sept oct 2012

NovemberSunday 4th

10:30am Morning GatheringMonday 5th

10am Toddler Tribe Sunday 11th

9:15am Prayer Breakfast 10:30am Morning Gathering12:30pm Welcome Lunch

Monday 12th10am Toddler Tribe

Thursday 15th7:45pm Members Evening

Sunday 18th10:30am Morning Gathering


Saturday 24th11:00am Golden Angels



dates.SeptemberSunday 2nd

10:30am Morning Gathering1pm Whyke AngelsThe Oval

Sunday 9th9:15am Prayer Breakfast10:30am Morning Gathering


Sunday 16th10:30am Morning Gathering12:30pm Student Lunch


Sunday 23rd10:30am Morning Gathering12:30pm Student Lunch

Weds 26th7:45pm Locker RoomCoffee Lounge


Sunday 30th10:30am Morning Gathering12:30pm Welcome Lunch

OctoberMonday 1st

10am Toddler TribeWeds 3rd

7:30pm-9:30pm Alpha Course

Sunday 7th10:30am Morning Gathering12:30pm Student Lunch


Sunday 14th 9:15am Prayer Breakfast10:30am Morning Gathering


Sunday 21st- Saturday 27th

24-7 Prayer RoomSunday 21st

10:30am Morning Gathering



Weds 31st6pm-7:30pm Party Time!

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Rolls Royce brand manager Sarah Martin said: “He’d sat down and built a little engine out of Lego with his father, sent it in to me and that was the sort of seed of the idea.” (www.bbc.co.uk/news)

This then led to Rolls Royce attempting to build a half-size replica of the Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engine. A team of eight professional Lego builders (yes there is such a profession) took a total of 8 weeks to complete the model of the engine normally used to power the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. The Lego version they created is more than 6.56ft (2m) long. The moving replica model comprises of just short of 153,000 individual pieces of Lego to build 160 separate engine components. Rolls Royce created the model to inspire young people

to pursue careers in engineering.

I love the way a 5 year old’s idea with his Dad ended up inspiring an incredible feat of engineering. I am sure when he asked his father to help him build an aeroplane engine he had no idea of what was to follow this simple request. Even if he did, would he have really believed it to be possible with so many components having to come together over such a long time being way beyond the comprehension of a young child?

When we speak our thoughts and ideas out to Father God we have no idea of what is triggered in the Kingdom of God, which Jesus promised to give us the keys to. As we speak things into life on earth Jesus taught that they are set into motion

in the heavenly realms as seeds sown. This inevitably often goes way beyond our plans and thoughts, even surpasses our wildest dreams. Let us not forget that God is all knowing and abundant. His resources will not run out and his desire to engage and build with all of his children is overwhelming. We know from the stories of Jesus life found in the Bible that Jesus was a craftsman and builder. Jesus said ‘I will build my Church and nothing will be able to stop that’.

Roll on!It was recently reported that a 5 year old boy from the Midlands had inspired an incredible feat of engineering. Whilst playing with his Dad the young boy asked his Father to help him make a jet engine from his Lego set. The Father and son team rose to the challenge well and created a small model. So impressed at their work they sent it off to Rolls Royce.

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Whyke Angels

40 volunteers turned up on the day and we all started at 8.30 am with a time of prayer and worship to give the project to God. Then we loaded cans and lorries and cars with equipment and people and all piled over to the estate. We planned to do some gardening, fence building, skate park running, a BBQ on the oval, creosoting, children’s games and litter picking. Oh yes, and Charlie Alpha our City Angels van came along for the ride too.

We arrived there, split into teams and started to serve. Everyone grafted so hard! The skate park team had more children then I could count having a go on the ramps and everywhere we went we had people asking us what we were

doing and telling us that there were other people that needed our help too.

A number of people also approached us and asked if they could get involved when we come back again.

The children’s games went down so well and everyone enjoyed a break and a free burger at lunch time.

Whyke Angels is not just a fl ash in the pan. We are here for the long run and we plan to be out for our second visit at the end of September/beginning of October. The list of people that need our help is growing and growing and I am so excited to see what God is doing and is going to do there!

Lee Nancarrow is on the Revs staff team and he runs the Whyke Angels project along with City Angels and Golden Angels. Any chance to show some well needed love in our community is bound to get him passionate – that’s his bag, baby!

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But there are some people that are just that much harder to love. The neighbour who came storming up to me to remonstrate over the most petty matter of a use of ally way. The young person who hit me in the face with a playstation controller. Coming face to face with the man who had abused my foster sister. It’s in these times that love becomes so much more than a feeling or a reaction to what is presented.

