Celebrate Christmas with some carol singing!
Both events are at the Chard Guildhall. We hope you can join us!
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The Nativity: A child’s view – tomorrow!
Hope you can join us for the premiere of our Nativity film, taking a unique look at the first Christmas through the eyes of the children of Chard – featuring children from our Nativity Club and Manor Court School. Chard Guildhall, Sun 16 December, 10.30am. All welcome!
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All I want Fore Christmas
Preparations are well under way for all the events – we’d love for you and your family to come and celebrate with us! Sunday 16 December, 10:30am – the Nativity: A Child’s View, including a mini-movie inspired and directed by local school-children Sunday 23 December, 6.30pm – a Community Celebration of Christmas with Uplyme Gospel…
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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.
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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…
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Nativity Club
We are looking for talented voice-over artists to bring the nativity story to life with their own unique take on the events of the first Christmas. All children in school years Reception to Year 6 are welcome.
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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Answers to prayer!
We have had some amazing answers to prayer recently. Give thanks! Ben and Emma have received support and promises equivalent to 80% of the funds they need to support their work in Cairo. Likewise, Anisa has most of the funds necessary for her 9 months in Colombia … only the visa to go, now. The…
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… our daily bread …
We are half way through our six week series on ‘praying the Lord’s prayer’, and it has been enriching. This Sunday (10:30am, Chard Guildhall) we are looking at the faith request, “give us today our daily bread”. In the last few weeks we have seen God answering a number of prayers for the church (expect…