The mice who currently perform this task for us will be taking a well deserved break. Everything will be available once they return from their time by the sea.

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As previously, the download was and is still working, as are downloads from iTunes and other podcasting clients.

It was a great weekend and the messages from this Sunday are definitely worth a listen if you weren’t there, and perhaps a second listen if you were.

Sometimes these things are just too awful for us to really feel like we’re connected with these people thousands of miles away. As a church, though, this disaster has been different, we’ve been watching people we know who are actually there.

Within the Free Methodist Church structure we come under the guidance of a Bishop David Roller. Just before the earthquake David had been preaching and Haiti, but left before the tragedy struck. There are many connection to the Free Methodist Church in Haiti.

David decided to go back and here’s his video:

David wrote this:

I preached last Sunday morning to a capacity crowd (2,000 people?) at the Parc Chretien church in Port-au-Prince on our resurrection bodies. I told how there will be continuity between our resurrected body and our earthly body but that there will also be a radical transformation. I eagerly shared from I Corinthians 15 Paul’s explanation that just as a seed is transformed into a plant, so our bodies will be transformed into a NEW kind of body, in the resurrection. And now I’m glad I did. For some it will have been their last sermon.

Please continue to pray for the people of Haiti and for those seeking to bring relief.

You can get regular updates here:

• http://www.helphaitiheal.org/
• http://fmcna.typepad.com/roller/

But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves, there are still plenty of things to enjoy before we actually get there.

On the weekend of the 5th and 6th of December we have some great events for you.

We start the weekend with Greg Downes joining us for a Men’s Breakfast looking at the subject of “Failure and Hope”:

Mark Ritchie is joining us once again on the Saturday evening for “Are you feeling Christmassy yet?”

Mark is a wonderful story teller and sure to make us laugh and cry. The tickets are free, but you will need to get one from the church office beforehand. I have it on good authority that we’ll have the Christmas Tree up by then, something that definitely marks the start of Christmas for me.

Then on Sunday we are joined by Greg Downes from the Watford School of Leadership. Greg is a gifted speaker and not to be missed.

On the 9th of December rather than serving their usual Soup the Lunch Break team are laying on a special Christmas Dinner – with all the trimmings. They’ll be joined by the students from Capernwray Bible School who will be presenting “The Greatest Gift”. Please make sure that you reserve your place beforehand.

We continue the Christmas theme on Saturday 12th December with the Saltmine Theatre company who are joining us with their show “Robin Hood: Merry Christmas, Merry Men”. If you like pantomime then this is the event for you. The tickets are £2.50 available from the church office.

Wednesday 16th December is a special Christmas night just for the ladies with the Revive team laying on a special night. It should be lots of fun with a pamper zone, Christmas treats and live music.

The highlight for many people and the definitive start of Christmas at Fulwood is the Carols by Candlelight service, this year being help on the 20th December at 6:30pm.

Then on Christmas Day join us for a short 45 minute service – don’t forget to bring a present.

For those of you who have been eagerly waiting for the podcasts from the last two weekends please accept my apologies. I’m hoping to get them up there before the end of the week.

A weekend in the Lakes is always great. Being with a church, with people who love Jesus and are doing their best to walk with each other in Him is a taste of heaven.

We have been led to believe that heaven is getting away from it all; a turquoise sea with an empty white beach and no people. God’s picture of heaven is quite different! It is a community of His people, from every tribe and language and people and nation in a city so huge it is well over a thousand miles cubed! It is a bright, brilliant, bejewelled, radiant with the glory of the presence of God city, full of His people.

Being with a bunch of people struggling pupa from cocoon like, to become a beautiful butterfly or bride…well it was just a taste of heaven.

PAG

During the spring of 2007 we will be following two series. In the morning we will be looking at 1 Timothy and how the standards from the first century apply to the twenty-first century. In the evening we will be looking at the life of David.

Follow this link to find out more.

We still have a little bit of development to do to.