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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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Continue reading →: GIFT course
Deborah, one of our members, has just returned home from her first weekend away in Nottingham on the GIFT course run by the Congregational Federation. GIFT stands for Growing In Faith Together and is a one year course designed to ‘deepen experience and understanding of faith’. The course is delivered mainly by…
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Continue reading →: Newark Mencap
This week we welcome the Newark branch of Mencap as our latest tenants. On Monday to Wednesday each week they will be using the facilities of our hall to support those with learning disabilities. We are very proud to be able to support them in their important and valuable work…
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Continue reading →: Craft Fair 2015
A very successful craft fair held in the church today. More than a dozen stalls and a very enjoyable event. We have a number of very talented members who made a variety of crafts and cakes, and the kitchen sold out of bacon butties! We have also made a sizable…
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Continue reading →: Café Church 13 September 2015
Today at Café Church we looked at an episode of the BBC sitcom ‘Rev’, featuring Tom Hollander as Rev. Adam Smallbone, vicar of an inner-city London church. We watched a few extracts from Series 1 Episode 1 and pondered issues such as What matters most – the numbers of people attending…
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Continue reading →: Hello world!
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