We are preparing to build a new, fully accessible church centre! So that we can empty our current building and prepare the church for storage we are moving our 10 O'clock service to St Bede's School a little further up the road. Our morning service at St Bede's will have groups for children and young people from age 3 to school year 9 as usual, as well as our supervised creche for under 3s. We will have car parking spaces at the school, including a section for blue badge holders. We look forward to seeing you at St Bede's from Sunday 1st September!Our evening service and our midweek service, Rendezvous, will remain on our original site.
We are delighted to mark over 20 years of Rendezvous with a service of celebration and thanksgiving on Wednesday 6th March at 10.30am. Our guest preacher will be former Vicar of HT, Canon Gary Jenkins. The service will conclude with refreshments in the church centre and, in true HT style, cake!Rendezvous set out with the intention of creating a little midweek oasis where people could draw closer to God and to one another. Over the years it has proved a vital part of our outreach to our local community, especially for those who find it difficult to get to church on Sundays. We always say that Rendezvous is a service of two halves - the first part in church and the second in the church centre where we enjoy a relaxed time over tea and coffee. Come and celebrate Rendezvous with us - our services are open to all!
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I will be forever grateful – literally - to a man named Andy Bales. I met Andy when I was 17, both of us doing the day-release ‘study’ part of our apprenticeship at Derby Lonsdale College. We struck up a friendship and met up fortnightly at the Baseball Ground, home of the (then) mighty Derby County. Andy became a Christian during the time we were doing our apprenticeships, and he immediately started talking about the difference Jesus had made to him. He wasn’t a great preacher or evangelist, but he had clearly found something of life-changing value and meaning and wanted to talk about it. To cut a long story short, Andy invited me to attend an evangelistic meeting that set me on the path to discovering Jesus for myself – or rather discovering that it was God who had come looking for me in his Son Jesus! It was Andy’s courage in witnessing to his new found faith in Jesus that led me to want to know more – and in God’s goodness I have followed Jesus since I gave my life to him in 1984. Our Verse for the Year is Romans 10: 14-15 (2 verses, I know…) as the apostle Paul asks ‘How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?’ We are not all given the gift of evangelism, but every single follower of Jesus is a witness to what they know of him. Come and hear more from these encouraging verses and how it is God who comes looking for us in Jesus, to make us right with himself, and then gives us the joyful responsibility of being a part of someone else’s story.Mick
