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We need your help to shape the future of community, mental health and learning disability services across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
We want to ensure we focus on what is important to you as we develop our plan and priorities to guide the work we do over the next five years.
We would like to invite you to join us for an on-line meeting on Wednesday 20th November, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm, to discuss what matters most to you
We would just ask if you can let us know if you intend to join us, by accepting or declining the invitation as soon as possible, to help us successfully plan and run this session.
If you are unable to attend but would like to give your views, please scan the QR code to take part in our short survey by 6th November or click on the link here.
Thank you
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Unique handmade ceramics, mixed media wall art, and photo imagery At Quarr Abbey Art Gallery Quarr Abbey, Fishbourne, PO33 4ES Thursday, 28th November to Tuesday, 3rd December 2024 10 am to 4 pm - Free Entry
Quarr Abbey Art Gallery will be presenting a joint exhibition by popular Island artist Andrew Dowden, introducing photo imagery by Lisa Dowden.
Andrew's hand-carved ceramic sculptures are inspired by tracks on the land made by man, machine and nature. Ideas drawn from history, archaeology, architecture and machinery add further interest to designs. An eclectic body of work will be shown, ranging from dragonfly wall-hanging tile plaques, standing stones, lidded pots and tiled wall panels, to Andrew's mixed media wall art painted in oils. Innovative and original, painted wall art is handmade, from circular wall chargers to framed 3D compositions. Colour styles include soft palettes contrasting with rich and vibrant creations.
New to photo imagery, Lisa's work is inspired by music and by nature's colour wheel, creating thoughtful images.
Andrew and Lisa will be in attendance throughout the exhibition and will be happy to chat with visitors. A registered charity, Quarr Abbey will receive a percentage of all exhibition sales.
The gallery will be open from Thursday, 28th November to Tuesday, 3rd December, 10 am to 4pm. Entry to the exhibition, Quarr Abbey church and grounds is free.
The key element to this group is that we welcome all family members in blended families rather than just children who have been adopted or fostered. This allows families to play together as a whole whereas birth children are often not included in council funded events.
On Monday 2nd December 2024
at The New Holmwood Hotel, 65 Queen's Road, Cowes, PO31 8BW.
The cost of the evening will be £35 per person. The evening commences at 6.30 pm for a 7.00 pm start. The guest speaker will be Stuart Hussey. A property developer from Southampton. Stuart gave his life to Jesus at 14. Then, when he was 39 he was broken, no job and nowhere to turn and already one failed marriage. He then turned his eyes back to Jesus.
To book, please email janiceosborn82@gmail.com or text Jan on Mobile 07944 029132 by 10th November at the latest. On this occasion payment will be required in full when making a booking along with your menu choices (see attached).
The chamber choir will sing arrangements by traditional and contemporary composers, including their MD Richard Wilkins, of well known and more obscure Christmas carols and motets as well as taking you on a Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas. These short pieces will be a cappella or accompanied by Michele Brock on piano.
Refreshments will be available during the interval for a recommended donation.
Tickets are £10 (children free) available online or on the door.
Please note this concert starts at 7pm.
Imagine 100,000 Christians on the streets at Christmas singing Carols and sharing the Gospel everywhere!
A nationwide Christmas campaign called Shine Your Light, will be taking place this year over the weekend of 13th – 15th December 2024.
This UK and Ireland grassroots movement saw over 75,000 Christians from over 700 churches take their Carol services and nativity events into shopping centres, town halls, high streets and public spaces last December. This was suggested by many leaders to be one of the largest Christmas outreaches on behalf of the UK Church.
Shine Your Light is a united collaboration of many Christian Denominations, organisations, local churches, and networks; including The Salvation Army, Bible Society, Evangelical Alliance and hundreds of local congregations in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic.
Many church and national leaders endorsed the event including the Prime Minster, Downing Street and politicians. The weekend was highlighted by many media outlets including Good Morning Britain where hundreds of thousands heard that Shine Your Light was about proclaiming Christ at Christmas!
To see Christians recognised for taking the message of hope and joy to our communities from 10 Downing Street was so encouraging. We are praying that the Prime Minister and his new Government would equally get behind this campaign.
As a result of Shine Your Light last year, we heard stories of people coming to faith and churches welcoming in new people. It showed that when Christians come together for the Gospel, whole communities can be reached!
This Christmas, the vision is to mobilise over 100,000 Christians outdoors to reach 1 million people in the streets and public places with the Gospel. Last year, we heard of hundreds of flashmob style carol events, open air Christingle services and nativity events from the small to the large including some in Castles, country parks and housing estates.
This year, the vision is to see how the united Church can put CHRIST back into Christmas so that the whole nation can hear the bold proclamation of Good News and why we sing “Joy To The World!”
All our Shine Your Lights events are solely focused on enabling the true message of Christmas to be heard by those outside the Church. While it is acknowledged, Church attendance increases during the Christmas season, there will be many who will not darken the door of a church.
The church has a unique opportunity this year in towns, villages and cities to bring Light and Joy to many through our boldness and unity.
Put the date of Shine Your Light in your denomination or church diary now: Friday 13th – Sunday 15th December 2024.
We encourage you to register today to join the movement of Believers responding to this Gospel Call!
If you would like to connect Shine Your Light to the programme of events you are already planning, explore some of our great resources and to register, please visit:this site or to speak to one of the team, please telephone: 07429 379 777
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 behalf of the Wight Church Network, we are emailing everyone who has shown a heart for prayer for the Island, to say a big ‘Thank You’ to the many people who attended the Wight Church Network’s, ‘Revive the Wight’, day of prayer on Saturday. Despite it being half-term and therefore a number of folks having already told us that they would have loved to have come but had already committed to other plans before hearing of the event, we were so blessed to see just how many did come from all over the Island.
