<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165</id><updated>2012-02-16T14:27:58.554+02:00</updated><category term='Emmaus'/><category term='members'/><category term='bibles'/><category term='Brits and Harties in God&apos;s care'/><category term='mission fellowship'/><category term='worship'/><category term='hospice'/><category term='lay witness'/><category term='fellowship'/><category term='Our recent combined service'/><category term='outreach'/><category term='AIDS'/><category term='bible study fellowship'/><title type='text'>Brits Methodist Church</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>47</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-1262630037018706422</id><published>2011-06-20T18:53:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-06-20T19:22:22.738+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Celebrating 75 years</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s_LLDUCFX4k/Tf9_IfQ9D_I/AAAAAAAAARo/D6FOjakafrU/s1600/IMG_3486.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s_LLDUCFX4k/Tf9_IfQ9D_I/AAAAAAAAARo/D6FOjakafrU/s200/IMG_3486.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620350643789959154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5lUy0DVZDOA/Tf9-HRyLbpI/AAAAAAAAARg/CL-RNa7sNyw/s1600/2011%2BJune%2B023.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5lUy0DVZDOA/Tf9-HRyLbpI/AAAAAAAAARg/CL-RNa7sNyw/s200/2011%2BJune%2B023.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620349523479719570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the 3rd June 2011, we held a fun evening. We were entertained by our musicians who played beautiful quartets on strings accompanied by the organ. Well done "Coots" and Frederick! Sarah Coutlakis danced for us and we sang fun, silly songs. Our small groups had us in stitches with "skits" and we saw our minister in a new light!&lt;br /&gt;Delicious eats ended the evening off.&lt;br /&gt;On Sunday the 5th June the church was packed as Bishop Gavin Taylor gave us a message on being living stones. Jannie and Angela sang that beautiful song "The Holy City" accompanied by Jandy and Wanita and Charmaine unveiled the new banner - a gift from Harties Methodist church for our birthday.&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful flower arrangements made the church look so special and lovely bookmarks with beads on were handed out to the congregation.&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--H9Ac1VYyxI/Tf-AwfigJzI/AAAAAAAAARw/sKzE_RNXw8w/s200/IMG_3527.JPG" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620352430569957170" /&gt;A superb lunch was served at noon under the marquee and "tin temple" outside on the nicest sunny day!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-1262630037018706422?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/1262630037018706422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/1262630037018706422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2011/06/celebrating-75-years.html' title='Celebrating 75 years'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s_LLDUCFX4k/Tf9_IfQ9D_I/AAAAAAAAARo/D6FOjakafrU/s72-c/IMG_3486.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-3683691998041633537</id><published>2011-06-20T14:31:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-06-20T18:52:47.444+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Brits Church turns 75 years</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hkHezzXjEKM/Tf959V5810I/AAAAAAAAB6M/GEN8FMafLvY/s1600/P1010189.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hkHezzXjEKM/Tf959V5810I/AAAAAAAAB6M/GEN8FMafLvY/s320/P1010189.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620344954740856642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After checking the archives in Pretoria last year Jannie discovered that the first time services were held by Methodists in Brits was 75 years ago. Ministers came from Pretoria to preach and this congregation group grew over the years. They met in various places until eventually purchasing a house in Kerk St.&lt;br /&gt;It was dedicated in 1983.&lt;br /&gt;After lots of prayer and hard work, this was renovated in 2003 into the beautiful sanctuary of today.&lt;br /&gt;Then in 2006 the first resident minister was appointed - the Rev Jannie Hofmeyr and his wife Angela. He had a mandate to build up this congregation in order to plant another congregation at Harties. The new congregation - an offshoot of the Brits congregation began in November 2007.&lt;br /&gt;Praise to God for His faithfulness and well done to all the members for vision, prayers and hard work.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-3683691998041633537?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3683691998041633537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3683691998041633537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2011/06/brits-church-turns-75-years.html' title='Brits Church turns 75 years'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hkHezzXjEKM/Tf959V5810I/AAAAAAAAB6M/GEN8FMafLvY/s72-c/P1010189.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-7653638337052294716</id><published>2009-12-01T16:05:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T16:26:30.544+02:00</updated><title type='text'>World Aids Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SxUm3B-XcOI/AAAAAAAAAPk/lAe4YNJ6SaM/s1600/091201+049.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SxUm3B-XcOI/AAAAAAAAAPk/lAe4YNJ6SaM/s200/091201+049.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410273254220198114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SxUlRgKiGEI/AAAAAAAAAPc/aFBKw9WO_bw/s1600/091201+050.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SxUlRgKiGEI/AAAAAAAAAPc/aFBKw9WO_bw/s200/091201+050.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410271509977634882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of our members took part in the World Aids Day service held at the Brits Library on Tuesday 1st December. The library staff had put up a wonderful display and co- ordinated the service.&lt;br /&gt;Hymns were sung and Mr Selwyn Kerr from Harties Methodist church gave a power point presentation on Aids and the work of "Helping Hands" that he heads up.&lt;br /&gt;(This is an outreach programme of Harties and Brits Methodist church which runs at the Brits hospital.Patients are given refreshments and a devotional service. Bibles are handed out and they can receive prayer from the team.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rev Jannie Hofmeyr gave a sermon based on the Prodigal Son - and showed how the attitude of the Father was to the wayward son. This was compared to the older brother who rejected his brother - "your son..." In order to help in the fight against Aids we need to reach out in help. They are our brothers and sisters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The AIDS candles were lit as the hymn &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"I need Thee every hour"&lt;/span&gt; was sung. How true for a country caught in the ravages of this disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rev Jannie and is wife, Angela, led the singing of "Plea for Africa".&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;As the lyrics say: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"God bless Africa and her sons and daughters."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-7653638337052294716?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/7653638337052294716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/7653638337052294716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2009/12/world-aids-day.html' title='World Aids Day'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SxUm3B-XcOI/AAAAAAAAAPk/lAe4YNJ6SaM/s72-c/091201+049.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-4707668373084318626</id><published>2009-04-24T16:39:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T16:42:04.989+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Valuable to Jesus</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHPtCa2fRI/AAAAAAAAANw/s7zr4GNzivU/s1600-h/valuable+to+jesus+09apr09+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHPtCa2fRI/AAAAAAAAANw/s7zr4GNzivU/s200/valuable+to+jesus+09apr09+007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328268206806564114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHPcuSRCEI/AAAAAAAAANo/SRM7TiAI5NY/s1600-h/valuable+to+jesus+09apr09+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHPcuSRCEI/AAAAAAAAANo/SRM7TiAI5NY/s200/valuable+to+jesus+09apr09+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328267926523938882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;These little dolls are going to children who have been abused  or are at risk of abuse (as a result of family / social situations) and are  filled with meaning. They convey the messages:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;You are lovingly handmade by the Almighty God of the Universe  (the little dolls are handmade, with love)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;There is no-one like you (each doll is unique; not one is the  same as another)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;You are extremely valuable – no money can pay for you (the  dolls are not for sale)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;God wants to keep you safe in the palm of His hand (the dolls  fit in the palm of your hand)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-4707668373084318626?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4707668373084318626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4707668373084318626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2009/04/valuable-to-jesus.html' title='Valuable to Jesus'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHPtCa2fRI/AAAAAAAAANw/s7zr4GNzivU/s72-c/valuable+to+jesus+09apr09+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-6301545598518994583</id><published>2009-04-24T16:29:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T15:58:05.646+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sonop Surprise</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfRkpK-glHI/AAAAAAAAAN4/o8082sLaJN0/s1600-h/sonop+at+drika+2009+030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfRkpK-glHI/AAAAAAAAAN4/o8082sLaJN0/s200/sonop+at+drika+2009+030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328994917570090098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHON5jSHUI/AAAAAAAAANQ/NnFaxrLVhw4/s1600-h/sonop+at+drika+2009+142.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 165px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHON5jSHUI/AAAAAAAAANQ/NnFaxrLVhw4/s200/sonop+at+drika+2009+142.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328266572338437442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;About 50 children from Sonop &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfRnMVhvhKI/AAAAAAAAAOI/nqphmL4bv44/s1600-h/sonop+at+drika+2009+138.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 132px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfRnMVhvhKI/AAAAAAAAAOI/nqphmL4bv44/s200/sonop+at+drika+2009+138.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328997720720901282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;gathered excitedly to climb on board a bus to take them to a party organised just for them in Brits. Just look at their beautiful Jesus T-shirts and smiling faces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHOipEkDMI/AAAAAAAAANg/xnapCQE7pTA/s1600-h/sonop+at+drika+2009+075.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 192px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHOipEkDMI/AAAAAAAAANg/xnapCQE7pTA/s200/sonop+at+drika+2009+075.