Coming Events
There are many Christian Events across the UK in 2008
Our Church will be visiting and taking part in the following
If you are interested see contact details for each event to book your place.
Join Us
Prom Praise on Merseyside
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Saturday 21 of June 2008
Prom Praise is returning to Merseyside during the Liverpool Capital of Culture year
All Souls Orchestra, conducted by Noel Tredinnick, will once again be leading an evening of popular and classical music, hymns and songs in a “Last Night of the Proms” atmosphere
Tickets are from £8 to £18 and include an individual programme
Philharmonic Hall Box Office 0151 709 3789
Merseyside Prom Praise Choir
If you would like to join the choir and sign at the Prom Praise Performance
The first rehearsals are:-
For Liverpool Area – St Lukes’ Church, Crosby, Thursday 8 May at 7.30pm
For Wirral Area – Holy Trinity, Bebington, Wednesday 7 May at 7.30pm
Question: What’s the smartest way to help people in the world’s poorest communities help themselves?
Answer: Quizaid. Friday 16 May 2008.
Quizaid is the best quiz night in town – and it’s organised by you. Challenge your friends, colleagues and neighbours to dust off their brain cells and join in the fun.
You can put on a quiz anywhere you like – in your home, at your local church hall, up the road, over at your mate’s or in your local pub.
Wherever you hold it, you'll be helping to raise money for the world’s poorest people this Christian Aid Week.
Your Quizaid question pack is bursting with hints and tips on how to make your Quizaid a fun and memorable event. Even the quiz questions are included, covering up-to-the minute topical questions.
Question rounds include brainteasers on: history, music, geography, maths, pot luck and much, much more.
We have thought of everything – so you don’t have to.
Order your Quizaid pack online
http://www.christianaid.org.uk/getinvolved/christianaidweek/quizaid/
Buy your ticket for Ultimate Events 2008 and as an added bonus we will send you a Discount Code worth 5% off every order you place at Musicwire.co.uk until the end of the year! You will receive your Discount Voucher with your Ultimate Events tickets.
More Information click link -
http://www.hope08.com/Group/Group.aspx?ID=69097
Click on 'OPEN' above to register for The Big Hope Global Youth Congress
Liverpool Hope University 4-11 June 2008
ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN AT
http://www.hope.ac.uk/thebighope
Liverpool Hope University invites delegates aged 18-35 to join in a
week*s celebration for Liverpool's Year as European Capital of Culture
year
The steam train of the Big Hope Global Youth Congress is gathering pace
and now we call on international students and delegates to jump on board
and make a difference.
The week-long conference at Hope University will play host to over
1,000 young people of various faiths from every continent of the world.
Already there are delegates from Britain, Europe, Asia, the Americas,
Africa, and beyond. Wide-ranging areas of discussion include law and
human rights, education and culture, and international development.
Ultimately, the Big Hope will give people of all religious persuasions a
chance to reflect on the major issues that face us today and in the
future.
Keynote Speakers include academics, actors, artists, diplomats,
environmental activists, faith leaders, heads of state, human rights
activists, members of government, musicians, parliamentarians, peace
activists.
Activities include Environmental Projects, Exhibitions, Film-Making,
Forums, Performances, Speeches, Workshops,
FURTHER INFORMATION AND ON-LINE REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE AT:
http://www.hope.ac.uk/thebighope
The Big Hope Team
Telephone: 0151 291 2008/2048
Fax: 0871 900 3533
Email: bighope@hope.ac.uk
Liverpool Hope University
Hope Park
Liverpool
L16 9JD
Heswall URC Family Weekend Away
6th - 8th June 08
Cost:
(from supper on Friday up to and including Sunday lunch)
Adults - £71.00 each
Children - under 4 years old - FREE
4 - 6 years £17.75
7 - 10 years £35.50
11 12 years £53.25
13+ years Adult rate
More info on Cloverley Hall click link: http://www.cloverleyhall.com/
Tribes celebrates 10th anniversary!
We'd like to thank all our previous clients who have helped to make Tribes the success it is. We are delighted to have reached such a milestone in such a strong position, and hope that you will be able to look to Tribes for the next 10 years if you want an ethical and responsible holiday, which is of fantastic quality.