Love in these situations can only be a choice.

Jesus says in John 15:12: ‘My command is this: Love each other as I love you.’

To love others is a specifi c command. But how do we choose to follow this command, especially when we come into contact with people that are so diffi cult to love or accept, or who have caused us deep pain?

Song of Songs is a beautiful, under used and an often misunderstood part of the Bible. With romantic imagery, it is often just seen to describe the love experienced between two romantic lovers, but it is more than that. It teaches some of the core fundamentals of what love is.

‘. . . Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires’. (Song of Songs 2:7, 3:5, 8:4)

Three times, we are told that there is a choice as to when and whether we love. This is not just about romantic love, but the choice to love others because God loves us. He defi nes love, has showed us what it is to love and now we have a choice whether we love others.

Love cannot be based on a feeling, as some people have chosen to hurt us in the

worst ways. Choosing to love someone is not accepting their behaviour or saying that you have to become their friend. Choosing to love is choosing to give what has happened to God, who defi nes love, is love, and beginning to allow that love to start to bring healing and wholeness. Choosing to love can be choosing to not hate someone anymore and asking God to help you to love them. That is choosing to love.

Maybe the way to choose to love others is to pray that God shows you how much he loves you. Maybe the choice is to begin to love yourself.

To choose to love by the power of God’s love is something beautiful. To choose to love the most diffi cult person, in the worst of situations is powerful. Choosing to love is possibly the only way of deeply knowing that, indeed, love never fails.

Mark has been part of Revs for eight years and is lucky enough to be called Dad of Bethany, husband of Anna and supporter of West Ham. He is looking forward to joining the children’s team and hoping to reintroduce some form of gunge tank.

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Sometimes love comes easily and very quickly. Before I even met my four month old Bethany I loved her with a depth I had never experienced before, and so much more now, even when she takes a wee on me!

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All change to stay the sameSometimes things have to change in order to stay the same! Movement can be required to keep true to who you are called to be. As you will now be aware we are changing things up a little this term with our Sunday Gathering format. There are two main reasons that we have been encouraged to try a new format. Firstly we feel it will serve our guests, visitors and new people a lot better. This is the main reason we have moved the refreshments from the beginning to the end. Guests and visitors have fed back that it is a bit daunting walking in on social time. Secondly it will work a lot better for our children and their programmes. This is one of the main reasons for starting a bit earlier and aiming to run a little shorter. These small changes we see as being key in helping us remain true to our values and vision as Revs and stay the same.

Finally I am a big believer in change being a positive experience that can unleash freshness and some energy.

Our journey on Sundays this term will continue exploring our wider theme ‘Love Never Fails’ through 2012. We will be exploring two series, fi rstly looking at ‘Love and the Community of God’ and then onto looking at ‘Love in the World Around’.

How do you know the vision you have is from God? It is bigger than your own gifts and talents? Why? Because it is then that God can work the miracles. Certainly over these last few months the team and I have daily had to rely on God for strength, wisdom and miracles to plan and organise Chichester Foodbank. The most exciting part of this project is the support of the local churches. 12 churches are presently involved and it was amazing to see each church rep arrive at the warehouse on 15th July with the food they had collected. Thank you for the part you played in this. After the last big push, which was in August, the Chichester Foodbank Centre will fi nally see its doors open on Monday 10th September between 2-4pm in Orchard Street. It will then be open every Monday,

Wednesday and Friday. To celebrate the

Foodbank opening we will be holding a launch at Chichester Cathedral 7 p.m. All are welcome.

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How pleased was I when they asked me to write about ‘fun’? It has to be one of my favourite subjects. It’s one of those things that just makes the world a better place to inhabit. One of the best feelings for me is to be surrounded by friends chortling until you can’t see for the tears and unable to speak for the eruption of further gales of laughter. Priceless.

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My love of fun is the stuff of legends at work. I can’t bear meetings which drone on miserably dissecting what’s wrong with things. I feel a bubbling within me and know it’s only time before a little fun escapes. It is often in these moments that it feels like a little bit of God’s spirit gets out for a run. It breaks tense atmospheres, brings a little perspective and makes us all less focused on being right.

A while ago, I was talking to a very wise friend who says fairly little but listens at great length. I’d been feeling pretty low and lacking in motivation. She asked me what things I thought gave me life. After a while of bluffi ng (so as not to look too shallow) it occurred to me that it was fun that was one of my main drivers. She then asked the inevitable question: How do you get fun into your daily life? Silence. Realisation. Where did all the fun go? Well, the fun had gone in the caring for the needs of the family (ferrying, washing, cooking, cleaning, refereeing) and in the demands of a hectic job (marking, planning, preparing, more marking, re-planning, teaching, marking). All this had squeezed out the place of fun. I was tired and didn’t have enough time to have fun.

