Tuesday 25 November 2014

Christmas goodies now in stock


Richard and Maggie from the Oasis Christian Bookshop in Wisbech have helped re-stock the church shop. There are lots of Christmas goodies that are not usually available including Fairtrade Christmas Cards, Fairtrade ginger biscuits, Fairtrade dried fruit perfect for making your Christmas cake.

The Fairtrade 'Reeal Advent Calendar' is proving to be a great success - so prder yours if they are sold out!

There is also a selection of Christmas music CDs as well as popular worship CDs including the latest release 'All Things New' from our very own Matt McChlery which will make a great Christmas gift!

Get ready for the new year with some Bible reading notes that last a whole year, or be helped to read the Bible in a year with the 'Every Day With Jesus' Bible.

Do have a look at the shop at the back of church on Sunday.

Sunday 16 November 2014

Shining a Light in the Darkness

 
Inspired by a talk at yesterday's IJM conference and the leading of the Holy Spirit, today we lit a candle in our church service to remind us all about those who are suffering injustice, in slavery and those Christians who are being persecuted around the world.

Lord, may you help us to be a light shining in the darkness

#Dark2Light

IJM UK Conference 2014


IJM (International Justice Mission) held their first UK international conference yesterday and 4 of us from The King's Church, Wisbech attended. It was a valuable time to engage again with God's heart on issues around modern-day slavery, violence and injustice around the world. We were taken to the depths of despair hearing about some of the horrific situations people find themselves in, but we were also shown that although there is great darkness and evil in the world - there is hope!

By following Jesus and obeying his call to look after the widow, the orphan and the poor. By following God's heart to set captives free and bring justice where there is injustice. IJM is engaged practically on the groung in countries around the world setting captives free, restoring hope, vision and dignity. They are also engaged in trying to change legislation that gives more protection to the last and the least.

Through their work they have seen captives set free. They have seen abusers taken to account for their crimes. They have seen entire justice systems reform and govermnents change their opinions. They great thing is, God has called all of us to get involved. To be doers and not just hearers. To take action to bring justice and freedom.

We may not be able to be 'on the ground' raiding brothels and freeing underaged prostitutes in Cambodia or rescuing people from brick kilns in India. But we can educate our neighbour. We can write a letter to our MP to help change the law in this country. We can choose to buy fairly traded goods when we shop. There are ways everyone can get involved!

Find out more about IJM and their work by visiting their website.

Sunday 9 November 2014

Bean Baker at After Hours Live


Bean Baker and his bass guitarist Dave fought the Friday evening traffic all the way from Gloucester to be with us at After Hours Live on Friday evening. We are centrainly glad they did as they produced an amazing top-quality performance singing covers such as Ed Sheeran's 'Lego House' and Emily Sande's 'Next To Me'. To prove their musicianship they also covered a jazz number 'Hit The Road Jack' and then played a medley where they combined the popular song 'Everything Is Awesome' from the Lego Movie with One Direction's 'You're Beautiful'. They also played some original compositions including 'Set Me On Fire' as well as 'The Troll And Ogre Hunter' - their CDs sold almost as quickly as the chocolate cake in the interval!

There were also some people who were at After Hours Live for the first time and it was lovely to meet them. We are hoping they will be back next month to see the fantastic Daughters of Davis who will be getting us into the festive spirit.

Saturday 1 November 2014

New Sermon CDs Ready to Go


New Sermon Series CD Box-Sets are ready in our new look packaging.

Starting with a 2-sermon mini series preached by Clive Butcher about 'Spiritualists, Mediums and the Occult' this series looks at the realities of the spirit realm as well as what the Bible says about things such as mediums, horoscpoes, tarot cards etc. Sermons well worth listening to! Cost £1.

'Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly With Your God' is a 4 disc 7-sermon series that uses the minor prophets in the Old Testament to explore issues around justice and mercy - a topice God has been laying heavily on our hearts recently. A valuable resource to refer to again and again. Cost £3.50.

'Dare to Dream' is our latest sermon series fresh from our recent conference with special guest speaker Hugh Osgood. These contain some invaluable insights into how the church should respond to our community as well as the importance of working together across denominations to build God's Kingdom here on earth. Cost £3.50

All titles are available at the shop at church.