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La Côte Church seeks a part-time Youth and Children’s Worker

We are looking for a Christian who is passionate about journeying alongside young people, to help them put down roots in God’s love and goodness, amid many competing demands on their time and energy. The successful candidate would also seek to work alongside parents and members of our church, so that the whole community seeks to invest in the lives of our young people.
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We are also looking for a third facilitator – to work with Charlie Whetham and Ed Kelley

With a growing and intellectually-curious group of children in the church, we would like to be able to pass on to them the huge accumulated wisdom which you each have.
We are exploring a series of mini-seminars for the children during Sunday services. Each time, a different adult member of the congregation would join Sunday Club to share with the kids, aged about 10 to 16, a life-experience, of a wide variety of different sorts.
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Ascension day walk: 13th May

Machteld Kelsey RIP

02.01.1940 – 19.03.2021

Machteld was a wonderful, caring, compassionate, faithful member of the Prayer Group and Bible Study, having hosted both groups in her home, as well as Pastoral Care, a leader of intercessions, chalice-bearer, welcomer, representative to the local ecumenical World Day of Prayer services, and a member of that small band of unsung heroes who set-up for services and clear-up afterwards.  She loved decorating the church with flowers and arranged sales to raise funds for a Romanian village.  Machteld was committed and meticulous in everything she took on – she always sat in the same place in church and was never late!  She will leave a big gap in our community when we all emerge from this pandemic.

Lenten seminars

On Wednesday 17 March 2021, Chris Talbot led the first of two Lenten Seminars on the theme of Distorting the Truth and Manipulating Fear. The seminar examined that theme from the perspective of political power. Here is the PowerPoint presentation that Chris showed, slightly edited. And here is an accompanying paper with the text from which Chris spoke.

On 24 March, Dr Nigel Rollins led the second seminar on the same theme, examined from the perspective of commercial profit. Here is the PowerPoint presentation that Nigel showed, slightly edited. 

The Bible's bloody bits

The Bible – like sacred scriptures of other religions – contains some problematic passages – and even whole books. Many of these difficult sections seem to suggest that God encourages or even mandates violence. How can and should Christians respond to these ‘bloody bits’? What do they imply for our understanding and interpretation of scripture? Click here to watch this Zoom study session led by Dr Clare Amos looked in detail at some of the problematic passages of Joshua and Judges, and then explored the wider implications for our understanding and use of the Bible.  Click here for the handout.

STORIES OF EVERYDAY FAITH

Cate Bichara

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Dwight & Laurence's lockdown allotment

Trevor Davies

Charlie Whetham

Emily's Covid-19 Experience

Eoin - Life during Covid 19

WHO is thinking about LCAC

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