Dear Church Family,
You may have noticed on the back of our chairs in the main hall we have put some QR codes which you can scan with your mobile to find out more about life at King’s. Our dream is that newcomers will be always be welcomed personally by someone, but sometimes that doesn’t happen so this gives a way for people to engage with our community. Scan it yourself so you know what is on there and can help those visiting us!
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Next Sunday, 8th September we’ll be welcoming Dale Barlow from the New Ground Church in Oxted who will be joining us as we pray for Bosun and Carl as they join the eldership team, and Nailza and Wendy as they join the diaconate team. We’ll also be welcoming new members! In the evening, we have our evening meeting at 7pm.
Prayer
As we enter September, we have lots of opportunities to pray with one another, please find below what is happening over the next few weeks – please join us for as many of these as you can:
- Wednesday 4th September – Leaders Prayer Evening, 7.30pm at King’s
- Tuesday 10th September – Hampden Park Prayer Evening. 7.30pm at King’s
- Wednesday 11th September – Grace Community Church Prayer Evening 7.30pm (at Sovereign Harbour Community Centre)
- Thursday 11th September – Church Prayer 10am at King’s at Thursday Church.
Courses & Events
The start of a new term also brings our new courses – we have so many ways to connect into 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 — Wednesday 2nd October
Joining the Church Family — Sunday 29th September
Growing Deeper — Finding Freedom — Wednesday 25th September
Bereavement Journey — Tuesday 10th September
Men’s event: Saturday 12th October: an evening of food, fun, friendship and an opportunity to grow together in our walk with Jesus. As with previous events there will be time to chat and chill, to play games and to worship together and to receive some teaching that we know will challenge us to grow as followers of Jesus. We’ll be enjoying a curry together which will be £5 per person. Sign-up here
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: Bible Study Socials – September 22nd (on the book of Acts)
Week 5: Women’s/Men’s events – September 29th (Women’s event)
Child Celebrations
Our next child celebration are on Sunday 22nd September during our morning meeting, if you would like to be included in this, please click here for more information.
King’s Academy of Performing Arts (KAPA)
High energy musical theatre classes and workshops for young people aged 6 to 16 years. Sessions will be on Friday afternoons, 4-6pm at King’s, working towards a the musical production at the end of the term. A two-week trial is available – for more information and to book in click here.
Team:
Next – New Ground One Year Internship/Apprenticeship
We are so pleased that Josh Clark (who has grown up at King’s), and Francesca Sandu (from Moldova) are going to be with us this year on the New Ground year out. They’ll be getting stuck into various areas of church life, and also having training and input with others on our New Ground Family. Please get to know them and pray for them! We are also saying goodbye (for now!) to Grace Taylor who is starting NEXT at New Community Chruch Sidcup, and Susan Bowley who is working at YWAM for 4 months before heading out internationally for 3 months to serve the church on a global adventure.
We have an amazing group of volunteers who are consistently giving their time, energy and skill to serve our church. We have recently formalised their commitment and we now have 5 staff volunteers: Jennie Harris (reception), Nigel Gibbins (IT), Nick Le Poidevin (groups) Sophie Rogers (life group resources), and Gillian Cernik (connect).
A message from David Gamester:
‘I am so grateful for this opportunity to thank the whole church for their kindness and amazing generosity towards me on my retirement at the end of June. There have been so many messages sending best wishes to me and I am grateful for every one of them. With my warmest best wishes to you all. May God bless you richly in the days ahead.’
Greater Things Saturday 12th October @ King’s Church, Hastings
Greater Things is an all-day event designed to encourage Christians to learn more about the gift of healing. It will include testimonies, teaching and a time of worship when Words of Knowledge for healing will be shared. There will also be opportunity to pray for the sick (full agenda below). Lunch included if you book before October 10th. For more info and to book in click here.
King’s Church Conference
Looking ahead into 2025, we wanted to give you a date for your diaries. We’ll be having a church conference on Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd February to equip us to walk daily in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, with teaching from Liam Thatcher (former teaching pastor at Christ Church London, and now living in Oxford). We are really looking forward to this time together!
With all our love,
Oli
On behalf of the elders and deacons
