Our Faith

Knowing more about our Christian faith

 
The next Alpha Course begins on Thursday 3rd April
 at 7.30pm.

        
Come to the first one and see if it is what will help you.
Alpha is suitable as a refresher course, 
and also for those who are seekers, 
- who do not know whether they believe or want to believe. 
The introductory evening is entitled 

        
Christianity; boring, untrue, irrelevant?

        

        
The evening begins with Supper at 7.30pm,
followed by a film and discussion. 
Ends 9.45pm.

        

        
Telephone the Parish Office 

        
8807 5336

        
and book your place
        
 

      		
      
 

        
Summer Course on ˜Prayer'

        

        
A six-week course on prayer. 8pm Wednesday evenings from 16th July in the Vicarage led by Mary Bolster.

        
 

        
The idea is to look at various topics in order to expand our understanding and increase our personal experience of prayer. 

        
 

        
We will be studying some of the well-known prayers, especially The Lord's Prayer and some of our church liturgy. We will look at practical issues such as praying for guidance, praying for others, coping with everyday distractions and healing prayer. Lastly we will be considering some different ways of praying, for example, using Taize chants, Celtic prayers and the meditations of Julian of Norwich to name a few. 

        
 

        
If you haven't been to a mid week group before or have recently done the Alpha course we would love to welcome you to this group. None of us are experts at prayer, and we all have something to learn. As we share we can learn together.

        
You are invited to join us for our Spring

        
Bible Study

        

          
Featuring:

          
Paul's letter to the Ephesians

        

        
Worship

        
Fellowship & Prayer

        
In the Church Hall ˜Club Room".

        
Thursdays at 8pm

        
April 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th

        
May 8th, 22nd

        
June 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th

        
July 3rd

        
 

        When you think 
        about it, we all have questions and doubts about what we believe. 
        
At St. Aldhelm’s we have two ways in which we help ourselves 
          think about our faith.

         
Alpha is an introductory course which we hold 
          on Wednesday evenings. It begins with supper together, we listen to 
          a presentation on Video and end with an open discussion. . You may have 
          come across advertising nationally about Alpha, and it has been popular 
          here. It costs nothing, and it is ideal for those who have little or 
          no Christian faith at all as well as those who do believe but have some 
          outstanding questions.

          For more information on Alpha please 
      contact us or visit www.uk.alpha.org/ 
        

    

    

      

        

          
Family Group Meetings 2008

          
8th April     Meal out*

          
13th May    Walk*

          
10th June   M.U. Service

          
11th June   Millfield show*

          
8th July       Pot Luck 

          
                  Supper*

          
   No meeting in August

          
9th Sept.    Fun evening

          
14th Oct.    Talk (Val)

          
11th Nov.   Meal out*

          
16th Dec.    Brass band concert

          
All meetings at 8pm unless *  time 7.30pm

          
Subs £1 per month.  

          
Contact Gloria Littler for more details.

          

        
 

        
 

        
Some 
          useful links, Clicking these links will take you away from St. Aldhelm’s 
          @ Edmonton.  

        
New International 
          Version (NIV) Resources

        
Biblegateway 
          is a free service for reading and researching scripture online

        
For Audio 
          version of the Bible.

        
Online 
          Bible.com for the Bible in different languages: Nederlands, Deutsch, 
          Espanol, Italiano, Afrikaans, Francais, Dansk, Svenska, Greece, Portugues, 
          Romana. 

        

        
      		
    

    
 
      
        
Home groups

          

        
Also in common 
            with many other Churches we have small groups who meet midweek, share 
            news and concerns, pray and support one another and look at the Bible 
            together. We encourage all who have done Alpha to join a group, and 
            particularly if you have belonged to something similar before you may 
            be interested in joining one of ours’. It is difficult in a large 
            Church such as ours’ to get to know people and be known. Home 
            groups are a large part of the answer.