St John’s Church Choir is singing Olivet to Calveryon Good Friday, 18th April at 7p.m. at St. John’s Church, St. John’s Road, Newport, PO30 1LN.
Further details can be found at HERE
Join us for a powerfulEaster Worship Night at True Vine Church! 🌿✨
Celebrate the resurrection of Jesus with an evening of worship, with communion and a short message.
📅 Sunday 20th March
⏰ 7.00pm
📍 True Vine ChurchCome and experience the joy of Easter—He Lives!Source: Dave Cornes dave@truevinechurch.org.uk
Self-Care: Putting on our own oxygen masks before we serve others!Date: Tuesday 29th April 2025
Time: 7.00pm - 8.00pm
Location: Online (Zoom)
Speaker : Dr Keith Foster (Westbrook Academy Principal)Webinar Overview
Many well-meaning people desire to serve Jesus wholeheartedly. As C.T. Studd said, "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me – then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
However, rushing into enthusiastic service without considering our own well-being can often lead to burnout and bitterness. To serve others effectively, it’s essential to take care of ourselves first.
In this free, 1-hour webinar, Dr. Keith Foster will share practical tips on self-care, drawing from our new 6-session online Self-Care course. You’ll learn how to develop a self-care plan designed to sustain you as you serve Jesus, ensuring that your energy and passion for ministry remain strong.
The session will provide helpful strategies, alongside opportunities to ask questions through the webinar chat room, so you can begin applying these principles in your own life and ministry.
Join us and discover how self-care can empower you to serve more effectively!
Web SiteSource: Julie Van Der Helstraete jvdh@urbansaints.org
Imagine what it would look like if Christians lived knowing every day matters because they knew God cared about their everyday matters! Just think about the difference that would make in the places where you show up. It would change the Isle of Wight. It would change the UK. It would change the world.
We're excited to be partnering with LICC (The London Institute of Contemporary Christianity) once again. Their dream is that every Christian would go out into their bit of God’s world confident that God can work through them, confident that Jesus is good news for the people they met, good news for the things they do, good news for the organisation they engage in. This is our dream, too.
Join us for an evening of presentations, films, interviews, and more to think through how this whole-life perspective can transform the way we see our daily lives and work – and how we might partner together to make a difference at this pivotal moment in our culture.
Big Church Festival 2025 -West Sussex Opportunity for discounted TicketsI am a member of St James's Church Ryde and we are gathering a group of people to go to the Big Church Festival (West Sussex) on the August Bank Holiday this year. We had a group go last year and it was such a blessing with 30,000 people all worshiping together! This year, we wondered if other Christians across the island wanted to have a weekend worshipping God and spending time with His people. It is such a fantastic festival and caters for the whole spectrum of ages and tastes and this year they are running kids groups too.
The group tickets are effective as it enables you to access a good discount, which you otherwise can't get, but you don't have to arrive, leave or stick together! It is just a form of booking and the more people go as part of the group, the cheaper the tickets are.
We really wanted to open this up to others and would love for your congregation to be part of it. If you are willing, I would appreciate you sharing the below link. If you don't feel that you can for whatever reason, no problem.
Big Church Group - Isle of Wight Link
Yours in Christ
Alex Hay alexphay@gmail.com
ONLINE CHURCH on YOUTUBE.com /The FAITHCAFE iow On 1st & 3rd Sundays:
Short contemporary worship, prayers & reflections areuploaded for those unable to get to Church. SUBTITLES in English & a variety of foreign languages are included to help make worship accessible to hospital / care workers & those for whom English is not their first language.
Renew Wellbeing Café – A place where it’s OK not to be OK.
Every Monday, 10-2, including soup lunch. Cowes Baptist Church, Victoria Road, Cowes.
All welcome.
On Thursday lunchtimes AFTER 12, local Baptist minister Stella Hardiman offers a listening ear at the ASDA Coffee Shop in Newport. Ask at the coffee shop if you're not sure.
Some of you may have seen the new image of ‘Jesus at the door’ (JAD) It was a very impactful resource on the island, used by local churches with the support of CFAN (Christ for all Nations) the week before the Lionheart festival. People daily gave their lives to the Lord. Sadly with a lot of street evangelism the follow up support and response does not always have the same impact. However a new movement called ‘King’s Army’ is offering a on-line APP to follow up and offers Pastoral support, Worship and teaching to new converts. As well as empowering the Church to be soldiers of the Gospel. This resource is like nothing I have seen or used before. I encourage you to read there ‘Blue-Print’ as it set out for you. There is also a copy of an outline of the discipleship programme RNB.
Nine people from island churches recently attended a conference London.
Please check out this ministry for yourself, Newport Congregational Church will be hosting RNB sessions with help from friends from True Vine, Thursday evenings at 6pm for a hot meal then 7pm for RNB group.
Last year IOW Street Pastors were allowed to patrol inside the Festival for the first time. This was in addition to patrolling the outside route, along Fairlee and the Riverbank, working alongside the police and security.
This year we will once again be patrolling onsite and off site at the festival but in addition we are opening our Safe Space in Newport Bus Station in the evenings from the Thursday to the Sunday and we have also been allowed to have a gazebo up on site this year which will be operating alongside the same strategy as our Newport Bus station Safe Space.
A national call out has gone out to mainland volunteers to come and assist us due to the mammoth task of four days of the festival with 90,000 people attending. Last year we had 29 mainland volunteers assist us.
Some of the volunteers are unable to camp onsite so we are looking for anyone that would have a spare bed or two that would be willing to host a volunteer or two. Due to most of these volunteers coming as foot passengers, Newport and Ryde areas would be easier with public transport but last year we did have some hosts in the Bay area.
