Arise Counselling Service was launched in January 2019 as part of the response to the Field Hospital prophesy in 2016. In three years we have grown to a team of 18 counsellors, and seen over 260 clients for over 4000 client sessions. For this year we look set to offer around 2000 sessions working both…
It has been another great week of prayer, not least because the whole Church came together to pray but, each day, there were committed and dedicated men and women of God who seized the weeklong opportunity to press into God, commune and fellowship with one another, and together, call upon the name of the LORD.…
‘The Hiding Place’ brings to life the inspirational and heart wrenching testimony of Corrie ten Boom. Corrie, born on April 15, 1892 in Haarlem, Holland. Corrie and her Christian family are outraged at the German occupation in the Second World War, and the constant persecution of the Jewish community. Her sister, Betsie, and father, Casper,…
23 December Jesus’ birth: Luke 2:1-38, Matthew 2:1-12 These verses in Luke and Matthew remind me about God’s plans for His people and that He has always had a plan for salvation. The birth of Jesus is a major step in that plan and God has revealed elements of that plan in the Old Testament, for example Micah foretold that Jesus would…
22 December Jesus’ birth foretold: Matthew 1: 1-17, Luke 1 A number of years ago my son and I visited a very distant relative, who had researched our family tree on my father’s side. He had put aside a whole room for his work, which was displayed on the walls and we went on to have a very interesting afternoon as he talked about what he had…
21 December Daniel 6 -7 “I want to be a lion tamer!” Michael Palin passionately expresses to John Cleese, his career adviser in a well-known Monty Python sketch. Unfortunately, little does Michael know that lions are not the brown, small creatures that track down ants with their long noses, but are in fact ‘savage beasts’ about…
20 December Exile: 2 Chronicles 36:15-21; Zechariah 9:9-17 When I was approached to write a blog for Advent. I thought of all the passages about the coming of the Messiah. Passages about angels, shepherds and wise men. I was very surprised to get these two passages as they do not immediately spring to mind at Christmas.…
19 December Isaiah 52-53 A few weeks ago, I was having a coffee with my good friend and mentor Doug Lanksford and we were discussing whether it was even necessary for a Christian to read the Old Testament; as I believe there is a school of thought which suggests that we don’t have to. We both agreed…
18 December Isaiah: Isaiah 9:1-7, Isaiah 11:1-11, Jeremiah 31:27-40 Our puppy lives in a perpetual state of hope. We only have to touch the coat cupboard door for her to get extremely excited. Her hope is based on experience- when coats and boots go on, we are going out. Her only concern is whether or not she is coming…
17 December Micah 5-7 Growing up I had this amazing cousin of mine who was honestly my favourite person; he could do no wrong in my eyes – he was my hero, but I remember one day he promised me that if I got ready in time on this particular Saturday, he would take me to the Zoo. So that morning I got…
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.