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The Link Magazine • November 1997 45
Onward Christians in Abbey Meads Freshbrook
Evangelical
Deaconess Maureen Spinks Church
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writes:
On the first Sunday in October, Worsley Road
27 people walked, in procession
behind a banner to a new tempo- Will give YOU a warm
rary home at Abbey Meads com- welcome
munity centre. The Church of Sunday I Oam Family Praise
'Christ the Servant' after an ex- with children's Covenanter
traordinary year was on the move. Movement & creche
So much has happened in the 630pm Evening Worship and
last 12 months that we simply had Communion
to use the occasion to celebrate! For details of mid-week
The church has gone from noth- meetings, house groups and
ing but a name, a banner, a vision other activities, telephone the
and me, to a thriving church com- Church Office, Tel: 873050
munity with over 20 committed
members; too big to meet in the
front room of 1 Hayward Close.
Members are involved in parent
and toddler groups and the com-
munity association, have taken
part in raising funds for Comic The best beloved of all things in
Wild start-up for youth club Relief, carol singing, celebrating Mi sight is Juctthe; turn not away,
baptisms, infant and adult, hold- therefrom if though ded rest Me"
Rock Solid, a new youth club for children in school year 6 to year 8, ing special services, prayer vigils
took off in a spectacular way at the end of September. The Bahal faith is the
and the launch of Alpha for those
Mad, frantic games including a Leaving, smeared with ice wanting to find out what the Chris- second most widespread religioi
weetabix eating competition were cream, chocolate sauce and hun- tian faith and life is all about. in the world and is working
towards universal peace
features of the first evening which dreds and thousands, Kimberly And so with a procession to the
ended with sixty youngsters de- Mead from Freshbrook said Rock community centre and special and harmony
vouring the longest banana split Solid was good fun. "It's the first service of thanksgiving we marked For more information
ever. club I been to and it's been really the end of our first year and the rcontact the Swindon Baha is
great. I'll be coming again." beginning of our second. We look Community on 01793 421615
Organiser Audrey Hutchinson forward to a time of adventure or 01793 87853
said the club has a fast and dy- and experiment as we get involved
namic approach, but there is space in the planning and designing of a
for youngsters to talk about what church building, look for more and
concerns them in a caring, friendly new ways to play our part in en- SWINDON
setting. couraging the developing sense of FAM(LYCHURCH
Rock Solid meets on Fridays community in Abbey Meads and
during term time, between 7pm look for opportunities to share Live with integrity
and 8.30pm at Holy Trinity God's good news. Love wholeheartedly
Church, Shaw. Children in years Why not in drop in for a visit one Trust God in all things
6,7 or 8 are welcome to turn up. Or Sunday at 1030am in the commu-
call Audrey Hutchinson on 527105. nity centre on Elstree Way? You SUNDAYS ATTHE
Audrey is pictured on the right over- will find a mixed age range of peo- LINK CENTRE
seeing the banana split party ple with many and varied inter- (Community Suite)
ests and backgrounds, discover- I O.3Oam
ing together what it means to be a
Following a path of prayer Church in a place like Abbey All ages of children & teens cared for
Meads. Information: Call Brian
A few months after arriving in Westlea in mid-1995, Carolyn Soulsby Come along and see if you want, at the Church Office: 849731
heard a speaker talk about how God had enabled him to bring or need, to be part of our adven- in association with
physical and emotional healing to people in Jesus' name. ture? Or give me a ring on 706558 NEW FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL
"The postnatal depression I was you," said Carolyn. "But here I
suffering from was healed that am, ready to serve God. I look
evening and it was the start of a forward to making Jesus relevant
new relationship with Jesus," says to the lives of those I come in con- OCAL CHURCHES
Carolyn, pictured right. tact with."
She became involved in leading
homegroups and Sunday prayers All Saints' Lydiard Millicent - 10:30am Revd Peter Knight
and helped with a Sunday club. 772417 (for the Village and Roughmoor)
Increasingly she wanted to study Holy Trinity Shaw -10:30am Revd Andrew Hetherington 770568
the bible more deeply. After a two (the Church is at Shaw Village Centre)
year 'Taste and See' course explor- St Mary's Lydiard Tregoze - 9:00am, 10:30am
ing the Bible and many aspects of Until Ann McKenzie arrives, please contact Andrew Hethnigton
Christianity, she studied for a fur-
Toothill Church - 10:45am Revd Jan Partridge 534992
ther year as preparation to lead
(also Free Church minister for the parish)
services and preach in churches in
Westlea Church - 10:00am Revd Peter Walker 872932
the parish of West Swindon and
(this Church meets in Westlea School Hall, Langstone Way)
The Lydiards.
"If you had told me three years The Parish of West Swindon and the Lydiards
ago what I would be doing in Baptist • Church of England • Methodist • United Reformed Church
1997, 1 would not have believed