Christmas Service 2016

Clive Butcher at our Christmas Service 2016

We had great fun at our Christmas service on Sunday - yes a week before Christmas, we know! Keith Smith preached in the first meeting about the Second Coming of Jesus - as Christmas celebrates the first time he came, we looked beyond to what the second coming means and what it may look like.

Then in our second children and families service we had some visitors as well as crafts, Christmas songs, crackers to pull and gifts to unwrap! All were used to help illustrate the good news of the Christmas story - Jesus, God with us! Our Saviour is born.

This was followed by a bring and share meal where lots of good conversations took place and the festive atmosphere was great fun.

Thank you to all who came along and contributed in some way to help make this a very special day.

Merry Christmas!

(We are having a small informal service on Christmas Day in the Church Rooms at Octavia View starting at 10:30am)

For information about other church services during the Christmas period please visit www.ChristmasInWisbech.co.uk 

Three Cheers for Christmas!

The Riding Lights Theatre Company were back in Wisbech on Friday with their 'Three Cheers for Christmas' play that was performed in the Queen Mary Centre. It explored the story of Christmas from three different perspectives: a shy shepherd; a wise man and an angel. It was full of bad jokes and fun, yet also presented the story of the birth of Jesus in an original and meaningful way.

There were two performances. On Friday afternoon the play was watched by over 400 primary school children from around Wisbech. Upon leaving they were given a Christmas gift from The King's Church Wisbech of the Bible Society's Christmas book ' The Well Good News of Christmas' in conjunction with Wisbech Reads. Friday evening saw an audience of about 100 people, a good mix of children and adults who also enjoyed the performance.

The event was sponsored by the Ferry Project and The King's Church Wisbech.

The Well Good News of Christmas

Watch the video that tells the story of Christmas. We will be giving away over 400 books to Wisbech school children that tell this story as part of Wisbech Reads. We will also be giving these to children who come to December's Messy Church.

Enjoy the video - Merry Christmas!

Come to Messy Church in October

Come and join in the fun on Saturday 8 October at the Queen Mary Cenre, Wisbech from 3:30pm - 5:30pm! Messy Church is a monthly creative way of having fun for all ages. It is also church, so we learn about a theme from the Bible - this month it is 'Salt and Light' - sing a song and say a prayer as well as having a meal together at the end.

This month we are learning about what it means to be salt and light to the people around us - come along to find out all about it!

www.messywisbech.org.uk

Saturday 8 October
3:30pm-5:30pm
Queen Mary Community Centre, Wisbech
PE13 2PE
Free of charge (although donations are welcome)

New Sunday Morning Service Structure and Times

New Sunday Morning Service Structure

As from Sunday 18th September our service structure will be as follows: 

• 10:15am - Bible teaching and discussion
• 10:50am - Fellowship in the foyer with refreshments
• 11:15am - Celebration service, concluding by 12:15pm

These changes will be in place until Christmas at which point a review will be conducted.

Sermon notes will be sent out a week in advance with the e-newsletter and will also be available on the information table.

Book Your Place for 'Word on the Wash'!

Message from Helen Slipper at Terrington St Clement church:

We would be delighted if you would take a look at the Word on the Wash webpage - http://www.tsc-church.org.uk/wordonthewash/ - to see all the latest details about the programme, speakers, seminars and practical arrangements for Word on the Wash 2016.

We look forward to welcoming Hugh Palmer and Tim Chester as our main speakers.  Hugh will be teaching us from the book of 2 Timothy and Tim Chester will be unpacking Galatians chapter 2 for us under the title ' Rediscovering Reformation Joy'.

There will be a full programme for children aged 5-15 (including creche facilities for 0-5's with an audio link to the main hall) throughout Saturday 17th September - so please bring the whole family and make a day of it!

There will be four interactive seminars to choose from this year covering a wide range of topical issues - do please click on the 'Seminars' button on the webpage to browse the topics.

If you would like to support the event in prayer you would be most welcome to join us at our monthly prayer meetings at the St John's Centre, Kings Lynn, 4pm on Sunday's  19th June, 17th July and 21st August.

We look forward to receiving your booking online soon - or see you in September!

Messy February

At Messy Church yesterday we explored the meaning and significance of The Last Supper. We painted our own place mats (picture above), squished our own grape juice, created and decorated our own goblets and constructed a huge wooden door frame which was used as part of the teaching during the Celebration.

Our messy volunteers did a fantastic job once again! We had a total of 20 people (including volunteers).

Our next Messy Church is on 19th March 2016 where we will be learning all about Easter! It is going to be a lot of fun for the whole family - and of course its going to be MESSY! You are very welsome to join us. Find our more at www.messywisbech.org.uk 

Christian Passover Meal

Last night a group of us gathered together in the church rooms at Octavia View to take part in a Christian Passover Meal. This helped us to deepen our understanding of Communion as well as helping us to identify with the Jewish roots of Christianity. The evening was led by Andrew Saunders and was most enjoyable.

