Friday 30th November and Saturday 1st December at 7pm in the Parish Church, Church Square, St Helens.
Youth Aflame Band, Access Band,DJ Zak, Challenges, Special Guest, Skate Park.
For more information email info@youthaflame.co.uk or call 01744 617148
If you managed to brave the mud, you’ll know that last weekend was the St Helens Festival. This year the SHINE marquee took the form of a FairTrade cafe and art exhibition. Art has always been an important part of faith and is one of the ways that people can respond to life and world around them. Like the Psalmist who wrote “When I consider the heavens, the work of your fingers…”. For the festival this year, we gathered a number of Christian artists from churches around the St Helens area to display their work and to share something of their faith and art in the cafe. Our gallery included about 30 works from 7 artists covering a range of subjects and different media. Over the weekend we had many conversations shared over hundreds of cups of FairTrade coffee (courtesy of the COOP). The weather meant the big SHINE marquee was a haven for the weary, wet and muddy!
A big thank you to all those who came to help during the weekend.
The all new St Helens Festival takes place on 7th & 8th July between 12noon and 8pm. SHINE is to host a cafe and art exhibition at the festival.
A number of local Christian artists will be displaying their work and reflecting on the relationship between art and faith. Come and enjoy the new format festival and drop in for a coffee.
Can you help?
We are looking for help with serving refreshments in the cafe. If you would like to help please contact the SHINE office on 01744 23433 or by e-mail.
The latest Prayer Diary is now available. You can download the latest prayer diary for June/July in Adobe Reader format using the link below.
Prayer opportunity – too good to be missed!
Youth Aflame
You are warmly invited to drop in and pray for the Youth Aflame weekend
Where:
St Andrew’s Parlour,
St Andrews
Church,
Denton’s Green
When: Friday 13th July & Saturday 14th July
St. Andrew’s Church Parlour will be open for prayer on
Friday 13th July, 2007 from 7 – 8 pm
&
Saturday 14th July, 2007 between 11 am and 5 pm.
Please feel free to drop in and pray as you are able.
Prayer makes a difference!
For further details please contact Sally Bartlett 01744 23726
Make your circle, God
Make your circle around the poor, God of love;
Make your circle around the hungry, God of compassion,
Make your circle around the oppressed, God of liberation;
Make your circle around the victims of war, God of peace.
John Johansen-Berg – from a Peace Treasury
The September Prayer Evening will be held at St Andrew’s Church, Dentons Green Lane, St Helens on Wednesday 19th September starting at 7.30 and finishing around 9.15.
Refreshments will be served at the end of the evening continue reading » »
Please continue to pray for the items below.
May the Lord of all blessings, bless these communities
May the Lord, our Strong Tower, keep safe these communities
May the radiant face of the Lord shine his light on these communities
May the Lord of all grace be gracious to these communities
And may He fill these communities with peace continue reading » »
The Book of Hope is a week long mission assisted by a team of American young people who will be going into schools during the week of Monday 24th to Friday 29th June. continue reading » »
About 18 months ago, I was asked by Bob Hepworth, the Chair of the Local Strategic Partnership, if I would like to join the Advisory Group. This has progressed to membership of the full Board, as from December 2006. Because some of the members are not familiar with the acronym SHINE, I usually sign as representing ‘St. Helens Churches.’ I am the official ‘Faith Rep,’ and so this representation seems doubly applicable. continue reading » »
You may have noticed we have made some changes to the SHINE website. One of the features we hope you will make use of is the ability to download the latest prayer diary. continue reading » »
