If we are going to be a Christ centred people we need to be a church centred people, because that’s where Christ centres his love. We cannot love Jesus and hate the church or ignore it’s pivotal position to our lives.… Read More Zoom sessions and gathering in real life
Revival for French-speaking Brothers in Christ At the hands of Duncan Heaster, the leader of Carelinks, our Belgian association suffered greatly in 2014 and subsequent years. The whole affair surrounding a dispute that was mainly between CBM and Mr D. Heaster totally undercut us when we tried to get all the different Christadelphian groups in… Read More Possibly a bright prospect for the Belgian community of Brothers in Christ
Sat 4th June 2022 (God willing) Speaker: Bro. Andrew Bramhill (Stratford-upon-Avon) Theme: If Christ came today 2 talks. 1 – Am I ready? 2 – Is my ecclesia ready? Location: Aughton Village Hall (Sat Nav L39 5DH). Times: Tea 4:30. Fraternal 6:00. + 9 July – Fellowship + Study + BBQ 2022 Fellowship + Study… Read More Special Gatherings for June-July 2022
After the effects of the Corona pandemic, we had the consequences of the war in Ukraine, and the monkeypox virus came to haunt the world. All these mishaps made people react strangely and led families to the need to watch what to do and what to spend money on. In the previous months, believers were… Read More Consideration for today 24 May 2022
(With thanks to Brother Roger Long) Along with many other countries, Israel has been badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic – with nearly 6,000 deaths out of a population approaching nine million. The country’s third lockdown began at the end of last December, but restrictions have now been relaxed following the success of its vaccination… Read More Signs of the Times – “Israel’s vaccine success”
We’ve just past the two-year anniversary of people in Wuhan experiencing a type of pneumonia not seen before, and soon we’ll pass the milestone for the identification of a new coronavirus. We know what came next: the disease quickly spreading, and before we knew it, a pandemic affecting every corner of the globe. So much… Read More A type of pneumonia not seen before
At our ecclesia, the same as in many other ecclesiae, last year and this year we had no opportunity to meet each other face-to-face. Like the apostle Paul in his time, we also do know that doesn’t make any difference, because at the present time we have to live on the safe side, avoiding infecting… Read More This Sunday Looking at Colossians ch 2
Lying between the North and Baltic seas, Denmark occupies the Jutland peninsula and an archipelago to its east, and loves to go its own way, also in the way of handling the corona crisis. It has been good to be in close contact with the community in Denmark via text/WhatsApp, video calls and Zoom. In… Read More Denmark and Sweden 2021 update
Visits to Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine take place usually outside of the winter months, since travelling around at those times of year can be very difficult. This means that visits would normally start no earlier than March and finish by late October/early November. As a result of this, the Covid-19 pandemic had the effect… Read More Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine update
Mauritius, the island country in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, has suffered significantly from the Covid-19 pandemic. As an island, with a reasonably advanced Public Health system, it was able to rapidly close its borders to visitors and initiate a strict population lockdown, resulting in just 500 identified cases and… Read More Mauritius 2021 update
The internal conflict that has been troubling Cameroon since it flared up into strikes, sporadic violence, and displacement of sections of the population has sadly continued during 2020 with little sign of improvement. Inevitably along with Covid-19 pandemic there have been widespread detrimental effects to ecclesial activity. There have been cases of brethren being kidnapped… Read More Cameroon 2021 update
Dear all If you remember, our planned inter-ecclesial musical evening on 14 March 2020 had to be cancelled, as lockdown was just about to start. Little did we know then what the pandemic would mean, and no one had even heard of Zoom! One thing we have missed is being able to sing together. It… Read More Inter-ecclesial musical evening
Time will tell whether or not this year marks the start of a period of tribulation before our Lord returns, but the global impact of the pandemic has become a sign of great significance. It has brought illness, bereavement, loneliness, unemployment, economic hardship and challenges which world leaders and citizens could not foresee. Lifestyles have… Read More Just a passing pandemic or more? – Time will tell
Continuing to look at the way we could form and keep an ecclesia we refer again to an early twentieth century writing of Frank Jannaway. At that time the ecclesiae could flourish, but today in the time of Covid-19 we can only notice how a lot of our members are elderly people. Some find the… Read More Leading Brethren
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