What's on
- 21 November:
- 22 November:
- 23 November:
- 4 December:
We’re really excited at the moment at how God’s speaking to us and leading us, and so if you’re a partner at thefaithworks, we’re inviting you to join us on Thursday 20th November at 7pm for a Partner’s Update. It’s been nearly six months since our Partner’s Party, and this will be a great opportunity to celebrate what God’s been doing, and also to hear more about how God’s leading us into his future.
If you’re a partner and can’t make the evening, do let Iain know.
If you’ve been a part of thefaithworks over the last five years, you will have shared the great privilege of knowing Pete and Bryony with us. Pete and Bryony are moving to Burnley at the end of November for the next part of their journey that God has called them to, and we want to celebrate with them as they prepare for the journey.
We hope you will be able to join us for a leaving do for them at Iain and Andrea’s house on 23rd November from 6pm onwards. Bring some drinks or nibbles with you as we gather to celebrate together.
Just to let you know that this Sunday is Remembrance Sunday. This year, we will be joining with the service at the War Memorial just a little further up Oldham Road. This will be a relatively short service, and is a little earlier than ours. So, we will be meeting at thefaithworks at 10.20am to head up to the War Memorial for 10.30. After the service there, we will be returning for breakfast together.
Don’t forget that the traffic is disrupted, so you may find it hard to drive to the church unless you’re arriving early!
Join us on 21st and 22nd November as we head over to Abundant Life Church in Bradford for another great time at their Xcel men’s conference. This is a fantastic opportunity to get great teaching and spend time with men from our church and hundreds from other churches as well.
If you’d like to find out more, click here to download the brochure for the event, or click here to visit the Xcel conference pages on the ALC web site. You can book a place for yourself on the web site.
If you can come, please let Iain know and we can travel over there together - hope you can make it!
Have you ever found it hard when God asks you to do something, and it involves you giving something up, or something changing around you that you really didn’t want changing? This can apply to you, your family or our church.
If so, don’t miss this preach by Iain as he looks at how we need to hold some things tightly and other things lightly if we’re going to fulfil God’s plans for our lives. Let this talk release you to release what God’s given you and what he’s planned out for you.
As the cold weather draws in, we’re going through another change in the seasons.
Life has seasons too - listen to this great talk as Beccy Riley shares how to understand the seasons in our lives, and how we can see God in each season.
As part of the global Stand Against Poverty event, Jane Belton shares here about God’s heart for the poor, and how we can play our part against poverty.
For more info, see www.standagainstpoverty.org
If you were with us yesterday, you will have heard about the work of a number of organisations working against injustice and slavery including International Justice Mission and Hope For Justice.
Please check out both those web sites, and also watch this promo video for the Hope For Justice event on 8th November. If you can come, please let us know ASAP at office@thefaithworks.co.uk or book in on Sunday.
God is looking for people to show faithfulness to doing his will and using what he has given them. There are clear warnings from Jesus that if we don’t use what we have it will be taken away, but if we are faithful and use what we have been given, we will be given even more and enter into the Kingdom of God.
Listen to this great talk by Beccy Riley as she looks at how you can use what God’s given you.
As you know, we’ve been building up to Compassion Sunday for a while now, and we hope you had a great time if you were with us yesterday. If not, here’s a chance to listen to Beccy share her heart for the work of Compassion, and also to hear a presentation about the work of Compassion, as well as Iain talking about God’s heart for the poor and the oppressed.
We really want to encourage you to pray about whether you can become involved in the work of Compassion by sponsoring a child and helping to bring transformation to another family’s world.
For more information, please contact Beccy Riley (beccyriley@thefaithworks.co.uk)
When we connect with God we can’t help but engage with God’s heart for our global community, not just our local community. Globally all sorts of injustices takes place everyday. As the hands and feet of God we must become more aware, we must pray, and we must act.
Listen as Mark Riley shares his heart on how you can connect more with God and our world.
N.B. A technical error during recording meant that a small amount of the talk is missing - sorry!
Our monthly Unite prayer meeting will be changing day to the first Thursday in the month starting 2nd October. There is power in prayer and as we unite together, we will see God do mighty things. Come and join us at 7.30pm each month and get ready to knock on the door of heaven and ask God for his will to be done here as it is in heaven.
Listen to Iain talking about how we can be transformed by the Word of God, and how as a church we can grow together through the ‘Word for the week’ (click here for more info).
This was recorded on 7th September.