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High Street Chapel is a thriving, evangelical Church in Hopton, Diss,
Hopton and Knettishall are situated in Suffolk, the northern boundary is the border with Norfolk. Hopton village is built on either side of the B1111, Knettishall is about 1 mile south of the A1066. Thetford is the nearest large town, with Bury St Edmunds, Diss and Stowmarket all under 17 miles away. The combined population of both villages is about 640

From 4th-10th March Gordon is working alongside HSC for a series of events called ‘Catalyst’.

The program was as follows:

Sunday 3rd March
Sunday evening service – Mission Launch

Monday 4th March
Quiz night with Fish & Chip supper

Tuesday 5th March
Coffee morning
Ready Steady Cook evening

Wednesday 6th March
High Street Kids Family games evening

Thursday 7th March
Afternoon tea and cakes
Men’s Curry evening

Friday 8th March
Coffee morning
Family film Night

Saturday 9th March
Community Fun Day, Treasure hunt & Hog roast
Concert with ‘World without end’

Sunday 10th March
Encounter Dervice

Thank you for your prayers, lots of new contacts, lots of literature taken and both adults and children responding to the preaching!

James Adkins, Deborah Landricombe, Alison Seadon and Hannah Shepherd are the newest FirstServers! They have just left Tilsley College and are now on UK church placements.

Website: FirstServe

Follow Seren Anderson on her FirstServe programme as she experiences life in Peru: Click here

Deborah Holmes is now in Bolivia: Click here

Hannah Shepherd has just set up her FirstServe blog – follow her through her UK placement in Barnstaple and then as she goes on to India: Click here

Over 400 people celebrated ‘Counties Day’ in Warwick on Saturday – Rico Tice was the guest speaker and was excellent in what he shared – why not download his talks and enjoy them – https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8655770/RicoTice.zip

Gordon & Phil Davies led the Youth Work stream and it was great to run some practicle workshops on ‘Sharing your faith’.

Following the 2012 Counties film, 2V Studios were again asked to produce a film documenting the activities of 3 Counties evangelists, to give a flavour of the work supported by the Counties network as a whole. The final film was shown at the annual conference.

Counties 3 Film from 2V Studios on Vimeo.

Whats in a Name? (Abram to Abraham) – Genesis chapter 17 – sermon by Gordon Curley

(Powerpoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request – email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

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Saul’s Disobedience and Rejection – 1 Samuel chapter 15 – sermon by Gordon Curley

(Powerpoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request – email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

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A full house of 80 children enlisted as astronauts at Space Academy (Swanfield Chapel, Chichester) to enjoy lots of excitement and fun as they discovered how God was faithful to Daniel and his friends as they tried to live for him in a foreign land, his new surroundings were so different it was like being on another planet!
This five day holiday club gives children a chance to engage in quizzes, competitions, crafts, DVD’s and a whole lot more!.

One mother wrote:
“Chloe and Thomas had a fantastic week really enjoying everything they did and learnt at space academy. You make a huge impact on all of these children and its absolutely wonderful all that you do. Thank you!”

Space Academy is suitable for children with little or no experience of church, as well as those who are already part of a church community.
Thanks for your prayers!

A New Future – Heaven – Revelation chapter 21 verse 1 – sermon by Gordon Curley

(Powerpoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request – email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

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I was recently given a video tape of a Holiday Club that was held in Liphook in 1994.
Great time in this small town in Hampshire and one lady who was saved during the weeks activities is still part of the fellowship at Tower Road Gospel Hall.

Great assembly at Perin’s School, Alresford.
During the last couple of weeks the pupils have been having Sex Education lessons and it was good to be able to complement that with a talk on the various meanings of the word ‘Love’, i.e. ‘eros’ sexual love, ‘phileo’ brotherly love, ‘storge’ family love and ‘agape’ God’s unconditional love.

It was great to have a hall full of teenagers listening to every word and eye to eye contact throughout. Please pray that something they heard might stay with them as a help and a blessing.