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328266928691875010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfRk8e5RGFI/AAAAAAAAAOA/hNsqfm2c6d0/s1600-h/sonop+at+drika+2009+092.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfRk8e5RGFI/AAAAAAAAAOA/hNsqfm2c6d0/s200/sonop+at+drika+2009+092.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328995249334327378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHOWFUijRI/AAAAAAAAANY/axxXCXcjer4/s1600-h/sonop+at+drika+2009+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 159px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHOWFUijRI/AAAAAAAAANY/axxXCXcjer4/s200/sonop+at+drika+2009+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328266712936779026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They enjoyed food and treats, a jumping castle, stories with magnificent puppets and even horse riding.&lt;br /&gt;They have a "Sunday school" on Friday afternoons in Sonop where they learn about our Saviour Jesus.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-6301545598518994583?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6301545598518994583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6301545598518994583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2009/04/sonop-surprise.html' title='Sonop Surprise'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfRkpK-glHI/AAAAAAAAAN4/o8082sLaJN0/s72-c/sonop+at+drika+2009+030.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-2619892644094830629</id><published>2009-04-24T16:04:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T16:29:01.356+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Holy Week</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHJL6gUiPI/AAAAAAAAAM4/lMN2C9GvXjo/s1600-h/090409+038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHJL6gUiPI/AAAAAAAAAM4/lMN2C9GvXjo/s200/090409+038.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328261040676571378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHIi29fr5I/AAAAAAAAAMw/sctclF4iiGk/s1600-h/090409+041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHIi29fr5I/AAAAAAAAAMw/sctclF4iiGk/s200/090409+041.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328260335350558610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHH8gh4SLI/AAAAAAAAAMo/oUQjMeertrw/s1600-h/090409+026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHH8gh4SLI/AAAAAAAAAMo/oUQjMeertrw/s200/090409+026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328259676494121138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a special and moving season in our church calendar as once again we journeyed together to Gethsemane, Calvary and the empty tomb.&lt;br /&gt;Ladies from the group "Freedom of the heart" presented a powerful dance to the song "Thank You for the cross" by Graham Kendrick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other musical items were very deep songs of the death of our Lord Jesus. The Tennebrae service held at the Harties church included hand washing. Candles were extinguished as we heard readings of all the events of Jesus journey to the cross.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       After the darkness and pain of Good Friday we waited with bated breath for the s&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHKnMwpYRI/AAAAAAAAANA/RDjLGj-Ojlo/s1600-h/090412+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHKnMwpYRI/AAAAAAAAANA/RDjLGj-Ojlo/s200/090412+015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328262608944980242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;un to rise over the dam to greet the best day of the year - Resurrection Sunday. We celebrated again in church later with powerful music and we filled the church with white and yellow flowers.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHLHH4OsWI/AAAAAAAAANI/eyGvKP8O-Ls/s1600-h/090412+047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHLHH4OsWI/AAAAAAAAANI/eyGvKP8O-Ls/s200/090412+047.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328263157390422370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-2619892644094830629?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2619892644094830629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2619892644094830629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2009/04/holy-week.html' title='Holy Week'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SfHJL6gUiPI/AAAAAAAAAM4/lMN2C9GvXjo/s72-c/090409+038.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-5361528390645573364</id><published>2009-03-25T12:41:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-03-25T12:50:01.494+02:00</updated><title type='text'>LENT</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/ScoMFDHsPhI/AAAAAAAAALg/qBIi3XNv00E/s1600-h/tn_ashweds.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 103px; height: 120px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/ScoMFDHsPhI/AAAAAAAAALg/qBIi3XNv00E/s200/tn_ashweds.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317075590940737042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/ScoKzt6WE2I/AAAAAAAAALY/beUlB6NBNdY/s1600-h/lent.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/ScoKzt6WE2I/AAAAAAAAALY/beUlB6NBNdY/s200/lent.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317074193678209890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we journey to Holy Week and Resurrection Sunday, we focus on what Jesus has done for us. We began with a pancake evening at the Hofmeyrs home and shared in an Ash ceremony. Some have given up favorite beverages or treats to be reminded of the sacrifice that our Lord made.&lt;br /&gt;On Palm Sunday(5th April) each person will receive a palm cross to celebrate when Jesus came humbly into Jerusalem on a donkey, but as King of the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;See our Holy Week programme below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Easter Programme&lt;br /&gt;Music and Mime – Wed 8th April&lt;br /&gt;                             7.00 pm at Brits&lt;br /&gt;Tenebrae Service – Thursday 9th April&lt;br /&gt;                             7.00 pm at Harties &lt;br /&gt;Good Friday – Fri 10th April&lt;br /&gt;                     8 am Harties and 9.30 Brits&lt;br /&gt;Easter Sunrise Service – 6.00 am&lt;br /&gt;                      Caribbean Beach Club&lt;br /&gt;Resurrection Sunday 12th April &lt;br /&gt;                      8 am Harties   9.30 am Brits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-5361528390645573364?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5361528390645573364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5361528390645573364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2009/03/lent.html' title='LENT'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/ScoMFDHsPhI/AAAAAAAAALg/qBIi3XNv00E/s72-c/tn_ashweds.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-3495496525314666691</id><published>2009-01-27T15:45:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T15:50:02.726+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sermon Bible Study Series</title><content type='html'>For the next few weeks Rev Jannie will be leading us in a series based on the theme from the book: &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;"The Jesus I never knew"&lt;/span&gt; by Philip Yancey. The sermons and two Fellowship/Bible Study groups will focus on this.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-3495496525314666691?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3495496525314666691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3495496525314666691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2009/01/sermon-bible-study-series.html' title='Sermon Bible Study Series'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-2867755751417552262</id><published>2008-12-12T16:41:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T15:59:14.864+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A perfect evening for Carols by candlelight at the waterfront</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJ5vGC7SJI/AAAAAAAAAKE/1IJ0gmqUmf0/s1600-h/08+Dec+10+024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJ5vGC7SJI/AAAAAAAAAKE/1IJ0gmqUmf0/s200/08+Dec+10+024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278915563215341714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJ5bdG9pDI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/m-11Iw0Co3o/s1600-h/08+Dec+10+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJ5bdG9pDI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/m-11Iw0Co3o/s200/08+Dec+10+023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278915225808905266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The glorious sunset itself made the evening perfect as folk had a picnic on the lush green lawns of the Caribbean Beach Club.&lt;br /&gt;As the sun dipped down behind the mountains the violins and guitars tuned up and the special Scripture readings were shared and carols sung as candles flickered happily in the evening air.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJ4_c1eQJI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/63SMaOzdn68/s1600-h/08+Dec+10+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJ4_c1eQJI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/63SMaOzdn68/s200/08+Dec+10+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278914744699207826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-2867755751417552262?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2867755751417552262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2867755751417552262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/12/perfect-evening-for-carols-by.html' title='A perfect evening for Carols by candlelight at the waterfront'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJ5vGC7SJI/AAAAAAAAAKE/1IJ0gmqUmf0/s72-c/08+Dec+10+024.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-6983711217028464840</id><published>2008-12-12T16:36:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T16:40:46.849+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Carol singing at Sonop Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJ3huEAIoI/AAAAAAAAAJs/Zc7Sn4MAdT0/s1600-h/08+Dec+9+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJ3huEAIoI/AAAAAAAAAJs/Zc7Sn4MAdT0/s200/08+Dec+9+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278913134415848066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In previous years we have sung carols to those residents of the home able to join us in the hall. This year we decided to visit each ward and room. The corridors rang with carols and the faces lit up as we visited.&lt;br /&gt;A huge box of presents was pushed on a trolley taking something for each person.&lt;br /&gt;Tired feet, fingers and voices we may have had but we will never forget the joy on the faces of these precious people.&lt;br /&gt;We say thanks to Elsje for organising it all.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-6983711217028464840?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6983711217028464840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6983711217028464840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/12/carol-singing-at-sonop-home.html' title='Carol singing at Sonop Home'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJ3huEAIoI/AAAAAAAAAJs/Zc7Sn4MAdT0/s72-c/08+Dec+9+002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-4804251143128096412</id><published>2008-12-12T15:57:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T16:28:05.028+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas party at Sonop Feeding Scheme</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJzFemEC2I/AAAAAAAAAJc/HrhCbf3Duzg/s1600-h/08+Dec+6,7+019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJzFemEC2I/AAAAAAAAAJc/HrhCbf3Duzg/s200/08+Dec+6,7+019.