May all of us here at Newtown Evangelical Church take this opportunity to wish you a very happy Christmas.
People often ask us questions like "am I allowed to come to church?" Well, if that's you, the answer is a resounding YES!!
We'd love to welcome you to NEC this Christmas (and at any other time of the year, for that matter)!
Christmas means that EVERYONE is invited to know peace with God and fellow human beings!
Details of our Christmas services are below - we'd love to have you with us as we focus on the BEST NEWS EVER:
Emmanuel - God with us!
If you'd like any further information about any of our Christmas events, please get in touch.
Christmas at NEC
Well, Christmas is rapidly approaching and we want to wish you a happy Christmas from all here at Newtown Evangelical Church!
Are you ready for Christmas? What's it really all about? There's the food, there's the presents, there's the family, there's all the events taking place, but are we missing the real point of it all?
Let me tell you about a lady called Thelma Howard. She was the maid and housekeeper for Walt Disney. She had a small salary but a lovely flat in the Walt Disney mansion and she cared for the family for over forty years.
Every Christmas Walt Disney used to send her a Christmas card and inside was a certificate; she put the card on the mantlepiece and the certificate in a drawer by her bed. She didn't really know what they were all about. At the age of seventy she retired and moved into retirement home and when she was eighty, she passed away, 1993.
When they opened the drawer, they found these certificates, she died seemingly a pulper; but those certificates were shares in the Walt Disney Corporation worth over £10,000,000.00 and she'd missed the whole point.
Are you missing the real point of Christmas? It's all about a child who was born. Who was He? He's known as Emmanuel - God with us. The Creator of the universe became a little baby in Bethlehem! He didn't stop being God, He is the God baby, God man, God child. Why ever would He come? He came to give us one thing - life as it's meant to be!
Our sin messes up our lives, our neighbourhoods, our families, the whole world, but Jesus Christ - the name Jesus means Saviour - He is the one who takes away the sin of the world; and when we trust in His life, His death and resurrection, we can know - our sins forgiven, a clean slate, the knowledge of God here and now, and the certainty of Heaven to come. It's the greatest gift that could ever be! And once you have this gift, there's nothing to compare to it.
Are you missing the point of Christmas?
Do come along to Newtown Evangelical Church over the Christmas period. The website details all the meetings taking place:
meetings for ladies - the 29th of November;
men on the 6th of December and the 15th of December.
Lovely services throughout December - particularly:
the 14th in the morning at 10:00 o'clock - a Family Service;
on the 21st of December at 5:30PM - a traditional service of "Nine Lessons in Carols"
and
Christmas Day itself at 10:00 o'clock.
Come along, bring the family, don't miss out on this wonderful gift of life as it's meant to be through this child who was born.