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Continue reading →: Film ClubAt January’s Film Club we talked about ‘Friendly Persuasion’ a film from 1956 starring Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire. Set in the American Civil War the film explores the reaction of Quakers (who are pacifists) to the war – which is getting ever closer to them. Would their principles hold…
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Continue reading →: Thought for the New Year
Here’s the text of an article that will appear in the Newark Advertiser on 07 January in the ‘Credo’ column For many millions of people around the world Christmas 2015 was all about the arrival of something that had been expected but that had been awaited for a very long…
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Continue reading →: £510
That’s how much we raised at the Carol Concert yesterday. What a fantastic effort. Thanks to everyone who contributed. We must do it again next year. Mark
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Continue reading →: Carol Concert
An amazing turn out to night for our Carol Concert featuring ‘Just Sing’ – Newark’s Community Choir. 150 people turned up to hear the choir sing 3 songs, including a lovely rendition of Candlelight Carol by John Rutter and to raise money for Beaumond House, Newark’s hospice. The audience joined…
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Continue reading →: Christmas advertOne of my friends that I met on my Theology degree course posted this video on Facebook yesterday. Just click to follow the link Christmas video It’s a remake of the video from a well known department store which features the man on the moon – but this version has…
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Continue reading →: Choir rehearsal
What a great rehearsal we had at Just Sing this morning. 49 people turned up – the most we’ve ever had – as we practised pieces we will be singing at our various concerts over the Christmas period, including a lovely John Rutter carol (Candlelight), O Holy Night, a Polish…
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Continue reading →: Carol Concert
We are looking forward to our Carol Concert on 07 December at 7.00 pm. ‘Just Sing’ the community choir set up by and meeting at our church will be giving their first major public performance with several items of Christmas music and there will be plenty of chance for the…
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Continue reading →: Organ concert
21 people were treated to a virtuoso performance by Steve Caddy on his Yamaha EL-90 in the church hall last night. Over 2 hours Steve played a wide range of music, including songs from Abba, The Beautiful South and Tom Jones, themes from TV and films and lots more. He also…
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Continue reading →: Overseas visitors
I’ve been keeping an eye on the statistics which show me the number of people who’ve been looking at the website and where they’re from. No surprise that there have been quite a lot of people from the UK, but we’ve also had visitors from USA New Zealand France Austria…
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Continue reading →: Café Church
Today at Café Church we looked at some issues around evil, in its broadest sense, in response to the proximity of Halloween. We read some extracts from C S Lewis’s ‘The Screwtape Letters’ and discussed what we think about ‘The Devil’, recognising the presence of that voice inside us all that always…
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