Crowhurst Christian Healing Centre are holding a morning on loss and grief called ‘A Space to Remember’ on Friday 31^st March (10-1pm).  The day will be led by Revd Steve Gurr Chaplain at HMP Ford in West Sussex.  Steve served 15 years as Lead for Pastoral Care and Chaplaincy at St Barnabas Hospice in Worthing and Chestnut Tree Children`s Hospice.

 A Space to Remember will offer us an opportunity to reflect on the losses that have been, and are still significant to us. This may be about remembering before God a loved one who has died. Or it may be about having a space to consider prayerfully other kinds of losses experienced and how these impact on life. Our morning together will give us time to pray for a greater sense of the Lord’s accompanying of us as we face the future.

 The time will include a service of Holy Communion with a brief thought for the day, as well as time for personal reflection, prayer, remembrance and a chat with someone if you’d find that helpful.

 If you would like to, please feel free to bring a photograph, or another (smallish) item that can be placed on the chapel altar throughout the morning to represent the thoughts you carry into this day.

 10am – Gathering and introduction

10.30am – 12pm – Time for reflection and remembrance activities

(coffee available throughout)

12pm -1pm – Holy Communion

1pm Lunch available at Howard’s Well if desired.

 £12 per person book online https://www.crowhursthealing.org.uk/retreat.php?retreat=782 or by calling 01424 830204

NEW PARISH SECRETARY POST: the Parish of Our Lady of Ransom, St Agnes and St Gregory (Eastbourne)  is seeking to employ a new Parish Secretary to begin in post on 24th April. This role will be 16 hours per week (£12ph), Monday – Thursday (9.30 am -1.30 pm). The role will be to provide an efficient secretarial service and personal assistance to the Parish Priest and clergy and good communication and administration within the parish. If you would like further details or wish to apply for this role please contact Fr Kevin directly by email: kevin.dring@abdiocese.org.uk . The closing date for applications is 9 am on Friday 31st March.

St John’s Church, Meads 1.30pm onwards 25 March 2023

Debra Green – Christans & Community Transformation

Are you a community volunteer with your church or a charitable agency? This special event is for you.

Debra Green OBE is the National Director and Founder of Redeeming Our Communities (ROC). Debra has 25 years of experience in bringing organisations together towards the goal of social transformation, starting with her home city of Manchester.

Since 2004, this work has expanded and she has acted as a consultant to many other towns and cities with significant results. Such work has attracted interest from public services and local authorities who are impressed by the proven track record and results achieved. She received an OBE in 2012 in recognition of services to community cohesion. Debra is author of a few books including: ‘City-changing prayer’ and ‘ROC Your World – changing communities for good’. For further information on Debra see https://roc.uk.com/about/founding-director/

There will be stands and information around the Church about Local Christian Organisations so feel free to arrive from 1.30pm.

An offering will be taken to help cover the costs of the event.

Please do invite anyone you think may be interested – we look forward to seeing you!

There is also an additional session for Church and Christian agency leaders with Debra at 11am-12.30 on Saturday to learn from her experience of working with organisations, churches and local authorities to see communities transformed and discuss the situation in Eastbourne. Please let us know if you’re interested in participating in this session.

For any more details please contact : roland@kingdomwaytrust.org

Roland Brown
CEO
Kingdom Way Trust

Do you have experience or interest in working with people and/or wood? Could you use this to support and encourage people wanting to learn skills to improve their lives? Hope Woodwork provides training in woodwork and life-skills and offers Hope to marginalised and vulnerable adults at its fully equipped workshop in Eastbourne. Hope Woodwork is a great place to show God’s love and share faith in a practical way.

John hopes you can help restore his confidence and give him some valuable skills to progress in life. With increasing numbers of referrals from agencies across Eastbourne and Sussex, we need volunteer supervisors, cleaners & pastoral carers. We provide training, woodworking skills and refreshments!

For further information please contact RAY on 07546 256411 or email ray@hopewoodwork.co.uk
Hope Woodwork is a project of Kingdom Way Trust
www.kingdomwaytrust.org

Our next breakfast is on the 11th March at the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club at 8.00 when Fr Kevin Dring, Priest of Our Lady Ransom Church, Eastbourne will be sharing his Thought for the Day.

