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MAF’s free Advent Calendar comes complete with recipes, craft ideas and even a competition

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MAF – Mission Aviation Fellowship is offering you a free Advent Calendar.

Take up their offer and each day throughout Advent you will travel to a different country in which MAF serves. Open the door to your calendar to find out where you have landed and see the daily clue, before visiting the website to complete your answer and discover more about the country. 

As well as a daily competition there will be the next installment of the Christmas story and a recipe of craft activity for you to enjoy every day of Advent. 

To order your free calendar simply follow the link below. 

https://www.maf-uk.org/get-your-free-maf-2017-advent-calendar   

With a focus on “determined discipleship” Spring Harvest heads to Harrogate

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Spring Harvest is a teaching and worship event for everyone, and next year it’s being held just up the road.

Described in its advertising literature as “A unique break for all ages: holiday, festival, conference and an encounter with God” the 2018 event is happening between the 3rd and the 7th of April at the Harrogate Convention Centre. 

Each day there will be any number of age and interested related features ranging from The Big Start an all age, high-energy start to the day to in depth bible teaching. 

Prices for the event vary, depending on when you book your tickets. However, once booked the one ticket gives you admission to everything in the entire four day programme.  

There are a number of Spring Harvest brochures at the back of church or you can of course find out more online (including viewing the Spring Harvest Harrogate video) by visiting www.springharvest.org/harrogate   

 

BMS World Mission: read Winter is coming, a new post about BMS’ work in Ukraine

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As promised here are the latest updates from BMS World Mission. You can also read these, plus all the other material BMS World Mission produces via their on-line home page https://www.bmsworldmission.org/

https://www.bmsworldmission.org/news/ukraine-winter-is-coming/

https://www.bmsworldmission.org/news/meet-the-inspiring-mozambican-christians-youre-supporting/

https://www.bmsworldmission.org/news/feeding-of-the-400/

https://www.bmsworldmission.org/news/stop-look-listen-restoring-community-through-exercise/

https://www.bmsworldmission.org/news/broken-art/

https://www.bmsworldmission.org/news/5-ways-youre-fighting-violence-against-women/

A sneak preview of the wacky way MBC’s new children’s programme began to focus on GRATITUDE

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This morning (November 5th) Faith Builders, Excavate and Inters began a brand new Sunday School programme. Over the next few weeks they’ll be looking at the subject of GRATITUDE, and in particular they will be thinking about all the things we are grateful to God for. Cas and her team have called the new project PULSE and as the material they’re employing emphasises how we always need to focus on the right things they dug some old camera out and set the children a week one challenge of photobombing a picture that one of their leaders was taking… for the uninitiated photobombing is taking a normal photograph (in this case: of someone with blue eyes, of three pairs of shoes, of two people wearing the same colour, of someone wearing a superhero outfit and someone of looking either scary or scared) but with the people in the background doing some ridiculous. You can see the results in the gallery below.

Of course PULSE also contains a high level of bible teaching, a time of praise and worship and some amazing craft ideas; and with a load more pictures we’ll be reporting on all that later in the week. However, as this first session went so well we thought we’d waste no time letting you all see just what fun they all had photobombing! 

Leeds Christians in Education

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Leeds Christians in Education exists to support teachers, governors, and schools youth workers through networking, events, and prayer. All with a heart for education in Leeds are very welcome to join us. We will meet three times a year in the evenings for prayer and shared thoughtfulness. Together we will

• Celebrate education in Leeds
• Grow in awareness of the challenges and issues, and current educational responses in Leeds
• Spend some time in prayer with words, photos, drawing, and silence
• Develop connections between Christians who are situated in the same schools, colleges, and Universities.
• Support those who are involved in making decisions that affect children, young people, students, and all those who are themselves, educators.

2nd November, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Facilitator Helen Reid (Director of Leeds Church Institute)
Theme: Celebrating childhood and vocations to care for children and their development; Gospel perspectives and practice in Leeds

15 March, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Facilitator Mark Roque (Thinking Faith Network)
Theme: Inspirational storytelling in schools; the impact on young people of positive, often counter-cultural, role models and their achievements

14 June, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Facilitator Sally Pickering (training for ordination, current work in education and psychology)
Theme: Building a loving community through celebration of each other and support in the tough times, with a special focus on children and bereavement.

At Leeds Church Institute
(opposite the Corn Exchange, above ‘Out of This World’)
20 New Market Street, Leeds, LS1 6DG
To book email events@leedschurchinstitute.org or phone 0113 391 7928

 

 

Light Party – Sunday 29th October

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This coming Sunday – Light Party, 29th October 4pm. Family event with messy games, crafts and lots, lots more.  If you can please bring a pumpkin and a tin can.

Invite your friends (aimed at ages 5-11)

Nov 5th… MBC launches PULSE, an exciting new Sunday morning children’s programme

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On Sunday November 5th (a day guaranteed to go with a bang!) our Childrens’ Worker Cas Stoodley and her team are launching what we are calling PULSE, a new and innovative programme which will not only reshape the way we currently do “Sunday School” but which via a mix of engaging take home material and Social Media will also draw in mums, dads, grandmas, granddads, carers et al as never before. 

Branded Think Orange the programme is based upon three basic truths: Wisdom, the need to make wise choices; Faith, the assurance that we can trust God no matter what and Friendship, the notion that we should all treat others the way we want to be treated. It also majors on one hundred and fifty bible stories and thirty Life Apps (i.e. a practical application). 

Each month there is a quite specific theme, in November that’s Gratitude. Within that theme there is always a Key Question – in week one for example that’s “What are you grateful for?” And to close there’s always a bottom line, again from week one that’s “Celebrate what God has done.” However, in between and in separate age groups there are any number of craft activities, games and teaching slots. 

Perhaps the biggest single difference to our current plan however is that each week (with the exception of our children who attend Bubbles) everyone starts and finishes off each session together. Indeed on the fourth week of the month we’re all actually planning to come back in to the sanctuary and through drama, song, story telling or maybe even film share with you some of the stuff we have been doing. 

A couple of weeks ago Cas organised a training session for the team, some pictures from which you see here. 

Please pray for this new venture; pray for Cas, her team and of course for our children and their families because as our training day proved the challenge is considerable but the potential, particularly in regard to family and community involvement is nothing short of enormous.

 

 

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