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278908251180895074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJyJpAUlBI/AAAAAAAAAJU/RRoygMD2X0c/s1600-h/08+Dec+6,7+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJyJpAUlBI/AAAAAAAAAJU/RRoygMD2X0c/s200/08+Dec+6,7+023.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278907223183234066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJwheZnUHI/AAAAAAAAAJM/oZfC-WI_pPg/s1600-h/08+Dec+6,7+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJwheZnUHI/AAAAAAAAAJM/oZfC-WI_pPg/s200/08+Dec+6,7+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278905433630134386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So many children and adults gathered in Sonop for a very special party.Colourful flags waved to the music as Anatasia taught the children about lifting up the name of Jesus and then Marianne told them a story. There were a couple of items sung to Meisie as she was thanked for starting the Feeding Scheme. The children lined up in age groups to receive their packet of goodies while guitars and a violin accompanied some Christmas carols.&lt;br /&gt;Later on every enjoyed a boerewors roll.&lt;br /&gt;The miracle of this feeding scheme is that it started as Meisie's dream nad starting with a large pot and her own food parcel it has grown into the feeding of 200 daily with donations coming from all over as hearts are touched.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-4804251143128096412?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4804251143128096412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4804251143128096412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-party-at-sonop-feeding-scheme.html' title='Christmas party at Sonop Feeding Scheme'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SUJzFemEC2I/AAAAAAAAAJc/HrhCbf3Duzg/s72-c/08+Dec+6,7+019.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-7591266009066012208</id><published>2008-11-25T14:13:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T14:27:00.613+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Plans for Christmas 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvtgZ1oYbI/AAAAAAAAAJE/VrhWPq-RK_8/s1600-h/Christmas+Wreath"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvtgZ1oYbI/AAAAAAAAAJE/VrhWPq-RK_8/s200/Christmas+Wreath" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272568929714725298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sat 6th Dec 11 am&lt;/span&gt; Christmas Party at the Sonop Feeding Scheme&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Tuesday 9th Dec 10 am &lt;/span&gt;- Visiting the rooms at Sonop Old Age Home with gifts and singing carols&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;W&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;ednesday 10th Dec 6pm&lt;/span&gt; Picnic and Carols by Candlelight at Caribbean Beach Club- bring your own picnic, chair/blanket and candle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Thursday 25th December CHRISTMAS DAY&lt;/span&gt; - Worship at the church at 9.30 am&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-7591266009066012208?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/7591266009066012208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/7591266009066012208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/11/plans-for-christmas-2008.html' title='Plans for Christmas 2008'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvtgZ1oYbI/AAAAAAAAAJE/VrhWPq-RK_8/s72-c/Christmas+Wreath' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-6255413880026370280</id><published>2008-11-24T18:36:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T18:42:44.675+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Concert at Sonop Old Age Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSrZePj8JxI/AAAAAAAAAIU/7JhFqJymx3o/s1600-h/2008+Nov+8,9+036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSrZePj8JxI/AAAAAAAAAIU/7JhFqJymx3o/s200/2008+Nov+8,9+036.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272265427387164434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSrY62kNYwI/AAAAAAAAAIM/_rXm4gwktMs/s1600-h/2008+Nov+8,9+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSrY62kNYwI/AAAAAAAAAIM/_rXm4gwktMs/s200/2008+Nov+8,9+022.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272264819381986050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To our delight and the residents of Sonop Old Age Home, the children from the Sonop school danced and sang. The rain did not deter them and their young, fresh faces brought joy to us all. They received cake and juice and so did the residents. It was a lovely morning where the old could be blessed by the young.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-6255413880026370280?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6255413880026370280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6255413880026370280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/11/concert-at-sonop-old-age-home.html' title='Concert at Sonop Old Age Home'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSrZePj8JxI/AAAAAAAAAIU/7JhFqJymx3o/s72-c/2008+Nov+8,9+036.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-5019294488186989763</id><published>2008-11-24T18:30:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T14:11:08.367+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sonop Feeding Scheme</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvrVLFi5mI/AAAAAAAAAI8/1FZxtE5oqBc/s1600-h/sonop+feeding+044.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvrVLFi5mI/AAAAAAAAAI8/1FZxtE5oqBc/s200/sonop+feeding+044.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272566537753126498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvrKQ4Za7I/AAAAAAAAAI0/U5qyXf9XuiM/s1600-h/sonop+feeding+027.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvrKQ4Za7I/AAAAAAAAAI0/U5qyXf9XuiM/s200/sonop+feeding+027.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272566350330031026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvq8amXn0I/AAAAAAAAAIs/LpRRv0zd8_c/s1600-h/sonop+feeding+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 187px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvq8amXn0I/AAAAAAAAAIs/LpRRv0zd8_c/s200/sonop+feeding+023.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272566112420601666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvqvKlpF-I/AAAAAAAAAIk/DeUMNc5aSoA/s1600-h/sonop+feeding+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 159px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvqvKlpF-I/AAAAAAAAAIk/DeUMNc5aSoA/s200/sonop+feeding+015.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272565884784285666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When some ladies in Sonop decided to try and feed the children and poor people from their meagre and small pensions, Elsje came to their rescue and with donations from our church and Rotary has helped to get this new feeding scheme on its feet.&lt;br /&gt;There are now over 200 children and grown ups being fed daily just in the garden and car port of Meisie's home in Sonop.&lt;br /&gt;Our church is supplying the bread for each day. All donations are welcome and a basket is in the church foyer for any contributions that people would like to make.&lt;br /&gt;On the 6th December there will be a party for these folk and we will be going along to support them and to sing carols.&lt;br /&gt;Watch this space.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-5019294488186989763?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5019294488186989763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5019294488186989763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/11/sonop-feeding-scheme.html' title='Sonop Feeding Scheme'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvrVLFi5mI/AAAAAAAAAI8/1FZxtE5oqBc/s72-c/sonop+feeding+044.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-2579481465095570608</id><published>2008-11-24T18:21:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T14:00:31.745+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Baptism Font</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvoxmDW63I/AAAAAAAAAIc/Mfc9nu2dmOg/s1600-h/Aug+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 90px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvoxmDW63I/AAAAAAAAAIc/Mfc9nu2dmOg/s200/Aug+014.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272563727493163890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSrWRlAa8tI/AAAAAAAAAIE/HI_c-DOsB5k/s1600-h/2008+Nov+8,9+123.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSrWRlAa8tI/AAAAAAAAAIE/HI_c-DOsB5k/s200/2008+Nov+8,9+123.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272261911270585042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brits church has received a baptism font - from our own Rev Jannie's family. After the sad passing of Jannie's father, the furniture was shared between the 3 children. Jannie asked for the baptism font which his mother had bought from her church which had been replaced by a new one. As a keen flower arranger Jannie's mom had used the font for her beautiful arrangements at home.&lt;br /&gt;This font was used at Brits church for the first time when baby Seth Griessel was baptised on the 9th of November.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-2579481465095570608?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2579481465095570608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2579481465095570608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/11/baptism-font.html' title='Baptism Font'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SSvoxmDW63I/AAAAAAAAAIc/Mfc9nu2dmOg/s72-c/Aug+014.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-6013152669682494474</id><published>2008-10-23T14:55:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T15:03:47.100+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Rev Jannie- a significant year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SQB1l8DPFUI/AAAAAAAAAGA/PskYY2ylS6I/s1600-h/May+16+2008+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SQB1l8DPFUI/AAAAAAAAAGA/PskYY2ylS6I/s200/May+16+2008+015.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260333659404047682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Rev Jannie studied under Professor Malan and got his honours degree. Jannie was ordained 20 years ago and has been in the ministry 25 years.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-6013152669682494474?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6013152669682494474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6013152669682494474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/10/rev-jannie-significant-year.html' title='Rev Jannie- a significant year'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SQB1l8DPFUI/AAAAAAAAAGA/PskYY2ylS6I/s72-c/May+16+2008+015.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-8062929523578967981</id><published>2008-06-20T16:01:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:28.671+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Father's day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFu5vRPrRpI/AAAAAAAAAFw/ZRz_wjCdfAc/s1600-h/June+cont+175.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFu5vRPrRpI/AAAAAAAAAFw/ZRz_wjCdfAc/s200/June+cont+175.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213965215345624722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quotes for Fathers’ Day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worship is the way we honour our heavenly Father and thank Him that we are one of His beloved children.&lt;br /&gt;(Stormie Omartian.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are only two things we should give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.”&lt;br /&gt;(Hodding Carter)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.”