A couple of days later I was up to my neck in marking one evening about 11pm. Not fun. I Facebook-moaned that I was marking at this ridiculous time of night with only Pink Floyd and a gin and tonic for company. A comment came back that totally fl oored me. It envied me the peace and quiet, great music

and timely tipple. No mention of the marking! Not even a sympathetic nod to it. I was about to reply to the post pointing out this omission when it hit me. There was one unpleasant thing in that whole scenario and that had made invisible to me the layers of pleasure that adorned it. Which is when I came up with my new philosophy: spank the backside of drudgery with layers of fun. Since then I no longer mark to PF and a G&T. I listen to PF, coif a G&T and do some marking at the same time: much better!

So, for me, fun is a real necessity. It’s a life-giver and a perspective-restorer. I need to consciously make time and space for it because it enables me to look at situations around me differently; framing the dull, mundane stuff of life in a way which allows me to enjoy and even look forward to it. What are the things you have to do that sap you of life and energy? What’s your Pink Floyd?

Elaine Monery is married to Neil and they have two children, Annabel and Johnny. As well as being a primary school teacher, Elaine is also part of the Children’s Work team, the Leadership Team and the Love Team!

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We keep Isaiah 61 at the heart of what we do - “The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.”

The impetus to start Lifecentre came from Maggie Ellis who, while teaching at Bishop Luffa, became aware that one of her 14 year old pupils was suffering abuse at home, and keeping a sleeping bag at school so she could stay at friend’s houses rather than go home at night. After the realisation that there were no specialists services to help in West Sussex, Maggie trained as a specialist counsellor and the rest, as they say, is history. With practical and fi nancial support from local churches, Sussex Police, WSCC and Chichester District Council the fi rst counselling rooms were opened, and now, 11 years on, we offer counselling in Chichester, Worthing and Crawley – still the only specialist services in West Sussex. In July 2012 we passed two important, if sad, milestones. We took our 2000th referral, and within that total we also took our 500th referral from an under 18 year old. It took us 7 years and 10 months to reach

the fi rst 1000, but only another 3 years 5 months to reach the second.

Through our work we witness not only to our clients but to the professional agencies, such as the police, social services and local health professionals, who we work with day to day. There is also a real ecumenical dimension given that our volunteers and counsellors are drawn from over 30 churches locally and we receive prayer support and give talks on our work to many others.

Feedback from clients tells its own story -

“Thank you for the opportunity to feel safe and for the comfort of knowing that there are people praying for me - in a time that’s been diffi cult to talk to God.” Woman in her 30’s

To work for Lifecentre is truly amazing – to be surrounded by people who live their faith in their day to day lives is inspiring, and knowing that whether the work is face to face counselling, back offi ce admin, or volunteering on the helplines, we are not alone but always have the Holy Spirit with us in whatever we do makes even the diffi cult situations ones where we can be confi dent that what we are doing is God’s will, and really does change lives.

Lifecentre started in 2000, initially as a telephone helpline, but soon moved to face to face counselling, seeing our fi rst client in 2001. The charity was started three years after the following prophecy “You are going to have a life centre, where you restore people back to life. You will have young ladies and young men whose lives are dark, been raped many times, abused by their fathers and mothers. You will take them and nurse them back to life. So God says I am going to give you a life centre, where people actually get their lives back. It’ll be a place where people get their childhood back, they get their youth back, they get their families back, they get their reputation back, they get their self-worth back; they get their virginity back. It will be a place where people get rid of their shame. It will be a place where Isaiah 61 will come to pass.”

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Tell us a bit about what PACSO means and what the organisation does?

PACSO stands for the Parents and Carers Support Organisation. Our offi ces are based in the Revelation Centre, and most of our activities take place at The Venue. As our name suggests, PACSO was originally set up as a small support group for parents and carers. Now, however, the main emphasis of our work is to provide out-of-school activities for disabled children and their siblings, whom we call ‘young carers’.

What are the three main aims of PACSO?

• To provide fun, inclusive activities for children with additional needs and their siblings.

• To provide activities that improve the confi dence, independence and social development of the children in our care.

• To provide a short break for the whole family.

What sort of thing do PACSO do when they are at The Venue?

