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News Welcome to our Summer Programme. REEL Life - St Anne’s Film Club
Into the Wild
Thursday 17th July 2008 at the Vicarage @ 7.00pm
Chris and Carine are the children of business partners Walt and Billie McCandless, a couple more successful in their careers than in their volatile relationship. Chris, an extrovert but deep thinking student, has been alienated by their fights, their materialism and a family discovery he has made. After graduation, he writes a cheque to Oxfam for most of his remaining college fund and sets off on a road trip, breaking off contact with the family. Chris’s story is ultimately tragic, but along the way, he meets, learns from and often inspires an assortment of people battling their own demons, a few people of faith, and the odd likeable rogue. This is a long film (142 mins) - so we will be looking at clips rather than the whole film. If you want to borrow the film to see the whole film before, please ask.
Want to know more……talk about it….. ask questions about the themes it raises… wonder what the Christian faith might say about those theme…then come along.
We invite a donation - there will be food and nibbles.
Julian Heaton For more information see http://www.reelissues.org.uk/
People who remember Sale some time back will recall the Odeon and Savoy cinemas and even more mature people will recall a cinema up in Sale Moor. Then along came TV and later video and cinema-going plunged. But now, go to Altrincham, the Trafford Centre, Manchester and you will fine endless screens showing countless films around the clock (almost).
We live in a visual age. Although we buy, as a nation, lots of books, visual imagery catches our imagination. That is why we watch TV and that is certainly why we watch films - a story, a theme, an idea, is offered to us in a reasonable time-scale and we come away satisfied, filled up with images, conversations, sounds.
The Bible Society, along with many others, has noted that film can invite us to think about important ideas that affect our lives. Christians can bring faith and belief to their watching of a film.
We are going to start a Film Club. Here’s the deal.
What if there are lots of would-be film watchers? I will have the DVD, the material from the Bible Society and “instructions” for leading a group. It would be great for others to run such a group.
Thursday 21st June 2008 at the Vicarage @ 7.00pm For more information see http://www.reelissues.org.uk/ **********************************
“Step on the Way” Christian Explorer Course
A six week Faith Exploration Course for early summer 2008
' Do you come to Church or Sunbeams and feel somehow “out of the loop?”
' Did you miss out on hearing about Church / God / Jesus as a youngster?
' Would you like to explore the basics of the Christian Faith?
' Were you baptised when a child and then not given chance to grow as a Christian?
' Did you even miss out on being Baptised?
If you tick any of the above boxes, then we encourage you to come along to our Summer “Step on the Way” Course. This is a “Nurture” course, for those wanting to explore the Christian Faith as thinking adults.
These are the sessions….
What Christians Believe
11 June Believing in God
18 June We need God in our lives
25 June The Life and Ministry of Jesus
2 July The death and resurrection of Jesus
9 July The Holy Spirit
16 July Becoming a Christian
At the end there will be the opportunity to think about what step of faith God is calling you to take next.
Course Information
Day J Wednesday evenings
Timing J 7.30pm start time J lasts 90 minutes
Venue J Vicarage (opposite Church)
Interested? Want to know more?
Contact either Julian on 973 4145 or Janet on 962 8981
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