Christmas from Scratch - Refugee Appeal If you have been inspired by watching 'Christmas from Scratch' please donate and help support refugees. Watch all the episodes at www.churchfromscratch.org/christmas
'Christmas from Scratch is a modern-day adaptation of the Nativity story. What if Jesus came in 2020. Mary was an ordinary teenager. Jospeh a normal guy. This is our modern-day adaptation of the Nativity story stripped of tinsel and myth - produced by Church from Scratch. Watch the teaser and catch up on all the [...]
A huge thank you to everyone who walked the pier with us, and everyone who sponsored us on our pier walk! Altogether we raised £600 for Tek Ura! Wow! Tek Ura is the amazing east European charity founded by Dan And Annie Dupree who served with CFS before we sent them out to do this [...]
It's our free 24 page colouring book of Bible quotes and doodles to download. We hope you find some calm during lockdown, while colouring in this book, take a moment for yourself or share with friends and family and spend time with God in a different way. Love Through Lockdown was created by Samantha Lacey [...]
Here's a little video we made to express our delight and love as we inducted Natalie Hughes as a minister of CFS. Nat you bring love, passion for Jesus, tenderness, rivers of emotional intelligence and a deep desire to bless people across Southend. Nat is studying at Spurgeons College alongside being a minister with [...]
Each Wednesday at 10:30pm is our online "Night Owl Prayers". For those of us who seem to wake up as it gets dark or have trouble sleeping this is a chance for us to be together, chat, pray, and spend time with Jesus. Each session lasts about 30 minutes and if we want to stay [...]
It's All Holy - A story of mess, God, gardening and lockdown by our new minister, Natalie Hughes. Welcome Nat, it's great to be inspired by you as you train with us.
Happy Southend Pride Here's a colouring page of "Pride Jesus" to download - in desperate need of some rainbow hues. It was drawn by the amazing Samantha Lacey of Samantha Lacey Visual Arts - we love having her as part of our affirming church. You can see her awesome work here: www.samanthalaceyvisualarts.co.uk [...]
We remember and honour those lost to addiction in Southend. We have lost several from our community and Southend has lost many more. Here is a complete version of the video meditation from the online vigils we held jointly with our friends from Aspirations Program - Breaking the chains of addiction. And we stand [...]
Here's the annual report full of pics, stories, figures and goodness to show what your generosity made possible last year. Thank you to all our supporters who give so generously. SEE THE REPORT >>>
