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a church committed to making disciples of Jesus Christ in 21st century culture
- Next Sunday Gatherings (14th March)
OH1 (Students/workplace)
15:45 - Students Union, Room1
OH2 (Families/workplace)
10:30 - Mountfields School
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24 Feb
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- Jez
A 'Thank You' From Compassion
After hearing of the terrible earthquake in Haiti last month we took a collection for the work of the charity Compassion who do a lot of work in the country. We received reply from the CEO of Compassion UK this week, and as I found it both inspiring and challenging I thought it would be good to share.
19 Feb
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- Chris
Weekend Away Talks Online
All the main sessions from our weekend away are now online for you to listen to.
Our speakers for the weekend were Stephen & Mara Klemich, with a theme of 'King of Hearts' focussing on engaging with God through our hearts, rather than through our minds.
09 Feb
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- Melanie
Luxuries for Life
During Lent (17th Feb – 27th March) Open Heaven is taking on the Simplify challenge.
The idea is to simplify our lives, so that others can simply live...
01 Feb
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- Jez
A New Year. A New Decade
At the start of a new year and a new decade Rich Wilson shares something of God's heart for Open Heaven. This is a really significant message for the church and we want to encourage everyone to take some time to listen to it.
Where are we going? Who are we becoming? What will the church in Loughborough look like in 10 years time?
14 Jan
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- Jez
Think Big Update - Jan 2010
We’re getting closer and closer to seeing St. Peter’s come back to life and once again be a place of hope, life, healing, fun and love in the community.
Where we’re at...
16 Dec
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- Joshua
Union Bog
Union bog came out from a desire to raise both awareness and money for a programme that CORD run in Burundi called Toilet Twinning whilst continuing the outward focus of the Open Heaven Society (OH Soc); loving students on campus. So for a weekend in November the OH Soc spent two stormy nights and three muddy days giving out bottles of water, cleaning bathrooms and toilets, praying, worshipping and living in a cardboard shelter outside the Students Union.
If, during the weekend you’d asked me, what our goal was, I would have answered “staying alive and raising money”. However the experienceof planning, gaining permission and living in a slum for the weekend taught me, and all of us who took part, so much more than what is required to physically stay alive.
04 Dec
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- Sam
Grace for Growth
Growth begins and ends with grace. Deep down, we all want to grow, but growth requires the overcoming of challenges and for this, we need God’s grace to keep us going.
02 Dec
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- Stu
God and Dualisms
At the leaders' weekend earlier in the year, we heard quite a lot about how dualistic thinking works in our lives. We tend to divide the world into binary pairs, like right and wrong, dark and light, truth and error, and so on. And part of the reason for this is that this often helps us to understand things, and act confidently.
What the teaching at the weekend tried to show was that very often these dualisms can become ways of trying to control our relationship to the world around us, or ways of judging ourselves and other people. This can be psychologically imprisoning, because we can end up assessing everything according to one set of criteria which seem to help us make sense of things, but don’t help us pay real attention to what is actually going on.
01 Dec
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- Ness
A Big Thank You
Over the last few weeks we referred to Nov 22nd 09 as the day we would come together to raise thousands and thousands of pounds. Well, we did just that.
£118,737 to be exact, which with Gift Aid, results in £137,363 being raised in one day!