We’re gearing up for Back to Church Sunday – 26 September. It’s an opportunity to invite friends and neighbours to come along to church, with the promise of a warm and non-threatening welcome!
The tag-line for Back to Church Sunday this year is come as you are – affirming that whatever your situation and however you might be feeling, the church is there for you. Here at the United Church, Back to Church Sunday will also have a creative theme as we celebrate the Crowborough Arts Festival.
Here’s a short video showcasing one church’s experience of Back to Church Sunday in 2009:
Music for a Summer Evening
with the Langborough Singers & Friends
Saturday 26 June 2010, 7.00pm at the United Church, Crowborough
Tickets £10 for concert with supper, or £5 for concert only. Proceeds will go towards the Nancy George Academy in Kenya, a mission project supported by the United Church through World in Need.
For further information or to book tickets contact the United Church office.
Revd Steve Mann, our Methodist Circuit Superintendent, writes:
The Circuit is delighted to be hosting His Eminence Dr Makinde Sunday Olatunji, Prelate of the Methodist Church in Nigeria, for three days at the end of next week. He is visiting the UK for the Methodist Conference and the World Church Partners’ Consultation in London. Dr Olatunji will also be preaching at a special celebration service for the Nigeria Health Care Project, to be held at Wesley’s Chapel on Saturday 19th June.
We would like as many people as possible to meet Dr Olatunji and find out more about the Methodist Church in Nigeria. To this end, we have organised a coffee afternoon on Thursday 17 June, 3pm until 5pm at the Circuit Superintendent’s manse in Tunbridge Wells. Please drop in at any time during the afternoon. Dr Olatunji will also be attending the Preachers’ Meeting at Crowborough that evening.
Stop Press: We have just heard that, unfortunately, Dr Olatunji’s travel plans have been changed and he will not be arriving until Friday. We very much regret that the coffee afternoon planned for tomorrow (Thursday 17 June) will therefore not take place.
‘Question Time’ with Election Candidates: Crowborough & Rotherfield Churches Together are hosting a Hustings event with the parliamentary candidates for Wealden of the three main parties, on Friday 23 April, 8pm at All Saints, Chapel Green. All are welcome, whether members of churches or not, and questions for the candidates may be submitted in advance using the forms available in the Vestibule.
- fine Scottish fare (including haggis, neeps and tatties)
- traditional toasts and ceremonies
- selection of Burns’ poetry and songs
- performance by a Scottish Country Dance group
- Barn Dance with a Scottish flavour, with caller, for all who wish to join in
This unmissable Burns Supper Spectacular takes place on Saturday 30 January at 7.30pm, here at the United Church Hall.
Tickets are priced £10 and are available via the church or from Broadway Books in Crowborough. Proceeds will go towards our link mission project, a Resources Centre for the Nancy George Academy school in Kenya, via World In Need.
On Thursday 8 October we welcome friends from churches across the Central Sussex United Area, for a Fellowship Rally including worship, Fairtrade presentation, and chamber music recital.
The speaker in the morning will be Mrs Moyna Bridge on Fairtrade producers; in the afternoon we shall be entertained by the Brock Piano Quartet (Kathleen Gilbert piano, Nicki Divett violin, Miriam Grant viola, Mary Hall cello).
The event runs from 10.30am to 3pm and represents outstanding value at just £2 to attend. Soup and drinks are provided but participants should bring a packed lunch (and some spending money for the Traidcraft stall!).
To assist with arrangements, please let us know (preferably by 4 October) if you intend to come.