A Passion For Life

A Passion for Life is all about God the Father - furthering his purpose of redeeming a great multi-cultural people for life in his Son, by stirring up local churches across the land to work together in numerous mission initiatives that climax in March 2010 for his glory alone.

A Passion for Life is all about God the Son - his marvelous death and resurrection for sinners that can be celebrated at Easter by people of all ages and backgrounds.

A Passion for Life is all about God the Holy Spirit - who, through his Holy Word, is calling us to prayer and transforming the way we think about our churches, evangelism and the world around us

And we here at St John's are one of the over 500 churches involved. The PCC believes everyone in the church family can play their part in this initiative. Of course as Christians we would wish to witness for Christ each day anyway but a series of events has been organised to which we can invite friends and family and neighbours. We will be supported by Lee McMunn and a small team of Christians from his church in Hull. Some events have already taken place but the programme to come is as follows:

Forthcoming events include:

 Carols on Grove Street  10.00am-12noon  December 12
 Alternative Carol Service  6.30pm   December 13
 Nativity from Scratch  1.30pm-5.30pm  December 19
 Nativity from Scratch  10.00am   December 20th
 Theatre Presentation       January 2010
 Six Nations Rugby on the big screen   February 2010
 Sports quiz night       February 2010

The week itself is from 1 March until the 7 March. The outline programme is

Monday 1   Lunch at Loch Fyne  Lee McMunn speaking

Mon/Tues/Weds Home and office based events hosted by church members –    coffee, lunch, afternoon tea, cheese and wine and whatever else you can invite your friends to. Each event will include a testimony or discussion starter lead by one of the team.
   

Thurs/Fri/Saturday  In the evenings a "Jazz Café". An enjoyable and    relaxed evening in the church rooms with a mixture of music,    
finger food , interview with Christian personalities and a gospel talk   from Lee tackling popular questions about the Christian faith.    The line-up is as follows:

   Thursday:  Debbie Flood, Olympic Silver medallist.
   Friday: David Hamilton, former terrorist.  (this evening will be geared to include older teens).

   Saturday: Fiona Castle, author and speaker.

   Sunday 7  A clear gospel presentation from Lee
10.00am & 6.30pm

There will be a variety of courses to follow on such as "The World We All Want" and Christianity Explored.

It may be that you have some better ideas or would like to talk about this initiative. If so please feel free to speak to Simon, Alison Walsh, Ian Moffitt, June Powell, Rosalind Scott or George Perrin. If you have not seen the Passion for Life DVD please ask for a copy.

Please do become involved. Most of all please keep praying for this initiative. Liz Kelly has prayer bookmarks if that would help and can also co-ordinate prayer triplets. The Tuesday morning prayer meeting at 9.15 is particularly focussing upon the initiative if you would like to pop along to the vicarage.

Romans 10 vs. 17

"Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ."

           George Perrin