Groups coming January to April Hall January 2019

JANUARY 4 – 6 Sizewell Hall APRIL Leaders Weekend 5 – 7 Bethesda, It’s Happening! 11 – 13 Hadleigh 12 – 17 Colchester Baptist Church Baptist, 18 – 22 Epsom Christian 18 – 20 High Street Fellowship, Surrey Chapel, Hopton 26 – 28 All Saints Church, 25 – 27 Women for Christ Wickham Market

FEBRUARY 1 – 3 Christ Church, Felixstowe 8 – 10 Gateway Vineyard, Thank you all very much for 15 – 17 Equip - Oak your interest and for your Community Church prayers. 18 – 22 Forge 242 Work on repairing our roof . . . 22 – 24 Salvation Army, Felixstowe is scheduled to start on March 1st. Numerous individuals who come with a group find Sizewell Hall to be a place where they can come away from their MARCH everyday lives and hear God speak to them. Their stories are similar to Pe- 1 – 3 East Anglia Women's ter’s. (see over for story) The Trustees desire is to continue to provide an Conference environment in which God’s voice can be heard. Many of our facilities are 8 – 10 Capel Methodist 11 – 15 Hope 50+, Cambridge now looking tired and in need extensive repair or replacement. Negotia- 15 – 17 Christian Viewpoint tions are underway with the Landlord to extend the lease agreement for for Men another 50 years, enabling the ministry here to continue long into the fu- 22 – 24 St Andrew's Street Sizewell Hall ture. Baptist Church, Christian Conference Centre Cambridge Suffolk IP16 4TX The Trustee’s plan is to see many of these areas transformed over the next T 01728 830715 29 – 31 Surrey Chapel, E [email protected] 4 years. This plan will start with the urgent work needed to repair our roof. Norwich www.sizewellhall.org.uk This is the first of a number of projects which are likely to cost us in excess Registered Charity no. 269157 of £1 million overall. Proposed start date for the roof is 1st March 2019 and the length of project is 60 days—due to the restriction of the bat licence. The PETER'S STORY Praise and Prayer roof on the hall has been unchanged since the rebuilding in 1922. These slates have survived nearly a century in a brutal environment. Every slate will I came as an atheist and went home a We give thanks for: need to be replaced, there are an estimated 60,000 slates. They will be re- believer * 2019 being fully booked for every placed with TapcoSlate Classic which is almost indistinguishable from natural My medical record shows a stark sum- weekend slate and is manufactured from recyclable virgin limestone and polypropyl- mary of life in terms of physical health. ene. It will be in keeping with those they are replacing. From aged ten are listed Illnesses, seri- * The amount of money that has been raised for the roof so far. We The budget is £350,000 This includes full scaffolding, re-leading, wood work, ous injuries and a note “recurrent anxi- ety and depression”. And my spiritual give thanks to God for the many who gutters, chimney stack repair and a contingency, also the cost of a licence health record? My early years I was a have given so generously. from Natural , the cost of Ecologists while work is being carried out Catholic, but lapsed then years as an because of the resident bats in the roof. atheist. Pray for: We thank God for the £200,000 that we have built up over a number of years, In 2014 I saw a transformation in my * Rob & Lesley as they retire at the but can you help us towards the £350,000 we need to complete this project daughter Hannah when she came to end of February. We give thanks for alone? Please prayerfully consider making a donation. faith. I realised what I was missing. My the many years they have served first Alpha course left me suffering a faithfully at Sizewell Hall. We pray If you would like to make a donation please use the enclosed form and return greater loss for life, when I saw other that they will quickly settle in to re- it to the office. Christians. Arriving at Sizewell Hall tirement. Thank you very much! with my wife Jo, Hannah and grand- children for our church House party, I * The other positions that need to be Prayer Requests for the Roof was a doubting atheist. filled on the management team. For I came to faith that Sunday at Sizewell the smooth transition of those filling Hall having been transformed, sudden- these management places ly overwhelmed and filled with love for Jesus. That happened during a moving * The Trustees as they seek to know story told as we prepared for Com- God’s leading and guiding for the munion. The day is now on my calen- future of the Hall dar like my birthday. * Each group that comes in, every This year at Sizewell we sang Matt individual, young and old leave here Redman’s ‘Never Once’. I thought of knowing that they have met with God that medical record and while I saw and know Him in a deeper way. “Scars and struggles on the way”, I also knew “Never once did I ever walk alone”.