Worthing Mission Community Festival

October 9th, 10th and 11th
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WELCOME
 
 

“ Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send?

And who will go for us?” and I said,  “Here am I.  Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8)

 
  

The Worthing Christian Network of mission and charity leaders in coordinating this Festival, is seeking both to celebrate what is already being done and to encourage Christians in Worthing to reflect on their response to  Jesus’s command to go into all the world, be good news to the poor and needy and share the Gospel.

 
This first Worthing Mission Community Festival is therefore being planned to be an exciting and inspirational townwide event, which we hope many Christian agencies and local churches will want to take part in as well as attending. 
 
The Festival will take place mainly in the newly refurbished St.Pauls Centre in Chapel Road.  A wide variety of activities are being planned including youth workshops, a flag and band parade, prayer breakfast, an exhibition of the work of Worthing based Christian organizations, demonstations, live music, inspirational films and short presentations, an African market, a 'poverty lunch' and a multimedia evening celebration, for all churches and Christian agencies 

 

Will you join us in making this an unforgetable and very worthwhile Festival that increases commitment to mission and community service and touches many lives over the three days.

 

Please pray for guidance, for adequate resources, for wide participation and that the Festival will bring Honour and Glory to God.


 

 

                         Friday October 9th:   Young Peoples Day (Schools and Clubs)

                        Friday October 9th:  Evening Gig for young people with Phatfish

                                                                                        (St.Matthews Church, Tarring Road)

 

                              Saturday October 10th:  Mission Community Day

                Saturday October 10th:  Evening Mission Community Celebration Service

                                                                                       (Christ Church, Grafton Road)

 NEWS FLASH July 30th We have received a video message from Luis Palau, dedicated to the Festival, which will be shown at the Celebration

 

                           Sunday October 11th:    Local Churches Mission Day

                                    

    We do hope you will support this inititiave with prayer, by taking part where you can and by encouraging your members, supporters and friends to attend.

 

 The great commandment (Matt. 22:37-39) and the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20)

 

Participating Christian Agencies (Click on logo to go to their website):

 

                               

 

                  

                            

 

                       

  

           

 

                                             

 

                        

 

                

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Draft Plan for

Youth Day

 

Friday October 9th 

 

 

A day of interactive workshops for  Worthing pupils Year 7+ to at the St Pauls Centre,  This is an opportunity for pupils to learn about the work of International and local Christian agencies in an interactive and informative way. Some examples of the workshops we will be running are:-

 

¨      Whycliffe Bible Society  

        – How to learn a language in half an hour

 

¨      Feba Radio Station                   

        – Demo on running a radio station from inside a suitcase

 

¨      Tearfund                                    

         – How to clean water when you’re in the middle of nowhere

 

¨      Worthing Churches Homeless          – What being homeless actually means and how to prevent it

 

¨      Torch Trust                                             – Teaching Braile and how to cope with being blind

 

We also want to challenge the young people with competitions, quizzes, games etc that will increase their knowledge of what International Agencies and Charities do.  We are proposing that each school comes to the centre for around 2 hours on a rolling basis between 9.30am – 3.30pm. 

  Evening Young Peoples Gig

 St Matthews Church, Tarring Road

with

 Phatfish

and

Helder Martines (Brazil) as guest speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Draft Programme for

Mission Community Day

 Saturday October 10th

 

8.00 to 9.30am Prayer breakfast for participants

9.30 to 10.30am Prayers for the Persecuted Church

10.00 to 10.45am Band and world flags parade 

             (Steyne Gardens to St.Pauls via Chapel Road?)

  

 

      10.45 Formal opening (Mayor)

  11.00am to 4.00pm

      Overseas and local mission   

        community exhibition

 

        Creative workshops/demos

 

        Prayer and counselling room

 

             Live music and creative arts

 

             Photographic display

 

             Fower arranging church competition

 

             All day inspirational films/talks

 

             Bookstall

 

             African Market

 

             Coffee shop facilities

 

             Poverty lunch (WCHP)

 

             Opportunities for short term mission
             and local voluntary community   
             service

 

 

Evening Mission Community Celebration

 Saturday 10th October 7.30pm

 ChristChurch  Grafton Road  Minister: Ven.Lionel Whatley

 Parking in Town Hall car park opposite

 

 

 

A multimedia celebration to encourage and challenge us all.  Guest speaker

Rev.Canon George Kovoor (Principal Trinity College, Bristol)   

 

 

   

                    

  A challenging video message from Luis Palau to Worthing Christians will be shown       

 

 

 

The Shoreham, based Messengers Choir will sing Gospel

 

 

 

 Local Churches
 Mission Sunday
  October 11th
 

We want to encourage churches to have their own Mission Sunday on October 11th, to encourage support for their own mission and local outreach work and to build on members experiences of the Festival.
 

A list of speakers available from missions and local charities will be available.
 
 
 
For more details
please contact:
Mike Tyler
 
 

The Festival is being organised by Worthing Christian Network, an informal network of Christian leaders engaged in local or overseas mission or charity work.

in collaboration with church and Mission leaders

Steering Group:

 Lisa Hector (Link Romania),

Gerald Thompson (Overseas Print Ministries),  John Ray (Hope for Lugazi) Mike Tyler (Aid for Trade),

 

Click on logo to go to WCN website