A Family Service of Remembrance for Leigh-on-Sea

Lest we forget - Remembrance Day PoppyJoin us at Leigh Road Baptist Church on Sunday 11 November at 10.30pm as we join with those around the country and indeed across the world in remembrance of the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty since World War I.

The service is designed to be appropriate for all ages. Families and children are very welcome and for the very young a creche is provided.

We hope to go live on our big screen to the Cenotapha in London, to join with the country in observing 2 minutes silence for the fallen at 11am.

The service will be lead by the Family Service team and will feature songs, drama, games, prayer, bible exploration, and live footage from London.

If you are new to the church on Sundays feel free to visit our websites ‘What to expect’ section.

You are also more than welcome to join us at our 3.30-5pm: Afternoon Service with Refreshments

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Alpha Course Catch Up: Session 6: How does God guide us to make the most of our lives?

Alpha Course at Leigh Road Baptist ChurchThe Alpha Course is currently running at Oasis The Coffee House, 189 Leigh Road, Leigh-on-Sea. Alpha presents an opportunity to explore the Christian faith. Each week we will place a version of the talk from Alpha for you to re-visit or hear for the first time if you need to catch up. You can also add comments, thoughts and questions in the comments section below.

This week: Pt 6 – How does God guide us to make the most of our lives? (06/11/2012)

If you are interested in attending the Alpha Course in person please see our Alpha page and get in contact via our contact us page.

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Roy Searle of the Northumbria Community visited Leigh Road

Roy SearleAt Leigh Road Baptist Church we were excited to welcome Guest Speaker Roy Searle of the Northumbria Community to the morning service on Sunday 28th October. The morning met all it promised to be as we were inspired by God through Roy in regard to going beyond the boundaries – it was a great time worshipping together.

The talk from the service can now be streamed or downloaded free of charge on our listen again and podcast page:

Beyond the Boundaries: John 4:1-30, 28 October 2012 AM, Roy Searle of the Northumbria Community www.lrbc.org.uk/listen

Leigh Road Baptist Church also joined with Baptists Together In Southend & District for ‘Marbles, Honeycombs and the Kingdom of God’ that night. The evening of worship, prayer and discussion with Roy Searle saw the gathered Church greatly challenged.

Roy Searle Honeycomb Marbles and the Kingdom of God Photo Montage

We were reminded about the countless blessings bestowed on us by God and how we can use them to be interdependent as the Baptist church in the borough and beyond.  In turn we were spurred on to realise that this could bring the living God more powerfully into our neighbourhoods and thus be a model and inspiration for Baptist churches across the UK.

A picture was given of Church based on the interdependence shown through the close relationship of the cells of a honeycomb as opposed to hardened edges of marbles only interacting in a small way.

So who is Roy Searle?

Roy is one of the founder leaders of the new monastic Northumbria Community, a former President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and part of the Renovare team in the UK.  Roy is a Visiting Lecturer at several theological colleges and leadership institutes, is an Associate of The Baobab Centre in York, he travels extensively throughout Europe encouraging people to love God and live generously.

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Alpha Course Catch Up: Session 5: Why and How should I pray?

Alpha Course at Leigh Road Baptist ChurchThe Alpha Course is currently running at Oasis The Coffee House, 189 Leigh Road, Leigh-on-Sea. Alpha presents an opportunity to explore the Christian faith. Each week we will place a version of the talk from Alpha for you to re-visit or hear for the first time if you need to catch up. You can also add comments, thoughts and questions in the comments section below.

This week: Pt 5 – Why and How should I pray? (23/10/2012)

If you are interested in attending the Alpha Course in person please see our Alpha page and get in contact via our contact us page.

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Alpha Course Catch Up: Session 4: Why and how should I read the Bible?

Alpha Course at Leigh Road Baptist ChurchThe Alpha Course is currently running at Oasis The Coffee House, 189 Leigh Road, Leigh-on-Sea. Alpha presents an opportunity to explore the Christian faith. Each week we will place a version of the talk from Alpha for you to re-visit or hear for the first time if you need to catch up. You can also add comments, thoughts and questions in the comments section below.

This week: Pt 4 – Why and how should I read the Bible? (16/10/2012)

If you are interested in attending the Alpha Course in person please see our Alpha page and get in contact via our contact us page.

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Coffee, Cake and Macmillan Fundraiser Success!

Macmillan Coffee Morning fun

Many thanks to everyone who attended and helped with our recent Macmillan Coffee Morning. The event that took place on Thursday 4th October, was part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, albeit a week after most of the other events took place.

LRBC's Macmillan Worlds Biggest Coffee MorningCoffee, tea and delicious cakes were enjoyed by Mum’s and Dad’s from the Pre-School, regulars to the LRBC Coffee Morning, as well as passers by who saw the opportunity for a nice cup of Fairtrade coffee and a sit down, with good company.

You helped us raise £165 towards a tremendous cause.

Thank you for taking part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. We know Macmillan really appreciate your support in helping to support people affected by cancer.

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Alpha Course Catch Up: Session 3: Why did Jesus die?

Alpha Course at Leigh Road Baptist ChurchThe Alpha Course is currently running at Oasis The Coffee House, 189 Leigh Road, Leigh-on-Sea. Alpha presents an opportunity to explore the Christian faith. Each week we will place a version of the talk from Alpha for you to re-visit or hear for the first time if you need to catch up. You can also add comments, thoughts and questions in the comments section below.

This week: Pt 3 – Why did Jesus die? (09/10/2012)

If you are interested in attending the Alpha Course in person please see our Alpha page and get in contact via our contact us page.

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Alpha Course Catch Up: Session 2: Who is Jesus?

Alpha Course at Leigh Road Baptist ChurchThe Alpha Course is currently running at Oasis The Coffee House, 189 Leigh Road, Leigh-on-Sea. Alpha presents an opportunity to explore the Christian faith. Each week we will place a version of the talk from Alpha for you to re-visit or hear for the first time if you need to catch up. You can also add comments, thoughts and questions in the comments section below.

This week: Pt 2 – Who is Jesus? (02/10/2012)

If you are interested in attending the Alpha Course in person please see our Alpha page and get in contact via our contact us page.

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Leigh-on-Sea Olympic Super Saturday Medal Podium Photos now online

We had a fantastic day on Saturday 4th August celebrating a day of Olympic finals together as part of More Than Gold and the Local Leaders programme.

You can read a full report on this on our earlier news item post.

In the afternoon we saw hundreds gather together for a fun day, with bouncy castles, inflatable assault courses and face painting. Dads and children enjoyed racing on the assault course! Once again there was lots of action beamed live by the fantastic BBC to our Big Screen. Refreshments were provided by Oasis The Coffee House and the cake and coffee went down a treat.

There was also the the ‘Olympic’ Medal Podium where fun was had re-creating what it may be like to receive a medal in-front of the applauding crowds. Those photos are shown above.  You can download your photo by clicking on your photo then clicking download or right mouse click ‘save as’ on the resulting page.

Our thanks to Joshua Cook for setting up the podium and taking the photos.

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Alpha Course Catch Up: Session 1: Is this it?

Alpha Course at Leigh Road Baptist ChurchThe Alpha Course started this week at Oasis The Coffee House. Alpha presents an opportunity to explore the Christian faith. Each week we will place a version of the talk from Alpha for you to re-visit or hear for the first time if you need to catch up. You can also add comments, thoughts and questions in the comments section below.

This weeks intro session is called: Pt 1 – Is there more to life than this? (25/09/2012)

If you are interested in attending the Alpha Course in person please see our Alpha page and get in contact via our contact us page.

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