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Various local newspapers and websites have reported on our Hip Hop Night.

Lambeth Life, the Council newspaper, ran a story on our Hip Hop event with the above photo and headline, “Easter not just about ‘chocolate and chickens”‘. See page 11, 1 March edition here.

The Streatham Guardian featured the event with the headline ‘Hip-hop and Holy: Streatham Vale’s Alternative Easter Story’.   Read the article here.

The Bridge is the Southwalk Diocese Church of England Newspaper.  It highlights Dying to Live? in their March edition.  See page 9 here.

The event is happening at 8pm on Friday 19th March in the Hall, featuring New Direction Crew, E.Tizz and The Rescued.  And it’s free.

For more information about the event including the acts, visit www.apassionforbstw.co.uk/hip-hop

Friday 19th March, 7.30pm (start 8pm)

An evening for young people featuring

NEW DIRECTION CREW
E. TIZZ
THE RESCUED

Plus top British Hip Hop DJ and more…

The Hall, Churchmore Road, Streatham

Free entry. Download Flyer

This is part of a week of events called A Passion for Life.  For more about the week and Dying to Live?, visit www.apassionforbstw.co.uk/hip-hop

Find the event on Facebook®

Why bother?

Facebook® is a social networking site with more than 350 million active users.   Alot of people spend a lot of time on the site (often when they should be doing other things!).   The site provides an easy way to keep people up-to-date with our news and to invite friends to our events.

How does it work?

The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed from the Holy Redeemer Church website will now automatically updates the Facebook® page with our news.   From time to time we will also post details of events, videos and photos of life at church.

Isn’t there already a page on Facebook®?

There is a Holy Redeemer Streatham ‘group’ rather than a ‘page’.   A ‘page’ is more versatile and can be linked up to our news feed.  To avoid confusion, the old group will now be called ‘Friends of the Holy Redeemer’ and can be used by current and past members to keep in touch.

Keep up with our news by becoming a ‘fan’. Visit the page here.

Ways to get our news. Passion for Life on Facebook®

Image by Gauldo, Flickr. Facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc.

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In our series on the Bible at Cafe Church last year (listen), we saw that ’scripture interprets scripture’ -  that is, the difficult parts of the Bible are usually explained by the clearer bits of the Bible.  A good way to better understand the Bible, therefore, is to get to know more of it.

Bible-in-a-year is a way to help you do this.  The readings are grouped together to help you see the links between passages and they are divided up so that you can read through the whole Bible in a year.  It is a great way of reading or listening to the Bible and takes about 15 minutes a-day.

Here’s how

There are at least two ways you can do it: On-line. You can read and or listen to the Bible in a year on-line.   Visit the website below and it will give you 3 daily readings. Use the same computer, and it will keep track of your readings so that you can pick up where you left off.  Alternatively you can create a ‘Feed’ to deliver the readings to your computer everyday. Click on the ‘One year’ button below to visit the website.

Year Bible. Another way you can do this easily is to buy a One Year Bible.   A year Bible is the same as a normal Bible but, again, it groups readings together under date headings.  There are various publishers that produce these - one example is below.  Alternatively, if you like using your Bible, you can print off a list of readings for the year here.

Click here to buy

Take the challenge

Why not take up the challenge? You could listen to the day’s passage in your lunch break on your computer at work.  You could try reading the Bible in another translation.  It will take discipline to keep doing this throughout the year, and you may need to catch up on daily readings that you miss.  But committing to do it with others helps.

Sign-up on the Holy Redeemer website (leave a reply below). See who’s already on the list below, and ask each other how you are getting on during the year.

Here’s a few facts that may interest (or bore) you.  Approximately 3000 different people have visited the site over 4700 times from 61 different countries over the past year.  This includes people from United Arab Emirates, Costa Rica, Burundi, Bangladesh, Burma, Brazil and Japan.

Our most popular post this year was ‘Starting a Flu Friends Network’ and the most downloaded talk was on ‘God’s Plan and Purpose for Sex and Marriage’. 86 talks were downloaded in total.

Over £860.00 has been donated to the church through our secure on-line giving facility and £16.50 has been raised by people using the Everyclick search engine.

Of the 152 sites that referred people to our website, after Google the Oxford Diocese referred the most people to our site with mention of our Flu Friends Scheme.

Predictably, ‘Holy Redeemer’ was one of the main keywords that people used in search engines to find us. But after that, ‘Churches in Streatham’ was top, followed by ‘Hall hire’ and ‘Paul and Jesus Divide’ - which refers to our talk by Dr David Wenham looking at whether Paul changed the message of Jesus.

Developments to the website site this year include its W3C validation (meaning that its HTML code is grammatically correct); it is Safe Surf rated (which shows that it is free of inappropriate or adult content); and it is now possible to surf the website via your mobile phone - give it a try and tell us if it works!

In summary, the website is not doing badly for a baby.

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Leave your birthday messages below!

The site has been designed for those who don’t believe in God.  It includes information about the joint events in our local area that we are organising as part of Passion for Life.  It also has details of local events run by individual churches in our cluster, and some great free talks by Tim Keller.

Do have a look, keep up-to-date with what’s going on, and tell your friends.

Click here to visit the site: http://www.apassionforbstw.co.uk/

Here are just a few:

• Serving tea and coffee at the 10.45am service
• Providing food at Cafe Church once a term
• Playing music in the services
• Cutting the grass and keeping the grounds tidy
• Doing odd maintenance jobs around the buildings like painting

If you can help , even as a one-off, email Alan: alan@holyredeemerstreatham.org.uk.

Here’s a verse to chew on, 1 Peter 4:10.

We have three new leaflets, which can now be downloaded from the website.

The Holy Redeemer Leaflet - Summarises all that is going on at the Holy Redeemer on Sunday and during the week and it includes a map.

Little Nippers Flyer - Has all the essential details about our toddler group on Mondays, including a map.

Reds Flyer - tells you what happens at Thursday Reds children’s club.

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Click on the titles above to download, print and then distribute away!

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