Refresh Community Church

Refresh Community Church.
We are a place where all are welcome: whether you're curious or convinced, disillusioned or envisioned, hurting or content.
Mid week meetings at the No.8 on the following dates from 7.30pm: 11th Nov and 25th November. Speaker will be Paul Little studying Sermon on the Mount from Matthew.
Home groups meeting in various locations in the village on Tues 4th and Tues 18th November. Ladies Only - And God made Eve – Creative ways of exploring our faith at the No.8 club from 7.45pm. 18th November.
Ladies Night!! – “Cre8 4 Christmas” – Friday 28th November...please look out for further details.
Men Only - Things you wish you did when you were younger – Caving trip was postponed from October. Please contact Paul Little for revised date. Why not come and challenge yourself through adrenalin filled activities and discuss your views on the big questions of life and faith. For more info contact Paul on 75471 or Keith 75672.

Children and young people.
Boulder Gang (for P1-3 from 3.30-4.30pm) Rock Solid Crew (for P4-7 from 5pm-6pm). Next 6 week block starts Thursday 6th November in the No8 Club.
Stepping Stones for 2-4 year olds and their parents/carers from 2-3pm in the No8 Club next 6 week block begins Monday 10th November
Deeper for S1-S3 from 6pm-7.45 and S4+ from 7.30 – 9pm every Sunday at 3 Whitchester Lane. ‘Even Deeper’ 7.30pm – 9pm (S1+) for a more in depth discussion and teaching on Tues 4th and 18th November. Contact Ste Rainford for more info Tel 75013

Coffee Morning to raise funds for our work with children and young people on
Sat 29th November in the village Hall 10.30am – 12noon.

Deeper

Deeper has been the subject on everyones lips in the past couple of weeks as we are gaining teens and gaining leaders! a number of ideas has been brought to me how we can make deeper better. I have made a note about these ideas and will think and pray about these.


Deeper is still going really well in the past 3 weeks we have had 3 new teenagers coming also they have came back which is a good sign too!
On the 24th of Oct we are having the 2nd Deeper Event which we are having in the centre of Newcastleton, there we will have peddle carts, climbing wall and loads more

we are hoping to have an outreach event just for the girls and also for the boys this will hopefuly take place at the end of November.


I would like to thank Max who has helped alot at Deeper as he is leaving to go back to Australia on the 20th

Grafted Kids work....

So.....whats happening with Grafted Kids Work in October???....the last 6 week block of Boulder Gang, Rock Solid Crew finished just before the October Holidays. We asked the kids at Rock Solid Crew to let us know what they liked and didnt like and how we could change it to make it better....feedback was that the loved EVERYTHING and want it to last an hour and a half instead of a hour! So what did we think? We loved the new songs and dances..especially On The March! The Silent Seats and illustrations were great and the games worked really well...the messier the better! I LOVED the Bear Splat and also Face Painting Challenge! We used the "Chat and Catch" way of explaining prayer to the kids and were so encouraged by the way they are really open to hearing God and know that he wants to and will talk to them in all kinds of ways. So what didn't work?? Well....to be honest, things were pretty good, although the technology was tempramental and we still want T-SHIRTS! Anyone with any great gunge recipies...let us know! (Custard pie foam really stings...)

And what about the littley's?? Stepping Stones also finished their 6 week block just before the October Hols. Mary helped again (We LOVE YOU!) and we also had help from Max Rea, a Church Army Gap year student from Oz. (The kids loved the "giant man" hee hee) We had 3 new children and everyone who came during the last block came back at least once. On average we had 9 children each week with 15 attending regularly. The kids seem to love the crafts, and stories, especially the introduction of two puppets this block! We'd love to vary the selection of toys we use and are still experimenting with material.

October is time to reflect and seek Gods will for the way forward with the kids work in Newcastleton. So far we have dates in the diary to run another block of sessions beginning in November to lead us up to the Christmas Holidays. We also have another Cre84Christmas event planned for the 2-4year olds and their carers on the 15th December.

Please pray for wisdom for Julie and Ste in planning the next blocks of kids work...for great material...for wisdom in advertising the groups to the kids in the village...and for God to really move in this place and change lives! We are attending a training course in October to gain skills in working with parents..please pray this is fruitful and God can use this training to speak to us about how we can reach parents too.