After the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti 15 days ago, members of Agape Community Church began collecting items of clothing; bedding; medicines and other essentials ready to ship to the country and those in need.

These items were collected and sorted through and left for a container ship on the 27th Jan.

For further information on the Haiti Hospital Appeal that the shipment is going to help, please see:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=5975035895&ref=ts

or

http://www.haitihospitalappeal.org

Donations for Haiti

A van load of items!

Pastor Richard will be the main speaker and begins with a 12 week series on;  ’Big Questions’

More info visit www.impactcentre.org.uk

Source. VO UK Christmas Newsletter Issue 2 www.vouk.org.uk

Agape relates it’s mission on Ty-Sign to a bible verse - Luke 4:18.

The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed.

In 2008 Agape launched a project called 418 which aimed to find out the needs of the community and to meet them in the best way that we were able to. over 40 volunteers gave up a weekend to help community members to complete jobs they were unable to do by themselves.

This year we are running 418 again, but with a bit of a difference.

Come along to the TLC for a cup of tea, and while your there get some helpful advice on managing your money in the current fincial climate.

There will be activities for the kids and free refreshments for the adults.

Come along to the field opposite the TLC from 1. 30pm to have a go at various sporting activities. We have everything from Frisbee golf to wellie wanging! Have a bit of fun, and stick around for the free community BBQ at 5pm. After everyone has had some food we will be welcoming Evaburn plus a guest. Stick around to hear them play and enjoy the evening!

If it rains, the afternoon activities will be in the Manor pub’s hall. They will be slightly scaled down but just as fun! To save them (and us) getting too wet if it rains, the bands will be playing from 7pm in St David’s Church hall.

A team of volunteers will be spending the day completing gardening projects in the community. They will also be very busy on Sunday, so if you have a few hours to spare over the weekend and you want to help someone out with a bit of gardening or help us rid the estate of litter, signb up on Saturday on the field or send us a message on the blog and we will get back to you asap.

We are looking for more community volunteers - for this weekend! If you can spare a couple of hours please do get in touch! You can also sign up by going into the TLC Cafe and adding your name to the list of vounteers on the board!

See you there!!! We can’t wait!

New Flame Logo

We are looking for some thoughts on the new logo for flame. It incorprates all that we do at flame, looking up, learning about ourselves, getting new ideas, being excited about them, asking questions, and letting the answers effect the way we treat other people! 

Hope you like it. Let us know! 

Just so you know, Flame will be expanding rapidly around June time, so if you could spare an hour on a thursday evening from 6-7 we would really appreciate some help! This could range from standing and watching, through making squash to leading a small group in a short study (all written out for you!) It looks like we could have around 16 young people so three leaders really isn’t enough! Please speak to me if you could help in any way! Thank you!

Bec.

DATE

PREACHER

SUBJECT

CHAPTER

Feb 8th

Colin

Baptism & Temptations of Jesus

Lk 3 v21- Lk 4 v 13

Feb 15th

Tim

Commission & Rejection of Jesus

Lk 4 v14-30

Feb 22^nd

SHADE

10^th Anniversary

Lunch

March 1^st

Mark Thomas

The healing & forgiving power of Jesus

Eg Lk 5v 37-26

March 8th

Deb Dexter

The anointing of Jesus

Lk 7 v36-50

March 15^th

Martin Abel

Power of Jesus

Lk 8 v 22-56

March 22^nd

Colin

Confession & Transfiguration

Lk 9 v 18-36

March 29th

Tony B

April 5^th

Richard

Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem & Temple Incident

Lk 19 v 28 -48

April 12^th

Mark Jones

Easter. The Resurrection

Lk 22 onwards

Christ?
Yes!
Risen?
Disbelieve!
Disbelieve for joy!
Incredulity learns to laugh,
unembarrassed by the scandal of resurrection.

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve managed to book my time off work for the Haiti trip in February so thank you so much for your prayers!!

I thought this would be a good time (if not a little late!) to remind you of the link that I gave you last year…

…”If you are planning to buy any Christmas presents on-line this year, if you start from the www.buy.at/Haitihospitalappeal site, and link from there to your favourite sites (Amazon, Marks & Spencer, Play.com, HMV etc) and buy as you normally would. You get the same discounts and offers, but as you started from the Haiti web shop, the Haiti Hospital Appeal will receive a donation from the site you purchase from - for free!”…

Carwyn has also asked me to make you aware of the following site…

http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/2300/proj2229a.html

…”as Haiti Hospital Appeal have been enterd into a competition with some other charities to see who can raise the most amount of money between now and Dec 15th.  Basically if we raise $5,000 and get 50 different supporters to sponsor us we win $2,500.  If we raise the most money over all we win $10,000, and if we recieve the most unique individual donations we win $15,000.  All you need to do is make a donation, even if it’s only £1!  The more we get the better.”