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We give you all a warm welcome to church. Please join
us for tea or coffee in the hall after worship and say
hello. We meet every Sunday morning at 10.30 and the
service typically lasts for about an hour. Currently we
don’t have a minister and our services are led by
different people both Lay and Ordained. Each service
includes a talk or activity for all ages (children, teens
and adults), singing, a reading from the Bible and
prayers. A sermon is preached which focuses on the
Bible passage read, and aims to be relevant to our
place in the world of 2025. We share Holy Communion
together every third Sunday of the month.
Details of our activities below.

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April Diary 2025

Tuesdays: Scuttlebugz each Tuesday during term time
at 10.00am. Recommences after Easter on the 22nd.

Wednesdays: Tea and Chat 9.30 am-12 noon. Food
bank, shower & washing facilities during session.
Prayer Meeting 9th and 23rd at 12.15 pm.
Midweek Faith Group 2nd, 16th, and 30th at 7.00 pm

Fridays: Tea and Chat 9.30am-12.00 noon Food bank,
shower & washing facilities during session. Short
Good Friday service after Tea and Chat 18th April.
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Easter Extras

Children’s Craft Morning Saturday 12th April
from 10.00am until 12.00 noon.
Short Good Friday service 18th April following Tea
and Chat.
And, of course, we meet on Easter Day to celebrate the
resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
Our preacher that morning is Bryan Pickard.
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As we fearlessly and thankfully share the joy of Easter, we are mindful of Christians in parts of the world where they will meet on resurrection morning, but at great risk. Easter is one of the times Christians are targeted by extremists who want to stamp Christianity out. The Easter message will never be stamped out. Two millennia and more of Christians still declaring the good news of Jesus surely demonstrates the joyful truth. As we move towards Easter, let us pray especially for the persecuted church. Not least please pray for Joo Min who has fearlessly returned to her homeland of North Korea to take her stand as a Christian. We continue to pray for the world ‘God made good’ (Genesis 1:25), but has gone wrong in so many ways. We continue to hold in our prayers, the Middle East, Ukraine and Russia, Syria and many other places. We pray for the work of the church here at NBC, thanking God for the witness here for almost a century and a half. Please continue to hold before God the matter of Pastoral leadership. Let us also keep in prayer every initiative to reach out with the good news of the gospel. We pray also for those of our fellowship who need a touch of healing whether body mind or spirit.