright were baptised on Sunday. It was great to hear their testimonies of God changing their lives.

06 Aug 2011

Hole in the roof

During the early hours of Thursday 4th August a man who was up on the roof of the Charis Centre fell through the roof. So the office staff were shocked to come across this situation in the upstairs lounge! Click here to read all about it in the local paper.

31 Jul 2011

Newday it all starts now

And the're off! The Newday setup team are off to wonderful world of Norfolk to have fun with tents. Check out the Newday blog for an update around 6pm tonight.

18 Jul 2011

Rhys & Sara Scott

Rhys & Sara Scott were with ous on Sunday to share something of their journey that God is taking them on to plant a church in Vancouver, Canada. Rhys who was part of the leadership team here before going to start ChristChurch London with David Stroud. Click here to listen to their talk.

14 Jul 2011

Together on a Mission talks.

Together on a Mission leadership conference recordings are now available from the Newfrontiers website.

07 Jul 2011

What's your flag?

We will be starting to display flags of the nations represented by the Community Church in the main hall soon. If you are part of our church and from a nation outside the UK let us know and we will proudly display your countries flag! Call or email the office on 01279 461231 or office@thecommunitychurch.org.uk

03 Jul 2011

New Members - welcome to the family

It was great to see Charlie Wager & Frances Humphries welcomed into membership this Sunday.

14 Jun 2011

Baptisms

Charlie Thorpe & Lina Feixeira were baptised on Sunday. It was great to hear their testimonies of God changing their lives.

11 Jun 2011

Fun Day

The fun day is over and what a great day it was.

Check out our facebook page for a slection of photos

http://tinyurl.com/3lbrt9q

01 Jun 2011

Offering for Chersih Uganda

May's offering for Cherish Uganda an orphanage and school caring for HIV positive children was over £1,400. They currently have 42 children and will accept more once they have built more homes. They also reach out to the community in various ways incl offering a place to the poor children in the community who cannot afford school fees.

22 May 2011

New Members - welcome to the family

The following people were welcomed into membership this Sunday

Tony & Jane Eastaugh

John & Rowan Lloyd

Steve & Jo Gill

16 May 2011

Summer Highlights

he are a number of highlights coming up during the summer with guest preachers and some special events. To get a summary of what's going on at the Community Church over the summer click here

26 Apr 2011

One meeting - now to September

We have reviewed the trial of running only one meeting and generally we feel it has been a great success. The Charis Centre feels full but in a good way and of those who responded to our survey 86% said they want to continue as one meeting. If you want to see the results of the survey click here.

So the elders have decided to keep to one meeting at 10:30am from now through to the end of September. Beyond September we will try to stay together as one meeting for as long as possible, possibly using JRs as an overflow.

If you have any comments, suggestions or questions on this then please do contact us - use the query form on the side of this webpage.

24 Apr 2011

Easter Baptism

On a great Easter Sunday Pamela Fotiadis was baptised by Faith Richardson & her husband Tony

08 Apr 2011

One Meeting Survey - Please let us know what you think!

We are trialing meeting in one meeting from Sunday 3rd April to Sunday 1st May.

We want to see if for a season we can gather together in one meeting and still have space to grow.

We really need your feedback on how this is for you so please click here to do our survey online.

31 Mar 2011

One Sunday Meeting - 10:30am

From Sunday 3rd April to Sunday 1st May we will be meeting for one meeting at 10:30am.

This is part of a trial to see if we can gather together in one meeting and still have space to grow. This will give us the benefit of being community together in one meeting.

23 Mar 2011

Offering to support Gareth & Nicola McCormick

We shall be taking an offering this Sunday (27th March) to support Gareth & Nicola McCormick as they return to the UK for a summer sabbatical.

21 Mar 2011

Thanksgiving Celebration for the life of Alec Tee - Friday 25th March

Alec Tee, one of the founding members of the Community Church, died in Harlow Hospital on Wednesday 16th March.

Audrey and the family would like to invite all from the Community Church to join with them as we give thanks for Alec and his life at the Charis Centre on Friday 25th March at 3pm.

02 Mar 2011

Kenyan Crisis Support Offering

Our offering to support the ongoing relief work in Kenya was over £3000.

If you want to give to this offering (or redeem and IOU) send a cheque to the office with a covering note.

13 Feb 2011

Baptisms

Christine Unthank & Debbie Davies were baptised on Sunday. It was great to hear their testimonies of God changing their lives.

06 Feb 2011

New Members

The following people were welcomed into membership

John & Ruth Mutimer
Ali Burnett
Richard Holme
Ed Earnshaw
Aline Buck
Peter & Katie Agathangelou

06 Feb 2011

Volunteers Night

Thank you to all you lovely volunteers who came along and help make our 3rd annual volunteers night such a great evening.

We hope you enjoyed, the food, the drink, the ice cream and the entertainment!

Next year we may do "Staff & Elders do Stars in their Eyes" once we have sourced a job lot of ear plugs!

