Messy church in Weston

 Messy church is about spreading the good news about Jesus, our saviour, in an  informal environment usually on a school day.
This is just what's happening in Weston once a month on the fourth Thursday.
Children are having fun, parents and teens are either having a cupper or helping out. The event is always well attended.
So if you live in the area and haven't been yet why don't you give it a go. Bring along your friends and you do not need to book for the session.  The next one will be on the 22/03/2012 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm. For more information, have a look in the Compass magazine.
Do you have a messy church in your parish? Let us know why you started it and how is it going.
The theme of this particular session was about light.

In John, we read that Jesus spoke to his disciples saying, “I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12)
God said, “Let there be light; and there was light” (Genesis 1:3). The first thing that God created on the earth
was light; and not because He needed light to see, but because the heavens and the earth were still dark
and void. The words God spoke, caused the light to appear from His very countenance and expel the darkness. ‘Lord, lift up the light of Your countenance upon us” (Psalm 4:6).

The psalmist says ‘Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path’ (Psalm 119:105). When we walk with the Light of the world, we will never again experience darkness. Have a blessed week-end! Your sister in Christ. N

Thanks the Lord for the Kerygma bus!

Meet the team of the Kerygma bus and some of our parishioners.

Colin, Henry.

We are so fortunate that the Kerygma bus comes to Hixon every Tuesday.

This was Pentecost Sunday and Colin visited us at church. Colin told us he started the Kerygma' bus ministry project in Easter 2006. Together with a team of volunteers, he has used a double-decker bus to deliver RE lessons sharing the good news about Jesus with thousands of schoolchildren, as well as working with detached youth in towns and villages.

Sally and Celia.






Camille, Celia holding 'the bucket' and Jenny.

 

These photos  go back to the 13th Jan 2009 and it was a little bit cold in spite of the heating being full blown. The bus is always full of children .

It comes a time when you have to stop dreaming that you are going to spread the Good News around you, instead you have to get up and do it, you have to do something about it.

Praying and reading the Bible help finding out in which direction the Holy Spirit guides you. Telling people about Jesus our Saviour. Every Christian is equipped with the necessary tools for spreading the Gospel and it is a question of knowing their strengths.

Somehow, I always go back to the parable of the sower. The good soil has been prepared by brothers and sisters in Christ who have not given up but persevered and kept on spreading the good news!

18"Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 

19 When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. 

20 The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.

 21 But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.

 22The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful.

 23But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."

Matthew 13 :18-23