Faversham Community Church

We begin the new year with a new series, considering how we can go deeper in our relationship with Jesus, with other believers and with the world around us. We will spend the next 5 weeks looking at the following areas: Live, Love, Look, Listen, Learn. This morning we were back in Paul's letter to the church in Philippi as Mike spoke on Philippians chapter 2. Why and how do we look not only to our own interests but also to the interests of others?

We begin the new year with a new series, considering how we can go deeper in our relationship with Jesus, with other believers and with the world around us. We will spend the next 5 weeks looking at the following areas: Live, Love, Look, Listen, Learn. This morning, Sam spoke on Jesus' response in Matthew 22, having been asked what is the greatest commandment.

We begin the new year with a new series, considering how we can go deeper in our relationship with Jesus, with other believers and with the world around us. We will spend the next 5 weeks looking at the following areas: Live, Love, Look, Listen, Learn. First up is 'Live' as Sam opens up Paul's letter to the Philippians at chapter one where we find the following words of Paul; 'For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.'

In our current sermon series we are going to be exploring Jesus' words to His disciples in John 15:1-17. Over the next 4 weeks we will teach into what Jesus said about abiding, fruitfulness, prayer, obedience and love. Mike brought our series to a close by focusing on verses 12-12, as Jesus commands His followers to love one another.

How do we handle the parts of the Bible where we're presented with what looks like a list of names? It can be tempting to skip over them but as we explored Romans 16 this morning we see just how rich these verses are.

In our current sermon series we are going to be exploring Jesus' words to His disciples in John 15:1-17. Over the next 4 weeks we will teach into what Jesus said about abiding, fruitfulness, prayer, obedience and love. This morning Pete was speaking on John 15:7-11, looking at what it means to abide in Jesus' love and for His words to abide in us.

In our current sermon series we are going to be exploring Jesus' words to His disciples in John 15:1-17. Over the next 4 weeks we will teach into what Jesus said about abiding, fruitfulness, prayer, obedience and love. This morning we looked at Jesus' words in John 15:1-6 about fruitfulness and considered the following: What does it mean for Jesus followers to bear fruit? How does this fruit come about? What role do the vine and the vinedresser play in fruitfulness?

In our current sermon series we are going to be exploring Jesus' words to His disciples in John 15:1-17. Over the next 4 weeks we will teach into what Jesus said about abiding, fruitfulness, prayer, obedience and love. Sam kicked off our series with an introduction, explaining the thinking and purpose behind this series. He then spoke on what it meant for Jesus to call Himself the true vine.

In our current series we are going to be exploring the core values of the Relational Mission family of churches, and considering what it looks like for us as a Church to be shaped by them. Sam spoke this morning on the second of our values that relates to mission and how it is to be expressed locally, globally and holistically.

In our current series we are going to be exploring the core values of the Relational Mission family of churches, and considering what it looks like for us as a Church to be shaped by them. We now move into the final third of this series as we focus our attention on values relating to mission. Mike spoke this morning on mission being local church focused.

This morning we met with our friends from Hope Church Sittingbourne and Sheppey Gospel Plant. We welcomed David Bareham from Community Church Chafford Hundred as he spoke with a focus on Everyone A Witness. He rooted his sermon in Acts 17 and 1 Thessalonians 1 , looking at how Paul and the Thessalonian believers shared the gospel.

In our current series we are going to be exploring the core values of the Relational Mission family of churches, and considering what it looks like for us as a Church to be shaped by them. The third of the values relating to church leadership is that of having, and being, leaders who are servant-hearted. But as Sam shared this morning we are all called to love, humility and servant hood.

In our current series we are going to be exploring the core values of the Relational Mission family of churches, and considering what it looks like for us as a Church to be shaped by them. Mike was speaking today on the ministries that we find in Ephesians chapter four as we looked at our second value relating to church leadership.

In our current series we are going to be exploring the core values of the Relational Mission family of churches, and considering what it looks like for us as a Church to be shaped by them. This morning our focus turned to church governance as we explored the first of three values related to leadership. Sam was speaking on having elders in each local church.

In our current series we are going to be exploring the core values of the Relational Mission family of churches, and considering what it looks like for us as a Church to be shaped by them. This morning our focus was on our next value; being Spirit-Empowered.

In our current series we are going to be exploring the core values of the Relational Mission family of churches, and considering what it looks like for us as a Church to be shaped by them. Sam continued our series this morning, basing ourselves in Titus 3 as we consider the centrality of the gospel and the message of grace to the Christian life and the local church.

In our current series we are going to be exploring the core values of the Relational Mission family of churches, and considering what it looks like for us as a Church to be shaped by them. The series started this morning as Sam spoke on us being Word-Based, rooting this value in 2 Timothy chapters 3 and 4.

This Sunday we had the joy of holding a baby thanksgiving service as we welcomed two of the newest members of our family. As part of our time together we looked at Ephesians 1:4-6 and considered what it means to be sons and daughters of God.

The Relational Mission Sunday for Swale saw Faversham Community Church, Hope Church Sittingbourne and Sheppey Gospel Plant gather together to worship, enjoy friendship and encourage one another. We were very blessed to have Stef Liston with us from Revelation Church, Camden. Stef serves on the Relational Mission team and this morning, based in Ephesians 4, he taught and encouraged us about what it is to be a part of an apostolic family together on mission.

Jesus spoke predominantly on the kingdom, but very little on the Church. This morning we focused on the kingdom and what it means for God's kingdom to come as Sam spoke on Matthew 28:16-20.