Author: Kings Church

Prayer
As well as enjoying the goodness of God this summer, we are looking ahead to September and wanted to give you plenty of notice for what we have planned. We love to start our terms with more emphasis on praying together. So below please find our calendar for prayer – please join us for as many of these as you can:

• Wednesday 4th September — Leaders Prayer Evening, 7.30pm at Kings
• Tuesday 10th September — Hampden Park Prayer Evening. 7.30pm at Kings
• Wednesday 11th September  — Grace Community Church (Harbour) Prayer Evening 7.30pm
• Thursday 12th September — Thursday Church Prayer 10am at Kings

Courses
The start of a new term also brings our new courses – we have so many ways to connect into church community, and deepen our relationship with God, feeding into our values of Gather – Grow – Go. Click on the title to sign up or find out more.

• Alpha: 7.30pm Wednesday 2nd October
• Growing Deeper – Finding Freedom: 7.30pm Wednesday 25th September
• Bereavement Journey: 2.30pm Tuesday 10th September
• Joining the Church Family: 12.15pm – Sunday 29th September

Church Calendar
We’re making some changes to some of our gathered events, moving emphasis to Sunday evenings at the centre, here’s the pattern of how things will look going forward each month:  

Week 1: Prayer Meeting (starting October 6th)
Week 2: Evening Meeting – September 8th
Week 3: Bible School – September 15th
Week 4: Socials – September 22nd 
Week 5: Women’s/Men’s events – September 29th (Women’s event)

King’s Academy of Performing Arts  (KAPA)
We are really excited to let you know about the new Kings Academy of Performing Arts (KAPA). KAPA provides high energy musical theatre classes and workshops for young people aged 6 to 16 years. We believe in giving every young person a chance to shine and to find their own voice, with expertly tailored scripts to suit everyone. All of our classes and workshops are facilitated by industry professionals ensuring a high standard of teaching and excellence. Sessions will be on Friday afternoons, 4-6pm at King’s, working towards a musical production at the end of the term. A two-week trial is available – for more information and to book in click here.

Enjoy the sunshine! With all our love,

Oli
On behalf of the elders and deacons

Building Update 
We are pleased to say that the work on the roof has now started! Bear with us as there may be some additional noise and disruption over the next couple of months.  

Summer holidays
During the summer holidays, our children’s work for ages 1-11 will be continuing as usual, except for 4^th August where we’ll be having an all-age meeting for an hour with worship and baptisms before heading to Hampden Park to have a picnic lunch together. Our 11-14’s will not be meeting on Sundays in August, but will be gathering for various activities during the summer break after they get home from Newday. Thursday Church will be continuing to run as normal throughout the school holidays.

Dates for the diary:

• Friday 12^th July — United Women’s event: all women welcome! Sign-up here.
• Tuesday 15^th July — Bible School, 7.30pm
• Sunday 21^st July — Sunday evening meeting, 7pm
• Sunday 4^th August — Baptisms and lunch in the park! (We’ll head to Hampden Park after our Sunday meeting, so bring a picnic and extra to share)
• September 8^th to September 14^th — We’ll be starting our term with a week of prayer, more details to follow next month. 
• Sunday 8^th September — We’ll be praying for Bosun (Elder), Wendy & Nailza (Deacons) and Carl (leading Grace Community Church as an Elder) as they step into their new roles in our church family.

With all our love,

Oli
On behalf of the Elders and Deacons