Hither Green Baptist Church

This week sees the launch of our new Life Groups. We have five groups meeting on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and look forward to seeing them support our vision for the development of the church.

We had the first of our two "cluster" meetings last night. Thank you to everyone who came along. It was crowded but fun and very constructive. It seemed it served the purpose of getting thoughts buzzing and working together on a way forward.

The second meeting is tomorrow night at 8pm at the church and there will hopefully be some initial feedback ready by Sunday.

We are making some adjustments to the way we run our small groups, learning from our experiences in running cells over the past seven or eight years. We want to keep and develop what has worked well but be more flexible, opening up opportunities and ideas that have previously been beyond our reach.

It is important that we agree on how to proceed as a whole church so this week we are having two "cluster" meetings on Tuesday (fireworks at 7:30pm and meeting at 8pm) and Thursday (8pm) to provide a space to think about and discuss things together. That will cover all members of the existing cells and also hopefully bring in those who are not regularly involved with one of the existing groups.

It is too early to say exactly what we will come up with but watch this space for announcements.

The rota for October and November 2006 has been updated (54KB PDF file).

The rota for October and November 2006 is now available (43KB PDF file).

The latest Passion Cell Rota, which runs up until the start of November,is now available in the members area of this site.

The rota for August and September 2006 is now available. The Shekinah Cell will be having no formal meetings during August and picks up on Thursday 7 September.

The MP3 file of this morning's message about cell groups should soon being going up on our online collection of sermons. In case you don't have time to listen again to the whole thing here, as promised, are the ten points:

1. One God
2. Two sides to every story
3. Three dimensions
4. Four W's
5. Five-fold ministry
6. The number of man
7. Core values
8. Food and Drink
9. Emergencies
10. Oikos

ps. Thanks to the cell groups for being involved with the prayer points throughout the message.

The latest Passion Cell Rota (71KB PDF file), covering July 2006, is now available in the members area of this site. As well as meeting dates and details it includes prayer requests and may be of interest to members of the other cell groups as well.

Notice sheets (front and back) have also been updated.

The rota for June and July 2006 is now available. This also includes when the group is on the tea and coffee rota.