&lt;br /&gt;(unknown)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Many of us have inherited great riches from our parents – the bank account of PERSONAL FAITH and Family PRAYERS.   (Nels Ferre)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. (Charles Swindoll)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“when you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.&lt;br /&gt;(The Talmud)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.&lt;br /&gt;(Unknown)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Children seldom misquote you. In fact they repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said. (unknown)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love to play hide and seek with my child, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can‘t find me until after high school.) (Unknown)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-8062929523578967981?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/8062929523578967981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/8062929523578967981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/06/fathers-day.html' title='Father&apos;s day'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFu5vRPrRpI/AAAAAAAAAFw/ZRz_wjCdfAc/s72-c/June+cont+175.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-6030285219212318662</id><published>2008-06-20T15:47:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:29.104+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Baby Boom</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFu8VpmBvpI/AAAAAAAAAF4/d1WDmrW5mTY/s1600-h/June+cont+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFu8VpmBvpI/AAAAAAAAAF4/d1WDmrW5mTY/s200/June+cont+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213968073740107410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFu3vDftLEI/AAAAAAAAAFo/JyksCslokQg/s1600-h/June+cont+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213963012631505986" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFu3vDftLEI/AAAAAAAAAFo/JyksCslokQg/s200/June+cont+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFu2iwl9mKI/AAAAAAAAAFg/qccBGYtVo-o/s1600-h/April+2008+5,6+025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213961701887416482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFu2iwl9mKI/AAAAAAAAAFg/qccBGYtVo-o/s200/April+2008+5,6+025.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently about 7 babies have been baptised in our little church. Some were happy to be held by Rev Jannie and others not so happy. We pray God's blessing on these little ones and as a church we commit ourselves to help bring them up to know and follow the Lord Jesus. One of the little one's English names was even "Bless"!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-6030285219212318662?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6030285219212318662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6030285219212318662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/06/baby-boom.html' title='Baby Boom'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFu8VpmBvpI/AAAAAAAAAF4/d1WDmrW5mTY/s72-c/June+cont+002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-8641828009089413701</id><published>2008-06-20T15:31:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:29.319+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Building up the local church</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFuzZ9cZprI/AAAAAAAAAFY/ntlmRHSbyG4/s1600-h/April+2008+7-13+040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213958252183266994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFuzZ9cZprI/AAAAAAAAAFY/ntlmRHSbyG4/s200/April+2008+7-13+040.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;With the expert help of Professor Malan Nel from Tukkies we have engaged in a process to build up the local church. On the 12th April we spent the day with Prof and he guided us through questionnaires to establish what we saw as our weaknesses and strengths. We formed a sub- committee who has been looking at these and we have put out response forms to the congregation. There have been further meetings with Prof Nel to help inplement these ideas. We are now putting all this together and setting objectives and a mission statement. There is to be further discussion with the congregation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-8641828009089413701?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/8641828009089413701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/8641828009089413701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/06/building-up-local-church.html' title='Building up the local church'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/SFuzZ9cZprI/AAAAAAAAAFY/ntlmRHSbyG4/s72-c/April+2008+7-13+040.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-7900229334313282868</id><published>2008-03-18T05:49:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:29.419+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Palm Sunday</title><content type='html'>This is a special day when we remember Jesus entering Jerusalem riding on a colt and all the people shouting and singing, waving palm branches and putting cloaks on the ground. When Jesus stopped at one stage the Bible says He wept over Jerusalem. We realize that He weeps today over the tragedies in our world. But the good news is that He faced the cross to bring hope and new life.&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R9-dC9212MI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/dLjo48YKBFc/s1600-h/Palm+Sunday+2006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179030770789243074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R9-dC9212MI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/dLjo48YKBFc/s200/Palm+Sunday+2006.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R987uN212LI/AAAAAAAAAFI/rCzzoG45rOk/s1600-h/March+16+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-7900229334313282868?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/7900229334313282868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/7900229334313282868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/03/waving-palms.html' title='Palm Sunday'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R9-dC9212MI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/dLjo48YKBFc/s72-c/Palm+Sunday+2006.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-3199317638130882793</id><published>2008-03-18T05:25:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:29.789+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Holy Week 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R984T9212KI/AAAAAAAAAFA/Bj1ePWXxPII/s1600-h/collage9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178920012172613794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R984T9212KI/AAAAAAAAAFA/Bj1ePWXxPII/s200/collage9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;On Sunday we "launched" into Holy Week with joyful singing and the waving of ferns. We thank the ladies who made us all beautiful palm crosses that we will treasure and perhaps keep in our Bibles for another year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is a very meaningful and special week as we remember what Jesus went through for us. On Wedneday at our Harties church we will be celebrating the Passover meal and "Jews for Jesus" are coming to explain the significance of each part of the meal to us and how Christ fulfilled them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;On Thursday we will have the Service of the Shadows at Brits - called the Tennebrae Service and as we read all the events leading up to the cross, candles will be extinguished until we sit in the dark shadows, praying.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;On Friday morning we will gather for our Good Friday service as Jesus hung on that cross and then on Sunday we will greet the rising sun over the dam and celebrate that our Saviour rose from the dead. I am sure the service on Sunday will be filled with joy and promise of our risen Saviour's presence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-3199317638130882793?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3199317638130882793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3199317638130882793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/03/holy-week-2008.html' title='Holy Week 2008'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R984T9212KI/AAAAAAAAAFA/Bj1ePWXxPII/s72-c/collage9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-455843485995294529</id><published>2008-02-20T11:53:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:29.941+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A Wedding</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4tUmIoOI/AAAAAAAAAE4/3z0VykScpbU/s1600-h/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+683.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4tUmIoOI/AAAAAAAAAE4/3z0VykScpbU/s160/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+683.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This is a recent wedding. The church and the bridal party were so beautiful. When the cameraman needed to change a battery - no problem - the choir just sang while he did that!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-455843485995294529?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/455843485995294529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/455843485995294529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-is-recent-wedding.html' title='A Wedding'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4tUmIoOI/AAAAAAAAAE4/3z0VykScpbU/s72-c/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+683.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-3630005121109582177</id><published>2008-02-20T11:51:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:30.249+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Beautiful boys</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4MkmIoMI/AAAAAAAAAEo/zg6HbQDOCd8/s1600-h/Feb+2007+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4MkmIoMI/AAAAAAAAAEo/zg6HbQDOCd8/s160/Feb+2007+012.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; One of our new babies soon to be baptised being proudly held by cousin Amo. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-3630005121109582177?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3630005121109582177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3630005121109582177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/02/one-of-our-new-babies-soon-to-be.html' title='Beautiful boys'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4MkmIoMI/AAAAAAAAAEo/zg6HbQDOCd8/s72-c/Feb+2007+012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-5694871854955966999</id><published>2008-02-20T11:51:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:30.378+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Bright smile and colours</title><content type='html'>This is Elizabeth Makuwa, a member at Brits- what a advert for our rainbow church.&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4TUmIoNI/AAAAAAAAAEw/8f2ckt5kZj0/s1600-h/Feb+2007+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4TUmIoNI/AAAAAAAAAEw/8f2ckt5kZj0/s160/Feb+2007+013.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; She can always be found helping out around. She has also been on the Emmaus Walk &lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-5694871854955966999?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5694871854955966999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5694871854955966999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-is-elizabeth-what-advert-for-our.html' title='Bright smile and colours'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4TUmIoNI/AAAAAAAAAEw/8f2ckt5kZj0/s72-c/Feb+2007+013.