More information:- http://www.tribes.co.uk/
If you’re interested in fair trade and are looking for an opportunity to meet the people behind the products, to see the impact of fair trade, then Traidcraft Meet the People Tours are for you.
You’ll learn something of the different cultures, visit development projects and sites of interest, meet a wide variety of people - including some Traidcraft producers - and have your ideas of developing countries challenged. Our tours are much more than a holiday.
More Details click the link:
http://meetthepeople.skedaddle.co.uk/splash/Meet_the_People_Tours/index.rails
Click link for more details:
http://meetthepeople.skedaddle.co.uk/
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Pentecost Festival: 9th - 11th May 2008
More details:- http://www.pentecostfestival.co.uk/
Saturday 17th May 2008
More Information :- http://www.pilots.org.uk/safari/
Graham Kendrick - Sep 29
Venue: William Aston Hall at NEWI, Wrexham
Start: 7.30pm (doors 7pm)
Full price ticket (also on the door, subject to availability):
* £12 per ticket.
Concessions (U-16s, OAPs, full time students, unemployed):
* £10 per ticket.
Early booking discount:
* £1 per ticket for orders received before August 1st.
Group booking discount:
* 50p per ticket for orders of 10 or more tickets.
Box Office 01244 317 664
Wesley Owen, 53 Watergate Street, Chester, CH1 2LB
(£1.50 booking fee for telephone or postal orders)
Need a bit of quiet?
A Quiet Garden
for anyone to use
anytime
behind
HESWALL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
(next to Tesco)
go through the car park, across the grass, down to the garden
Enjoy peace and quiet and beauty
Heswall URC Quiet Garden
In May 2004 a group from our church went on a pilgrimage to Holy Island. When there, amidst the peace and quiet of the Northumbria community, we felt that we should build a quiet garden in our own church grounds. This could give to all the people of Heswall a place of serenity, peace and quiet that was sorely lacking in the centre of our busy community. It would be somewhere to feel close to God and to his creation. We were blessed in that we had a large, if neglected, area just ripe for developing into somewhere beautiful
By March 2005, the Church Meeting, the forum where decisions are taken in the URC, approved our plan and construction work started in May. Our church architect, Chris Bennett, drew up the plans. We wanted a water feature, we wanted to use natural materials, slate and stone, and we wanted a variety of shrubs and plants. Our minister, Rev Gwynfor Evans, suggested that the water feature should be based on one of our church windows which represents the open tomb on Easter morning. The head of water at the top of the waterfall rushes out, issuing life-giving water and movement. Chris also integrated a dry slate wall, in keeping with the slate waterfall, to accommodate the rather steep slope of the land.
The planting, started in late July, was left to Avril Lock who had grown many of the plants and shrubs. Ivy and shrubs and wild flowers soon clothed the banks of the waterfall and the garden started to look and feel as if it had always been there. As the congregation began to take more interest we were given bequests of garden benches and arbours where people could sit privately and be still or chat in the company of friends.
As time has gone by we now have an escallonia hedge separating the Quiet Garden from the large grassy play area, all the borders are complete and flowers and shrubs are in bloom nearly every week on the year. Even in February this year we had cyclamen flowering under the trees, witchhazel, wintersweet and saroccoca perfuming the air, and pansies, primulas and snowdrops giving us colour and beauty everywhere. The daffodils followed and now all the spring flowering shrubs have come into their own. The arbours are being clothed with honeysuckle, roses and clematis. The garden has taken on a maturity we did not dream possible just under three years ago. As we are an eco-congregation we are keen to encourage wildlife. We have been given a slate birdbath and our Brownies are going to design and build bird boxes.
We are now ready to invite formally all the local shop workers to eat their lunch in our garden in summertime, to circulate an invitation to other churches and community groups, all of whom are welcome to visit the garden whenever they wish. Our toddlers group play there; we take our tea and coffee out into the garden in the summer; we hold receptions there.
We have recently become affiliated to The Quiet Garden Movement, the second garden in Merseyside to affiliate. We hope to hold occasional days, open to everyone, for prayer, silence, meditation and the appreciation of God’s beauty.
Avril Lock
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