We offer a variety of clubs which are headed up by Ruth Stewart and staffed by our team of experienced and dedicated Playworkers. Our regular activities include:

• After School Clubs• Saturday Clubs• Christmas and Easter Playdays• Summer Playscheme

During these times The Venue is transformed into an enormous playroom, with designated areas for sports, crafts, reading, sensory play and messy play. The children regularly enjoy workshops by visiting drama specialists, musicians and sports coaches, and enjoy activities such as drumming and go-karting. Recent visitors include a mobile zoo, a magician and Bungle the Clown. The fi nal day of our

Summer Playscheme is always rounded off by PACSO’s Got Talent!

Does PACSO only ever happen at The Venue?In addition to our activities at The Venue, we run a successful Buddy Scheme offering one-to-one support to children aged 11+, enabling them to participate in fun activities such as swimming, bowling or the cinema. Children on the Buddy Scheme are also encouraged to expand their life skills by taking part in activities to enhance their transition into adulthood, such using public transport, ordering a drink in a café.

What happens behind the scenes?

Behind the scenes, PACSO staff work tirelessly to fundraise, so that hard-pushed families can enjoy the benefi ts of our service at a fraction of their real cost. We have recently received funding from West Sussex County Council and Children in Need, and have just been named Chichester Sainsbury’s Charity of the Year, which we are very excited about.

What is your favourite thing about working at PACSO?

The best thing about working for PACSO is knowing that we are making a real difference to the lives of families who have a disabled child. It is a privilege to work with them and to see their children grow and develop in the time that they are with us.

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HOW DO YOU CONTACT US?

EMAIL: [email protected]

LOU’S PHONE NUMBER: 07540988588

You can also check out what’s happening on our facebook page

THE STUDENTS ARE BACK IN TOWN!We have really missed the students being around over the summer but SO pleased they are back and ready to get stuck in. Last year was a real time of building foundations and growing deeper in our relationships with each other and with God and we feel that those foundations will be a spring board for everything that God has got in store for this year. Watch this space, there are some exciting things ahead!!!

Revelation students are passionate about;

.... having FUN,

.... GROWING in their faith,

.... going DEEPER with their relationships,

.... being CHALLENGED through mentoring,

.....getting stuck in at SERVING in Church,

.... LOVING their community.

We are dedicated to the Church body where we worship and learn together and we take time to get REAL during our mid week cell. We enjoy INCLUSIVE socials run my students for students and are excited about SHARING our faith and making room to do that by building an ATTRACTIVE student community.

This year is going to be EPIC so don’t miss out, God is at work so come and get involved!

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The Moores look after the students at Revelation church and are there to help you with whatever you need :) They enjoy opening up their house to make it a home from home for the

students!

Lou is a science teacher and a head of house in a local secondary

school and loves snowboarding, cups of tea and being a surrogate mum to the students.

Will works for the church and is good with plumbing disasters. He loves fl ying kites and talking about bikes.

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Dan Slatter: Dan leads the team of leaders at Revs. He is married to Kathryn and they have 3 young children. Dan is a full time member of our staff team.

Roger Ellis:Roger is one of the founding members of Revs. He now works part time for the church.

Phil Harper:Phil is a full time Secondary School Teacher. He is married to Catherine and they have a son called Reece. Phil oversees all our Cell Groups and he leads the team that looks after and develops them.

Will MooreWill and his wife Lou are the latest additions to the Revs Leaders Team and Will has been part of Revs for over a decade. He is a man of many talents, with a degree in American History, a plumbing qualifi cation and a passion for cycling.

Lou MooreLou is a secondary school teacher of science and runs the student work here at Revs. She loves to sew and create lovely things and can be found trawling pinterest

and making her house a home.

Elaine Monery:Elaine is a part time teacher married to Neil with two young children. Elaine oversees our children’s (2-11yrs) programme working with Ant (see right). Elaine also runs our Marriage & Marriage Prep courses.

Neil Monery:Neil works for the Ambulance Service by day. He is married to Elaine and they work together in the Marriage and Marriage Prep Course.

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Kat FisherKat is married to Tom and they have been at Revs since 2009. Kat not only leads one of our bands but is also involved in our youth programme. Our very own ‘Wonder Woman, boom-pow’.

Malc GardaMalc is one of the original gang that started Revs in 1983. He is married to Cathy and they have three sons. Malc is a Sound Engineer by trade and lives in Selsey.

Steve HardingSteve is a full time Musician and Producer. He is married to Carla and he has been at Revs since he crossed the Western border from East Sussex to study at Chichester Uni in 1998.

Laura NancarrowLaura oversees the youth team and has recently come on board the worship team. She loves to cycle on her Dutch bike which reminds her of home in the Netherlands.

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