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-6916860227925073233</id><published>2008-02-20T11:50:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:30.629+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Our recent combined service'/><title type='text'>Together again</title><content type='html'>It was great to be together again as the two congregations of Brits Methodist and Harties joined for a service, because the Harties venue was not available that Sunday - a good excuse for a reunion!&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4BkmIoLI/AAAAAAAAAEg/yEkj4KER0y0/s1600-h/Feb+10th-14th+2007+063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4BkmIoLI/AAAAAAAAAEg/yEkj4KER0y0/s320/Feb+10th-14th+2007+063.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-6916860227925073233?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6916860227925073233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/6916860227925073233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/02/posted-by-picasa.html' title='Together again'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7v4BkmIoLI/AAAAAAAAAEg/yEkj4KER0y0/s72-c/Feb+10th-14th+2007+063.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-4426266138956646853</id><published>2008-02-20T10:45:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:30.652+02:00</updated><title type='text'>God's work</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R7vyO0mIoKI/AAAAAAAAAEY/PjXtAKRIus4/s1600-h/Feb+10th-14th+2007+063.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Life at Brits Methodist church is good. We praise our Lord for His faithfulness and provision. Services are well attended and our leaders and helpers are doing well. We recently enjoyed a combined service with both the Brits and Harties congregations together. It was like a big, happy family reunion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Sunday school is strong and doing well under the leadership of Moira. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We love our new organ - we are so gratefull to Sinoville Methodist in Pretoria for donating it to us. May God bless you for your kindness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The next Emmaus Walks are soon and we are sending quite a few people to experience this wonderful spiritual journey. We know these folk will be blessed out of their socks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We have at least 2 new babies and we congratulate these proud families.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The combined Youth group from both the Brits church and Harties church meet each Friday evening for supper (provided by the moms) and a Bible study, some music and a game if there is time. These enthusuatic young folk are also visiting a safe house on a Saturday afternoon once a month to play with the children there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We started off Lent with our Koeksuster making delicious pancakes.We then had an Ash Service and started the Lent journey to the cross reminded of what Jesus went through. Some of us have given something up or a fasting one day a week to prepare ourselves for Holy Week.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Easter Programme&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Passover Supper – Wed 19th March&lt;br /&gt;6.30 pm at Harties&lt;br /&gt;Tennebrae Service – Thursday 20th March&lt;br /&gt;7.00 pm at Brits&lt;br /&gt;Good Friday – Fri 21st March&lt;br /&gt;8.am Harties and 9.30 Brits&lt;br /&gt;Easter Sunrise Service – Time to be advised&lt;br /&gt;Caribbean Beach Club&lt;br /&gt;Resurrection Sunday 23rd March&lt;br /&gt;8am Harties 9.30 am Brits&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-4426266138956646853?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4426266138956646853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4426266138956646853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/02/gods-work.html' title='God&apos;s work'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-1864495077574004034</id><published>2007-12-24T18:22:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-12-24T18:33:44.162+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Wreath</title><content type='html'>In the four Sundays leading up to Christmas and on Christmas Day, we light candles to remind us of the advent of Jesus Christ. Members of the congregation take part each Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;The large centre candle is lit on Christmas day and we are reminded that Jesus is the centre of our celebrations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-1864495077574004034?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/1864495077574004034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/1864495077574004034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-wreath.html' title='Christmas Wreath'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-4260302013789306389</id><published>2007-12-14T14:11:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:30.948+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Day Dec 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2J3d0xohvI/AAAAAAAAAEA/mVsNJyk0hKU/s1600-h/P1010040.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143805078677260018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2J3d0xohvI/AAAAAAAAAEA/mVsNJyk0hKU/s200/P1010040.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2J2cExohuI/AAAAAAAAAD4/XAlfSJb5DaI/s1600-h/nativity.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143803949100861154" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2J2cExohuI/AAAAAAAAAD4/XAlfSJb5DaI/s200/nativity.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We will be holding a Christmas Day service at our &lt;em&gt;Harties Church&lt;/em&gt; in Schoemansville at &lt;strong&gt;8 am&lt;/strong&gt; - cnr Marais and Kyper St at the Diens Sentrum Hartbeeshof, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and at &lt;strong&gt;9.30 am&lt;/strong&gt; at our &lt;em&gt;Brits Church&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;All are welcome. Rev Jannie Hofmeyr will be leading both services and there will be some old and new carols to sing. We have been lighting an advent candle each Sunday leading up to Christmas. On Christmas Day, the centre candle is lit and this reminds us all to keep Christ at the centre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-4260302013789306389?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4260302013789306389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4260302013789306389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-day-dec-2007.html' title='Christmas Day Dec 2007'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2J3d0xohvI/AAAAAAAAAEA/mVsNJyk0hKU/s72-c/P1010040.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-8235774412828296833</id><published>2007-12-14T12:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:31.814+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Carols by Candlelight</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2J7bUxohxI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ll8YyqOBpJA/s1600-h/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+328.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143809433774098194" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2J7bUxohxI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ll8YyqOBpJA/s200/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+328.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2J6DExohwI/AAAAAAAAAEI/Bu_nVPXZdEA/s1600-h/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+323.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143807917650642690" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2J6DExohwI/AAAAAAAAAEI/Bu_nVPXZdEA/s200/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+323.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wed 12th&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2Jvl0xohtI/AAAAAAAAADw/RdPuSXLGnro/s1600-h/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+325.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143796420023191250" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2Jvl0xohtI/AAAAAAAAADw/RdPuSXLGnro/s200/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+325.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; December 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2Jjv0xohqI/AAAAAAAAADY/hQah_2xPxiY/s1600-h/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+341.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A perfect evening during a stormy month, a beautiful sunset on the lawn at the waterside of Hartbeespoortdam, Caribbean Beach Club was the setting for our picnic and carol service. The violins and guitars accompanied our carol singing and in between songs various people read the story of Jesus' birth to us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;To get us thinking Rev Jannie asked us where would we address a letter to Jesus?..Bethlehem.......Jerusalem.....? How about our own address? We sing "&lt;em&gt;O now carry me to Bethlehem, to see the Lord appear to men..&lt;/em&gt;", but the true meaning of Christmas is that the Lord is born in our hearts and lives at our address, and does not remain the baby in a manger in Bethlehem 2000 years ago. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;May we all experience His closeness every day - may every day be Christmas and may we all savour the "moments" with loved ones and friends and also think of those who suffer and grieve more intensely at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-8235774412828296833?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/8235774412828296833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/8235774412828296833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/12/carols-by-candlelight.html' title='Carols by Candlelight'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2J7bUxohxI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ll8YyqOBpJA/s72-c/Dec+2007+carols,+garden...+328.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-1080137437715664879</id><published>2007-12-14T12:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:32.268+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Carols at Sonop</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2Je60xohoI/AAAAAAAAADI/FYGnlqzKon0/s1600-h/2007+Dec+1+and+2+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143778089102771842" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2Je60xohoI/AAAAAAAAADI/FYGnlqzKon0/s200/2007+Dec+1+and+2+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2JcdExohnI/AAAAAAAAADA/Smip7H4ymXw/s1600-h/2007+Dec+1+and+2+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143775378978408050" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2JcdExohnI/AAAAAAAAADA/Smip7H4ymXw/s200/2007+Dec+1+and+2+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; Joy to the World - well, to Sonop Old Age Home for a start. On Sat 1st Dec a group from Brits and Harties Methodist played and sang their lungs out bringing the message of Christmas to the old folk at Sonop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;They were treated to a gift each made by the Henna Ladies - a hand painted draw string bag with soap, lotion etc inside. A kind donation paid for a scrumptious lunch too for them. As usual, we were probably even more blessed than they were!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-1080137437715664879?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/1080137437715664879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/1080137437715664879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/12/carols-at-sonop.html' title='Carols at Sonop'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R2Je60xohoI/AAAAAAAAADI/FYGnlqzKon0/s72-c/2007+Dec+1+and+2+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-3925455210547801314</id><published>2007-11-26T11:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:32.780+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Henna Ladies Group</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R0qY-G128II/AAAAAAAAACw/je_sH6C2OWo/s1600-h/Nov+2007+328.