3rd February 
New members service, if anyone is interested in joing the church please see the Pastor. We always welcome new members with open arms, it is a very important function to not only be a member of the congregation but also of the church.
10th February
Shorter Service followed by annual general meeting, bring and share and mission assembly after.
Church of the Nazarene Knowle Park Bristol BS4 2RD
Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.
Thomas Goodwin
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1. "Fischer chess" is a game in which the pieces are placed on the board in random order.
2. Using a mobile before bedtime can delay you getting to sleep.
3. A bear helped carry ammunition for Polish troops during World War II.
4. Moleskin clothes used to be made of moles' skins.
5. Wealthy people are more likely to drink than those in low-income homes.
6. Ships emit twice as much CO2 as planes.
7. "Plain vanilla" is a term for basic financial instruments such as shares.
8. Only offal-free versions of haggis are available in the United States.
9. Super-fast broadband fibres are laid in the sewers.
Above all else love God alone;
Bow down to neither wood nor stone.
God's name refuse to take in vain;
The Sabbath rest with care maintain. 
Respect your parents all your days;
Hold sacred human life always.
Be loyal to your chosen mate;
Steal nothing, neither small nor great.
Report with truth, your neighbor's deed;
And rid your mind of selfish greed.
— McGuffey's Reader
a pictorial-transmission machine he calls a televisor. Baird's invention used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving images into electronic impulses.
"Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name."
Psalm 91:14
3rd February
New members service, if anyone is interested in joing the church please see the Pastor. We always welcome new members with open arms, it is a very important function to not only be a member of the congregation but also of the church.
10th February
Shorter Service followed by annual general meeting, bring and share and mission assembly after.
A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly 
of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.
Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.
1. The Scottish crossbill is the only bird unique to the UK.
2. Barack Obama attended a stag party in Wokingham.
3. Nicolas Sarkozy never had dinner at home in eight years, according to his ex-wife Cecilia.
4. Christopher Columbus introduced syphilis to Europe.
5. Carrots used to be purple.
6. Both men and women find long legs in the opposite sex attractive, but not too long.
1901: Queen Victoria dies 
Queen Victoria dies on 22 January 1901, ending an era in which most of her British subjects knew no other monarch. Spanning more than a half-century, her reign, the longest in British history, saw the growth of an empire on which the sun never set.
As an 18-year-old woman ascending to the throne, her future husband described her as one whose extreme obstinacy was constantly at war with her good nature. She proposed to Albert, her first cousin and a German prince, in 1939, and when he died in 1861 she entered a 40-year period of mourning for a love that had bequeathed her no fewer than 37 surviving great-grandchildren.
When she died in 1901, so many of her descendants had married with other monarchies that she was called the grandmother of Europe.
Jacob was dedicated to the Lord today, what a wonderful service for him, his family and friends. Pictures to follow shortly.
Mark 10:13-16
13 People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. 14 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15 I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." 16 And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"
Hebrews 13:5-6
1966: Indira Gandhi leads India -Locally educated at Badminton Girls School
Following the death of Indian Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri Indria Gandhi becomes head of the Congress Party and thus Prime Minister of India. She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, who led India from independence in 1947 until his death in 1964.
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good 
conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
"I don't believe that God exists."
"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?
If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.
Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber:
"You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."
"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me."
"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
Keeping on the straight and narrow is about resisting the temptation to do something wro
ng, or making sure you don't fall into bad habits.The saying is a slight mistranslation from the words of Jesus as they appeared in the old King James version of the Bible (first published in 1611). There, Jesus says, "strait is the gate and narrow the way" which leads to life. "Strait" is an old English word which means "narrow", but it's become "straight" in the modern saying. Here's the full saying of Jesus from the King James Bible...
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
15.01.2008 House game!
22.01.2008 Crafty night
29.01.2008 Chris’s Quiz night
05.02.2008 Pancake day
12.02.2008 Treasure hunt!!! The ultimate adventure!!!
19.02.2008 Spring break
26.02.2008 Movie night
04.03.2008 Crafty night
11.03.2008 Bowling
18.03.2008 Danny North Pole?!
25.03.2008 Cooking Both??
01.04.2008 Game night
08.04.2008 Spring break
15.04.2008 Spring break
22.04.2008 Games in the Park
Sir Edmund Hillary, who has died at the age of 88, made it to the summit of Everest in 1953, and became the first man on the planet to reach its highest point. As a boy in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary's fragile appearance belied his ground-breaking potential. At school, he was in a gym group for those lacking co-ordination and admitted to feeling a "deep sense of inferiority". But the 40-mile journey to school in Auckland each day gave young Edmund many hours to pore over adventure stories and travel ever further in his mind.
Unrecorded achievement
Although Sir Edmund briefly worked as a beekeeper after he left school, he had found his true vocation at the age of 16 while on a school trip to Mount Ruapehu, 320km (200 miles) south of Auckland. He had seen snow for the first time as well as learning to climb. After spending two years as a navigator in the New Zealand's air force, he joined a local Alpine Club to take on all the national peaks. Unsatisfied by these local triumphs, he also travelled to the Himalayas and started wrestling to improve his strength.
