These sheep need your help! They are lost in the shops of Chard. You can help them by completing the Sheep Treasure Trail at Chard Festival. Entry forms can be collected from outside Chard Baptist Church on Sat 21 July (9.30am-12.30pm) where there will also be fun sheep crafts, opportunity to learn why Jesus compared…
Sometimes, after a Friday night meeting of Forefront’s Unite youth club, we can’t wipe the whiteboard clean quickly enough! And sometimes, you just don’t want to wipe it off at all. That was the case after youth member Henry Atkinson-Body stunned everyone by picking up a marker pen and sketching this portrait of Cap’n Jack…
Peter walks on the water, with Jesus and their boat … all modelled in a cup of jelly. Children from Rocks ‘n Topz had fun this week making their own Lake Galilee (or is that Jellilee?) Children of all ages are welcome to join us each Sunday morning at Chard Guildhall for our traditional Sunday School, with…
It takes a lot of smart people working hard behind the scenes to get the Sunday service at Chard Guildhall going each week – set up, projection, children’s church, sound, catering and more. Here, Pete and Philip put the sound board through its paces.
Why do biscuits have people talking at Forefront Centre? Today’s English language conversation class discussed weights, measures, food and cookery … and concluded by making some biscuits. Yum! If you know someone with English as a second language who’d like an opportunity to chat in small groups with real, local English speakers, they are welcome…
Here are some fun reminders of our time together at the amazing 2018 Staycation in the beautiful Monks Yard Conference Centre at Horton Manor near Ilminster. Thanks to Kira Marsh for this collection of photographs. If you were there and took any pictures you want to add to our collection, please send them over!
Follow the links to find the posters that were hung on the line, and the hand-out, from the Forefront 2018 “Staycation at Monks Yard” teaching session. You can also listen to part one and part two of the session, recorded.
Don’t forget, as the culmination of our Staycation weekend, we will be at Monks Yard, Horton Cross, for our Sunday morning meeting this week. Anyone who was planning to join us at Chard Guildhall is very welcome to join us at Horton Manor instead. (Call in advance if you’d like help with transport.) As much…
We’ve updated the leadership page … find out how Forefront leadership works, and who to go to with a question. Members can find ministry leaders, Life Group leaders, trustees, staff and the leadership team through the contact sheet, and anyone can get in touch at Forefront Centre.
Much of the pastoral, social and spiritual life of Forefront Church takes place in our seven Life Groups, which take place across Chard on different week nights. We invited members to meet together on Monday night for a “20,000 mile service”, to test our assumptions and make sure they are still firing on all cylinders.…
Keep up to date with the programme and details of the Forefront 2018 Staycation, 27-29 April! Download the poster.
Please come and join us for a fun weekend at Monk’s Yard. This is a weekend of opportunities… …for prayer and worship Time to pause and sing on Saturday morning, a praise celebration in the evening, and a combined service with Monk’s Yard Church on Sunday morning. …to give back “Love MY” will be…