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137086517725294722" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R0qY-G128II/AAAAAAAAACw/je_sH6C2OWo/s200/Nov+2007+328.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Hen Party or swans?&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R0qYkW128HI/AAAAAAAAACo/ELamVGn-n6A/s1600-h/Nov+2007+325.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137086075343663218" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R0qYkW128HI/AAAAAAAAACo/ELamVGn-n6A/s200/Nov+2007+325.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;Our ladies group - named after a beautiful flower in the Bible met at "Jeannelies" for morning tea for our end of year celebration. We shared about our families and Christmas plans while swans floated nearby on the water. We finalised the details for the visit to the Sonop Old Age Home on the 1st December, where we will be singing carols and serving lunch with help from volunteers from the rest of both congregations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-3925455210547801314?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3925455210547801314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3925455210547801314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/11/henna-ladies-group.html' title='Henna Ladies Group'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R0qY-G128II/AAAAAAAAACw/je_sH6C2OWo/s72-c/Nov+2007+328.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-2830425930317673836</id><published>2007-11-26T10:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:33.685+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Youth</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Youth Bible Study and Fun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Friday evenings the Youth from Harties and Brits churches have been meeting together for Bible Study, followed by nice food prepared by the moms and then a fun game. Jan and Angela have been helping us and lately we have been studying the book of Titus and have enjoyed grappling together verse by verse with what God is calling us to do and how to live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R0qMgm128CI/AAAAAAAAACA/TZX-W1aeoS8/s1600-h/Nov+2007+Beetle+Drive+1"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137072816779620386" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R0qMgm128CI/AAAAAAAAACA/TZX-W1aeoS8/s200/Nov+2007+Beetle+Drive+1" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R0qM52128DI/AAAAAAAAACI/mi7LVtV14eE/s1600-h/Nov+2007+198.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137073250571317298" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R0qM52128DI/AAAAAAAAACI/mi7LVtV14eE/s200/Nov+2007+198.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beetle Drive we discovered is not where we got to drive a Volksie, aah gee, but had to draw beetles with the correct number of legs, eyes and antennae! It was the boys team who seemed to win time and time again. But when it came to a winking game and "killing" our fellow youth, the girls were good!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-2830425930317673836?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2830425930317673836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2830425930317673836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/11/youth.html' title='Youth'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/R0qMgm128CI/AAAAAAAAACA/TZX-W1aeoS8/s72-c/Nov+2007+Beetle+Drive+1' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-2934635069053341334</id><published>2007-11-02T17:26:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:34.235+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brits and Harties in God&apos;s care'/><title type='text'>Leaving the nest</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RytCD99QshI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ZgaQY8R1Gvs/s1600-h/last+joint+service+@+brits+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128265236629991954" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 195px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 162px" height="207" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RytCD99QshI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ZgaQY8R1Gvs/s320/last+joint+service+%40+brits+002.jpg" width="225" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RzLxZ-9YZ8I/AAAAAAAAABg/JlF3GRwVdO8/s1600-h/last+joint+service+@+brits+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130428354227890114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 189px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 161px" height="199" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RzLxZ-9YZ8I/AAAAAAAAABg/JlF3GRwVdO8/s320/last+joint+service+%40+brits+008.jpg" width="268" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RytCD99QshI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ZgaQY8R1Gvs/s1600-h/last+joint+service+@+brits+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RytCeN9QsiI/AAAAAAAAAAU/xcuBZRzT7KU/s1600-h/last+joint+service+@+brits+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128265687601558050" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 205px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 161px" height="203" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RytCeN9QsiI/AAAAAAAAAAU/xcuBZRzT7KU/s320/last+joint+service+%40+brits+006.jpg" width="229" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We pray for both churches in this new season of growth and adventure. We are still all ONE in Christ our Saviour and will have lots of fellowship together. It is not good-bye, but God bless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RytCD99QshI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ZgaQY8R1Gvs/s1600-h/last+joint+service+@+brits+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More pics and article on the harties blog site - http://hartiesmethodist.blogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RzLziO9YZ9I/AAAAAAAAABo/UM8vopFypaM/s1600-h/last+joint+service+@+brits+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130430694985066450" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RzLziO9YZ9I/AAAAAAAAABo/UM8vopFypaM/s320/last+joint+service+%40+brits+011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-2934635069053341334?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2934635069053341334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2934635069053341334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/11/leaving-nest.html' title='Leaving the nest'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vq_qHtUAmgI/RytCD99QshI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ZgaQY8R1Gvs/s72-c/last+joint+service+%40+brits+002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-4905402293927918611</id><published>2007-11-02T16:58:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-11-02T17:20:49.027+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Blessed to be a blessing</title><content type='html'>Our church is fulfilling a big dream - to start another congregation at the Hartbeespoortdam.On Sunday the 28th October, we celebrated our last combined service at Brits - exciting, scary, tearful, momentous, challenging......you can imagine the host of emotions.&lt;br /&gt;The Lord has blessed us at Brits to the extent that we feel the time is right to take this leap of faith.&lt;br /&gt;The Hoffies wrote a new little verse to the song "I'm blessed and I know that I am-&lt;br /&gt;I’m blessed to be a blessing every moment of the day&lt;br /&gt;I’m blessed to be a blessing in All I do and all I say&lt;br /&gt;I’m blessed to be a blessing when I work and when I pray&lt;br /&gt;I’m blessed to be a blessing&lt;br /&gt;I`M BLESSED!&lt;br /&gt;I`M BLESSED!&lt;br /&gt;I`M BLESSED!&lt;br /&gt;At the end of the service we formed 2 circles - the Brits congregation enfolding the ones who were setting out and prayers were offered. The fledgling church is ready to fly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-4905402293927918611?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4905402293927918611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4905402293927918611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/11/blessed-to-be-blessing.html' title='Blessed to be a blessing'/><author><name>Angela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12437562324324861265</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-5872495222047887134</id><published>2007-09-28T08:49:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:34.761+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='members'/><title type='text'>New members for Brits Methodist</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rvykt2oG3-I/AAAAAAAAAD4/84AUEBYuWac/s1600-h/12sep+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115144384450846690" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rvykt2oG3-I/AAAAAAAAAD4/84AUEBYuWac/s200/12sep+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; After an enjoyable dinner at the church on 18 September, Jannie officially welcomed our newest members to the congregation during the Sunday service on 23 September. &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RvykuGoG3_I/AAAAAAAAAEA/nW_H9JJq7Yw/s1600-h/12sep+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115144388745814002" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RvykuGoG3_I/AAAAAAAAAEA/nW_H9JJq7Yw/s200/12sep+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As followers of Christ we are called to serve and we encourage all members - old and new - to use their gifts and talents in service to God.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RvylO2oG4BI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/IqCHpPATMhc/s1600-h/28sep+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115144951386529810" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RvylO2oG4BI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/IqCHpPATMhc/s200/28sep+002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are blessed to have you and hope that you will enjoy being part of this very special family.&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RvylOWoG4AI/AAAAAAAAAEI/GxVTL98Gag4/s1600-h/28sep+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115144942796595202" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RvylOWoG4AI/AAAAAAAAAEI/GxVTL98Gag4/s200/28sep+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-5872495222047887134?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5872495222047887134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5872495222047887134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-members-for-brits-methodist.html' title='New members for Brits Methodist'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rvykt2oG3-I/AAAAAAAAAD4/84AUEBYuWac/s72-c/12sep+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-2567246273253232089</id><published>2007-09-28T08:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:34.928+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lay witness'/><title type='text'>Lay Witness Banner team</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rvye3WoG39I/AAAAAAAAADw/PFF2Whb-WEo/s1600-h/Advert+Banner+1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115137950589837266" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rvye3WoG39I/AAAAAAAAADw/PFF2Whb-WEo/s200/Advert+Banner+1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; In order to advertise the Lay Witness GIFT weekend, some very creative congregation members used their talents to design and make the banner, currently on the fence in front of the church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The banner was designed by Julie Hammond, and our artists - Wilna and Charlene Otto &amp;amp; Amy Ashby - reproduced the design on calico and painted it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pic courtesy Charmaine Ashby.