BeaconLight have produced give-away A7 cards (bigger than business cards but smaller than postcards) which are designed to lead people to see how the Bible answers key questions about the resurrection. Click on the QR code to access the site and then click the Bible links after the questions and see what you think!
If you or your church/ministry could use quantities of these Examine the Evidence cards, please email Sue Cox at books@beaconlight.co.uk stating how many you would like. They are completely free of charge.
The recent concert last Saturday 12th April at Newport Minster, in aid of Wight Cardiac Rehab, was the penultimate performance from the choir. The choir will be ‘retiring’ after a special farewell concert planned for July.
Their Musical Director, Robin Burnett, said “We would like to thank all those who have supported us over the last 16 years, and contributed to the many local charities and good causes which has enable us to raise more than £70,000.
Full details of our final performance will be publicised in the next few weeks.”
We have expanded our recycling here at Ryde Methodist Church.
Please tell everyone nothing is wasted , and nothing goes to landfill. It doesn't matter if anything is broken that can be dealt with correctly all they have to do is to pop in on any Tuesday morning to the hall, or get in touch.. Many thanks
Some people met in churches and joined in collectively, others joined individually. So we had participation from all over the Island - north, south, east, west and central.
Rajinder and I stayed all through and, by virtue of the nature of the event, people were joining and leaving at different times, we were able to see that there was a strong nucleus of people in the meeting praying, throughout the whole 24 hours, even during the difficult early morning slots. We felt the atmosphere of excitement during the last hour as we drew to a conclusion was such a blessing. So well done everyone, you were amazing!
At the end of the 24 hours we asked you to expect unusual things and moves of God.
By the end of the next day, Sunday, we were already receiving testimonies from churches, relating numbers of people attending morning services quite unexpectedly - in one case two people who came to church as they had seen a vision or dream that guided them to come to worship.
If you also, have any feedback or testimonies, we would love to hear from you.
Finally, just to mention two things for the future:
Many told us that they found or outdoor prayer event last Pentecost Sunday, (where we surrounded the Island and the high places, in over 40 different groups, simultaneously making Biblical declarations over the Island during the hour between 4.00pm - 5.00pm), so needful and such a blessing and asking if we could repeat it again. So, to give you advanced notice, the Wight Church Network have asked us to organise it again for this year's day of Pentecost, which will be Sunday 8th June 2025. We will be in touch with you at a later date about this.
Just to give you a heads up, last year, Rajinder and I put a proposal to the Wight Church Network, to start a digital magazine that focusses purely on testimonies from around the Island in all the different churches, fellowships, parachurch organisations, youth works, and all other Christian works and outreach from any part of the Island. They asked us to run with that and we have just been waiting for the right time. We feel that is now. So in the near future we will be writing a separate email to explain.
I sent a link to this video to a teacher in Year 6 who immediately shared it with the Year 5 teacher. Apparently it will help with a part of the curriculum that is not easy to teach.
Feel free to pass it on to teachers / youth workers. There are no copyright issues because I wrote the poem. The adults who appear all have DBS checks and the parents of the children gave written permission for it to be used publicly.
Church Based Jobs at Ryde There are exciting opportunities at Ryde.church based at All Saints. We are recruiting for two 20-hour posts for a Children and Families Leader and a Youth Leader.
Salary scale is: £22,300 - 23,300 which would be pro rata for 20 hours.
New Job Opportunities Available at Westbrook
We have a number of job roles available whereby, ideally, we would like to recruit those with a Christian background where possible.
Looking for free Bible study material for your group?
I have a number of copies available of Chris’s book ‘I don’t believe it ’ for small group Bible studies. Chris, who was priest in charge at St Paul’s Barton and later chaplain at Carisbrooke Priory took his title from Victor Meldrew!
In each chapter, he focuses on a different passage from the Bible that he had always struggled with and, as he was so skilled at doing, encourages us to look at it from a different perspective. The style is very relaxed but thought provoking.
It is particularly designed for group Bible study as there are questions at the end of each chapter. My own Bible study group were used as Guinea Pigs at the time of writing and found them very helpful. I am happy to give away a set of books as I would like them to be used. They could either be collected from Carisbrooke or, given a bit of time, I would be happy to deliver them. If you would like a sample copy first, then let me know by email annhawkeriw@gmail.com
I also have some copies of his book The Holy Caterpillar which is more autobiographical. A friend recently said that it was the best Christian book that she had ever read!!
In the grounds of La Charpenterie, parts of which date back to the 15th Century. Great for all year round breaks; each with Wood Burning Stoves. Pet friendly
Nail cutting, removal of hard skin/corns, Diabetic care, cracked heels, general foot care advice.
Home appointments £32
PLEASE CALL LEANNE - 07552628465
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Accredited Counselling Training
on the Isle of Wight
Known as WCTI ( Wight Counselling Training Institute) We are an established counselling training provider in Shalfleet, Near Newport that provides 3 accredited Counselling Qualifications:
An introduction to counselling over 10 weeks
A professional certificate in Counselling over 12 months
A professional diploma in Counselling leading to registration as a counsellor ( 2 years)
We also provide organisations on the island with funded counselling support.
If you would like more information or wish to apply, please do get in touch
Charlotte Collins Co-director Wight Counselling Training Institute Web Site01983 722625
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The Greenhouse is a Place of Prayer and Worship. A place of Enounter with God. A Place Where You Can Grow
The Greenhouse Christian Centre is situated between Poole and Bournemouth and just a 20 minute walk to the beach. The Centre holds Led and Silent Retreats, Quiet Days, Healing Services, Art Weeks, Discipleship Training Days and so much more.
Are you lonely and not particularly enjoying facing life on your own? Do you wish God would answer your prayers for a soul mate? Then you should contact Friends1st the off-line Christian friendship and introductory agency who've been introducing Christians to each other since 1999. Click here to find out more.
