Kerith Encounter Podcast

With Encounter being made to close after Esther announced that she was stepping down, we celebrate the last 6 years of her leadership at our final meeting. - Esther talks about what Encounter has meant to her and reminisces about many of the series that we have studied including lots of visual aids & handouts that she has provided. - We celebrate all of the major birthdays (40, 50, 60, 70, 80...

We conclude our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Clive & Glynis Challis give their story. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EXihNsMpNIdMujf9j5lgmjMBBOrPHl7w4PtMgeunCQHT6A?e=cy...

For the first part of the meeting we continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Iris Joyce gives her story. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EW2eIVo2xIVMmsm0bz1Qz5EBmbTo17YTll...

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Angela James give her story then Kay Foulger gives us a history of our church from its inception before giving one specific incident from her story. See additional notes for Angela at https://kerithcommunity...

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Anne Hope-Whitlock & Liz Phillips give part of their stories. See additional notes for Anne at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EZy105PW85dBmDomVAHAi...

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Jim Macey gives one particular incident from his story and Frank Blasi gives part of his story. See additional notes for Frank at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_keri...

Our last meeting of the term and of 2024 is our Christmas Celebration. We have a video, 2 couple of readings, a poem and several carols including a reflective version of Silent Night, plus Esther speaks on the subject "Room for Christ at Christ-mas". Here is the outline of the meeting: Welcome - Glynis Carol - O Come All Ye Faithful Video - "Retooning the Nativity" - https://youtu.be/7-4y5mK_o9E R...

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Michael Bentley gives his story. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EV8tnG87PPZArzW3d24jUs0Bn2ApbtCNFn-j6o3_6oEOyQ?e=HZDJnU

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Simon Benham, our senior pastor, gives his story. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EcSjhBMK8kBMqEauY7RFIiABAcKXrcqMOZKLgerr64-m7g...

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Mark Ridgway gives his story. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EVuRUs--SwVEjqV05GQ2u3IB69R6DO_rjjDZOrdeVSS0vw?e=cxdyMq In additio...

Since we had Remembrance Sunday last weekend and Armistice Day on Monday we had a minutes silence at our Encounter Meeting today. Then Esther looks at two areas, firstly remembering the people who are affected by the various wars or armed conflicts around the world so that we can pray for them, and secondly being thankful for what we have and what God has done for us this year. See additional note...

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Rob Kempton gives his story and Melissa Savage gives her story. See additional notes for Rob at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/ETITYy3OgNpFjr4ocpGg0ocB...

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Geoff Hawke gives his story. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EakrRZt2cCtGuY4XG_vWyMEBlpxr5UnlzqEQd5QRJllX9A?e=21HcnZ

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Chris Barber gives her story. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EU8Cm3Ea0W9AmT9e-VmhLK0B99OWb4tArn2YdyPeEJ58xg?e=LlfZnH

We were intending to continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. However, both people who were going to talk were ill. Therefore instead we played a video where Reinhard Bonnke gives his story.

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Brian Papps gives his story and Jackie Hooker gives part of her story. You can hear other parts in previous talks that Jackie has given. See additional notes for Brian at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sha...

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Sue Toms gives her story. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EfH-__XQMiBMntJqJdr-QxEBTU0VysuwNacsxnNdgozYrQ?e=Ze7hBr

We continue our God Stories series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Krystyna Lysakowska gives part of her story. You can hear other parts in previous talks that Krystyna has given. See additional notes at 20240918_encounter_krystyna_lysakowska.pptx

This term we start a new series where we will be hearing from different people within the Encounter group, sharing their experience of God and how He has and is impacting their lives. Today Esther starts the series by giving her story. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EV6TbrPxyxxFjyNo7VI8jqgBKK1KXf7_9RYdFHP-vfG09g?e=HIAQ...

Esther concludes our Lessons From Luke series looking at the central question in chapter 9 v18-20 (plus Matthew 16:13-20) where Jesus asks who the crowds & the disciples think that he is. Since this is such a fundamental question Esther asks who Jesus is to us and then proceeds to explain what Jesus was anointed and chosen to do. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepo...

Our guest speaker today is Ben Davies, who was our Senior Pastor for 43 years before retiring to Pembrokeshire. After various technical problems due to dealing with Ben joining the meeting via a Zoom call, he reads a quotation and asks "Who Are You?". Then he proceeds to read from 1 Peter 2 v9-10 and tell us who God says that we are. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepo...

Our guest speaker this week is Michael Bentley. He continues our Lessons From Luke series by looking at chapter 11 v37-54 where Jesus pronounces woes on the Pharisees and Experts in the Law for their behaviour with all of their rules and regulations which ignore the clear teaching of God's word. Michael asks how we would respond if Jesus looked at us and asked about how we behave. He goes on to ta...

Esther continues our "Lessons From Luke" series looking at the story of Zacchaeus in chapter 19 v1-10. She asks if Zaccaeus was going to stay in the tree just looking for Jesus or was he going to come down as requested and become all that Jesus intended him to be. Then she asks the same question of us - what God is calling us to and whether we are going to allow Him to fulfil His purpose in our li...

Esther continues our "Lessons From Luke" series by looking at chapter 10 v38-42 where Jesus was at the house of Martha & Mary. The 2 sisters were very different in their approach to Jesus. Martha was very practical, opened her home to Jesus and wanted to prepare everything for Him, but got disillusioned when her sister didn't help her. Mary just wanted to sit at Jesus's feet and learn from Him...

Esther continues our "Lessons From Luke" series talking from Chapter 21 v1-4 about a poor widow who brought everything she had to God. Esther points out 3 things that Jesus saw in her offering and looks at how we can relate these things to our lives today. See additional notes at https://kerithcommunitychurch-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/encounter_kerith_church/EeBcsfRxt8RPgQxqdaJED2ABXelZV-R2...