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-2567246273253232089?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2567246273253232089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/2567246273253232089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/09/lay-witness-banner-team.html' title='Lay Witness Banner team'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rvye3WoG39I/AAAAAAAAADw/PFF2Whb-WEo/s72-c/Advert+Banner+1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-3135227228951766541</id><published>2007-09-28T08:14:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:35.512+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sunday School</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rvyde2oG38I/AAAAAAAAADg/EywPEH5E3ZY/s1600-h/sunday+school+July+Hol%27s+07.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115136430171414466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rvyde2oG38I/AAAAAAAAADg/EywPEH5E3ZY/s200/sunday+school+July+Hol%27s+07.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Our young congregation members show their enthusiasm for Sunday School by attending during school holidays as well as term time. &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RvydTGoG36I/AAAAAAAAADQ/YEJDwZHSb2Y/s1600-h/sunday+school+-+july+07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115136228307951522" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RvydTGoG36I/AAAAAAAAADQ/YEJDwZHSb2Y/s200/sunday+school+-+july+07.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RvydTGoG37I/AAAAAAAAADY/eXQRDWSH70c/s1600-h/sunday+school+July+Hol%27s+07.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;pics were taken during the July school holidays&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pics courtesy Charmaine Ashby&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-3135227228951766541?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3135227228951766541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3135227228951766541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/09/sunday-school.html' title='Sunday School'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rvyde2oG38I/AAAAAAAAADg/EywPEH5E3ZY/s72-c/sunday+school+July+Hol%27s+07.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-8926692253338171898</id><published>2007-09-13T14:36:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:35.663+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fellowship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lay witness'/><title type='text'>Growing In Faith Together - 5 - 7 october 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rukxi4HqVrI/AAAAAAAAADI/MG2YipPwTB4/s1600-h/logo.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109669727478372018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 166px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 156px" height="189" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rukxi4HqVrI/AAAAAAAAADI/MG2YipPwTB4/s200/logo.gif" width="216" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;We are looking forward to the Faith and Fellowship weekend with great enthusiasm and have finalised the programme for the weekend. For your easy reference, please find the details below. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;All members of the congregation, your friends and family are welcome to join in any or all of the events (in fact the more you can participate, the better!!). While RSVP's do assist with catering, replies are not essential and you aer welcome to attend whether you have indicated your intentions or not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;6.30 pm congregational supper and fellowship at the Church&lt;br /&gt;7.30 pm Worship, team introductions and testimonies followed by tea/coffee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;10.00 am Coffee, tea and coke groups in homes&lt;br /&gt;3.00 pm Coffee, tea and coke groups in homes&lt;br /&gt;6.30 pm Congregational supper at the Church&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;9.00 am Worship service at the church followed by fellowship over tea&lt;br /&gt;6-7 pm Celebration and evaluation service at the church&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information, please contact Rev Jannie Hofmeyr on 012 244 3217 or Priscilla Oosthuizen on 012 252 0493&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We hope to see you there!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-8926692253338171898?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/8926692253338171898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/8926692253338171898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/09/growing-in-faith-together-5-7-october.html' title='Growing In Faith Together - 5 - 7 october 2007'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rukxi4HqVrI/AAAAAAAAADI/MG2YipPwTB4/s72-c/logo.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-4445360776988237678</id><published>2007-08-14T17:12:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T17:22:56.436+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mission fellowship'/><title type='text'>Lay Witness weekend - Faith and Fellowship</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;We, at Brits Methodist Church, are blessed to be hosting a lay witness weekend on 5, 6 and 7 October.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the church hosted a Lay Witness Mission a few years ago, there are many members who were not here at that time and who have not experienced such a weekend before. To tell us more about how the weekend works and how each member of the Church can get involved, a coordinator from Lay Witness will be speaking at the service on Sunday 19 August.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From our church, Priscilla Oosthuizen is handling the coordination - a mighty task - and she would appreciate any help from members of our church. Particular areas of need include people for the prayer group, publicity, accommodation, catering, transport, tea and coffee groups, youth, music and flowers. Please contact her on 072 779 9744 if you are able to help in any way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-4445360776988237678?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4445360776988237678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4445360776988237678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/08/lay-witness-weekend-faith-and.html' title='Lay Witness weekend - Faith and Fellowship'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-5974134294927101225</id><published>2007-08-14T16:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:36.880+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible study fellowship'/><title type='text'>Fellowship groups our way...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The new Wednesday night bible study / fellowship group has recently completed Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life. The group really enjoyed the video course and are all raring to go and &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RsHFfKUNcfI/AAAAAAAAAB0/rwMX8jjaIE4/s1600-h/11and12aug07+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098573392295850482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="150" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RsHFfKUNcfI/AAAAAAAAAB0/rwMX8jjaIE4/s200/11and12aug07+011.jpg" width="233" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ready to do GREAT things for God. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;To celebrate the end of the current course, the group enjoyed a braai this Sunday and we were blessed with magnificent weather and fantastic company. Unfortunately Julie and the Konopi family were ill and could not make it, &amp; Dave was overseas on a business trip. We did, however, enjoy the company of the teenagers of both the Ashby and Otto families.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Beginning this Wednesday, we are starting the Prayer of Jabez - a 4 week video course by Bruce Wilkinson which we are all looking forward to. Frieda has also motivated us to start a bit of a sing-a-long to get the evening going so we are really excited about that. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RsHFfaUNcgI/AAAAAAAAAB8/ierLPbq08b8/s1600-h/11and12aug07+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098573396590817794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 170px" height="217" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RsHFfaUNcgI/AAAAAAAAAB8/ierLPbq08b8/s200/11and12aug07+015.jpg" width="252" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;If anyone would like to join, we really would love to have you with us. Simply talk to the Kerrs, Ashbys, Ottos, Konopis or Hammonds for more info. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;We really do have a great time!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-5974134294927101225?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5974134294927101225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5974134294927101225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/08/fellowship-groups-our-way.html' title='Fellowship groups our way...'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RsHFfKUNcfI/AAAAAAAAAB0/rwMX8jjaIE4/s72-c/11and12aug07+011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-984596242327094241</id><published>2007-07-25T12:20:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:37.500+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hospice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='AIDS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='outreach'/><title type='text'>Helping Hands - our HIV / AIDS programme</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;The “Helping Hands” programme, aimed at HIV/AIDS patients at the Brits hospital, remains our primary outreach program. The number of patients supported with refreshments, Spiritual counseling, prayers and Bible continues to grow and now averages at around 65 to 70 patients per day (of which 10 are children below the age of 6 years).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the first six months of this year, more than 300 Bibles have been distributed to patients.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the program has matured, we have gained the confidence of the hospital care workers, many of whom are HIV patients themselves. We are now receiving requests for spiritual support for all areas of the hospital staff, not just the AIDS area. Each morning we commence with a hymn, a Bible reading, a short devotional talk and close with a prayer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RqclQKUNccI/AAAAAAAAABc/_f92imk1PQU/s1600-h/Rotary.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091078863342891458" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RqclQKUNccI/AAAAAAAAABc/_f92imk1PQU/s200/Rotary.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conjunction with the Brits branch of the Rotary Club of SA, the hospital was presented with 3 new wheelchairs. Additionally, items such as chairs and benches have also been donated to the hospital for the patients use. