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We are a fellowship of committed Christians who want to share our faith with other people. We'd love to see you at any of our activities - take a look below to find out what we're up to this month. You can listen to recent services. Or, if you'd like to have a chat with someone or would like more information, get in touch with us via the Contact Us page.

Diary

We run the following weekly services and meetings:
  • Breaking of Bread 10:00am - 11:00am on Sundays
    At the Last Supper, just before He was crucified, Jesus asked His followers to share bread and wine, representing His body and blood, in memory of Him in His death. At the 'breaking of bread', or 'communion', committed Christians obey Jesus's request and join together to worship Him.
  • Afternoon Service 4:30pm - 5:15pm on Sundays
    A service of hymns/songs, prayers and a talk based on a Bible theme or passage lasts about three quarters of an hour and is followed by a cup of tea and a more informal time of fellowship. You can listen to recordings of previous services here.
  • Bible Study (House Group) and Prayer Meeting 7:00pm - 8:30pm on Wednesdays
    We discuss a passage from the Bible and think about how God is speaking to us through it. We follow our discussion with a short time of prayer together. Note that this month there is no Bible Study on Wednesday 6th March.
  • Easter Sunday Service: Cross Purposes at 4:30pm, followed by Easter buffet tea.

Free All-age Easter Activity

Join us at 2.30pm on Saturday 23 March to decorate an Easter egg, using coloured sweets, melted chocolate and your imagination.  Create an attractive pattern, or turn your egg into an interesting face . . . or come up with another original idea.  

There’s no charge for the activity, and eggs and materials will be provided.  We’ll also have refreshments and a short thought for Easter.  If you’d like to come, please book your place by emailing info@lakegreenchristianmission.org.uk  before Wednesday 20 March.

We offered this activity last year and participants produced some striking creations – you can see a few examples below.


Last Month

Craft club

It’s amazing how many different things you can make from buttons!  Last month we made button flowers. There’s more than craft to Craft Club.  We enjoy tea and home-made cake, fellowship and chat, and a ‘thought’ from the Bible.  All welcome.

This Month

Here's what's happening this month:

  • March: services as above
    Craft club on Friday 1st March at 2:30 pm
    Please note changes to Bible Study evenings

News

Bible Study

We’ve just begun studying Paul’s letter to the Christians in Rome (the New Testament book, Romans).  This was a church Paul hadn’t visited, though he was hoping to do so.  (In fact, he did get to meet them but it was several years later as a prisoner.)

In this letter, Paul sets out the basics of Christian belief.  He begins with the state of humanity, in sinful rebellion against the God who created us.  He shows how it’s impossible for us to get into a right relationship with God by our own efforts.  And he explains God’s gracious solution – forgiveness through faith in the Lord Jesus, who died to pay the penalty for our sins.  

It’s always good to reflect on these fundamental truths and remember that without knowledge of them we’d be in a hopeless state.


Visit the Gallery to see some of the things we've been up to!

 

Thought for the Month

Kindness

We’ve heard a lot recently about miscarriages of justice – particularly in relation to post office workers, wrongly convicted of fraud, and the shocking attempts to cover up the truth.

A  miscarriage of justice, with far-reaching consequences, occurred two thousand years ago at the trial of Jesus in Jerusalem.  The Romans prided themselves on their justice system.  It was harsh, but it was based on law and evidence and the search for truth.  At Jesus’s trial before the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate, law, evidence, truth and justice were all swept to one side and an innocent man, three times declared ‘not guilty’, was sentenced to execution by crucifixion.

At the beginning of the trial, Pilate had to establish what the accusation was;  what law had been broken?  The Jewish leaders, his accusers, were  not very specific:  he was ‘a criminal’ they asserted in answer to Pilate’s question about charges (John 18:30).

Pilate tried to clarify the issue by getting a confession from the accused man:  ‘What is it you have done?’ he asked.  Jesus’s answer can’t have been what Pilate was expecting.  ‘The reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth.  Everyone on the side of truth listens to me’ (v 37). That should have made Pilate think a bit. It was his job as judge to establish the truth and uphold it.  He was expected to be ‘on the side of truth’.  Instead, he sidestepped the challenge and asked a rhetorical question – ‘what is truth?’.  Perhaps he was suggesting that there’s no such thing as absolute truth.

Astonishingly, the answer to his question was standing in front of him.  ‘I am the truth,’ Jesus had said to his followers (John 14:6).  As the perfect sinless Son of God, Jesus was the source of all truth.  His words had conveyed the truth and his actions had displayed it.  Jesus’s enemies weren’t interested in the truth and they tried to silence it by killing the person who embodied it.

But God has the last word.  He vindicated Jesus by raising Him from death;  and because of the death of that innocent person, God offers us acquittal!