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Fundraising and friends
Published: 17th Feb 2016
LAST month, at the Northampton Jesus Centre we held a “Great Fish & chip quiz night”. It was a fundraising event for Sarah, one of our café volunteers who is going to India for three weeks at the end of February. She’s raising money to provide resources like pencils, rulers and exercise books for the orphanage her and a small team are going to support.
For the quiz night, there were five teams, including two from our Circle café customers. They pitted themselves against each other and while there was a clear winner, second and third places were decided through a series of nail-biting tie-break questions from our quiz master supremo Sid (the café manager). We were joined for the first...
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Fish, chips and friends
Published: 11th Sep 2015
Northampton Jesus Centre continues to be busy, with lots of activities planned for the coming months. This weekend, Northampton Jesus Centre takes part in the national ‘Heritage Open Days’ scheme. It’s a chance for local people to visit historic sites and discover more about the area they live in. The Northampton Jesus Centre was previously the ABC Cinema and is an example of Art Deco architecture..
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Art in the right place
Northampton Jesus Centre exhibited some of the paintings of Christian artist Ulrike O'Flaherty. Her deeply evocative artwork meditates on God's love towards the marginalised. Like the Jesus Centre vision, Ulrike's art expresses how Jesus can heal and dignify the poor.Published: 21st May 2008
ULRIKE O'Flaherty's striking, "in your face" artwork has things to say about God's love towards the marginalised and poor.
The themes explored in her powerful paintings tie in well with the Jesus Centre vision to be "a place of friendship and help for every type of person".
Ulrike talks about what has influenced her work:
We were working in Naples with prostitutes and homeless people who slept rough underneath the train stations. I found myself unable to say 'bye bye' and leave them to sleep in their cardboard boxes while we went back to our snugly beds, so we began to have people living with us and called it 'Casa Familia'. God...
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Today's church for today's people
Faith-led social actionPublished: 19th Jan 2005
ONE hundred people attended the official launch of the Centre in the Circle Café on Wednesday 8 December. Among them were councillors, architects and a retired projectionist, Arthur Northover. “Thanks for the rebirth of something new, a truly lovely church, phoenix-like from the old Savoy’s ashes,” he inscribed in a presentation copy of his book, The Picture Man.
Refreshments and speeches from key people involved in the project followed.
Among them was JACT chairman John Campbell. “Faith-led social action doesn’t impose faith; it has the highest standards and faith informs its activity,” he said.
“The Jesus Centre is faith-led social action. The 21st century church...
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