We’ve built some brilliant teams in the last few years, but as always, more hands are always needed! So, a challenge to kick off the year…

What will you get involved in? How will you participate in the life of Net Church?

One thing is for certain, getting involved will challenge, inspire and grow you – can you handle that?

People are searching for real heroes. There is a deep truth here that strikes a chord in all of us. We want people who can inspire us, make us laugh, cry and usually all at the same time. We want people who can make us dream bigger, see further, do greater. And even sports start can’t quite fit the pedestal we want to place them on. Starts promoted as ‘the family guy’ one day are then splashed across the News of the World for tawdry antics that are shameful.

In reality no human being can ever reach the place of perfection, be the role model require for our children etc. And that is because as human beings, as we ourselves know, we are all flawed. We all have weaknesses and strengths. And as much as we would only want to focus on the strengths, sooner or later the weaknesses can be seen.

Whenever I am confronted by another news headline talking about the downfall or disgrace of so and so, I am so glad my hero is not to be found in a man or a woman.

The greatest hero we can look to is Jesus. The son of God, and God the son (even that sentence contains truths hard for our heads to understand). Someone who shows us what life is really about and how to live it. He who places other above self, and loves sacrificially (and how hard is that!). He who refuses to give up on others, and chooses to forgive when He had every right to bring down wrath from heaven. He who heals the broken, even when some are broken by their own bad choices. He is the master rebuilder.

Jesus cares about the depressed, the imprisoned, the sad, the lonely. He cares about the successful and the ambitious. Jesus refocuses our priorities (if we let Him) and teaches us on what matters and what really doesn’t (he has quite a lot to say about money for instance).

Jesus is not meek and mild though as He is often painted. he talks about a coming judgement and urges us to use the life God has given us to fulfil His plans and purposes (rather than squandor our lives on getting and never giving). This year you need to make a choice. Who’s life will you be living – yours? – Or the one Jesus planned for you? Fix your eyes on Jesus, follow Him and be amazed at what he can do through you.

We’ve had some great sun recently and hopefully there will be more to come – can I hear you all shout BBQ?

Roy Morleys message from June 14th is now available on the website and on iTunes, so give it another listen and apply the principles it teaches.

We also have the resource mentioned in Roys message over here. How cool is that?

Other News

This Saturday, 20th June we have the Big Quiz and Give” in aid of the Kent Air Ambulance. It’s never too late to book in a team and support our local community.
It’s £25 per team to  enter and you should have a maximum of 5 people per team.

See you there! And good luck!

This Sunday we have the final of the Greatest Dad competition, don’t you think it’s amazing what we can get grown men to do? We continue our theme of ‘Family’ this week’, so bring all yours along and celebrate with us.

Another quick reminder that we’re on facebook, twitter and iTunes, so connect with us there too!

Signing off for now, see you soon.

Have a listen/watch and just try and think that how we appear to people DOES matter.

Starting on the 10th May 2009, Net Church is now holding our Sunday Morning Services at the Wyvern Hall, on Central Avenue, right in the centre of town.

All other projects and activities will still be based at the Networks Centre on East Street.

It would be great to see you come and experience a bigger and better Net Church experience, and don’t come alone – make sure you bring someone with you!

See you at 11am, Sunday 10th May.

As a progressive church we are aiming to utilise everything that modern technology can offer, and we want to take you on that journey with us.
As we add new features to better serve information to you, we will provide tutorials, tips and explanations so you can not only enjoy the best we can offer, but enjoy an all round better internet experience.

Right now, our priority is getting the site filled with great content, and presenting it in easily and logically for you.

We have included a great feature which will allow you to recieve notifications without even visiting the main website, and you can sign up for this on the right hand side of every page!
Just pop in your email address and voila, every day that we add new content, you will receive and email letting you know. And please feel confident that your email addresses with not be shared with anyone else.

Pretty soon we’ll be adding a technology section which will feature all the help you will need and keep you updated of our website specifics.

We really hope you enjoy the new website and please let us know if there is a feature you would like to see included.