Messy Church Starts - Don't Miss It

You are invited to bring your family along to Wisbech's new all-age Messy Church. We are launching on Saturday 23rd January and for every new registration you will receive a free gift! Come along to experience church in a fun, creative, friendly, all-age way with celebration, Bible teaching, a song and food! You don't want to miss it!

3.30 - 5.30pm
Queen Mary Centre, Wisbech
Free (but donations welcome)
All-ages (Children must bring an adult with them)

Prophetic Worship Workshop and Evening Service

Angie Lendon, songwriter and worship leader from Revive Church in Hull, travelled down to Wisbech on Saturday to hold a prophetic workshop with our church band. Everyone was very receptive to what she brought and were stretched to step out in courage and respond to what the Holy Spirit was doing and where He was leading amongst us. She gave many practical tips and suggestions as well as provided opportunities to put them into practise.

Saturday evening saw our band joining with Angie for an evening of prophetic worship. Here the band flowed from known songs into spontaneous times of singing and playing. Angie also brought some prophetic words and sung over a few people. Someone was also healed when the clarinet was played over them (no words at all!).

On Sunday, when the whole church gathered together, the time of worship was extremely powerful. As the band continued to flow and use what they learnt from the previous day, the congregation responded very well and the Holy Spirit was very evident amongst us.

God is alive and moving powerfully amongst us!

New Song on Sunday

Here is a new song we will be learning in church this Sunday as we celebrate 2016 together. Have a listen.

Verse for Sunday's Service

James 5:19-20 is the verse we will be looking at this Sunday in our 10:30am service and will be preached on in out 11;30am service.

Read it - pray about it - think about it - share it.

This image has been shared on our Facebook and Twitter feeds to enable you to share it with others. Or you can use the tools below to help you share this Bible passage with the people in your world.

Sermon Videos are Back!

Sermon videos have been absent from our website and YouTube Channel for a couple of months due to our video camera breaking. However, we are now up and running again with a new camera.

So if you have missed church recently and want to catch up, or have never been to our church before, but just want to listen to the sermons we preach, we hope you enjoy it.

Remember to subscribe to our YouTube Channel to get automatic notifications when we upload something new.

New song from today's service

Here is a video of the new song 'When My Heart Is Torn Asunder' that we sung at this morning's service.

We will be learning it with the band and will be singing it again in the coming weeks.

An important song for this time in the life of our church family.

Matt Records Song for UCB TV

On Monday our Worship Leader, Matt McChlery went along to UCB Broadcast Centre in Stoke-on-Trent to record a live acoustic version of my song 'Fingerprints' that is off his latest worship EP 'All Things New'. The TV recording was for UCB Watch and is due to be aired on the 'Faith In Action' chat-show programme in the coming months.

We will let you know when the programme will be aired.

Messy Church Trial

We had a great turn out for our Messy Church Trial on Sunday. The theme was 'Telling People About Jesus' - which is exactly what we want Messy Church to do! Everyone engaged with the all-age activities that included: biscuity traffic lights; gospel catapults; trinity pyramids; magnetic trains and many more. The 'Celebration' was good fun and everyone enjoyed the short skit performed by some of our very capable actors! We then all enjoyed a delicious meal of spaghetti bolognese followed by some yummy Eaton Mess for dessert.

We are hoping that Messy Church will launch officially in January 2016 on a Saturday afternoon/early evening. Keep visiting our website for details.

  

Puppet People

The puppets with their people

Today seven people from our church had a fantastic time at a puppet workshop that was run by One Way UK Creative Ministries who had travelled from Grimsby to Wisbech to run the event. They were joined by others who had travelled from Market Harborough, Bury St. Edmonds and Huntingdon as well as a few other locally based people.

Dedication of Katrina

Last Sunday saw a joyous celebration where the church family as well as relatives of Matt and Verity came together to give thanks for the life of Katrina and to dedicate her to God. Matt and Verity made some promises as declared that they would bring Katrina up in a home that will help her to get to know God. The church and relatives also promised to support them in their work and to help Katrina along her journey of discovering who Jesus is.

The service was followed by a wonderful bring-and-share meal.

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.

Bite-Sized Sermons Launched

We have launched a new sermon series called 'Bite-Sized Sermons' This series will only exist in video format and consist of a short clip of approximately 60 seconds taken from a recent sermon. the idea behind this series is to enable internet users to easily share the content amongst their social networks and contacts and to gain a nugget of truth contained within the sermon.

Each Bite-Sized Sermon video points the viewer back to the church website where they will be able to watch the entire sermon in order to hear the point being made in context.

So, get sharing the Bite-Sized Sermons amongst your friends today.