This was all with the idea of taking on the ultimate challenge, becoming the first man to climb Everest. By the time Sir Edmund attempted his ascent, seven previous expeditions to the top of the world's highest mountain had failed. Sir Edmund recalled: "We didn't know if it was humanly possible to reach the top." Despite this general trepidation, the determined New Zealander joined a trip led by British climber, Sir John Hunt. After a gruelling climb up the southern face, battling the effects of high altitude and bad weather, Sir Edmund and Tenzing Norgay managed to reach the peak at 1130 local time on 29 May.
'All this - and Everest too!'
When they finally reached the top Sir Edmund, who lost four stone on the expedition, reported his first sensation as one of relief. He took the famous photo of his Sherpa companion posing with his ice-axe, but refused Tenzing's offer to take one of him, so his ascent went unrecorded. On the morning of Queen Elizabeth's coronation in May 1953, her subjects were told that Sir Edmund had made it to the summit. As he was a New Zealander and therefore a citizen of the Commonwealth, British subjects celebrated his achievement as their own. On the day the Queen was crowned, one newspaper headline crowed "All this - and Everest too!"
Sir Edmund was knighted for his efforts, and Tenzing given a medal. The pair initially reported the ascent as one made in unison. Only after the Sherpa's death in 1986, did Sir Edmund reveal that he had been about 10 feet ahead at the final ridge.
Personal tragedy
Sir Edmund was apparently so shy that he even proposed to his wife with a message via her mother. In the years that followed his famous ascent, he shunned the celebrity that had become his overnight. On the 50th anniversary of his achievement, he even turned down an invitation from the Queen, so that he could instead travel to Kathmandu to be with lifelong Sherpa friends. He was made an honorary Nepalese citizen in 2003. Sir Edmund was far happier exploring. During the next two decades, he led expeditions to the South Pole, searched for the fabled Yeti, and completed six Himalayan ascents.And he became increasingly concerned by the plight of the Sherpa people he had met on his expeditions.
He spent two years as New Zealand's High Commissioner to India, and founded the Himalayan Trust in 1964, which helped establish clinics, hospitals and nearly 30 schools. It also supported the construction of two airstrips, bringing in more tourists than Sir Edmund liked. He continued this work after personal tragedy in 1975, when his wife and daughter died in a plane crash on their way to meet him at a construction site. Although the explorer was inconsolable for a long time, he found solace in the Nepal landscape and its people.
'Life's a bit like mountaineering...'
He was a vociferous opponent of what he considered the commercialisation of the mountain, rich tourists paying their way to the ultimate altitude thrill, and often leaving rubbish behind them. Sir Edmund enjoyed the friendship of Norgay and the Sherpa people Seemingly forgetting his own determination to conquer the high ridges, Sir Edmund urged these later climbers to "leave the mountains in peace". Although he will always be remembered for reaching the world's highest plateau, for the explorer himself, his greatest satisfaction came with the Nepalese people he befriended. He said: "My most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and clinics. That has given me more satisfaction than a footprint on a mountain."
Sir Edmund Hillary remained philosophical about living with such an early achievement. He explained: "I've had a full and rewarding life. Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down."
10. You know you're slipping when the big thing you look forward to on a Sunday is a football game.
9. You know you're slipping when reading the Bible no longer excites you, angers you, or challenges you.
8. You know you're slipping when you finally get up off the couch and get involved in some ministry the Lord has been laying on your heart and the first thing you do is start criticizing all the other couch potatoes who are only doing the same thing you have been doing all this time.
7. You know you're slipping when, after slacking off in your tithing over the past year, instead of feeling guilty, you find yourself criticizing the regular tithers for their self-righteous and legalistic attitudes.
6. You know you're slipping when you can read the Ten Commandments and give yourself a passing grade on all of them.
5. You know you're slipping when you can go a whole day without praying and it not bother you one bit.
4. You know you're slipping when you covet and justify it as "what normal humans do."
3. You know you're slipping when you feel a nudging from the Holy Spirit to speak to that person or give to this one or make a phone call to another and you squelch it.
2. You know you're slipping when you decide to reward yourself for doing well by skipping your Bible reading and prayer for that day.
1. You know you're really, really slipping when the problem of slipping doesn't cause you great concern.
First sale of the year so come and get some ex-Christmas bargains. This Saturday 12th from 10:00 to 12:00. Great morning to shop and have a free cup of tea or coffee and some cake. Cake and goods donations warmly appreciated. Volunteers welcome! Church of the Nazarene Broadwalk Knowle Bristol BS4 2RD.
teaching young people the important lessons of life - honesty, solidarity and fraternity.
Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.
Francis Schaeffer
"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."
Deuteronomy 31:6
These start back up next week at the same time and days as normal. I will post the programme for the teens as soon as it is available.
