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Author Archives: Nigel Marsh
Bible Study tools resource page
Where can you go to find all four tools from the Bible Study trainings we are running in February? This page, that’s where! In addition, we have Laura’s creative visual summaries of each method … Helen’s helpful worksheets for methods one and two … and Christine’s tabular worksheet for method three. We’ll be adding all […]
Sign up for February Bible study
For the month of February Life Groups are taking a break so everyone in the church can enjoy a four-part series, How To Study The Bible. We’ll all get to grips with four simple, fun tools which will enable everyone – from beginners to life-long scholars – to get more from studying God’s Word. We […]
Family Tree
This year Forefront is focusing on living as a family. So we started the year by creating a “family tree”, with each leaf marked with a fingerprint of a member of the congregation. Each leaf an idiosyncratic individual, yet combining together to make a beautiful, harmonious whole. If you’re feeling out on a limb, turn […]
Corinthians (First) – versed
We celebrated the three winners of our 1st Corinthians poetry competition this week with a chocolate treat! Congratulations to our “minstrels”, Jean Nash, Steve Capstick and Jane Marsh, who each completed the last six verses of our ‘aide memoire’ from the book of First Corinthians. Read their entries here.
Sing the joy of Christmas
All are welcome to our Community Christmas Concert of songs, carols and readings, at Chard Guildhall on Sunday 23 December at 6.30pm. Entry is free; there will be an opportunity to donate to the Mayor’s charities. The singing will be led by Uplyme Gospel Choir, whose last visit to Chard was a triumph. A special […]
1Corinthians, one body
We’re well into the third and final series in our 2018 study of the biblical book, First Corinthians. We’re enjoying everything it has to say about every member of the church using their talents, gifts and personalities to build and enrich the church as a single body. Here are members depicting that recently – each […]
Rap up 1 Corinthians!
We’re going to celebrate the end of our series on 1st Corinthians on 11 November with a poetry competition. If you were in the Guildhall on 8 October you will have heard our lyrical attempt to remind ourselves about what’s happened in the letter in the first 10 chapters … we want to finish the […]
See Boaz’s video!
Are you worried that you’ve been too slow to sign up for the Forefront Weekend next year? Take a look at Boaz Brister’s response– there’s still time! Music: “Smooth Lovin” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Leaders update
We’re pleased to announce that Abbie Brister has joined the Leadership Team, and we have revised the map of who is primarily responsible for what on our six-strong leadership team. But what does leadership mean in Forefront? In common with many churches whose origins are in the non-conformist tradition, we understand church leadership to be […]