Springbourne Christian Centre

World falling apart?

// March 14th, 2011 // Comments Off // Thought for the week

It’s been a nasty few weeks out there in the world: Earthquakes, Tsunami, civil wars and unrest and today I read about churches being blown up and Christians attacked in Egypt. That’s all out there in the wide world, but even in our local area we have people losing their jobs, not able to find work and worried about feeding their families. The Bournemouth food bank run by Vineyard say they’ve given out 173kg of food parcels on wed alone last week.

It can all leave you feeling like there’s nothing you can do and wondering whether there’s any sense in the world at all. As Christians we believe that God made the world, and is still in charge, but he’s given us the job of caring for it and of caring for each other. We don’t have the answer to why these things happen, but Jesus doesn’t ask us to understand why, he asks us to be his hands in the world until he comes back and fixes the problems permanently.

With so many worthy causes it can be difficult to see how we can be of any help at all. There’s not enough money or time in our hands to fix these problems, but that’s not a reason to do nothing. God is not expecting us to fix the world – even Jesus didn’t fix all the problems around him when he was here, he told us ‘you will always have the poor with you’. He focussed on spreading God’s love and kindness to those around him, and then told us to go and do likewise.

So you can’t fix everything… Pick something you care about and focus on that. Fix something. Help someone. Do what you can, and do it today.

Be a light for Jesus in a darkening world.

Happy New Year

// January 7th, 2011 // Comments Off // General

OK, I’m a week late, but there’s still 51 to go so make the most of them.

Sepember Sermons

// September 27th, 2010 // Comments Off // General, Sermons

OK, lets get back to making the sermons available by throwing them all at you in one big lump.

Here’s September and I’ll try to get back to making them available weekly.

5th Sept – Tom – Family Service

12th Sept – Dave

19th Sept – Julian – With some exiting news for for Youth events

19th Sept pm – Dave

26th Sept – Dave

26th Sept pm – Dave

Summer over

// September 3rd, 2010 // Comments Off // General, Jam, News, The Edge

Wow, looking at the website you’d think that was the quickest summer ever. For anyone under 18, it probably felt like it too. I remember the days…

Anyway, Sun 5th marks the last week of our summer schedule. After that we’ll be back to everything as usual I think.

JAM and The Edge  restart on 10th, and the evening services restart on the 12th. Prayer meetings and Mums & Toddlers never stopped.

Oh yes, and the new toilets are open!

We’re not quite finished with some bits of the new building, like the car park and offices. We have plenty to finish off, but we’ll announce the date of the dedication and celebration soon. Probably a Sat at the end of the month, but we have to let Dave recover from the wedding before we sort that out.

Summer schedule

// July 22nd, 2010 // Comments Off // General

Well, summer is here at last, you can tell as it’s been raining today. I thought it best to let everyone know what the summer schedule is this year:

Sunday services will be 10:30 as usual in the morning, but will only last about an hour. There will be no sunday school, but the younger children (primary school, or thereabouts) will have somewhere supervised to go during the preach with a drink and games or a video etc.
There won’t be any Sunday evening services during the rest of July or Aug. With the numbers having been fairly low the last few months and traditionally dropping over the summer, we thought it best to give those who spend the effort putting them together a rest. We’ll look at putting a more programmed schedule in for the autumn to hopefully encourage people to come along.

The Edge finished last Fri Update: I’ve just been told that apparently there’s something this Fri for the Edge – maybe a sleepover

JAM finishes tomorrow (22nd) with ice cream and ‘sports day’.

Mums & Toddlers will continue for the summer, with probably a week off at the end of Aug to allow the car park temporary toilets to be removed etc.

Wednesday prayer meetings will continue as usual.

House groups I confess to being unsure about. A lot of the Southbourne gang are having babies, so we’re taking a break. Check with the leaders for the other groups.

The website will continue, but might not get a sermon update every week. I’ll post those that have something recordable (I expect a few may be more visual/interactive which doesn’t really work on mp3, and I’m not up to video every week).

Swimmers home safely.

// June 19th, 2010 // Comments Off // General

Ready to go!,

The Pier to Pier swim was a great success – of 8 starters, 2 didn’t make it the whole way but 7 made it to the end.

Yes, I know the maths doesn’t add up, but we had a late starter 2/3 of the way through.

See some of the photos at http://www.flickr.com/groups/springbourne/