Each of the five one-hour sessions for - North & East, South & East, South & West, North & West and Central, - were led by worship teams and prayer leaders each from their own region, as we all joined together in intercession for their respective regions. The Newport Methodist Church was filled with people coming and going throughout the day – all through the 6 hour time of prayer.
In turn, we prayed with spoken words and we prayed in song. Leaders from 14 different churches from every part of the Island, led the five sessions, with participants in this prayer time coming from well over 20 different churches across the regions and from a number of expressions of different Christian backgrounds and denominations, to pray for God to visit all regions of our Island. Some stayed for more than the one session for their own region, joining in prayer for the next region to be prayed for. The six hours passed so quickly that the day ended before we knew it.
What a blessing it was to see so many people from all over the Island giving up their time to earnestly seek God together. We can be sure it pleased the heart of God. As we have referenced before, Psalm 133 tells us that when God’s people unite together, “… the Lord commanded a blessing...” Time will show what the fruit of the day will be.
It was heart-warming to hear people saying what a blessing it was for them to be part of this spiritually uplifting prayer event and we gratefully thank God for his presence through it all and for all the anointed leaders of the prayer sessions and worship sessions who led us throughout the day.
With many thanks to all of you.
With every blessing,
Richard & Rajinder
Revs Richard & Rajinder Buxton Prayer Mobilisers
Wight Church Network
Its that time of year again when we let all our supporters know about our Reverse Advent campaign. As you know this is a 24-day advent calendar (in November!) that lists items that can put into a Xmas bag for our clients, which is in addition to the normal 3 days crisis food that they would receive with a voucher.
Donations can be just one of the items or the whole list but we would appreciate any way you want to get involved😊
Drop off is at Cowes Head Office Love Lane Newport on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday from 9am to 2pm and we would welcome deliveries by Friday 29th November, so that we can send these out to our cafes ready for the clients to collect throughout December.
As you may have noticed the items do not always change, this is just so that we can fill the gaps in the stock to complete an allocation of food for a client when they attend a session. These always stay the same and provide 3 days emergency food when people are in crisis. We offer a range of support measures to help people out of crisis and as such can let you know that 85% of our clients only use the service once or twice.
If some of your organisations haven’t been to our Cowes head office for a tour and a chat recently to see what we do, let me know. We are looking to book visits in January and would like to focus on engaging with our regular supporters to see what support we can offer you moving forward into 2025. If you would like to meet, please do email me or give me a call and I would be delighted to pop something in the diary.
Novembers Clothing sale is Saturday 2nd November and the last one of the year is December 7th.
I hope to hear from you. Have a great week.
Best Wishes
Lisa
I am offering my late husband's Yamaha piano to anyone who would truly appreciate it. If you or someone you know would be interested in receiving this instrument for free, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Debbie Magoffin kelivardemosta72@gmail.com
I HAVE SOME SPARE COPIES OF MY SECOND PUBLISHED CHRISTIAN BOOK, WHICH ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE IF YOU CONTACT ME ON MY EMAIL ADDRESS stevegravett2@gmail.comTHIS BOOK EXAMINES FOURTEEN CHALLENGING ISSUES FACING CHRISTIANS, CONTAINED IN THE BIBLE.
Steve Gravett attends a church in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Steve has been a Christian for over fifty years and currently is a member of the Gideons and the Full Gospel Businessmen on the IOW. - Ed
Christian Motorcyclists Association Isle of Wight (CMA Vectis)...
We’re pleased to announce that the Isle of Wight now has a Branch of the Christian Motorcyclists Association UK (CMA), which is part of CMA’s International Ministry to Reach the world, 'One Heart at a Time', bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ to motorcyclists worldwide.
Christian Motorcyclists Association Isle of Wight or CMA Vectis Branch (previously Isle of Wight Christian Bikers) are Christians on the IoW with a passion for the large Motorcycle community on the Island, as well as the thousands of Bikers from the UK and beyond, visiting throughout the year.
There’s lots of information about our ministry on our Website or Facebook page. Not forgetting our FREE Biker Bibles, with a New Testament, Testimonies and CMA Information.
The CMA UK Video is a great way to understand what the CMA Mission actually is and chatting with us locally to find out more, if we don’t know the answer we’ll ask someone who does. We’ll also be available to visit Churches and other groups to talk about our ministry, please email: chair.iow@bike.org.uk
We're now building a branch of CMA Supporters and Members, living out our faith together, with other Christians, Bikers and organisations. Enjoying Fellowship, Support, Ride Outs, Bike Meets, Christian events, Social Activities, Helping others, giving, etc. If this speaks to you and you would like to be part of this Ministry, or have any questions please contact us: chair.iow@bike.org.uk
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 and corns, diabetic care, cracked heels,
general footcare advice and treatments.
All appointments in your own home, providing a friendly and gentle service.
30 minute appointment £28
PLEASE CALL LEANNE - 07552628465
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Kingdom Creative, an initiative that seeks to help churches/ministries with their graphic design work in order to reach more people for the kingdom.
Projects, posters, branding or any other graphic design work.
Helping churches with their youtube thumbnails for their weekly livestream, so that instead of having the same image, each livestream has a designed thumbnail suitable for the specific message. The idea of this is that this way the videos get viewed more by the public when they see a thumbnail specifically representing that talk. Website
Peter Herman
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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.