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rqclv6UNcdI/AAAAAAAAABk/cPXKZ5zHpFo/s1600-h/BRITS+HOSPITAL+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091079408803738066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="134" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Rqclv6UNcdI/AAAAAAAAABk/cPXKZ5zHpFo/s200/BRITS+HOSPITAL+002.jpg" width="188" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Toys and playground equipment for the children have are being donated on an ongoing basis. This is a huge treat for the children who spend hours at the hospital and your donations are greatly appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RqclO6UNcbI/AAAAAAAAABU/qVk0iylCiE0/s1600-h/BRITS+HOSPITAL+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conjunction with the Brits branch of Hospice, we will start distributing food parcels to AIDS affected families from September 1, 2007. Anyone able to donate food and/or assist in any way should contact Selwyn or Wanita &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pics and article courtesy Selwyn Kerr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-984596242327094241?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/984596242327094241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/984596242327094241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/07/helping-hands-our-hiv-aids-programme.html' title='Helping Hands - our HIV / AIDS programme'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RqclQKUNccI/AAAAAAAAABc/_f92imk1PQU/s72-c/Rotary.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-3609991390331134175</id><published>2007-07-24T13:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:37.776+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='members'/><title type='text'>Congratulations Jason!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RqXXyaUNcYI/AAAAAAAAAA8/grZmjsRJUkw/s1600-h/Jason.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5090712214869733762" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="232" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RqXXyaUNcYI/AAAAAAAAAA8/grZmjsRJUkw/s200/Jason.JPG" width="169" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Not only did Jason du Plessis win 5 medals for his Irish dancing during the recent school holidays, this talented young man has also been invited to Washington DC to participate in the World Leadership Forum in 2008.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The World Leadership Forum is arranged by People to People International founded by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956 with the premise that peace can be achieved through understanding. Jason was nominated by his school as an outstanding student with high academic standing and promising leadership potential.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are so proud to have this very talented young man in our congregation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pic courtesy Charmaine Ashby.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-3609991390331134175?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3609991390331134175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3609991390331134175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/07/congratulations-jason.html' title='Congratulations Jason!!!'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RqXXyaUNcYI/AAAAAAAAAA8/grZmjsRJUkw/s72-c/Jason.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-3688945901945827194</id><published>2007-07-24T12:52:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:37.981+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bibles'/><title type='text'>Bibles for All</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RqXa66UNcaI/AAAAAAAAABM/ca22P1YRHiU/s1600-h/Bible+Sales.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5090715659433505186" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RqXa66UNcaI/AAAAAAAAABM/ca22P1YRHiU/s200/Bible+Sales.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Toward the end of last year, we started selling Bibles at slightly cheaper rates than available at most book stores. The small profits made on these sales go toward the purchase of Bibles for people who have no other access to the Word&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bibles are sold after Communion services (ie every third Sunday) but are available from Wanita after any service.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;More information on the Bible Society is available from their web page (see link on the right hand side of your screen) or from Wanita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-3688945901945827194?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3688945901945827194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/3688945901945827194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/07/bibles-for-all.html' title='Bibles for All'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RqXa66UNcaI/AAAAAAAAABM/ca22P1YRHiU/s72-c/Bible+Sales.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-1677526057347935089</id><published>2007-07-09T07:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:38.805+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emmaus'/><title type='text'>Brits Emmaus Reunion Group</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RpHOZU74ZSI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Tlu3dPgkJNY/s1600-h/DSC00026.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085072388789921058" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RpHOZU74ZSI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Tlu3dPgkJNY/s200/DSC00026.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RpHOZk74ZTI/AAAAAAAAAAs/YLH925lxcrM/s1600-h/DSC00024.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085072393084888370" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RpHOZk74ZTI/AAAAAAAAAAs/YLH925lxcrM/s200/DSC00024.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RpHOZ074ZUI/AAAAAAAAAA0/InzgwD3L-vU/s1600-h/DSC00025.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085072397379855682" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RpHOZ074ZUI/AAAAAAAAAA0/InzgwD3L-vU/s200/DSC00025.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our monthly reunion meeting for July is being postponed (new date to be advised) as it coincides with the boys Chyrsalis flight and that fact that there are a couple of people away that weekend. We will notify all reunion group members when we have a new date.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pics of the reunion group's last meeting show that a great time is had by all!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pics courtesy Charmaine Ashby.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-1677526057347935089?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/1677526057347935089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/1677526057347935089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/07/brits-emmaus-reunion-group.html' title='Brits Emmaus Reunion Group'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/RpHOZU74ZSI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Tlu3dPgkJNY/s72-c/DSC00026.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-4314077243032193725</id><published>2007-07-06T12:17:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:39.043+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emmaus'/><title type='text'>Chrysalis girls flight - June / July 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Ro4nv074ZRI/AAAAAAAAAAc/rPsIhd0aeMM/s1600-h/DSC00036.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084044731965007122" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Ro4nv074ZRI/AAAAAAAAAAc/rPsIhd0aeMM/s200/DSC00036.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Ro4YGk74ZQI/AAAAAAAAAAU/vMT97Yu-Qnc/s1600-h/DSC00036.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Brits Emmaus Reunion group is thrilled to welcome Amy Ashby and Elbé du Preez who recently completed their Chrysalis flight. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The boys, John Ashby and Timothy Coutlakis, are doing their flight on the weekend of 13 July.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Post and pic courtesy Charmaine Ashby&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-4314077243032193725?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4314077243032193725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/4314077243032193725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/07/chrysalis-girls-flight-junejuly-2007.html' title='Chrysalis girls flight - June / July 2007'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Ro4nv074ZRI/AAAAAAAAAAc/rPsIhd0aeMM/s72-c/DSC00036.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-5345544149101187020</id><published>2007-07-06T12:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:40:39.225+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='worship'/><title type='text'>Worship Group</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Ro4V_E74ZPI/AAAAAAAAAAM/kTcGHuocxdE/s1600-h/DSC00034.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084025202748712178" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 231px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 194px" height="167" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Ro4V_E74ZPI/AAAAAAAAAAM/kTcGHuocxdE/s320/DSC00034.JPG" width="219" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Every Thursday evening the worship group has their practice session. We are so blessed&lt;br /&gt;with the many talents in the group. We boast with the Coutlakis family - Jandy (not present) Timothy, Michael and Amy on violins. The du Preez family - Louize on drums, Moira vocal &amp; Elbe’. The Ashby family - John electric guitar, Amy classic or organ &amp;amp;amp;amp; Charmaine vocal, then Frieda with her angelic voice, Elizabeth tenor &amp;amp; Kelvin. Taking the lead is Rev. Jannie Hofmeyr.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Post and pic courtesy Charmaine Ashby&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-5345544149101187020?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5345544149101187020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/5345544149101187020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/07/worship-group-every-thursday-evening.html' title='Worship Group'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y6PRbrTN04Q/Ro4V_E74ZPI/AAAAAAAAAAM/kTcGHuocxdE/s72-c/DSC00034.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961222838871149165.post-7098179956444545382</id><published>2007-07-04T08:51:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-07-04T08:53:37.094+02:00</updated><title type='text'>FIRST ATTEMPT</title><content type='html'>Well, here is our new blog site.  I am still learning how all this works, but please let me know what you think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have any PICTURES, news, stories etc. for our blog please email them to me so that I can add them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may like to have a look at the Hilton Methodist blog site (&lt;a href="http://www.hiltonmethodist.blogspot.com/"&gt;www.hiltonmethodist.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;) which I think is superb.  The pictures make it!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can post all our events (before and after) so please let me have as much info as you can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blessings,&lt;br /&gt;Wanita&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2961222838871149165-7098179956444545382?l=britsmethodist.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/7098179956444545382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2961222838871149165/posts/default/7098179956444545382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://britsmethodist.blogspot.com/2007/07/first-attempt.html' title='FIRST ATTEMPT'/><author><name>Wanita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
