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Coventry: Painting by numbers
Who said “church” was just a Sunday thing? Coventry Jesus Centre manager, Piers Young paints a picture of a busy Friday at the Jesus Centre.Published: 26th Sep 2012
I COULDN’T help being impressed by how much went on here last Friday.
Julia, our skills tutor, ran a new “The Bible and You” class in the Bridge drop-in lounge with a keen group. It’s a group that combines teaching literacy with exploring the Bible.
“Little Ark” mums and tots converted the Gateway hall into a big play room with pushalong toys, craft activities, and chatting mums filling the space.
Reception dealt with a stream of enquiries. Support workers plied their trade of mercy.
Iain, who runs our self-development and confidence building activities under the banner “Your Future”, took some people to Ryton Pools to do conservation work.
The “...
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Northampton: Socks changed my life!
Filmmaker Aidan Ashby writes what his camera saw: the moving story of Sid Elliot’s journey from homelessness and addiction to faith and freedom through the work of the Northampton Jesus Centre.Published: 25th Jan 2012
“HI, I’M SID and this is how socks changed my life”. Sid, sitting in front of us was recounting his life story to our camera. And it’s quite a story!
My friend Richard King and I had been approached by Faithworks Northampton, part of a national network of Churches aiming to resource and encourage community involvement between Churches.
They offered us an opportunity to promote the work of the Northampton Jesus Centre (which is affiliated to Faithworks) through a YouTube video which they would promote.
So we’d dragged ourselves out of bed at 5.15 that morning, aiming to catch the cold early morning sunlight on the empty streets of Northampton. We wanted to capture some footage to show...
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Sheffield: Full steam ahead
Viv Callard reports on the progress toward opening a fourth Jesus Centre in Sheffield.Published: 26th Sep 2011
WORK steams ahead on the Sheffield Jesus Centre!
Despite a number of setbacks and delays (the snow over Christmas included), the contractors should be handing over the completed site to the local congregation at the beginning of June. Then it will be all hands on deck for setting up and arranging desks and office chairs, wheeling in filing cabinets, stocking up the freezers for the café, making sure there’s an adequate supply of paper clips on the help desk and so on.
The excitement is growing, and people are seeing where they fit in, and getting creative with ideas for services to offer. More importantly though, we’re allowing it to intrude on our lives and we're being a bit inconvenienced by it all...
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