Weekly Worship and Teaching
Every Monday the team meets to worship, pray and receive teaching at St Anselm's Chapel on Chester Cathedral's grounds. If you would like to join us you would be more than welcome. Drop us a line or an e-mail and we will give you all the details.
Equipping churches
One of our objectives is to equip the local church in engaging in evangelism – one of the ways we do this is to offer to visit churches to speak, organize evangelistic services at churches or work with cell groups or home groups. This involves far more than teaching but giving people a hands-on opportunity to share faith. An example of this was when we went to a local church and took out the congregation to litter pick in their community as part of the Sunday morning service.
No Ordinary Baby
Our first years are currently gearing up for a street presentation of the gospel on which they will be assessed. It will use the theme that Jesus was ‘No ordinary baby’ and will involve street dram and testimonies.
Engage 2010
This is a week of community mission in Chester taking place in July. Our staff and students are will be involved in supporting this event organised by the churches in Chester.
engage is a project 12 years in the making and building on the success of a one-day event in Hoole in 1997. This one day developed into a week long Hoolefest, in 2004 and then Chesterfest in 2007. Each year it has grown to include more people and to have an even greater impact on local communities. 20 local Churches have partnered with local businesses and agencies to deliver a week-long youth and community program.
Young people have grown in confidence as they have understood their value and significance as well as building character, self-esteem and teamwork. Residents are served by their positive social contribution and build a positive perception of all ages. A key part of engage are CAKE (Community Acts of Kindness Experience) projects involving active citizenship for young people (aged 11-18) and adults to:
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Improve urban areas, green spaces, allotments, housing and Nature Parks.
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Running children’s holiday clubs.
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Running community cohesion activities.
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Supporting work in old peoples’ homes.
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Improving community areas and resources.
In the last 3 years, there have been over 120 young people involved in over 20 projects with a team of over 50 youth leaders each year plus even more adult volunteers involved in CAKE. At the start of each day there is training, teaching and discussion groups for young people with evening entertainment and activities for young people to provide the opportunity to build friendships across the city. http://linkup.uk.net/Group/Group.aspx?ID=109078
Folk Festival
Some of our students will be at the folk festival in Kelsall in July with the local parish church.
Car Boots
We are trying out a different kind of evangelism this term on car boot sales – check out the blog to learn more http://lpstreetreach.blogspot.com/
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