We have a combined service with St Mary’s Anglican Church scheduled for Sunday October 31^st. We’ll also be combining our children’s ministry programmes with them on that day. There are a couple of reasons for this.

 Firstly, that date is, of course, Hallowe’en, and so that evening we have our very popular “Hallowe’en Alternative” for the children and families of our community. There is a lot of preparation and setting up that goes into this event, and it will be really helpful to be able to do some of that setting up on the Saturday rather than having to keep all of our premises “free” for our services on the Sunday morning.

 Secondly, St Mary’s have a special guest speaker on that morning, and invited us to join them to hear him. His name is Nigel Juckes, and he leads New Wine SouthAfrica, an organisation committed to spreading renewal among churches of alldenominations. The church where he is the minister has been described as “one of the healthiest churches” you will find, and Nigel is an internationally respected church leader and speaker. He has a passion for the local church and believes it is aninstrument in God’s hand to reach His world. So … he should be worth hearing!

 And thirdly, of course, it’s a good thing for God’s people to gather together to worship Him!