Today was our last Tots for the summer!! A big thank you to everyone who has attended our sessions over the last few weeks, we hope you have enjoyed yourselves!!All of us at Tots have loved seeing you again, meeting new people and seeing so many happy smiley faces! We hope you all have a lovely summer stay safe and we will be in touch about when we start back in September!We will weather permitting meet up at Risca park on August 9th and 23rd from 10 until 12 or longer if it’s nice and people want to picnic! There will be balls and frisbees for the older ones and some of our tots toys! We would love to see you if you are available!!

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/january-february/robert-wilton-film-television-stuntman-action-scene.html

On the sidelines, a member of manager Gareth Southgate’s coaching team is Chris Powell, who is also a Christian. “It gives me a sort of inner-peace, a sort of well-being,” Powell has said of his Christian faith. “I live my life for this way, and that’s because of the Lord and what has happened, and what he done to save me, and save everyone. It gives me a great joy to know that the Lord is around me at all times.”

Tributes have been paid to the former head of the Evangelical Alliance, Joel Edwards, who passed away from cancer on Wednesday morning.Edwards was a British immigrant from Jamaica and started out as a probation officer, a role he held for 14 years.In a rich and varied career, he served as senior pastor of Mile End New Testament Church of God and was an honorary Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral.But he spent the best part of his career as a figurehead for evangelicals, joining the African and Caribbean Evangelical Alliance in 1988, and then going on to lead the UK Evangelical Alliance as General Director from 1997 until 2009.

After 20yrs of hard work and commitment form the translation team the Albanian Bible is finally completed.

(Bible Society)

CAP stands for Christians Against Poverty. CAP is a charity offering free debt counselling here in the UK to whoever needs it (no need to be a Christian – that’s a common misconception.)-All their services are run through local churches, meaning they are able to pair each person up with someone in their local area. The churches are then able to support them through the debt help process (collecting paperwork, etc) as well as offering emotional and practical support where requested / needed

Donya decided to follow Jesus, but Tahar took a while to be convinced. When he did eventually put his faith in Jesus, he felt an instantaneous change:” it was like that burden came off my shoulders” Tahar says ” the burden I thought I would have- to give an account for my sins when I died- came off. It felt like I was flying. It was the most beautiful moment of my life”

(Refugees in Turkey)

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To ensure we recover together from the pandemic, Tearfund is partnering with the People’s Vaccine Alliance to campaign for everyone in every country to have fair and free access to a tested Covid-19 vaccine.