the other thing... Pilton Festival

Pilton Green Man Festival....

18th July 2009...

The Oasis...

Parish Hall 10am-4pm....

Free Refreshments, Prayer corner, Live Music, A Quiet Space...

Help needed with Stewarding, set up, refreshments team, clear up- contact Holy Trinity Office or leave a comment here.

Forthcoming events...

While I'm here, a couple of things that are coming up:

This Sunday (14th) in the evening, a Film Club are going to see 'Looking for Eric', Ken Loach's new film. its a 15, containing 'very strong language and soft drug use', so be warned, but it also tackles the issues of family life and the struggles of parenthood, drink and football.

According to the director 'it's about friendship and about coming to terms with who you are. It's a film against individualism: we’re stronger as a gang than we are on our own. You can be pretentious about this but it is about the solidarity of friends, which is epitomised in a crowd of football supporters. But also where you work and the people you work alongside. Although that seems an almost trite observation, it's still not the spirit of the age. Or it hasn't been the spirit of the age for the last 30 years, where people are your competitors, not your comrades.'

we're going to watch the film at Barnstaple Cinema, then go for a drink and a chat at Wetherspoons. We'll hope to talk about how things within the film sit alongside our own lives and those of people in the world around us, and consider how the Christian faith speaks of the issues raised within the film.

if you are interested in coming, let me know.

Andy

Calendar Problems!

Dear all,

at present the calendar, which was working fine for a while, is not working at all - thats what the white box that says 'invalid address' should contain.

any information that you would like to have entered into the mission community calendar when its been revived can be either left here as a comment, or emailed to the church office at Holy Trinity with FAO Mission Community Calendar in the subject line.

sorry about that.

Calendar Comments

Please add any details to go on the calendar, or amendments that need to be made to existing entries, as comments on this posting.
When requesting entries or amendments, please give the date, location, time (start and finish where known), and your contact name.
Thanks.

Good Friday Walk of Witness

So, this year, on Good Friday, what are you doing to remember that Jesus died on the cross and rose again? Is it something worth getting out of bed for on a Sunday morning? Is it something worth walking 1 mile for? Is it something worth 20 minutes of your time on Friday lunchtime?

Starting from 3 churches around Barnstaple at 11.30 (Pilton, Sticklepath and Grosvenor), groups will be walking in to the town centre and meeting up for a short time of worship (classic tracks: 'Amazing Grace', 'When I survey the wondrous Cross', and 'The Lord's my Shepherd'), a brief message of encouragement and hope, and a prayer. Its nothing scary, but it would be great if the whole town noticed the presence of Christians in their midst at this time.

Good Friday is one of those times when the world is saying 'isn't this something to do with God and Jesus?', and the answer we want to give is 'yes', so come and be part of it.

Jesus died on a cross for all humanity, have you got some spare time this Friday to say thank you?

Happy New Year to everyone, our prayer is that this year will bring us closer together as Christ's body within the Barnstaple and North Devon area, and closer to God as we seek to hear and follow his voice.

Mission Community Planning Meeting- 28th Nov 08

A really good meeting- lots of energy and discussion from everybody. Notes will be circulated during next week to people, any comments can be posted here.

On an aside, this is something I wanted to share with people last night but we were pushed for time. Its the text of Obama's 'perfecting the union' speech from March, and it captures really well the sense of challenge and perseverance that is needed to make something new work- go to the link below and read it for yourself.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/18_03_08_obama_speech.pdf