For newcomers, the breakfast is a full English breakfast served buffet style, the cost is £12.00, cash if possible, but cards will be taken if required.  Please ensure you register at the payment station as you come into the Millennium Lounge before taking your seat.

The breakfast starts promptly at 8.00 to finish at 9.00, please arrive around 7.45 to collect a coffee or tea from the drinks station.  With the increased number of guests, an early arrival does help to smooth entry.

For newcomers who might be interested in attending, please let me know.

For our regular attendees, if you are unable to attend, please give me your apology by midday, the Thursday prior to the breakfast, the number I submit is the number I can be charged for.  I do hope to see you there. Please use the contact information below as simply replying to this email does not reach Dennis direct.

Our April speaker on the 8th is David Barrett.

Email: dennisthompson618@gmail.com
(M) 07808 731166
(H) 01323 749329

Victoria Baptist Church is hosting another sign language course for those interested in communicating with those who are Deaf, for whom this is their first language. If they are to learn about Jesus, it needs to be in their first language. If we want to share the love of God with them, communicating over a coffee is best done in BSL.

The Eastbourne’s World Day of Prayer (WDP) Service is on Friday 3rd March at 2pm at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Grange Road. Everyone is welcome. Please also circulate the press release and flyer attached.

The Service has been written by the Women of Taiwan, Refreshments will follow after the Service, served in the Church Hall, with a slideshow about Taiwan. For more information please email Kathryn: east.wdp23@gmail.com

Explore is a series of weekend courses designed to train and equip God’s people through a journey of learning, understanding and personal transformation.

WHAT IS EXPLORE?

Together we will find that there is hope and help for the issues we struggle with in everyday life – issues of anxiety, stress, physical pain, emotional distress, problems in relationships, addictive behaviour and depression to name just a few.

Those who journey through Explore will grow in their personal relationship with the Lord but also become better equipped to help others as they learn how to minister in the love and power of God to those in need.

Each of the events in the series will include time for worship, biblical teaching, group discussion, activities and opportunity for prayer.

EXPLORE A COURSE

EXPLORE A1: THE ABUNDANT CHRISTIAN LIFE                                17 – 18 MAR 2023

ABOUT THE COURSE

Living the Christian life offers us many promises, yet we can easily feel stuck or dry in our relationship with God. We can look at others who seem to be thriving and feel bad because we can’t overcome our personal life issues.

This course is all about hope. Hope for freedom from the past and hope for abundant life in the future.

It answers life’s foundational questions from a solid biblical perspective as we look at the sweep of history from the early days in Genesis until the Lord’s return in Revelation. We will understand better how humankind got to be in such a mess, God’s amazing rescue plan for each one of us, and the promise of an abundant life in the midst of it all.

The teaching will look at possible roots of issues in our lives, explore God’s passionate heart to heal, how that was expressed through the life of Jesus and how He is still the God who heals!

Find out more: https://ellel.uk/courses/listing/ellel-glyndley-manor/march-2023/explore-a1-the-abundant-christian-life/

Crowhurst Christian Healing Centre are holding a Teaching Day on March 10^th to explore the theme an ‘Increasing Intimacy with God.’  They say:

 In our present fragmented and busy world, many of us long for greater connections and deeper relationships. In the deepest places of our hearts, we yearn for a greater intimacy with God, a deeper and more fulfilling relationship with Him.

 Come and join us for a Teaching Day on March 10th when we will be exploring the theme an ‘Increasing Intimacy with God.’ We will look at the incredible book from the Bible, the Song of Songs, how God wants to overwhelm with His love and draw us to Himself into a deeper place where we can hear His heartbeat. We will be looking at what prevents us from coming to that place, as well as time-honoured practical ways that can help us do so.

 Can you hear His invitation to experience in a fresh way the wonder and mystery of His love… ‘Come away with me, my beloved!!’ (Song of Songs 2v10)?

 £30 per person to include morning refreshments, a 2 course lunch, afternoon refreshments & cake and use of the fully equipped art room.  Alternatively, there is the option to join the teaching sessions via Zoom at £10 per person.

 To book call 01424 830204 or visit https://www.crowhursthealing.org.uk/retreat.php?retreat=710