HOMELESS CHARITY CELEBRATES 20 YEARS

Clients are helped to come off the streets

Brighton & Hove based charity Off The Fence are this year celebrating 20 years of serving the city.

Started in 1997 by Paul and Wendy Young along with a few volunteers from around the area, Off The Fence was founded with a vision to end social and spiritual poverty in the lives of vulnerable people. Read More

Letters August – September 2016

Last updated on July 28th, 2016 at 01:58 pm

Is the US awakening?

Franklin Graham, son of the great evangelist Dr Billy Graham, is calling the American Church and people to pray concerning the Presidential elections this November. Read More

“PROBLEMS DON’T JUST COME IN ONES, THEY COME IN THREES”

Last updated on June 9th, 2016 at 02:51 pm

MPs Peter Kyle and Caroline Lucas, right, flank CAP manager Sue Stone

An event hosted by the Brighton Light Trust at Holland Road Baptist Church on Saturday 7 May, brought together four charities which work with the poor, the hungry and the homeless.

Jeri-lee Kenny, a local volunteer with Christians Against Poverty, said, “There are a variety of great charities operating in the streets of Brighton and Hove, it’s important to know what each charity specialises in, so that together we can guide people to the right doors, because problems don’t just come in ones, they ‘come in threes’. Read More

GIRL WHO FOUGHT FOR UNBORN BABIES HAS TO PAY COSTS OF £50,000

Standing together: Aisling with parents Caroline and Jeremy Hubert

Many young women of 22 might have a student loan of around £30,000, but live in the assurance that they have years to pay it off.

Aisling Hubert, however, has been landed with court costs of £50,000, for taking on the might of the State over the rights of the unborn child. Read More

FAITH AND PRAYER TRANSFORM SCHOOL

The children on a Brighton estate have returned to a very different school after their summer holidays.

For Whitehawk Primary School was third bottom of over 7,000 of the OFSTED assessed schools and was put into ‘special measures’, after inspectors judged that it had not achieved acceptable standards. Read More

All smiles in Albania

Back row (left to right): Artan Ramaj, Mina Mall, Mark Allwright, Miljard Gosturani, Denise Mazzoleni, Julie Williams
Middle Row: Aurora Sang, Giovanni Siragusa, Hannah Howgill, Jackie Gray, Genevieve Fox, Yasmin Frampton, Rebekah Tonge, Joy Dawes, Karin Smale
Front row: Melchiorree Ficano, Thomas Curryer, Michele Steffieri, Daniele Gremito, Genzi Zeka, Ergys Gjoka, Tyler Evenson

Mark Allwright reports on an exciting joint venture between Sussex and Albanian churches

In September a combined team from Centre Church (from Burgess Hill and Brighton Campuses) and from The IBTI (International Bible training Institute) went on a mission trip to Albania led by Tyler Evenson. Ultimately, the aim of the trip was to support and encourage a church and church plant, in the areas of Institut and Bathore in the capital, Tirana. Read More

When a man among the crowds found Jesus

CROWDS FLOCKED to see Open Air Campaigners use their creative skills to tell the story of the Gospel at the Brighton Festival Fringe.

Among the crowds at the May event was a lone man who ‘lingered’ to hear more following a presentation, according to Phillip Deuk, Community Chaplain of Holland Road Baptist Church in Hove. Read More

Brighton Pastor helps Nepal quake victims

A CHURCH PASTOR from Brighton has returned from a three-week stint supporting victims of the recent earthquake in Nepal. Read More

Quiet miracles in Brighton

One of God’s SWAT teams – left to right: Sara, Mark, Vanessa, Andy, Rosie, Eve and Paul. Rodney Shotter is sitting on the floor
in the middle

Meet the healing team who could pitch up at a car boot sale near you

WITH THEIR BEATIFIC SMILES AND SENSIBLE SHOES, YOU WOULD BE FORGIVEN FOR THINKING THAT THIS GROUP OF MIDDLE-AGED CHURCHGOERS IS HARMLESS.

And you would be so wrong. In fact, they are one of God’s spiritual SWAT teams, keen to right wrongs inflicted on their fellow man by the powers of darkness. Read More

New Archdeacon for Brighton and Lewes

A NEW ARCHDEACON OF BRIGHTON AND LEWES was licensed during Evensong at Chichester Cathedral. Read More