Why have Gift Days? The church is meant to spend as much time as possible talking about Jesus, being Jesus to their community and becoming more like Jesus in its character. However, if you ask the world about the church they will often think that the church is just about asking them for money. Why…
It is the time of year when we begin to think about recruiting some new people to join us at JCC to do an IMPACT year. G and Dan have been serving us fantastically this year but over the summer they will move on to pastures new. Impact is a year programme that we have…
Becky is 13 years old and attends JCC’s Glo/Ignite youth group. She has severe quadriplegic cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair to get around and a communication aid to help her speak. In this video she talks about how she views life and how God has helped her cope with her disability. God Stories:…
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,” Colossians 3:23 Work matters! For most people it fills a substantial part of their lives. Love it or hate it, most of us have to do it. As Steve Jobs (Co-founder Apple) is famously quoted as saying,…
Recently, Glo Youth went away for a week to the land known as the Isle of Wight. A coach full of hyper teenagers is always a load of fun. And what a load of fun the week was. The whole week included themed team challenges including team building on the first day where things got…
Community matters. God exists in community – Father Son and Holy Spirit. God created out of community, the Father spoke (Gen 1), the Spirit hovered (Gen 1), and nothing was made without the Son (John 1). God created humanity to reflect the image of the Trinity – “Let us make mankind in our image….male and…
East Grinstead Street Pastors could have been forgiven for taking offence at this command thrown at them by comparative stranger a couple of weeks ago. As it happened, everyone was quite happy because the ‘stranger’ in question was the Rev Les Isaac (OBE) who had come to East Grinstead especially to encourage our local Street…
For the last 6 months Jed Cowley, Emma Cowley, Callum Cookman and Adam Simpson have been attending the New Ground Leadership academy hosted at Everyday Church Wimbledon with 120 or so others from the New Ground family. The Academy takes place on the first Friday and Saturday of each month and is intended to deliver…
At JCC we organise our community groups into Clusters. Our clusters function to bring pastoral support to our community groups. During February we will be hosting our monthly JCC midweek prayer meetings within our clusters. If you are not sure what cluster you are in then ask your community group leaders! Our clusters will be hosting prayer…
Each year Glo Youth goes away for a few days over the Easter holidays. This year, we will be going back to Urban Saints Westbrook, Isle of Wight; a residential centre for youth and school groups, near Ryde, on the Isle of Wight. We will be taking advantage of the 26 acre site that Urban…
The Jubilee Community Centre is a 44,000 square feet building in East Grinstead, bought and refurbished by the generosity of church members, which not only meets the needs of all church activities but also provides a modern and flexible resource for the local and business communities.