Archive for the ‘Church’ Category

Costa Del Soul

Posted: 8th February 2010 by graham in Church, My life

Once more we had a great time at Costa Coffee. It is a good place to be on a Sunday evening, with a group of friends, relaxing in a nice place. Once a month our church does church in Costa and this time it was ‘Costa Del Soul’s Got Talent’ – an open mic night. [...]

Equalities – Sign the Petition

Posted: 21st January 2010 by graham in Church

Have you signed the petition yet? I have. Christians are being encouraged to sign a petition (and to invite Christian friends to do the same) to the Prime Minister asking for the removal of schedule 9, paragraph 2, subsection 8 of the Equality Bill: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/harryhammond/ “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Remove the [...]

Hugh Bailey at Costa Del Soul

Posted: 12th January 2010 by graham in Church

Our monthly church meeting at Costa Coffee in York is always interesting as we have a wide variety of topics covered by a wide range of Christian speakers. This time it was our local Member of Parliament Hugh Bailey who was invited. I realise now that we omitted to mention to him that he had [...]

Featured in York Press

Posted: 24th December 2009 by graham in Church, news_comment

How nice! York Elim has been featured in the York Press this week about our growth. They had done a very positive article last year when we got our new offices and training centre. It is always good to see some positive publicity about the church in York generally, but especially after the gaff by [...]

Good News Re Maryam and Marzieh

Posted: 18th November 2009 by graham in Church, Global

The news that we have been waiting for for so long has now come. What an answer to prayer! Maryam and Marzieh have been released from prison in Tehran. The conditions of release are not yet fully known but I expect we will hear more soon. These two young women refused to deny God, despite [...]

Free Nativity Resource

Posted: 17th November 2009 by graham in Church, church culture

Damaris is an educational charity with a Christian foundation. Damaris has been asked by E1 Entertainment to create official resources to help churches, schools and community groups make the most of Nativity! (UK release: 27th November, certificate U), a wonderful family film containing a clear presentation of an important part of the Bible story. These [...]

More Erosion of Ancient Freedom

Posted: 4th November 2009 by graham in Church, news_comment

A new EU directive planned to hit this country and the rest of Europe in about 2011 will reverse the ancient British principle of “innocent until proven guilty”. At our Costa Del Soul at Costa Coffee on Sunday night we heard from Andrew Dodd who is both the pastor of a church and a Crown [...]