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FirstServe is a gap year programme designed to give young adults (18-25) a taste of service in the UK and overseas. Not only will they have the chance to help, support and encourage others but ‘FirstServe’ (www.first-serve.org.uk ) also includes a discipleship and missions training programme.
Gordon is part of the steering group and believes it is a valuable investment of his time to be involved in this project.

Please pray for Ally and Jade as they embark on this next phase of their FirstServe gap year.

UPDATE FROM ALLY WATSON WHO HAD JUST STARTED HER OVERSEAS PLACEMENT IN RWANDA:

“I have landed safe and sound! All the flights were good and I got fed well, even got an ice cream which I was made up with! I’ve been to visit a boy who is sponsored to go to school with Chrissie, and to visit some vocational training centres, I also went to see the rehab centre I will be working in this morning, I will be starting there on Monday! I am settling in ok at the moment and everyone has been very kind.”

UPDATE FROM JADE IRVINE, WHO HAS JUST STARTED HER OVERSEAS PLACEMENT IN ZAMBIA:

“I have arrived in Zambia and am now at Chengelo. The journey was totally fine, my last plane was delayed a wee bit just because they were putting on extra baggage they had forgotten. Jani and his daughter picked me up and Jani then took his daughter and I to a shopping centre while he went to pick up a boy who is coming to work at the school as well. The school is really nice and the campus is huge its like a village itself and is so beautiful and all the food is all homegrown and freshly made so had homemade mango icecream and I am going to learn how to make my own yoghurt! I am not actually a house parent, I am living in a house just beside the Bournes at the moment and I am expecting a girl from New Zealand to arrive tonight who will also be living with me. However I already have four small geko (think thats how you spell it) lizards in my house as well, haha! Although I think I will be moving house a wee bit, which should be fine. I am still waiting on my timetable but I will be working with another teacher in learning support as well as P.E. and Drama so that should be exciting! So basically I am loving Zambia and Chengelo.”

Titus chapter 1 verse 10-16 – sermon by Gordon Curley.

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The Parable of The Two Debtors – Luke chapter 7 verses 36-50– sermon by Gordon Curley.

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Preach The Word – a short introduction to the book of Titus.

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Happy New Year from the Curley’s!

Inspirational quotes for the New Year:
From Jim Elliot (one of five missionaries killed while participating in Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Waodani people of Ecuador. Jim Elliot died on January 8, 1956 along with Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming):

“Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”

“Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.”

“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.”

“Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.”

“God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him”

(Two books I recomend for 2012, they may not be recently published but they are books every Christian should read again and again and again. ‘The Shadow of the Almighty’ & ‘The Journals of Jim Elliot’)

Christmas Greetings from the Curley’s!

Thank you for all your support, interest and friendship over the past year – much appreciated!

May God grant you the light of Christmas,
which is faith;
The warmth of Christmas,
which is love;
The radiance of Christmas,
which is purity;
The righteousness of Christmas,
which is justice;
The belief in Christmas,
which is truth;
The all of Christmas,
which is Christ”

Jesus Saviour of the World – sermon by Gordon Curley.

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‘Do Not Fear’ – The Message of the Angel. – sermon by Gordon Curley.

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What a great night at ‘The Net’ (event for men), we started with a Fish & Chip Supper and then 30 men listened intently to guest speaker Nick Ruffle talk about his life and faith.

Nick has an amazing story – he began drinking alcohol whilst still at school and as time went on this led to a downward spiral of hospitals, police cells, half way houses, rubbish skips and doorways. There were many attempts to dry out, successful for only a few weeks and as the alcohol began to lose its effect he started to take drugs. He made life a misery for everyone with whom he came into contact. Filthy, shaking and hallucinating, he visited an old friend whom he kept avoiding because he was ‘religious’ – but he was desperate! That night Nick experienced a Christian conversion and a modern day miracle happened as the usual withdrawal symptoms did not kick in. Over 25 years later Nick is now happily married, with two children and spends his time working with those who do not feel they fit into society and encouraging those who have lost hope.
Our God is an amazing God and although our lives may be very different from Nick’s, we too can experience his power to forgive the past and change us in the present! “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (The Bible: 2 Corinthians 5:17)
Want to know more? Email and request a FREE copy of the booklet ‘The Real Jesus’.

Mark chapter 15 verses 21-47 – sermon by Gordon Curley.

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