22 Jan 2011

Finger in all the pies

Steven Hunter, our church administrator, has started a blog entitled "finger in all the pies"

http://fingerinallthepies.blogspot.com/

His aim is to grow through the experience and discipline of writing & creating and hopefully others who see these different, relevant and strange views, ideas and creations will be inspired and challenged. Have a look at see what you think.

04 Jan 2011

Week of Prayer Jan 10th to 16th

See the calendar for details of prayer meeting times

MONDAY and THURSDAY
GROW INDIVIDUALLY in the presence of God John 15:1-8
Pray for your small group, your friends and church members by name. That they will love God, pursue God, know the presence of God, revelation of the Father, be spirit-filled and be blessed with spiritual gifts.

TUESDAY and FRIDAY
GROW COMMUNITY in the presence of God John 15:9-14, John 17:20-23
Pray for the honouring of one another, group life, love, friendships, Pray for group leaders, group pastors and elders

WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY
GROW THE KINGDOM in the presence of God John 15:15-17, John 16:7-11, John 17:23
Pray for salvations, healing and deliverance. Pray for individuals and ministries serving the community.

02 Jan 2011

Small Groups Meal

Our first encounter night of 2011 will be a small groups meal evening. This is an evening where we gather all our small groups together to share a meal followed by time to look forward to the year ahead in our groups.

The evening starts from 7:30pm.

16 Dec 2010

Church Meetings over Christmas and into the New Year

Sunday 19th December

4pm Family Christmas Celebration
6pm & 8pm Evening Christmas Carol Services

Saturday 25th December Christmas Day meeting at 10:30am

Sunday 26th December NO MEETING

Sunday 2nd January & Sunday 9th January one meeting at 10:30am

Sunday 16th January back to two meetings at 9:15am & 11:30am

23 Nov 2010

The Big Quiz Night - RESULTS

Quizmaster Matt What a great night, we had great fun and raised over £500 for St Elizabeth's Centre.

The top three teams were:

1st - Jelly Babies

2nd - Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead

3rd - The Murdochs

see you next year!

18 Nov 2010

Big Quiz Update

The Big Quiz is SOLD OUT!!

Fifteen teams are ready for the challenge!

17 Nov 2010

Company at Christmas

Company at Christmas is a Christmas day party put on for anyone in our town who would otherwise be alone. Could you be part of it this year? You could...
> Be a helper (from 11am-5pm) on Christmas day
> Prepare veg or help decorate the hall on Christmas Eve
> Be a driver taking out "meals on wheels"
> Cook a large turkey
> Provide entertainment on Christmas day
Contact GOSPEL EMEGHARA for more info

12 Nov 2010

Baptism - update

This Sunday the baptism of Sam Lake will happen in our 11:30am meeting.

So there will be NO evening meeting.

10 Nov 2010

Church Facebook Page

Our new church facebook page is live and kicking. Check it out for lots of updates on events and people connected to the church. Click the link to go to it now and make sure you click the LIKE button! http://www.facebook.com/thecommunitychurch

09 Nov 2010

Baptism Evening - this Sunday 6:30pm

Come along to support Sam Lake as he is baptised. This evening is a great opportunity to invite friends along to hear a gospel message which is supported by some great creative drama.

28 Oct 2010

Harlow Church Plant Launch Event - Sunday 14th November

Sunday 14th November marks an important stage in the life of the new church plant into Harlow as they hold a launch event at the Harlow Playhouse.

The evening event will start at 6pm at be the first opportunity for all the team to gather together, worship and pray and start the journey to launch a new church - God Central Church - in Harlow.

Do pray for them and speak to or email Ben Clarke for more details

26 Oct 2010

Sad farewells

We said a sad farewell to Ben & Charlotte Senior and Jon & Georgina Dean as they move up to Birmingham to join Stuart & Melanie Crane in the exciting task of planting a new church - Real Life Church check out their facebook page http://www.facebook.com/findreallife

Also Sunday was the last day Meriel Vincent will be with us as she moves from Stortford to Bedford.

08 Oct 2010

Water Lane CLOSED!

Please note that Water Lane will be closed (Charis Centre end) for a month so do not try to drop off/pick up at the door.

01 Oct 2010

Shuttleworth talks online

If you missed one of the talks or seminars from together@shuttleworth10 or want to hear one again now is your chance!! They are now available for download from the website at http://www.newfrontiers-shuttleworth.org.uk

Also on the website is the feedback form. Please do tell them what you loved about together@shuttleworth10 and what could have been a little better. As an encouragement to fill it in one lucky person will be picked out at random to receive a box of chocolates!

25 Sep 2010

Next Building Offering

We shall be taking up our next offering towards the Building Fund on Sunday 10th October. Do be praying about what you might be able to give at this next offering.

31 Aug 2010

e-news

e-news, is the email newsletter for the Community Church. e-news keeps you up to date on events, prayer and news in the life of Community Church, Bishop's Stortford, Newfrontiers and beyond! To make sure you receive e-news use the message box on the right to send a request to Steven Hunter

30 Jul 2010

Shuttleworth campsite plan

Shuttleworth is only a few weeks away and the attached plan (thecommunitychurch.org.uk) shows both the site plan and our church plot and where each family will be positioned.