VACANCY FOR PART-TIME YOUTH WORKER 

Up to 50 children and teenagers, currently ranging in age from 4 to 13, attend the High Five Youth Club every Friday evening in school term time. This is an exciting community initiative based at Tabernacle Baptist Church, High Street, Newbridge.

A vacancy now exists for a part-time Youth Worker who will help take the lead  in promoting important healthy living and social well being messages to the young people in the context of the Christian Gospel and teaching and give expert support to the current hard-working team of volunteers who run the club. 

You could be the person we want if you have at least a year’s experience working with children and/or young people, supported by appropriate qualifications, and you can contribute positively to creating a relaxed atmosphere where they can learn, socialise and enjoy themselves. 

The successful candidate will work between 6 and 10 hours a week at the rate of £12 an hour and he/she will report to the Church Minister. At present, the Youth Worker post is temporary with funding available until 31st March 2014. However, subject to securing future funding, it is our intention to convert it into a permanent post. 

If you are interested, please send a copy of your CV to the Rev. Peter Cho via our website tabernacle-newbridge.org.uk or by writing to Tabernacle Baptist Church, High Street, Newbridge, NP11 4FH.

 

“WESLEY HALL” REUNION

More than 50 years ago, a thriving after-church young people’s fellowship used to meet at the Wesley Hall schoolroom. In its heyday as many as 200 young people from all parts of the Western Valley and further afield gathered to praise God.

 On Saturday, May 10th (3.30pm) a special “Wesley Hall” reunion will be held at Tabernacle, organised by some of the original leaders including Clive Sheridan and Len Rowlands.Please pass on this information to anyone you know who attended the Wesley Hall meetings in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

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                         Soul-winning every day…..                                                

“So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them. And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayers. . . And every day the Lord added to them those who were being saved.” Acts 2:41-42

Acts chapter 2 is all about revival. It is about how many people came to know Christ. Many of us may have been in meetings where a few people have given their hearts to the Lord but 3,000 is awesome! Yet not unbelievable because there are accounts of thousands of people coming to the Lord in meetings in South Korea and in Africa. Closer to home we have heard of dozens being saved in the last year or so in services at Cwmbran.

What really is astonishing in this passage is that last sentence—“every day” Jesus was bringing to the church those who had been saved.” Every day. Who knew people could be saved on a Thursday?

 We have developed several important procedures at Tabernacle for dealing with health and safety, safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and food and hygiene to name just a few. But what if someone comes into the church on a Thursday and wants to be saved? Are we ready to deal with that situation?

 We know Pastor Peter is actively seeking to win lost souls for the Lord through his ongoing daily witnessing to people at Newbridge and he is right to remind us that we all need to be personally involved in evangelism.

 The New Testament church met in what you and I would call a flat or an apartment. We have mystified it into being The Upper Room; but it was a flat in Jerusalem, and that’s where these people first met and started praying and teaching. They started telling other people about Christ, and somebody’s life would be changed. That person would run to find someone else, come back and say, “You need to see what I see. You need to know what I know.” Then somebody else’s life would be changed, so that in just a few years mighty Rome itself was stood on its head.

 The challenge for us is to start gossiping the gospel in Newbridge…not tomorrow, next month. or next year  but today and on weekdays as well as Sundays!  If you are feeling inadequate or anxious, just remember this: God does not call the equipped but He equips those He has called.

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  Speakers for Sundays in February

 

        2nd:           am     Rev Tom Jeffries   

                        pm     Mr David Cook

         9th:           am     Mr Jonathan Davies

                        pm     Pastor Peter Cho

      16th:            am     Pastor Peter Cho

                        pm     Rev Richard Harrison

     23rd:             am     Pastor David Palmer

                         pm        Pastor Peter Cho

 

Diary Dates for February:

 Saturday 8th:   8.30am  Men’s Breakfast at Moriah Baptist  Church, Risca

                                  (Speaker: Rev Peter Cho)

 Monday 17th:  7.00pm

                              Tabernacle Men’s Fellowship

                              (Speaker: Rev. Stephen Jackson)

 

Tuesday 18th:  Joint Prayer Meeting